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Van Morrison and the 31 Songs About Nothing but a Bad Contract
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
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Van Morrison is a legend of the music world. He has won six Grammys to date, has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and gets a fraction of a cent whenever you stream 'Brown Eyed Girl' on Spotify (when it plays in your head, however, that one's free).
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Van Morrison and the 31 Songs About Nothing but a Bad Contract
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 09-26-16
- Language: English
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The Black Market in Scrap Metal (and How It Impacts Transportation)
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
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At a few hundred dollars a ton, scrap metal is decently valuable – and it's most certainly a good source of extra revenue for those who run body shops, construction sites, junkyards and the like. And if you're a thief, it's also a pretty good thing to steal – not only is the demand for scrap metal rather robust (therefore making it pretty easy to find a willing buyer), but scrap metal also looks like any other metal, making tracing it back to its true owner very difficult.
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The Black Market in Scrap Metal (and How It Impacts Transportation)
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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The Check Republic
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 4 mins
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Checks are, basically, IOUs. The person writing the check promises to pay the check's recipient at some point in the very near future. The check writer isn't even part of the transaction at that point – the writer's bank is instructed, literally, to "pay" the amount specified "to the order of" the person to whom the check is made out. The bank plays a critical role in the transaction beyond the delivery of cash, too – it helps ensure that the check writer is good for the debt now owed.
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The Check Republic
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 08-18-16
- Language: English
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The Nice Mr. Werewolf
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
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Werewolves aren't real. But if they were real, they'd be scary, considering they are man-beast hybrids with enormous strength, no judgment or compassion, and a vicious case of blood lust.
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Too short
- By Lisa Hollar on 02-11-22
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The Nice Mr. Werewolf
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 09-26-16
- Language: English
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The Fear of Things That Sound Like Things You Shouldn't Be Afraid of Anyway
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
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If you're a professional writer, having command of homophones – two or more words with the same pronunciation but different meanings and/or spellings – is critical. Sure, the occasional error is okay, but if you write sentences like "The boy's ants new the write weigh two go," you're probably not going to keep your job for too long.
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The Fear of Things That Sound Like Things You Shouldn't Be Afraid of Anyway
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Not Safe, but Fired
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
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Take some paper and various other materials, bundled into one neat package. Light it on fire. Use it for a bit and then, when you're done, throw it away, still lit.
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Not Safe, but Fired
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 09-26-16
- Language: English
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Leave It to Beaver
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 5 mins
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If you're a homeowner, having a river or pond run through your property can be pretty cool – it can turn a rather nondescript piece of land into something more interesting and, with proper upkeep and safety, something more fun. Of course, that's only true if the body of water was something you expected to be there. If, one day, you woke up to find your typically dry backyard more akin to a bayou – well, that's a problem.
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Leave It to Beaver
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 08-18-16
- Language: English
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The Crack Tax
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 3 mins
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Crack – a smokable form of cocaine which is all too common – is highly addictive and very dangerous. At $50 to $100 per gram on the street (that's a Google-fueled guess by the way; sorry if I have that wrong, but I've never been in the market for crack), it's also a lower-cost alternative to those cocaine addicts who need a hit but don't have the dollars for the straight, snort-able kind. Oh, and in most places, it's illegal – including in the United States, which includes the state of Tennessee.
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The Crack Tax
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 08-18-16
- Language: English
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The Electoral Insurance Policy
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
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Nevada is a nice insurance policy for a presidential hopeful – in fact, that's why Nevada became a state in the first place. Explore the state's unbridled history on this episode of Now I Know. The United States is in the throes of its presidential campaigns season and, over the last week or so, candidates from both major parties have focused their sights on Nevada. Come November, that will again be true as Nevada can be a bellwether state – in each of the previous nine election cycles, Nevada voters supported the overall winner.
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The Electoral Insurance Policy
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 08-01-16
- Language: English
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The Bombs Left Behind in Laos
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
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The Vietnam War lasted nearly 20 years, beginning in late 1955 and continuing until the spring of 1975. While most of the fighting occurred in Vietnam (no surprise there), other nations – most notably Cambodia and Laos – were also part of the theater of war.
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The Bombs Left Behind in Laos
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Now I Know: Animals
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 45 mins
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Did you know that the CIA once made use of a “spy cat”, or that, although delicious, eating the flesh of an armadillo can give you leprosy? And what about Terry, the small black Cairn Terrier from Kansas who was paid today’s equivalent of $2,000 a week for her work in The Wizard of Oz? Even if you think you have a handle on all things trivia, you're guaranteed a big surprise with Now I Know: Animals.
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Now I Know: Animals
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 05-20-14
- Language: English
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Ep. 21: Full Disclosure
- By: Dan Savage, Rob Penty, Brian Palermo, and others
- Length: 35 mins
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[Contains explicit content] When it comes to sex, nothing is harder than talking about sexually transmitted infections. Get it?! And STIs are even more difficult to make funny—look how hard we just tried! But on this episode of Hot Mic with Dan Savage, a bunch of brave souls break the stigma with hilarious STI stories and scenarios. Rob Penty shares a story from RISK! about genital warts, and members of the famous improv troupe The Groundlings conjure up ridiculous STI-ridden, fully-improvised scenes.
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Ep. 21: Full Disclosure
- Length: 35 mins
- Release date: 11-10-17
- Language: English
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The Financial Shenanigans around Guantanamo Bay
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
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On the southern shore of eastern Cuba is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a small outcrop of land and sea controlled by the United States. The almost-rectangular 45-square-mile zone has been home to US troops since the summer of 1898, when Marines landed there during the Spanish-American War.
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The Financial Shenanigans around Guantanamo Bay
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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The Real Effect of Fake News
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
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On the evening of December 2, 1984, a chemical manufacturing plant in Bhopal, India owned by Union Carbide began leaking toxic gas into the residential areas surrounding the plant, and the resulting tragedy is considered one of the worst such disasters in history.
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The Real Effect of Fake News
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 09-26-16
- Language: English
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When Christopher Columbus Made the Moon Disappear
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
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On April 15, 2014, the moon wasn't nearly as bright as the moon typically is, and appeared to take on a reddish color (from Earth, of course) – the result of a lunar eclipse, which occurs when the sun, earth and moon are aligned. The earth blocks most (but not all) of the sunlight that would have otherwise reflected off the moon's surface, leading to a dull, red sphere in the sky.
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When Christopher Columbus Made the Moon Disappear
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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How to Pay Yourself $2.1 Million in Taxes
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
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Tax refunds are tantamount to loans to the government, repaid a few weeks or months late. But many people treat their tax refunds as a windfall—found money, to be spent on whatever extra-budgetary items they desire, much like an unexpected Christmas bonus or a winning lottery ticket. Easy come, easy go.
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What a waste of even 66 cents.
- By Heather C on 03-21-19
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How to Pay Yourself $2.1 Million in Taxes
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
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Voltaire's Wager
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
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François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, was a French writer during the Enlightenment. Known for what would today be considered snark, he often made comments to which many would take offense. For example, in his 1764 treatise Dictionnaire Philosophique (which translates as Philosophical Dictionary), Voltaire quipped that "common sense is not so common." This smarter-than-thou attitude was a theme throughout his works, and, one would expect, his life as well.
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short but awesome
- By John Haggerty on 04-30-21
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Voltaire's Wager
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 08-18-16
- Language: English
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The Land of the Adopted Son
- By: Dan Lewis
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In 2011, a total of 81,000 people were adopted by Japanese families. If you think that's a lot of babies changing families, though, you're wrong – but not because 81,000 is a small number.
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The Land of the Adopted Son
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Rocketman
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
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You Can Taste the Price
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
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Taste test: Does a $17 burger always taste better than a $4 one? Find out on this episode of Now I Know. A hamburger that costs $17 probably tastes good. No, it has to – who would pay $17 for a burger and fries that didn’t? No one – at least not twice. That makes sense: in order to stay in business with an expensive menu, whatever you’re selling better make for a good dining experience. But at some point, our palates can’t really discern between foods.
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You Can Taste the Price
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 08-01-16
- Language: English
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