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Scientific Podcast Goes Boink, Episode 36: You're Not Ever Gonna Be Friends With Wrestlers

2013-05-22T18:11:40Z

This time around, Pete and Bill are thrilled to be joined by Steven Godfrey, a former five-year employee of actual pro wrestling company TNA Wrestling (or Impact! Pro Wrestling, if you're nasty). The three gentlemen discuss a great many things related to the world of pro graps and even a few things that aren't! They talk about everything from Low-Ki living the gimmick to the reality of Hulk Hogan and everything in between. Enjoy!

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For your full enjoyment, links to things discussed on the podcast:

- Wrestlemania 2000, ladder match
- Guardians of the Galaxy preview
- Samoa Joe's TNA debut
- Bound for Glory 2006
- Kevin Nash & the X-Division
- Murder (Motor) City Machine Guns
- The Main Event Mafia
- The Iron Sheik
- Smodcast
- Zeb Colter

Scientific Podcast Goes Boink, Episode 35: We're Going to Spend the Rest of Our Lives Eating Pancakes

2013-05-20T15:33:39Z

Pete and Bill are going to do a very foolish thing. They're going to attempt to eat pancakes at a Denny's for 24 hours. But hey; it's for charity! Please enjoy the official announcement of FLAPJACKALYPSE Oh-Thirteen and all the ins and outs and guidelines and whatnot that we can think of off the top of our heads.

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For your full enjoyment, links to things discussed on the podcast:

- Amazing DoLo longform

Scientific Podcast Goes Boink, Episode 34: Kermit the Frog Believes in You

2013-05-16T14:36:58Z

Jim Henson died on May 16, 1990. On May 16, 2013, Pete and Bill sit down to discuss what made Jim Henson and the Muppets so wonderful. There is a lot of life-affirming positivity and earnest discussion about puppets in this episode, so consider yourself warned.

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For your full enjoyment, links to things discussed on the podcast:

- Jim Henson Memorial Service, "Just One Person"
- Bill's Uncle Deadly tattoo
- Uncle Deadly and Vincent Price
- The Doozers
- Muppets riding bicycles
- The Muppet Movie, "The Rainbow Connection"
- The Paley Center for Media
- Roger Moore and Piggy, on the couch
- "What if Kermit the Frog was a real living being"
- First appearance of Snuffleupagus, complete with skeptical adults
- Mid-70s criticism of Roosevelt Franklin
- Cookie Monster, "A Cookie is a Sometimes Food"
- Objections to same, in example
- Roosevelt Franklin helps Suzetta
- Roosevelt Franklin, in portaiture
- Rowlf the Dog and Kermit the Frog, "Hope That Something Better Comes Along"
- Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog tell the world's funniest joke
- Muppets Take Mahattan, "Saying Goodbye"
- Life is hard for Kermit the Frog, too
- Muppets Take Mahattan, "Hmmm"
- The Great Muppet Caper, "Taxi!"
- I Appreciate The Muppets On A Much Deeper Level Than You

Scientific Podcast Goes Boink, Episode 33: Johnny Cochran's Already Dead

2013-05-13T15:59:49Z

On today's episode, Pete and Bill are once again joined by good friends Ryan White, Bryan Murphy and Kristen Ray. The five-umvirate discusses stinky U-Haul trucks, serious bodily injuries, when you should start thinking about cosmetic surgery, a better system for lawyers and Proposition 8.

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For your full enjoyment, links to things discussed on the podcast:

- The Chicago Cubs, in sestina
- Twitter haiku review
- Guy with the vertical crows feet (Michael Jeffries)
- Lakersfan dot gif
- Steve Antin
- Ryan's swollen foot

Scientific Podcast Goes Boink, Episode 32: He's Never Eaten a Condiment

2013-05-06T13:57:30Z

On today's episode, Pete and Bill are joined by good friends Ryan White, Bryan Murphy and Kristen Ray. They discuss moving, sandwiches, Togo's vs. Subway vs. Quiznos, condiments, bad drivers, drivers attempting to or actually killing bicyclists and the Winchester Mystery House.

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For your full enjoyment, links to things discussed on the podcast:

- On Sandwiches, The Catered Sandwich
- Mad Men, "It's toasted."
- On Sandwiches, Quiznos
- Jerry Brown vetos 3-foot passing bill
- Bevery Hills police seek driver of car that ran down bicyclist
- Drunk driver plows into crowd of cyclists
- Winchester Mystery House

Scientific Podcast Goes Boink, Episode 31: A Craven and Sad Existence

2013-05-01T14:07:39Z

Today, Pete and Bill are joined by Tomas Rios to discuss the finer points of race, gender and sexuality as it pertains to mixed martial arts, meat piles, whether you should match your pocket square to your shirt or your tie, the infuriating mess that is sprezzatura, how to describe Bill to a police sketch artist and wrap things up with a spirited debate on the merits of Kickstarter.

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For your full enjoyment, links to things discussed on the podcast:

- The Great White Hoax: Chael Sonnen, Racial Coding, and the UFC
- UFC Reinstates Miguel Torres
- Matt Mitrione's two-week suspension raises questions
- Katz's brisket sandwich, in illustration
- Katz's aesthetic, in illustration
- On Sandwiches, Canter's Delicatessen
- Floppy hats and sprezzy styles
- Gianni Agnelli's sprezzatura, in illustration

Your Granddaddy Built This Brand With His Bare Hands.

2013-04-30T14:30:02Z

Son, I reckon it's about time I told ye how I come up. Where ye come from. The story of your people, 'cause son, blood is all ye really got in the end. Sit yerself down for a spell. Y'see, it all started with your granddaddy. My daddy. He was the hardest-working man I ever knowed. Earliest memory I got is him wakin' up before daybreak every mornin' to curate his social media presence.

Them was lean days, boy. Ye could hardly imagine it, even if I told ye. Why, all we had was your granddaddy's personal brand. Some weeks we'd go days on end without him gettin' a proper Favstar trophy or retumbl. But I s'pose it didn't much matter to us. We all had a roof over our heads, our daddy's viral strategy, and, well, don't let me get too sappy on ye here, but each other.

That's right, your granddaddy was a social influencer. One of the true-blue originals. Reckon they don't make 'em from the same mold no more. Why, he'd put in 14 hours generating organic growth using SEO best practices, and then he'd come home and fix us up some grub—franks 'n' beans 'n' such, mostly—and tell us stories or take us for a ride or help us with our homework or jes' sit us down and teach us somethin' we ain't knowed afore. We was just young bucks, your Uncle Joe 'n' me, but it wasn't but so long before we was already a-fishin' for karma and upvotes on Reddit and a-buildin' our brand. Guess we jes' had too much of our daddy's blood in us.

And wouldn't ye know it, by and by, your granddaddy built up his presence, by God he did. He done carefully crafted highly relevant social content with nothin' but his two hands, a few Apple devices, and a commitment to robust engagement with his audience—Twitter followers, rebloggers, Quora readers, 'n' all. That was the man he was. That's what ye got coursin' through yer veins, son. A real brand. Klout for miles.

Y'know, I laugh to think of it now, but I remember like it was yesterday the day the revenuers showed up. Daddy was always right with God, but Uncle Sam? Well that was another story. Seems he hadn't rendered unto Caesar, as the good book says, the taxes on the Bitcoins he was haulin' in on his sponsored tweets. I tell ye, as sure as I'm alive, he looked that revenuer right in the face and told 'im he'd either have to take it up with the courts or Jesus Christ himself come Judgment Day, but that he wasn't writin' the Internal Revenue Service no blank check. Revenuers never did come back. Reckon they either never could figure out the conversion rate 'twixt Bitcoins and a union dollar, or they knew tanglin' with 'im was like tanglin' with a boar-hog what got its hackles up. But then, that was your granddaddy. A meme unto himself.

So that's where ye come from, son. The man who built the personal brand ye see before ye from nothin' and then handed it on to me. The brand that'll be yours one day, when I join your granddaddy in that sweet by 'n' by. And ye know who ye'll have to thank for it all? I reckon you know who. An aggregator. A vlogger. A crazy-as-a-coonhound viral growther. Some folks, well, they called him a damn fool. I just called him my daddy.

Scientific Podcast Goes Boink, Episode 30: In His Little Rascal Basket

2013-04-29T18:04:52Z

Pete and Bill are here to discuss all of the ins and outs related to moving (or, if you're in the UK or Australia, "moving house"). They discuss boxes, new houses, the exhaustion and stupidity of not being rich and the sort of characters you'll meet at the average yard sard.

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For your full enjoyment, links to things discussed on the podcast:

- Yard Sard
- Life of Brian, The Haggle