Best Scattered Curiosities Podcasts (2025)

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Ep 2: Curiosity – Listening With Your Ears and Your Life 26:34

3M ago26:34

26:34

If we’re honest, listening well can be difficult. It requires an attentiveness and pace that is much slower and more focused than we are used to. In this episode, we dive into some key principles for listening well. With global stories and a guided group discussion, this episode is for anyone looking to show up more intentionally in their spheres. …

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Ep 3: Presence – Taking Notice and Taking Part 31:43

3M ago31:43

31:43

Life is happening all around. Whether you’re in Dubai, Hanoi, Sydney, or New York – grounds for connection exist everywhere. How will you join in community life? How will you experience the richness of your community (new or old)? How will you bring your unique self into your community in a way that adds value and creates deeper flourishing? Throug…

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Ep 4: Food – Come to the Table and Pull Up an Extra Chair 25:01

3M ago25:01

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We all have to eat, it’s one of the most human things about us. Even the life of Jesus was often spent around the table. While our tables may look different, representing our unique cultures and recipe books – they can also be the most fundamental common ground on the planet. With global stories and a guided group discussion, this episode will dive…

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Ep 5 Time-Living at an Unhurried Pace 31:38

3M ago31:38

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As humans, time is at the very center of our existence. Sometimes we want it to speed up, get to the next season of our life or just the end of a long workday. Other times we practically beg it to stop, maybe we’re watching our kids grow up or a precious moment passes us by. However we feel about time, one thing is for sure – connections take time.…

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Ep 6: Togetherness – “Being With” Instead of “Doing For” 31:38

3M ago31:38

31:38

In today’s episode we dispel the myth that we’re better off alone. Through global stories and a guided group discussion, we unpack what it means to live, be, and serve WITH people, not merely FOR them. Website Link: https://scatter.org/ Devo Sign-Up Link: https://mailchi.mp/76876e220393/amidst-the-ordinary-devo-sign-up Music by: Zach Winters…

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Ep 7: Holy Anti-Social – Healthy Boundaries for Healthy Connections 31:24

3M ago31:24

31:24

Setting boundaries is never easy. It’s hard to say “no” or take a step back. But, as we will discuss in this episode, sometimes stepping back is the best way to step forward. With global stories and a guided group discussion, this episode is for anyone struggling to set and maintain healthy boundaries. Website Link: https://scatter.org/ Devo Sign-U…

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Ep 8: Rhythms of Grace – Implementing Sustainable Practices 32:36

3M ago32:36

32:36

In our last episode we talked about how to set and maintain proper boundaries. Today, we want to take that a bit deeper. Today, we’re going to dive into some of the rhythms, the practices, that revive us. Website Link: https://scatter.org/ Devo Sign-Up Link: https://mailchi.mp/76876e220393/amidst-the-ordinary-devo-sign-up Music by Zach Winters…

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Ep 9: Community Impact – A Conversation with Jake Ayers 31:03

3M ago31:03

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To wrap up this season, we dive deep with Jake Ayers (Mayor of Hogansville, GA) about community impact. Exploring questions like: How can we love our communities to life? How can we show up in our community well? This episode ties all of the concepts of this season together through one individual’s story. Website Link: https://scatter.org/ Devo Sig…

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Ep 1: Invitation – Starting a Journey Together 27:25

3M ago27:25

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Life often consists of entirely ordinary moments. We go to work, study for tests, shop for groceries, and show up for friends. What if these ordinary spaces are the very places where connections flourish and the Kingdom of God is on display? In this season of the podcast we want to talk about connection. This innately human urge to be a part of som…

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60 Pirate King 1:26:04

5M ago1:26:04

1:26:04

Ahoy, Matey, and welcome aboard the Curiosity Sloop. Prepare to have your timbers shivered as Commodore Einstone pulls back the thin veil separating kings from pirates, debunks the myth of buried treasure and explains maritime terms from the Golden Age of Piracy. Get familiar with the Gentleman Pirate, the Prince of Pirates, the Robin Hood of the S…

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59 Foolin' With You 1:07:18

1y ago1:07:18

1:07:18

Court jesters have been associated with positions of authority throughout time in memorial from the Pharoah Neferkere to the conquests of Atilla the Hun to the Battle of Hastings and through the Age of Discovery. These wisecracking wearers of the "cap and bells" have gone by various titles: minstrel, juggler, jolly, clown, comedian, joker, harlequi…

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58 1986: Balki In Space 1:11:45

1+ y ago1:11:45

1:11:45

1986 (a 365-day time frame fraught with discharge of toxic material, skyjackings, and espionage) was dubbed the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. And why not? The U.K. and Netherlands officially ended the 335-Years War, Hands Across America was raising funds for hunger and homelessness, the late Martin Luther King Jr. was honored w…

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57 Simpsucation 1:10:01

2y ago1:10:01

1:10:01

Since The Simpsons debuted over three decades ago, Albort’s Jeopardy game has been embiggened exponentially. But for the Simpsons, he would never have known about Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose, or William Alton Carter’s Billy Beer; and that’s just scratching the surface. This episode celebrates the random factoids lear…

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56 Cliché Cache 35:51

2+ y ago35:51

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How many movies have you seen that feature a wardrobe montage, a protagonist tearing out an IV to hastily leave the hospital, post-coital bed-sheets that magically only cover the woman’s chest, or characters uttering stale lines like, “We’ve got company”, “No time to explain”, or “He’s behind me, isn’t he?” All are examples of clichés but they aren…

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55 Magnetic Tape, Joysticks, and Pizza Theaters 1:00:01

3y ago1:00:01

1:00:01

It's been fifty years since Atari’s revolutionary game, Pong, ushered in a Renaissance for video arcades in America and gave rise to the animatronic house bands of Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz Pizza. Albort experienced it in real time and invites you to join him for a stroll down memory lane with detours at the 1982 World’s Fair, Blockbuster Video a…

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Better Half E4 - Pearls, Pants Suits, And The Golden Age Of Capitalism 1944 - 2022 1:57:11

3+ y ago1:57:11

1:57:11

This is the final episode of our four-part Better Half mini-series containing six lectures apropos to the First Ladies from the Cold War up to the present time. What is known of the First Ladies of the United States we have covered up to this point comes down to us via the press, memoirs, what can be divined from letters, paintings, anecdotes, and …

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Better Half E3 - Amelia And Eleanor's Excellent Adventure 1933 - 1944 42:32

3+ y ago42:32

42:32

This third installment of our four-part Better Half mini-series departs from the regular format as it is not focused solely on the First Lady of the United States of America and only features one of them. Today's narrative was built around the 1933 evening when Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt ducked out of a party at the White House to take a …

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Better Half E2 - Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, And The Gospel Of Wealth 1865 - 1933 1:14:29

3+ y ago1:14:29

1:14:29

This is the second apportionment of our four-part Better Half mini-series containing four lectures regarding the First Ladies of the United States within the Reconstruction Era, the Gilded Age, through total global interwar, the Mad Decade, and up to the brink of the Dirty Thirties. The sixty-eight-year span features a shy First Lady entreating the…

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Better Half E1 - Remember The Ladies 1789 - 1865 1:10:31

3+ y ago1:10:31

1:10:31

This is the inaugural episode of an introductory four-part mini-series regarding the First Ladies of the United States of America. The New Nation's inception thought nothing of what to call the President's wife as "First Lady" did not appear in print until thirty-six years after Martha Washington's death. Because women have been so thoroughly shaft…

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54 LOST In History 1:02:51

3+ y ago1:02:51

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It has been eleven years since ABC’s smash drama LOST has been off the air, yet fans continue to debate and mythologize its doctrines via blogs and hundreds of podcasts devoted solely to dissecting the mysterious island series from multiple perspectives, delving deeper into the characters' connections to one another; this is not one of them. Instea…

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52 The Mandela Effect 47:48

4+ y ago47:48

47:48

What happens when a paranormal consultant remembers an incarcerated Nelson Mandela dying in the 1980s instead of famously being released from his twenty-seven-year sentence in 1990, becoming the first Black President of South Africa and living an additional three decades? The rara avis known as False Memory Syndrome gets rebranded as The Mandela Ef…

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51 The Quarantine Wine Whine 1:14:36

5y ago1:14:36

1:14:36

When did fashion dolls morph into America’s movable men? Why do unicorns and Pegasus get confused for one another? Who, among rock stars, would make the ugliest, but most talented, baby? What Golden Raspberry Award-winning actor and former BOP Boy are we infatuated with? How is it that Weebles wobble but do not fall down? And where does Albort drea…

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50 Amelia and Eleanor's Excellent Adventure 42:23

5y ago42:23

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Did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt have Amelia Earhart shot down over the Pacific during a “reconnaissance” mission in retaliation for her lesbian affairs with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt? Probably not, but if you nit-picked your facts, you might be able to construct a plausible explanation to support that theory; we are not the first to sugg…

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49 Let's Talk About Secs Part II 1:01:54

5y ago1:01:54

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At long last, the conclusion to our series highlighting the men and women (finally) to hold the position of US Secretary of State has arrived. This installment brings us into and through the 20th Century, covering the annexation of Hawaii, the Spanish American War, the Treaty of Versailles, the concept of “Dollar Diplomacy”, the Marshall Plan, the …

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48 Sinter Wodan Kringle Claus 52:36

5+ y ago52:36

52:36

*WARNING: CONTENTS OF THIS EPISODE CONTAIN CHRISTMAS SPOILERS. NOT FOR CHILDREN* Join Albort as he explores the many incarnations of the most fantastical, generous, Coca-Cola loving character of the holiday season, Santa Claus; from Saint Nikolas of Myra to Sinterklaas of the Netherlands to Pere Noel of France to L. Frank Baum’s “Neclaus” and why t…

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47 Hallowmas 1:07:10

5+ y ago1:07:10

1:07:10

It’s October and time for our most spooktacular episode yet. Get a lesson in the provenance of Halloween and the many names it goes by, from the Celtic festivities of Calan Gaef and Samhain to All Hallow’s Eve, Hallowmas, All Saint’s Day, Reformation Day, Founder’s Day and the Day of Seven Billion. Albort’s cauldron is brimming with vampires, witch…

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46 Let's Talk About Secs 58:21

5+ y ago58:21

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Having already covered Presidents and Vice Presidents, we are now continuing the tradition of an annual show dedicated to the men and women who have run the United States since its inception with the elusive position of Secretary of State, a job held by a few would-be presidents: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Mar…

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45 Golden Jubilee 50:21

6y ago50:21

50:21

Orville Redenbacher, Mario Puzo and James Brown walk into a podcast…don’t you wish that was the set up to a fantastic joke? It’s not (sorry) but a connection between the three can be found in the year 1969; as well as Ho Chi Minh/Dwight D. Eisenhower, Judy Garland/Sharon Tate, Jack Kerouac/Joseph Kennedy, Sr. and Boris Karloff/Frank Loesser. Join A…

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44 Cap Dat 1:07:13

6y ago1:07:13

1:07:13

Capital cities are the center of government to nations states and provinces but are not always the most prominent, popular, populous or permanent (New York City and Philadelphia are NOT capital cities…anymore). Pensacola and Saint Augustine are also former heads of state that ceded to Tallahassee when East Florida and West Florida unified.Join Albo…

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43 Unglish 30:35

6y ago30:35

30:35

It is time for this season’s language analyzing episode, featuring near miss accidents, poison versus venom, Judas Priest, Alzheimer’s Disease, The Pirates of Penzance, bald faced lies, Diphtheria, Contronyms, Malapropisms, Voiceless Labiodental Fricatives and Albort explaining the difference between amused/bemused, viable/feasible, ultimate/penult…

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42 Distinguished Despots And Enigmatic Eminences 45:19

6y ago45:19

45:19

It’s the season three premiere and boy is it a scattered one, including little known factoids about some infamously ferocious historical redheads and a queen whose hair turned white overnight. Delve into the many loves of Cleopatra and Gaius Julius Caesar (along with each other), cross-dressing Romans, decisive beheadings, felinophobes, the tale of…

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41 TAMT Teenage Avant - Garde Master Talents 1:19:49

6+ y ago1:19:49

1:19:49

It’s the Season Two Finale and Albort thinks the Renaissance names for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were not assigned properly and intends to make a case for it. Get the back story on the cold-blooded half-shelled vindicators of justice and their belletristic namesakes of antiquity Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.…

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40 Decennial 29:34

6+ y ago29:34

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Albort reflects on his fortieth year on this our fortieth episode. Travel back to the mystical year one thousand, nine-hundred ninety-eight to decide if Albort predicted the Bird Flu virus as he reads excerpts of his recently dusted off writing assignment book borne of his ten year old, pop-culture infected mind to discover how he and the world hav…

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39 Nickels, Bullets, Boats and the Pickle Man 1:27:17

6+ y ago1:27:17

1:27:17

Snowmen, Alan Alda, Candy Canes, and Cherries are just some of the many nicknames for pairs in playing cards and the first two make up four fifths of the infamous Dead Man’s Hand. Join Albort for a lesson in poker tournaments, game strategy and learn the jargon that will have you talking like a pro in no time. Discover how the World Series of Poker…

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38 Battle Down 7:49

6+ y ago7:49

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It’s the first Tinysode of the season, a lost relic from the series premiere of the Scattered Curiosities. Get a very brief overview of the Battle of the Downs, one of Albort’s favorite paintings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and find out what it has to do with the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curacao and St. Maarten.…

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37 Cereal Killers 1:38:31

6+ y ago1:38:31

1:38:31

Take a trip down Saturday Morning Memory Lane with Albort Einstone as he recalls some favorite cereals, commercials, toys and mascots from the late 1800s to today. Learn the history behind some of the biggest companies in breakfast and how Battle Creek, Michigan became ground zero for the start of the unending mascot wars and cereal killers.…

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36 The Leaded Balloons That Ouched Humanity 46:32

6+ y ago46:32

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Albort knows a thing or two about being full of hot air and blows quite a bit of it in this episode surrounding the rigid airships of the early to mid-1900s and how hot air balloons used in the US Civil War helped to inspire the creation of the Luftschiff Zeppelin. Get to know the LZ129 Hindenburg, how it crashed and then wound up on the record jac…

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35 The Return of Bobby Fulton 1:27:20

6+ y ago1:27:20

1:27:20

35 The Return of Bobby Fulton by Albort EinstoneBy Albort Einstone

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34 Chapter One of the Book That Never Was 31:19

7y ago31:19

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What happens when a podcaster is asked to turn the first season of his show into a book that does not get published? This episode happens. Chapter one sets the tone for Scattered Curiosities: The Book by utilizing material from our first “Tinysode” (New Yorkosities) and expanding it by a hexatruple and a Pizza Rat. A handy listen for navigating the…

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33 Lucky Leo and the WIzard of Floyd 40:38

7y ago40:38

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What is the connection between Pink Floyd, a cat named Jackie and the Wizard of Oz? Third roar synchronicity…or second…or NEITHER. Get to know the black & white, sepia-toned and Technicolor MGM “Felidae” that roared (or not) their way into Hollywood royalty to one day unveil The Dark Side of the Rainbow.…

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32 What the Dickens Came From the Pen of John Shakespeare's Son 1:09:17

7y ago1:09:17

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It is curious that our one hundred forty character, emoticon-centered, cell phone addicted, American society is not well-known for its ardency of reading, yet is so familiar with a doublet of British writers from 150-400 years ago that had so much in common: neologism, fame, reboots, fathers’ named John, and fantastic signatures. Enter the parallel…

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31 Rubes, Rubys, Rubies and Reubens 1:01:00

7y ago1:01:00

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Get to know Albort’s idol Rube Goldberg a little better in this episode through Pee Wee Herman, Mr. T and a slew of RGMs. You’ll also meet a train robbing Rube, a sandwich named Rueben, some heroic lady Rubys, along with some musically talented ones who are as precious and iconic as rubles, rubies and the Rubicon River.…

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30 Curiosity Scatter Vol II 31:48

7y ago31:48

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Leftovers are the soup du jour today. Get into Albort’s scatter-brains and learn about Sadie Hawkins Day, Bandwagons, Diner Slang and King Og. This episode is especially interesting for those of you that love the year 1986.By Albort Einstone

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29 Inventionation 1:00:05

7y ago1:00:05

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It’s the first episode of Season Two! Albort explores the world of simple inventions and how they came to market. Did you know Twister was thought of as “Sex in a Box” when it debuted? Or that the Snuggie wasn’t the first sleeved blanket? How exactly did John Henderson benefit Mister Kite? And what do Wacky Wallwalkers have to do with Christmas? Al…

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01 Let's Go Dutch 1:06:10

7y ago1:06:10

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PILOT: In this first episode of Scattered Curiosities, Albort Einstone takes you to the Netherlands and makes poignant connections between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam (New York City) all while weaving in and out of the Eighty Years War.By Albort Einstone

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E08.1 Swiss Army Scouts 1:06:46

7+ y ago1:06:46

1:06:46

For the season one finale, Albort will explore the connections between Duct Tape, Swiss Army Knives, Matches, Springs, Lighters and the Boy Scouts of America. Learn about the Unknown Scout and how he was pivotal to the formation of the BSA. Discover what “Congreves” and “Lucifers” are, and the difference between “The Original Swiss Army Knife” and …

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E07.4 Rock Moniker 16:16

7+ y ago16:16

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Finding the right band name is one of the most pivotal moments in a musical group’s journey. Many notable bands went through more than one title before settling on a Rock Moniker. Discover which bands once went by names like: Naked Toddler; Wicked Lester; The Shrinky Dinks; Atomic Mass; and The Polka Tulk Blues Band.…

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E07.3 Crazy Train 15:07

7+ y ago15:07

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Join us for one of the most infuriatingly extreme subway rides ever, and learn all about toe spreading, licking the sword, burning the giraffe, magic blankets and why Albort is worried about possums, zebras and woodpeckers plaguing the New York subway systems.By Albort Einstone

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E07.2 Talking Dirty 14:26

7+ y ago14:26

14:26

Widen your vocabulary with these words that sound dirty, but aren’t: Sack-But; Sack-ButT; Shuttlecock; Nicker-Picker; Nib lick; Logorrhea; Pissasphalt; and an Interrobang (?). Don’t be a lobcock or a nodgecock; be a fartlek and get fecund with Albort Einstone in today’s episode, Talking Dirty.By Albort Einstone

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E07.1 Sit and Spinoff 1:01:08

7+ y ago1:01:08

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Did you know that Green Acres was a spinoff of Petticoat Junction? And Petticoat Junction was a spin off of The Beverly Hillbillies? And Good Times was a spinoff of Maude! Can you believe that Sheriff Lobo got his own series? And Magnum PI has crossed over with Simon & Simon and Murder, She Wrote. Learn some fascinating television trivia relating t…

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