Let Me Google That show

Let Me Google That

Summary: Fascinating fodder to fuel your next trip down a Wikihole. New episode every Sunday! Brought to you by Water Cooler Trivia (watercoolertrivia.com). *Content Warning* Language, comic mischief, & weird stuff! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

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 AI MADE THIS EPISODE | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:14

From scripting to recording and editing, every part of this episode was made with AI. DEAR GOD WHAT HATH I WROUGHT?! Also, now you have to google Roko's Basilisk. Sorry. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 Deepwater Horizon | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:13:30

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, sinking 2 days later. Over the next 87 days, millions of barrels of oil leaked into the ocean — the economic & environmental impact of which many are still reeling from today. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 Is Internet Access a Human Right? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:40

If you live in a country where access to the Internet is a part of your daily life, you might not have considered what it would mean to lose that access—or never have had it at all.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 Mercury Retrograde | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:42

Is #MercuryRetrograde a thing or do we just want to believe it's a thing?  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 Naming Your Kentucky Derby Racehorse | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:58

#KentuckyDerby racehorses are majestic & expensive beasts worthy of our admiration — and yet we give them names like "Tit'n Your Girdle." Here's how (not) to name your thoroughbred. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 Titanic Part II: The Tale of Dorothy Gibson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:59

Part 2 of this weekend's #Titanic episode is about one of the survivors: silent film star Dorothy Gibson who wrote (& starred in) the *first* movie about the Titanic a century before James Cameron's epic — and just months after the disaster. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 Titanic: Part I | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:47

This weekend marks the 111th anniversary of the #Titanic sinking. The disaster launched a thousand ships (if unanswered questions & conspiracy theories are ships) that still compel us over a century later. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 What's the Most Popular Birthday? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:48

Not mine lol  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 The Picture of Everything | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:33

An artist named Howard Hallis has spent the last decade painting a massive picture of literally everything. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 Why Does Grapefruit Mess With Meds? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:04

The interaction was discovered in a study where the juice was used to mask the taste of alcohol. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 Sexy Moths | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:49

Put on some slow, sexy, saxophone riffs and leave your porch light on tonight to help Hot Single Poplar Hawk Moths in your area get it on. It's literally their reason for living. #TagUrMothPorn --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 The Kentucky Meat Shower | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:21

 So, meat pieces fell from the sky in Kentucky once.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 Why Are Giraffes So Damn Long? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:13:19

Everything you never knew you wanted to know about giraffes: the even-toed ungulates formerly known as CAMELEOPARDS. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 Indelible Pencils | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:25

"Indelible pencils" or copying pencils were popular for a time in the 1870s because they made it possible to easily make copies of handwritten documents. Which would have been great — except they turned out to be poisonous. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

 The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:09:50

20 years ago, the Columbia space shuttle disaster resulted in the deaths of 7 human crew members, but there were survivors: small worms that had been involved in an onboard experiment somehow survived the impact & extreme heat. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

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