Episode 70: Matthew Henson and Some Bana...

Henriette D'angeville was the first woman to climb Mount Blanc in the Alps, despite everyone advising her not to try it. Decades later, Julia Archibald Holmes (a friend of John Brown's) became the first woman to summit Pike's Peak, a feat that Pike himself never did. 

Philo Farnsworth loved electricity so much he came up with a way to invent television - as a 14 year old! Centuries beforehand Stephen Gray, a British scientist, learned more about electricity than anyone before him - and he used children to show how it worked! 

This episode will make you hungry! Rufus Estes and Chin Foin both left a big mark on food, both lived in Chicago at the same time, and both had their food featured in important cookbooks in 1911. 

Ozzy Oinkers was going to a Cake Conference that evening. Bananas were his favorite! He could hardly wait to eat a big,huge slice of banana cake. The Great Foxter welcomed participants in the square and announced that the winner was getting ultimate prize....... 

Mario Cantone (And Just Like That, Surf's Up) and Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation) star in this folktale about how the giraffe got its long neck, and how the rhino got an unexpected ally! 

HARVEY, our omnipresent virtual voice assistant, gets a software update that makes him go bananas for bananas. And if we talk about anything except bananas, he turns the microphones off! We talk to geneticist Dr. Janina Jeff about how much DNA we share with a banana, find out why ... Show More

Banana Stand Lady invites Lucy Wow and the gang to her newly constructed Banana Castle. What starts as a dream tour turns into a chaotic misadventure full of bananas and splits, but no banana splits. 

Season Finale! Comedians and friends Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol are here to discuss Grizzly Man and other Werner Herzog films... then Finn and Billy create a new Tom Hiddleston/Sean Penn vehicle. 

Josh McDermitt aka "Dr. Eugene Porter" from "The Walking Dead" has plenty to say about how things work on the set of one of the most popular TV shows on the planet! He's talking "Death Dinners," the infamous mullet, killing zombies, Cocko, and piloting hot air balloons (no, serio ... Show More

In todays episode we discuss Andrew getting a tattoo at the same time as Richard Hammond, John Tickle walking on custard and Eamon Holmes going off on Philip Schofield. 

Teddy Roosevelt was not afraid to tempt death. He hiked the Matterhorn during his honeymoon. He arrested outlaws on the Dakota Frontier. He hunted rhinos in Africa. But his most dangerous journey came after his failure in 1912 to retake the presidency as a third-party candidate o ... Show More

In the inaugural episode of our show we discuss Nice Guys, Windy City Heat, then a few movies of our own. Plus, Finn's weird eating habits!