Whales are a lot like people. Except better. From cottage cheese milk and gay orgies to head wax and epic poetry, come check out the weird, wonderful world of whales.

Episode 8: The Arrest of a President

Feb 27th, 2018 31m 48s

Can the President of the United States be arrested? Grant, Nixon, Clinton, and Trump have all (so far) managed to avoid that fate, but it remains an open question whether police can waltz into the Oval Office and put handcuffs on the commander-

Episode 7: The Gardner Heist

Feb 13th, 2018 32m 13s

Do you want $10 million? Then go find the 13 pieces of art that were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. True, no one has seen hide nor hair of them in almost 30 years, but I'm sure you can do better than the FBI. Oh, and I

Episode 6: Trees

Jan 30th, 2018 29m 36s

From communicating via a fungal internet to inspiring Norse mythology, trees are some of the coolest shit in the natural world. Episode 6 explores the history, biology, and mythology of some of the biggest and oldest organisms on planet earth.

Episode 5: The Siege of Boston

Jan 15th, 2018 35m 24s

We all know how the story of the American Revolution starts--Paul Revere, the lamps in the Old North Church, and the battles of Lexington and Concord. But what happens in the sequel? Boston, like an ex-Navy SEAL who just wants to live peacefull

Episode 4: War Dogs

Jun 15th, 2017 32m 50s

In addition to snuggling, tearing apart pillows, and chasing squirrels, dogs have served alongside their human masters in almost every war ever fought. From their beginnings as vicious attack dogs in Attila the Hun's army to one dog's role in b

Episode 3: Harriet Tubman

May 30th, 2017 38m 44s

In the third episode of Cool Sh*t: the Podcast, we dive into the life of Harriet Tubman: American Badass. Born a slave, Tubman not only escaped herself, she led more than 300 men, women, and children to freedom as a "conductor" on the Undergrou

Episode 2: The Aurora

May 10th, 2017 34m 27s

About thirty miles north of Fairbanks, deep in the Alaskan wild, there is a research facility called Poker Flat. Here, rockets are assembled by NASA scientists and launched into the Earth’s upper atmosphere. For what purpose? Well, I suspect it

Episode 1: Voyager and the Golden Record

Apr 27th, 2017 33m 16s

The inaugural episode of Cool Sh*t: The Podcast covers the Voyager missions--two space probes launched in 1977 with the mission of exploring the outer planets of our solar system. The probes also carried copies of the Golden Record, a message e

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