Back in 1994, two Phoenix-area lawyers hit upon a new way to advertise their legal services: auto-send thousands of emails to chat groups. Hear about their recipe for spam, and then check your inbox for a custom cocktail.
The Posts Tackle Tea Troubles and Facebook Birthday Burdens
Etiquette scions Lizzie Post and Dan Post-Senning return to the show, bearing advice about bread-breaking and birthday-wishing.
Amelia Gray – ‘Avocado Who?’
Writer Amelia Gray tells perhaps the bleakest knock-knock joke in history. She learned it from a 5-year-old.
Amelia Gray Imagines Competitive Grieving
Pen/Faulkner Award finalist Amelia Gray reads a dark new parable from her new collection "GUTSHOT."
Young Fathers Share a Soundtrack for Thinking and Drinking
The Mercury Prize-winning artists craft a soundtrack for a very deep dinner party.
South Dakota’s New State Slogan
Richard Lawson, columnist for Vanity Fair, mulls over South Dakota's new state slogan, which is (kind of) a jab at Mars.
A Crash Course on The Netherlands’ ‘War Fries’
"Amsterdam Foodie" Vicky Hampton gives Rico the skinny on a local favorite: "war fries." It's condiment carnage.
Cynthia Barnett Drops A Little Rain Knowledge
Environmental journalist Cynthia Barnett showers us with facts about precipitation, like why it always "pours" when it rains, and how our prune-y fingers may have been an adaptation to cope with a wetter world.
Mark Ronson Schools us on ‘Uptown Funk,’ Producing Hits
The musical mastermind chats with Brendan about working with Amy Winehouse, discovering Keyone Starr, and producing the "Macarena of 2015."
Playlist 299
All the music from episode 299.