Rhopology - Podcast Edition: Recent Episodes
Kleos Kollective
There is magic in the mundane, and Harry, Marie, and Jake are here to witness it live every Thursday from 6 to 9 in the morning. If you aren't a masochist and enjoy sleeping, this podcast version is for you.
Coming from Harry's new favourite wikipedia page, 'a list of non-water floods', this strange and tragic story dives into the state of industrial alcohol during the first world war, how materials are determined to be flexible, and a few neat tricks the residents of Boston in the 1900s could share on getting free candy ingredients.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues
Jake and Harry take a look at the circumstances leading up to John Mulholland's hiring by the CIA, and what kind of world events had to happen to lead to such a strange set of circumstances.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues
In this historical dressing down of the machine that makes our lives easier and our fashion sense sharper, Harry threads the needle between patent crooks and crochet hooks to follow the thread of fates past. I'm running out of puns here, but we also talk about Luddites and Jake is there.
Our Theme music is Baby Tear Blues by Mort Garson
Harry and his plucky companion Jake travel back in time this episode to watch the gradual demise of Old Who, and to discover what exactly brought it to an end in 1989, and why that would set the stage for its eventual return in 2005.
Our theme music is Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
Ingredients:
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Spun Sugar
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Harry and Jake
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The World's Fair
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A dentist
Method:
Place a weird vending machine in the middle of the shopping centre. Slowly add historical facts whilst stirring. Bring to a boil before adding centripetal and centrifugal forces. Switch to medium heat. Add hosts. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Serve through headphones. Add salt to taste.
Optional Ingredients:
- Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
In this all over the place episode, Harry talks about everything to do with made-up languages. From phonetic roots to biomechanical robots, prepare yourself for a seriously deep dive is how to pronounce alien words. Seriously, prepare yourself. There are so many mouth sounds this week.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
Following in a long line of episodes spurred on by Harry making some inane purchase, today Rhopology looks at the life and times of the (not so) humble electric guitar. From its history to its science, we find out what really makes this instrument tick. Or rather, strum.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
In this episode of Rhopology, we take a look into the composite parts of everyone's least favourite knife/fork/spoon combination, discussing, among other things; ancient opinions on cutlery innovations, the metals we decide to eat with, and of course, a little bit of etymology for taste. A real smorgasbord of cutlery-inary delights.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
Harry has been thinking a lot about getting clean, for reasons unknown, and has taken a dive into what makes the tentpoles of modern hygiene tick. Also seafoam, because thats somehow related, right?
In our final episode on all things spooky, Harry takes a look at the origins of two famous movie monsters, and everyone does their best not to bite one another.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
Marie takes the reigns in this spooky episode, where we learn all about the beginning and aftermath of the Salem Witch Trials, and how they relate to a certain spooky franchise starring three spooky sisters.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
Schools closed, products pulled from shelves, the world in a panic. What terrible catastrophe is sweeping the globe, striking terror into the hearts of men. A media sensation and a worldwide panic. Lock up your greasepaint and hide your volkswagen, because we're talking about the Clown Scare of 2016.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
This week, Marie kicks off our spooky October topics by taking us on a walking tour on the most haunted places of Perth WA, strap in for extremely local jokes and extremely spooky sightings.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
Harry takes Jake and Marie into the annals of north-west Russia to uncover the deepest hole that humans have ever dug. Please Enjoy, we did.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
In the midst of National Penguin Day in the studio, Harry hijacks a simple penguin facts show with an exhaustive history of Club Penguin and its mythos. Chaos ensues.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
In this episode, Harry gets angry at the fact his CLEARLY labelled poisonous paint thinner looks exactly like water, but at least he makes it interesting. Also Napoleon Bonaparte is brought up, and it's actually relevant.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
In this episode the three of us travel back in time to watch the humble water cooler become the office staple it is today, thrusting this often invisible object into the spotlight.
Theme Music - Baby Tears Blues by Mort Garson
Jake and Harry descend through the layers of the ocean, encountering strange science and stranger creatures.
Imagine if you bat a ball before life had begun on the planet. And they left the oceans and grew legs and invented language and developed leather working and invented a baseball glove just in time to catch your ball as it flew before them. You'd have at least made it to first base.
Look down at your jacket, or jeans, or sometimes shoes. Chances are the letters YKK are sitting there. If you wanna know why, listen to this. Also we talk about some corporate law cause what kinda Discover Thursdays would it be without that.
We stare into the face of some truly eldritch numbers brought about in an attempt to determine the size of The Library of Babel.
This week I didn't research anything ahead of time, so enjoy a wildly all over the place episode about signage.
This week listen to Harry try and describe what plants look like live on Radio. It does not go well. But the rest is alright.
Today I will be discussing the rise and fall of the mot popular phone game of November 2012. Strap in.
We talk about the history of how people tried, failed, and eventually succeeded in predicting the weather.
This episode we discover the surprising depth behind those two to three letters after the street name.