Adrianne tries to deconstruct how a big city got a seemingly low-prestige area code.

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02:41 ? LincMad.com 04:00 - Adrianne says here that Idaho got area code 702. This is not correct!! Idaho got 208. We regret the error. 04:43 ? The rotary dial demonstrated in an AT&T video from around the time area codes were added 07:41 ? AT&T, or Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph, was a monopoly provider of telephone service until it was broken up in 1983 as part of an antitrust settlement with the U.S. government. That?s really all you need to know, although a good book about this is The Master Switch 06:52 ? A table of the original area code assignments 18:13 ? Mark J Cuccia on the 50th anniversary of the North American Numbering Plan 18:34 ? Mark J Cuccia mentions the Boston ?anomaly? 19:03 ? Nation-wide Toll Dialing (Bell Laboratories Record, October 1945) 19:19 ? Billy worked on a video about the AT&T archive at The Verge 27:07 ? 201, 609 And Now, Oh My, 908 (The New York Times, 1991) 32:40 ? An example of Telephone Topics, the in-house magazine for New England Telephone 32:45 ? It was actually ?Tracing the Telephone in Western Massachusetts?

John pieces together the definitive timeline of  when Cool Ranch Doritos became Cooler Ranch Doritos.

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01:19 ? Mandela Effect on Snopes 01:31 ? Doritos on Wikipedia 02:51 ? Doritos' Long, Slow Descent Into Madness 05:07 ? John's bag 14:57 ? SNAC International 16:00 ? Doritos Nacho Cheesier commerical 22:30 ? taquitos.net 24:58 ? Jeremy's Cooler Ranch review 29:50 ? Woman Recreates Engagement Shoot With A Bag Of Doritos 35:00 ? George Foreman Doritos commercial

The storied history of a United States Forest Service mascot, and why the government wanted him incinerated.

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Where it all began (Symbols.gov via Archive.org) Boing Boing post from 2007 Every time you masturbate ... God kills a kitten The Ballad of Woodsy Owl (Forest Service) The Ballad of Woodsy Owl cover by KITSCH CLUB Retro PSA Give A Hoot Don'T Pollute - Woodsy The Owl Woodsy Owl PSA Woodsy Owl on German Wikipedia Johnny Horizon Woodsy Owl Funko Pop Woodsy Owl licensing pitch A Brief History of Woodsy Owl

If you unearth a body after seven years, will the makeup still be there?

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0:46 ? ?My Year of Rest and Relaxation? by Ottessa Moshfegh 1:00 ? Ottessa Moshfegh 1:39 ? Rouge Dior 999 1:59 ? Can One Red Lipstick Really Look Good On Everyone? 2:50 ? Thierry Mugler 3:18 ? The Compounds in Red Lipstick 7:10 ? Rouge Dior 999 ingredients 12:30 ? The Mortuary Science Professor Who Came ?Out of Nowhere? to Help N.Y.C. 13:27 ? Mortuary Makeup Artists Give Us Their Best Beauty Tips 14:05 ? About Amber ? Mortician in the Kitchen 15:00 ? Refinery29: This Is What It?s Really Like To Do Makeup? On Dead People 18:35 ? American Chemical Society 19:00 ? Lab Muffin Beauty Science breaks down Lipstick Science 21:10 ? Stability Testing Guidance for Product Safety and Shelf-life Insight 22:40 ? Shelf Life and Expiration Dating of Cosmetics 27:00 ? Microbes A-Z: Your Questions Answered 31:50 ? Kalon Massage Cream

An 88-year-old is being charged with a felony after selling "jailbroke firesticks" at a Florida flea market.

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00:56 ? Sheriff Grady Judd - Wikipedia 02:59 ? Amazon Fire TV Stick - Wikipedia 03:50 ? iOS Jailbreaking 04:22 ? Rooting (Android) - Wikipedia 09:33 ? VPN - Wikipedia 11:45 ? F.S.S. 812.15 - Unauthorized reception of communications services; penalties. 15:20 ? Nilay Patel - Twitter 15:36 ? About The Verge 15:41 ? Decoder with Nilay Patel 16:16 ? Local news report about Napster (2000) - YouTube 16:44 ? Why news sites benefit from having writers with legal backgrounds - Poynter 17:01 ? CNBC segment on Kazaa 23:40 ? Cynthia Conlin & Associates 29:47 ? Dan Marino statue on Google Street View 30:46 ? Mobdro FAQ 40:54 ? Sheriff Judd reads "Oh, the places you'll go!" by Dr. Seuss - YouTube 42:30 ? Full response from the Polk County Sheriff's office 42:34 ? Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use 43:21 ? ?Star Trek? and Dr. Seuss Mash-Up Not Protected, Court Rules - NYT 44:00 ? The officially sanctioned reading of ?Oh, the Places You'll Go!? by Michelle Obama - YouTube

A listener emails Underunderstood: "Jeff Goldblum has a tattoo in Jurrassic Park - no one noticed, no one can identify. Help!"

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01:20 ? Clip of Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) with the flare in Jurassic Park 06:50 ? The Reddit post 08:50 ? Jeff Goldblum?s community number 10:22 ? Correction: The word ?tattoo? does show up in Jurassic Park, the book once. Quote: ?We got another hadro dead. Juvenile.? Muldoon bent down among the flies and checked the skin on the sole of the right foot. A number was tattooed there. ?Specimen is number HD/09.? 12:42 ? Jurassic World: Dominion started shooting in February 2020. Universal Studios halted production on March 13. The film was mostly shot in England. 16:40 ? Ana Maria Quintana?s IMdB page 18:45 ? Here?s a typical continuity analysis of the goat scene. This writer actually concludes it was not an error. If you feel compelled to email us about this, please don?t ? we won?t appreciate it. Try one of the many active Jurassic Park forums instead! 19:30 ? Jurassic Park is the 40th top-grossing film of all time. Movie theaters boosted it to the top of the box office again in 2020, when COVID-19 put new releases on pause. 21:10 ? Christina Smith?s IMdB page 24:50 ? Dom Nero on Twitter 25:50 ? Dom?s article about Colin Trevorrow?s Star Wars script 40:10 ? Wikipedia page for Blowup (1966), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

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Why does no one remember a set of singing vegetables from an Oklahoma grocery store in the 80s?

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01:27 - Homeland on Wikipedia 02:45 - Stew Leonard's on Wikipedia 05:46 - Matt's Reddit post 06:45 - Melody Farm Follies on YouTube 06:45 - Melody Farm Follies on YouTube 13:06 - An incredible promo video for Big Fresh 13:15 - Animatronics at Big Fresh 13:40 - Jungle Jim's 14:20 - Anti-drug animatronics at Mollie Stone's 15:22 - Stew Leonard's in Paramus, NJ 19:50 - Photo #1 20:35 - Photo #2 21:51 - Another Melody Farm Follies video 24:10 - VP Animations 28:00 - The old Homeland logo on a store 30:06 - Bobby Gosh's music credits 31:04 - Advanced Animations 37:25 - Dick McCormack on Wikipedia

A famous datset of Reuters articles from the 1980s includes ?Blah blah blah.? in place of some stories. Why?

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00:31 - The link Jess sent 8:31 - SGML 8:46 - This is what the blahs look like and this is what all the entries look like. 24:00 - FTP 24:34 - Linguistic Data Consortium 29:00 - RCV1 at NIST and David D. Lewis?s README 30:22 - Construe-TIS: A System for Content-Based Indexing of a Database of News Stories (Phil Hayes and Steven Weinstein)

What ever happened with those mysterious seeds that were showing up in U.S. mailboxes?

00:33 - Michigan Department of Agriculture tweet 03:10 - USDA answers frequently asked questions about the mystery seeds, including ?What should I do if I already planted the seeds?? 02:30 - Facebook post from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development 03:52 - Invasive species are no joke!!!! 04:50 - As of this writing, Snopes said there was no motive determined for the seed shipments: Are Americans Receiving Unsolicited Mailings of Seeds from China? (Snopes) 09:32 - USDA still hasn?t found anything to cause major concern, but it has now identified more species and some viruses. This is an updated comment as of Nov. 18: ?Altogether, we have identified approximately 460 taxa of seeds. We have detected 2 quarantine insect pests using x-ray and 28 Federal Noxious weeds based on identifications by APHIS botanists.
We have also identified 6 quarantine significant viruses or viroids using molecular testing.? Also, here are some photos of U.S.D.A. investigating the seeds with microscopes. 14:29 - Jason Koebler and Emanuel Maiberg of Motherboard. The last story Underunderstood collaborated on with Motherboard was this one. 15:05 - Hundreds of Americans Planted 'Chinese Mystery Seeds' (Motherboard) 19:16 - Zack Franklin in action 22:44 - Amazon explains fulfilled by Amazon and a little bit about fulfilled by merchant. 30:55 - ?The mysterious seed is back! Shenzhen cross-border seller actually sends parcels here? (forum post) 31:31 - Moss?s website for Amazon sellers and Moss on Zhihu. 34:07 - Honest Buyers Club on Facebook is an example of one of these groups. Once you get involved, you?ll start to get one-on-one messages from sellers. To clarify, I (Adrianne) have never actually ordered anything, I just lurk and try to harass people into doing an interview (100% failure rate). I?m definitely not endorsing giving your address out to strangers on the internet, but I think these guys are mostly legit. So, maybe you could give them, like, a PO box? 36:06 - ?Evaluation blacklist? ? a crowdsourced list of people who accept free gifts without providing the requisite review

Billy digs into how The Masked Singer got a studio audience to show up during COVID.

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00:35 - The Masked Singer (Wikipedia) 02:29 - King of Mask Singer (Wikipedia) 05:00 - After the Mask - May 6, 2020 (YouTube) 05:07 - The Masked Singer s04e01 (Tubi) - skip to 1m5s to see the clip we're talking about 08:43 - FOX MLB virtual fans (YouTube) 08:58 - tweet 1 09:12 - tweet 2 09:33- tweet 3 09:42 - tweet 4 10:16 - health disclaimer (JPG) 10:53 - Unreal Engine credit (JPG) 11:09 - Unreal Engine (Wikipedia) 12:26 - The 9/11 photo story 14:43 - Kyle Montplaisir on Talent Recap 20:00 - Dragon's performance (YouTube) 21:54 - voting disclaimer (JPG) 22:12 - How Does 'The Masked Singer' Voting Work This Season? (Cosmo) 23:43 - Gremlin Reveal (YouTube) 27:14 - Pixotope 27:29 - Nickon Mirsepassi 31:05 - Giraffe performance 31:51 - DMX512 (Wikipedia) 35:13 - Lidar (Wikipedia) 36:31 - Silver Spoon Support Underunderstood on Patreon to hear twice as much of us every week or leave a (nice) review on Apple Podcasts

An unsolved mystery from our members-only podcast, Overunderstood. You can sign up and get access at patreon.com/underunderstood.

1:50 - Unfriendly Chimp Stolen From Cage In Central Park (NYT) - March 6, 1970 4:24 - Thief Says A Rare Bird Needed Love (NYT) ? July 14, 1999 and Rare Bird Is Back in Hand, and So Is a Suspect (NYT) ? January 28. 1999 6:31 - History of Central Park Zoos. There are no chimps today. 9:34 - Found a relevant crime, with a very different ending, while uploading these show notes: Chimps Stolen From Zoo Found Happy in Brooklyn Phone Booth (NYT) ? October 25, 1966. Except apparently the Prospect Park zookeepers missed their chimps, who were "like babies to us" and started a ransom fund before they were found. The same kidnapper?? This story also notes that the chimps cost about $600. 10:18 - What the park zoo looked like in the 1970s. The zoo is also mentioned in here around 8:58. 13:55 - AWFUL CALAMITY. The Wild Animals Escape from Central Park. TERRIBLE SCENES OF MUTILATION. This was a hoax by the New York Herald in 1874. 15:40 - $60,000 for a chimp in 2009 and $600 for a chimp in the first half of the century 18:46 - Chimpanzees in Central Park Zoo, New York City, 1970. (Photo by Jill Freedman/Getty Images) 20:18 - Jill Freedman on Instagram. The photo of her with a beer was taken down, but you can see some of her work. 23:25 - This version of the photo has a caption and more specific date: "A chimpanzee wearing a tuxedo and roller skates sits on a chair at a photographic gallery opening." New York City, 1974. (Photo by Jill Freedman/Getty Images). 29:37 - The Wildlife Conservation Society told me they had no records, but stuff like this and this seems promising. 30:24 - CORRECTION: I said University of North Carolina in the episode, but I meant North Carolina State University. Ugh. 31:34 - Angry Keeper Stages Monkey House Lock?In And more stuff here.

Regina searches for the true story behind a sexist remark.

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00:40 - This is Geraldine Ferraro's Wikipedia page. 0:52 - And this is Walter Mondale's. 01:21 - This episode published on November 4, 2020, which is election day in the United States for the 2020 Presidential election. 01:31 - The 2020 Democratic National Convention kicked off on August 17, 2020. It was technically in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but because of the Coronavirus pandemic it was a mostly virtual event. 03:15 - Edit desk: Shades of sexism, published April 30, 2017, is the piece of Emily's that I am referring to. 04:05 - hereGeraldine Ferraro's full acceptance speech 04:30 - Walter Mondale's full acceptance speech 06:10 - Kamala Harris Tests America?s Relationship to Women in Power, published in The New York Times on August 19, 2020 06:57 - In 1992, Hillary Clinton got in some trouble for implying she didn't want to "stay home and bake cookies" and as a result ended up in a bake-off with Barbara Bush. She won, apparently due to using shortening instead of butter. 07:56 - Prematurely mentioned obituary in The Economist. 12:04 - Tom Brokaw was accused of sexual misconduct in April 2018. Here is an Opinions piece in The Washington Post that his former colleague wrote about the experience. 13:41 - The Vanderbilt Television News Archive. 15:56 - "The Lady Is a Pol," by Marie Brenner for New York Magazine's July 1984 issue. 17:07 - "out of sight of the cameras, her feet began doing a secret minuet, an odd, pigeon-toed dance. Her size 7 ½?s were sheathed..." 17:51 - "The Rise of Geraldine Ferraro," written by Elisabeth Bumiller and published by The Washington Poston April 29, 1984 19:05 - Here are the details for Caroline's article, published in 2015. 20:46 - Some of the great research Caroline is referencing can be found in these research study results from Celinda Lake for Name It Change It with the Women's Media Canter and She Should Run. 23:07 - "Cosmetic Coverage," by Jennifer L Pozner 24:47 - The Representation Project. 34:39 - Check out our patreon to sign up and get access to Overunderstood as well as our Discord channel!

The origin story of a wobbly toy with a peculiar name.

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1:47 - Nickelodeon's Wild & Crazy Kids Gwok Ball on Dailymotion 4:26 - Google Books Ngram Viewer results for "guac" 4:57 - Maureen Down piece from the New York Times Magazine, May 29, 1994: The Lost Quayle Diaries 5:27 - The New York Times, January 22, 1997: Snacks to Fix in Super Bowl Timeouts 6:16 - "Guac" used in a 1993 episode of Norther Exposure 6:34 - "Guac" used in a 2000 episode of Will & Grace 7:46 - Guac Ball on Toy Directory 8:12 - Creative Imaginations website, archived August 3, 2008 9:25 - Wham-It on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in December 1989 (PDF) 12:40 - Wham-It on Amazon, complete with photos of the can 16:04 - Lars and the Real Girl, with which this story has - and I cannot stress this enough - nothing in common 18:28 - Regina's Guac Ball 19:42 - K·B Toys (RIP) on Wikipedia 19:54 - Gymboree on Wikipedia 24:57 - John asks Reddit: Is "guac" an old surf term? 25:32 - Dave Chappelle coins "Zip it up and zip it out" 26:32 - "Guac" in the LA Times, April 7, 1989

The FDA gets salty.

0:01 - Underunderstood is on Patreon. THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who subscribed so far! 4:50 - TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SUBCHAPTER B--FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION PART 164 -- TREE NUT AND PEANUT PRODUCTS Subpart B--Requirements for Specific Standardized Tree Nut and Peanut Products Sec. 164.110 Mixed nuts. 7:15 - People on YouTube like counting nuts:
Planters Mixed Nuts - Less Than 50% Peanuts? Let's Put It To The Test!
Are Planter's mixed nuts really less than 50% peanuts?
"LeSs ThAn 50% PeAnUtS" 7:49 - Andy Rooney on mixed nuts 14:57 - U.S. vs 25 bags of nuts 19:10 - FDA's first proposed mixed nuts rule, 1968. If you've never had the pleasure of reading the Federal Register, you're welcome. 22:49 - Wikipedia article on mixed nuts 22:57 - Nicholas De Leon 29:20 - Mixing Up the Nuts (Consumer, 1985). 34:03 - ?When does it stop being peanut butter??: FDA food standards of identity, RuthDesmond, and the shifting politics of consumer activism, 1960s?1970s article. Paper by Angie Boyce about food standards of identity and a legendary consumer advocate. 34:19 - Patreon, again! You can get access to our Discord where we talk about Trader Joe's snacks, and you get to help us pay for various pro software subscriptions.

Once a photo gets on the internet, it could end up anywhere.

0:01 - We have a Patreon now! 2:13 - Product on Amazon 4:10 - Billy's tweet 4:22 - Hellicus's tweet 4:48 - Ryan Broderick 7:00 - CCbeauty's webpage 10:00 - HDcrafter link 1 11:20 - HDcrafter link 2 12:53 - Buzzfeed article 14:33 - Medium account 15:29 - About.me page 17:18 - Mr. Sparkle 25:53 - The guy who replaced Ryan is everywhere 26:46 - iFlashDeal bib 28:26 - Buzzfeed article translated into Chinese 29:19 - Francis on 17qq 31:56 - Graphika report (via Input) 34:07 - foreigner face on Google HK 34:26 - foreigner on Google HK 34:37 - foreigner face on Baidu 35:37 - Baidu source 38:15 - New photos from Ryan 38:40 - The photo on Amazon has been updated again to a 3rd guy 39:14 - Ryan on new products (screenshot) 41:03 - Patreon

Underunderstood returns October 13, 2020.

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A Reddit theory about our absence Music from Underunderstood - Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music A fan dances to our theme song on TikTok

Adrianne tries to figure out if there is a right way to play Netflix?s awkward social media game.

10:08 - Social Learning and Coordination in High-Stakes Games: Evidence from Friend or Foe 11:55 - Friend or Foe clip - YouTube 15:35 - Shubham Goel for Governor 2018 and video of Shubham?s campaign speech - Instagram 19:15 - Shubham's diagram 21:44 - Here's Why Richard Hatch Won't Be on Survivor's All-Winners Season - Men's Health 23:24 - The Winner of The Circle Opens Up About Life IRL - Wired and ?The Circle? on Netflix: 20 Burning Questions Answered - Decider 25:11 - Teaching Prisoners' Dilemma Strategies in Survivor: Reality Television in the IR Classroom - Mark B. Salter

Why do so many Pennsylvania homes have freestanding toilets in their unfinished basements?

01:21 - Pittsburgh toilet - Wikipedia 02:44 - The dual toilets at Cloister Cafe - Yelp 04:19 - Peculiar Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh potty ... explained - YouTube 06:50 - Documenting The Pittsburgh Potty - 90.5 WESA 07:46 - The original version of this story misidentified this quote. It's from realtor Stephen Cummings. 08:11 - Slavery in Pittsburgh - Popular Pittsburgh 11:33 - Architect Offers Explanation For Pittsburgh?s Basement Toilets (And It?s Not What You Think) - 90.5 WESA 15:16 - Andrea Allen 16:22 - Double D Plumbing - Manta

Is H&M using Billie Eilish to greenwash?

01:19 - H&M Now Sells Billie Eilish Merch ? & It's Sustainable - Refinery29 03:05 - Sustainable Fashion on Wikipedia 04:29 - A copy H&M's press release 05:15 - Greenwashing on Wikipedia 05:49 - H&M's Billie Eilish collection 05:53 - H&M's Conscious Collection 06:20 - Here are some of the publications that called this line sustainable: Teen Vogue, MTV.com, Mic, WWD, NME 10:56 - "Is Billie Eilish's line at H&M sustainable?" - Google 12:56 - Greenwashing Alert: H&M and Billie Eilish Collaboration - Eco-Stylist 13:47 - Eco-Stylist's criteria for brands they work with and their transparency report outlining their ethics and business model 15:38 - H&M called out on "illegal" sustainability marketing - Ecotextile 24:40 - H&M: fair living wages were promised, poverty wages are the reality - International Labor Rights Forum 25:31 - Perspex's sustainability information page 26:24 - H&M Menlo Park 27:40 - H&M Woodbridge 31:00 - Sunrise Movement on Wikipedia 31:30 - Alex O'Keefe 36:53 - Sunrise Movement is asking people to hold 2020 launch parties on January 29. You only need gather a few friends, and it's a great way to get started in collective action.

Add ?Smurf butt? to the list of things to expect when you?re expecting.

00:43 - Maile's original email included this article. 01:45 - When jeans bleed onto your skin, you can tell. 03:40 - According to a study done at Johns Hopkins there is a correlation between heartburn and hairiness. The heartburn is due to estrogen causing the esophageal sphincter to relax, which allows stomach acid to splash up into the esophagus. That estrogen is also responsible for hair growth in the developing baby. 04:45 - If you're interested in purchasing some art of a Smurf's butt crack, we got you. 06:01 - Chromhidrosis on Wikipedia 06:28 - This man turned blue and Oprah interviewed him about it in 2008. 11:00 - Here are some of the forums I browsed: What to Expect, CafeMom, Pregnant Chicken, Everyday Chemistry, Reddit, Pregnancy Podcast. 11:14 - Andrei Rebarber

We?ve done 12 stories so far, and since we first published them there have been some updates, and new details have emerged. Today we?re rounding those up.

Where?s My Chile?

3:50 - Elitech RC-4 Temperature Data Logger Recorder with External Temperature Sensor 7:50 - Ben Chapman and Don Schaffner of the Food Safety Talk podcast

Underunderwear

10:26 - Chris' custom undies 10:34 - Here's a stock graphic that breaks it all down for you.

Recorded for Awesomeness

14:22 - A screenshot of Yelp's app update

Gas and Gains

What Happened to the McFlurry?

21:40 - The Flurry Index 22:15 - Gavin Rehkemper's dataset of McDonald's locations in the USA

00:22 - Cap'n Crunch was created by Pamela Low in 1963. 01:50 - Urban Dictionary defines Cap'n Crunch Mouth as "When the roof of your mouth gets all torn up after eating Cap'n Crunch or some other rough food." 02:23 - Underunderstood: The 9/11 Hoax That Wasn't 03:15 - The Try Guys: Eugene Ranks The Most Popular Cereals 07:11 - A collection of tweets claiming Cap'n Crunch has shrunk 08:21 - My Brother, My Brother and Me 16:20 - Partially hydrogenated oils (or PHOs) were deemed to be no longer classifiable as GRAS (which means "Generally Recognized as Safe") by the FDA in 2015. 16:29 - Here are photos of a box of Cap'n Crunch from 1995 with "partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil" listed as an ingredient. It seems to have been replaced with "palm and/or coconut oil" in Cap'n Crunch currently sold in the United States. 18:38 - Jason Liebig on Twitter 18:44 - CollectingCandy.com 21:53 - Jason's Instagram is fun but his Flickr is INCREDIBLE 23:06 - Rockin' the 80?s ? Tale of the 30-Year-Old Snickers 23:50 - New York Times article from 1994 about the Doritos redesign 25:05 - An archived version of Wikipedia featuring "Hot and Cold Nerds." 25:16 - Nerds Hot and Cool - Discovered!! A CollectingCandy.com World Premiere!! 25:49 - Statement from Quaker Foods 27:17 - Cereal Time TV - Gabe Fonseca's YouTube channel 27:46 - Gabe Fonseca on IMDB 27:48 - Gabe eating Cap'n Crunch from the 90s on YouTube 28:19 - Screenshot of Gabe holding old Cap'n Crunch up to the camera 29:46 - Gabe's measurement on the vintage Cap'n Crunch box 30:16 - Billy's photoshop to determine the size of 90s Cap'n Crunch 34:45 - Official written statement from Cap'n Crunch Episode artwork by Phil Robibero

A small town fights for internet justice by boycotting biscuits.

2:23 - LulaRoe Defective Fail on Facebook 3:29 - Biscuitville page on Wikipedia 4:51 - Petition: BRING ABED HASSAN BACK on Change.org 13:53 - The First Pizzaville vs. The First Biscuitville 17:47 - Biscuitville announces a new president 18:56 - Jim Metevier (LinkedIn) 19:59 - Zaxby's (BONUS: Zaxby?s made it on My Brother My Brother and Me?s Munch Squad segment.) 21:48 - Mountain Mike's announces a new president

How a misfit polka band scored a premium spot on the World Wide Web in 1995.

0:35 - "The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011 to examine how technology will change life in the future for a massive mainstream audience." (The Verge) 4:05 - More Brave Combo accolades are on their Wikipedia page 4:11 - Bob Dylan's version of Brave Combo's polka arrangement of "Must Be Santa" (YouTube) 6:53 - Domain Name Journal 8:11 - What Brave.com/bo looked like in 1998 (Wayback Machine) 11:23 - Appropos of nothing, here's a figurine of Carl Finch for sale on Etsy. He also has his own Wikipedia page 13:01 - Beer Barrel Polka by Diet Polka (Soundcloud) 13:50 - Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Polka, from Brave Combo album Polkasonic 14:18 - Brave Combo performs the Chicken Dance at a live show (YouTube)

Brave Combo songs in this episode (Spotify playlist):

"Do Something Different" "The Simpsons Theme" "In Heaven, There Is No Beer" "Ice Machine in the Desert" "Crazy Serbian Butcher's Dance" "Purple Haze (Polka Version)" "The Chicken Dance"

McFlurries aren't what they used to be. Why did McDonald's stop stirring them?

Show notes:

2:29 - McFlurry demo (YouTube) 6:40 - Adrianne's McFlurry 8:40 - Why Is the McFlurry Machine Down Again? (WSJ) 9:07 - Ice Check 10:10 - Are McFlurry's supposed to be mixed? (Reddit) 12:08 - On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane 15:06 - Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's? 19:55 - VitaMix VM0804A - McFlurry Ice Cream Mixer (Used) 23:51 - I Tried To Get A Flurried McFlurry And This Is What Happened (Buzzfeed) 27:51 - Log your McFlurry at The Flurry Index

While we?re working on new episodes of Underunderstood, we we'd share an episode of another podcast we love: Endless Thread. It?s a show that brings Reddit to life by tracking down its strangest, most compelling stories, and talking to the folks involved in those stories.

This episode is about an old dice game called The Deadly Double. In order to find the origins of the game, Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson fall into a series of rabbit holes, including an enormous dice collection, a former FBI agent, and a Pearl Harbor conspiracy theory.

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Endless Thread is a podcast from WBUR and Reddit. You can listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you listen to podcasts.

Ben Brock Johnson ? co-host/senior producer
Amory Sivertson ? co-host/producer
Josh Swartz ? producer
Mix and sound design by Paul Vaitkus

Adrianne buys some money online in order to track down a rumor about Chinese bank tellers.

2:06 - Photos of the $100 bills: Front / Back 3:35 - Hell money 13:18 - Reporter Jon Christian 16:35 - Wayne Homren's blog post from 2011 19:00 - Money Makers (99% Invisible) 21:30 - Fascinating ways to count money! Bank teller shows quick counting skills (YouTube) 21:40 - Chinese cashier's amazing cash counting skills (YouTube) 21:50 - Chinese bank teller counts money by ear (YouTube) 25:59 - The Knowledge

Custom art for Underunderstood is made by Phil Robibero.

Underunderstood is taking a break. We'll be back in November. Don't forget about us, and send story ideas to [email protected]. We'll be dropping some bonus material, so stay subscribed for updates.

John finds out if it is safe to eat a suitcase full of chili peppers that have been missing for three days.

5:45 - Where?s My Suitcase 8:16 - #wheresmysuitcase on Twitter is a harrowing scene 10:50 - Bags, Inc. 11:11 - Bags VIP 11:50 - Bags, Inc.?s corporate video on Vimeo 14:04 - We cannot link to F-14 Baggage because they have absolutely no web presence 18:40 - The Middle Seat at the Wall Street Journal 21:00 - The weather in Albuquerque in January 2019 22:56 - The weather in New York City in January 2019 23:45 - ?SP Plus Corporation Agrees to Acquire Bags? 23:52 - SP Plus?s official website 27:57 - A lot of chatter on Twitter about wheresmysuitcase.com 30:32 - Z Orange Systems 36:10 - Food Safety Talk, a podcast hosted by Don Schaffner and Ben Chapman

Custom art for this episode was created by Phil Robibero. You can see it here.

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The surprising history behind a charming marquee in downtown Newark, New Jersey.

Show notes:

00:06 - Billy shot and edited Underunderstood's trailer video in one day. 00:24 - KCRW's 7th Annual 24-Hour Radio Race 00:58 - KCRW announced the theme on Twitter 01:09 - Wiktionary defines "where the sun don't shine" as "up or in the anus." 03:27 - Little Theatre on Cinema Treasures 03:36 - This little porn movie house learned to survive for decades -- until last week - NJ.com 04:51 - Whitney Strub blogs at strublog 05:55 - NJTV News was there as the Whole Foods opened. 06:23 - Audible's Innovation Cathedral 06:29 - The Cameo on Cinema Treasures 06:48 - Club Zanzibar - Wikipedia 07:05 - The Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium was actually built before Zanzibar's building was demolished, but it was removed to make room for new development and now the stadium, which was sold to a private developer for a loss, will likely be demolished as well. 07:44 - Can New Jersey's Last Porn Theater Survive Gentrification? - Vice 08:31 - The thread on AdultDVDTalk.com 10:43 - The four minute version of this story for KCRW's Radio Race

Adrianne tries to order from a local sushi restaurant, but an unfamiliar voice answers, promising "awesomeness." Awesomeness for whom?

Show notes:

2:16 - ?GrubHub is buying up thousands of restaurant web addresses. That means Mom and Pop can?t own their slice of the internet,? published June 28, 2019 by H. Claire Brown at The New Food Economy. 13:07 - Dark patterns 13:54 - A report about Munish Narula?s class action lawsuit from Nation?s Restaurant News 14:19 - ?Restaurateurs across the country say they are waking up to a years-long, high-tech bamboozling by Grubhub involving hidden fees for orders that never happened,? reads the lede for The New York Post?s first story in a series on phony fees, May 19, 2019. 23:03 - ?Grubhub repays one eatery $10K over fee protest,? published June 24, 2019 by The New York Post. 23:30 - Watch the full hearing, ?The Changing Market for Food Delivery,? here. 32:17 - Grubhub and Yelp announced a ?long-term partnership? in 2017

Billy?s sister thinks a photo that repeatedly goes viral on Reddit is suspicious.

Show notes:

0:40 ? All of the photos discussed in this episode are available on our website 2:02 ? Snopes: ?Is This a Photograph of a World Trade Center Tourist on 9/11?? 3:23 ? Pinball Gallery 5:59 ? The Balloon Saloon has nothing to do with this episode, but it is a place in Tribeca. 6:39 ? In 2014, Austin Sansone popped up on Reddit to claim the photo. 8:05 ? Former child actor Mark Lester 26:35 ? r/AlternateAngles 26:45 ? The photo got another boost of attention in 2018, when it showed up on Reddit again. 26:51 ? Aol published an article that was also posted on Yahoo.

A Wikipedia stub about the worst Florida theme park idea ever sends John on a search for the reason it never opened.

Show notes:

0:45 - New Vietnam on Wikipedia 1:12 - Dolly Parton's Stampede (formerly Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede) 2:16 - Carl McIntire on Wikipedia 3:52 - Wild West City 5:50 - New Vietnam in Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader 7:25 - Portable Press 8:11 - 20th Century Reformation Hour 8:44 - Some clips of the 20th Century Reformation Hour 9:37 - Christianity Today, May 2002 (paywall) 10:41 - Dr. Randall Balmer's website 12:42 - Fred Phelps on YouTube 14:54 - The Carl McIntire Collection at Princeton Theological Seminary Library 15:55 - Faraday Cage 19:03 - "Body Counts" by Dr. Yen Espiritu 24:27 - FCC Fairness Doctrine 24:46 - Infowars on Wikipedia 24:50 - This American Life episode about Alex Jones 29:17 - History of the Present (registration required), an article about film theory published in The North American Review in 1976, led us to the Newsweek story about New Vietnam. 30:40 - Actually, Newsweek's online archives only go back to 2013 30:48 - The September 8, 1975 issue of Newsweek that John bought on eBay 37:19 - Florida Today, November 8, 1975 39:33 - Ricky Ly's food blog Tasty Chomps

A tweetstorm about men?s role in pregnancy leads Regina to find a man who spent over a decade suppressing his sperm count with a piece of yarn.

Show notes:

00:33 - Wikipedia page for heat-based contraception 00:57 - The movie 'Heat' is the first time Robert De Niro and Al Pacino starred in a movie together 01:31 - Regina would like to state for the record that said baby is now 1 year old, absolutely adorable, and spends significantly less time crying than she did at the time of the initial pitch. 01:40 - The tweet storm that started it all 03:23 - Chris Jenks' website 04:00 - The underwear 04:43 - Billy spent approximately 10 minutes explaining what a cordstop is here. It has been cut down for your entertainment and also because who cares about cordstops this much. 05:41 - Kaleb Dornheim wrote this article about how to tuck safely 08:38 - Chris' LinkedIn page 12:31 - Marthe Voegeli 16:54 - According to Weather Underground, the average temperature of the day was 54 degrees Fahrenheit 20:06 - John K Amory 22:12 - "Breakthrough for male contraceptives?" in Daily Mail UK 27:42 - Elon Musk's net worth is reportedly in the range of 20 billion US dollars 27:50 - Paul Allen - Wikipedia

After watching an episode of ?Catfish: The TV Show,? Billy goes on a deep dive to find the meaning of a curious ankle tattoo, the eccentricities of the Philadelphia accent, and one man?s fixation with the word ?gas.?

Show notes:

00:40 - Catfish: The TV Show - Wikipedia 00:57 - Catfish - Season 7, Episode 18 - Nick and Jasmine (video) 01:35 - To Catch a Predator - Wikipedia 01:46 - Definition of Catfish by Merriam-Webster The scene (video) from Catfish (the 2010 documentary) where the term was coined 03:36 - "Gayus" video clip from Catfish (video) 05:27 - Wawa 06:46 - MFSB - South Philly 08:04 - Nick: @NickFresh215 / @NickFresh215 08:14 - Jimmy: @jimmyharrity / @jimmy_harrity 09:22 - Jordan Oplinger on Twitter 13:03 - Mean Girls - Stop trying to make fetch happen (video) 16:39 - Betsy Sneller's personal website 17:11 - William Labov - Wikipedia 17:23 - Sociolinguistics - Wikipedia 19:06 - Mechanisms of Phonological Change by Betsy Sneller 20:08 - /æ/ raising - Wikipedia 26:31 - Excerpt from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 28:01 - History of the Irish Americans in Philadelphia - Wikipedia 28:23 - Irish slang videos on YouTube Irish Time with Jack! (video) Irish Slang / Teaching Irish Slang (video) Irish Slang & Swear Words! (video) 32:50 - The Vocal Fries Episode 35: How Millennials are Destroying the Philly Accent (audio) Philadelphia magazine - Here?s How Millennials Are Changing the Philly Accent CBS Philly - Experts Seeing Shift In Philadelphia Accent Thanks To Millennials (video) 33:06 - Preston & Steve (12.11.18) (audio) 36:17 - L-vocalization - Wikipedia 38:48 - Send us your question!

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