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Finally, a chance for you to hear some people recording their thoughts about movies! In Revenge of the '90s, Steve DiMatteo and Anthony Fabiano, along with some very special guests, take you on a journey through the most glorious decade of film. Get more at https://www.robotbutt.com/
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Join Steve, Tim, and Linton as they dive into film franchises to talk the good, the bad, and the commercially mandated. The Franchise Strikes Back is the definitive podcast for pinpointing where a movie series went wrong, which ones should go on forever, and which ones were weird enough that we should be grateful for what we got.
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Uncanny Cinema

Robot Butt

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Uncanny Cinema is your home for the obscure, the bizarre, the unloved, the overlooked, and the underappreciated in film. We cover all genres but focus on films off the beaten path as we highlight oddities, champion obscurities, and marvel at the projects that somehow came to be. Discussions include spoilers, but the next cinematic treasure on our list is announced at the close of each episode, so feel free to follow along at home. Find additional podcasts, comedy articles, and more at robotb ...
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Dr. Sammy the Dog Trainer

Dr. Sammy the Dog Trainer

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Welcome to Sammy the Dog Trainer's pod cast on real life with dogs! I'm Sammy and I am a PhD student...I feel like I should attend meetings for my education addiction. Lucky for you I apply my schooling in my dog training methods to bring you educated methods, but also methods grounded in the real world. Because not everyone has a perfect robot dog. Let's talk about our not-perfect non-robot dogs and all their derpy, butt wiggling glory! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p ...
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New discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines — in just under 15 minutes. It's science for everyone, using a lot of creativity and a little humor. Join hosts Emily Kwong and Regina Barber for science on a different wavelength. If you're hooked, try Short Wave Plus. Your subscription supports the show and unlocks a sponsor-free feed. Learn more at plus.npr.org/shortwave
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Each week on Bananas, Kurt Braunohler and Scotty Landes discuss the strange, fascinating and just plain bananas news from around the world. The headlines and weird news are lighthearted, unexpected and always fun. Like the time the delivery robot ran through a crime scene or the lady who took in a stray cat only to find out it was a mountain lion. Or the time Kurt and Scotty drove a butt across the country. Check your local listings because this feel-good comedy podcast often goes on the roa ...
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Interactive Fiction

Allen Jenkins and Kyle McCluskey

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Journey to fantastic and ridiculous worlds of adventure one page at a time! Broadcasting from the Inn'd of time Inn, in the basement rec room near the vending machines and arcade, our hosts read a new interactive story every episode. Strap in and join us in the thrills, chills, laughs, and exasperated groans as we turn the page to our next adventure! ---- You can help us make the choices in listener driven interactive stories at the end of each episode by joining our discord: https://discord ...
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The Bollockbuster podcast is an absurd and sarcastic take on weird topics like cartoons not being sexy enough, Spider-Man’s connection to Nickelback, E.T. the Extra Terrestical, and a strained conversation with a robot version of Gwyneth Paltrow… all while making fun of one-star movie reviews with the help of a sentient “internet” person.
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"Olo" does not exist in nature, nor can it be found among paint cans. But for a very select few, olo can be seen — through the intervention of careful computing and lasers. A team led by vision scientist Austin Roorda and computer scientist Ren Ng at UC Berkeley figured out a method for stimulating only one specific subset of cones of the retina. I…
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The Cleveland Guardians are getting more consistent pitching performances, but the bottom of the lineup could use some serious upgrades. Who should be sent down to Columbus to get those everyday at-bats and sort themselves out? Be sure to follow us on social @calpenalpod and on Substack at clevelandguardians.substack.com. Learn more about your ad c…
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There are over 200 species of deep-sea anglerfish; some are long and thin, some are squat and round, some have fins that they use to "walk" along the sea floor, and others have huge eyes set far back into their heads. But how did all this morphological diversity first come to be? Thanks to a new anglerfish family tree, now we know. Scientists built…
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Charlotte Dobre joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a school forced to evacuate after kid brings grenade for show and tell, a TV anchor goes into labor on air and finishes entire morning broadcast, a postal carrier refuses to deliver mail to nudist colony and a postal worker arrested for DUI while on route! Support this podcast by shopping our late…
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As artificial intelligence seeps into some realms of society, it rushes into others. One area it's making a big difference is protein science — as in the "building blocks of life," proteins! Producer Berly McCoy talks to host Emily Kwong about the newest advance in protein science: AlphaFold3, an AI program from Google DeepMind. Plus, they talk abo…
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We've been wanting to talk about 1996's 'Eddie' for a while now, and wouldn't you know it, the New York Knicks finally became a real team again and made the Eastern Conference Finals! What better way to celebrate this momentous sports occasion than by talking about the comedy where Whoopi Goldberg becomes their coach? Follow us on social @revengeof…
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For hundreds of years sailors have told stories about miles of glowing ocean during moonless nights. This phenomenon is known as "milky seas," but the only scientific sample was collected in 1985. So atmospheric scientist Justin Hudson, a PhD candidate at Colorado State University, used accounts spanning 400 years to create a database of milky seas…
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The Cleveland Guardians just wrapped up a tough stretch against the Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Los Angeles Dodgers and came out of it 5-4 with plenty to be happy about. Is this a sign of more good things to come this season? Be sure to follow us on social @calpenalpod and on Substack at clevelandguardians.substack.com. Learn more about yo…
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Depending on what time it is, your body responds differently to an injury or infection. During the day, you're likely to heal faster and fight infection better than at night. And historically, scientists weren't entirely sure why. That picture is starting to clear up thanks to a new study published last week in the journal Science Immunology. The r…
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Around 40 million people around the world have bipolar disorder, which involves cyclical swings between moods: from depression to mania. Kay Redfield Jamison is one of those people. She's also a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and has written extensively about the topic, from medical textbooks to personal memoirs. To…
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This Guardians team sure keeps you on your toes, doesn't it? Cleveland just took three out of four on the road against the Detroit Tigers and the team continues to will itself to wins despite some inconsistencies. And their prize? A series at home against the Dodgers. Follow us on social @calpenalpod and on Substack at clevelandguardians.substack.c…
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Kurt and Scotty talk about how psychopaths are more attractive, a woman falls into crevice trying to retrieve her cell phone, and a woman files for divorce after Chat GPT reads husbands affair in coffee grounds! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk See omnystudio.com/listener …
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Gen Z and younger millennials are the most climate literate generations the world has ever seen. They learned about climate change in school; now, it's part of how they plan for the future, including for jobs, housing ... and kids. So, what do experts say about how to navigate the kid question? In this installment of Nature Quest, Short Wave speaks…
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It's Memorial Day, Short Wavers. This holiday, we bring you a meditation on time ... and clocks. There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth. We depend on them for GPS location, Internet timing, stock trading and even space navigation. In today's encore episode, hosts Emily Kwong and Regina G. Barber…
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Ahead of the Tigers series this weekend, we looked at the good, the bad, and the ugly about the Cleveland Guardians to this point. While there has been plenty of great things going on with the team, there is plenty of room for improvement - and there could be plenty of help on the way. Follow us on social @calpenalpod and on Substack at clevelandgu…
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Riddle us this: Which animal is pink, curved beaked and a master of the physics required to create water tornadoes? If you guessed flamingos, you're right. New research out this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that across a range of harsh environments, flamingos have become masters — of physics, fluid dyna…
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Chaos Re/Coil will be back recording again in June! Until then, enjoy another episode of THE LOST TAPES... Interactive Fiction is going down the pipes! In this episode from 2017, Kyle and Allen find themselves facing a dinosaur dilemma with very bad impressions of Charles Martinet, and this book starts to stretch the plumber bits a little too thin.…
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Our mission - which we've chosen to accept - is to rank the entire Mission: Impossible film series, which feels like asking God to rank His most beautiful creations. It's wrong, but we're going to do it anyway. Let us know your ranking on social @revengeof90spod and be sure to check us out on Substack at revengeofthe90s.substack.com.…
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What's it like to get bit by a venomous snake? "It's like a bee sting times a thousand," Tim Friede says. Tim would know. Over the past few decades, he's let himself be bitten over 200 times by all kinds of venomous snakes — black mambas, taipans, cobras, kraits and more. With time, he's gradually built immunity to multiple types of venom. Could sc…
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The Trump administration is rewriting policies and reducing funding for multiple agencies that handle climate change, including NOAA, EPA and FEMA. We asked NPR reporters Lauren Sommer and Alejandra Borunda what that the implications of that are — and who the changes will affect. Want to hear more ways research is being impacted by the new administ…
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In science fiction, wormholes are hyperspace subway tubes linking one part of a galaxy directly to another, distant point. But could they actually exist? To find out, we talk to theoretical physicist Ron Gamble, who says wormholes aren't just a matter of science fiction — and they have big implications about the shape of space itself. Want to hear …
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The Cincinnati Reds are struggling, so it's the perfect time for the Cleveland Guardians to hit the road and take on their old manager Terry Francona. Plus, there are plenty of reinforcements coming to help this team really hit its stride as the summer approaches in what looks to be a brutally competitive AL Central. Be sure to follow us on social …
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Approximately 80% of orange cats are males, including the four orange cats owned by the Short Wave team. Scientists have long suspected that orange color was a sex-linked trait — hiding somewhere on the X chromosome. Now, scientists at Stanford University and Kyushu University in Japan have characterized the mutation responsible for orange cat colo…
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It might not always be pretty, and sometimes you might be left scratching your head as to how it's happening, but the fact is the Cleveland Guardians just keep on winning and are one of the best teams in the American League. Let's bask in that baffling (to some extent at least) glory, and when you're done basking, be sure to follow us on social @ca…
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Most bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt, but some use their ears for another trick: eavesdropping. "And then these frog-eating bats, for example, they are actually listening in on the mating calls of frogs that are much, much lower in frequency," says behavioral ecologist Rachel Page. But how the bats knew this eavesdropping trick was a mys…
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Mary Holland joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man with brain implant asks for beer as first words, using the dishwasher to make a steak and a sea serpent chases vessel in kindly style! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio…
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Becoming fluent in a second language is difficult. But for adults, is it impossible? Science says no. In this encore episode, Short Wave host Emily Kwong dissects the "critical period hypothesis," a theory which linguists have been debating for decades — with the help of Sarah Frances Phillips, a Ph.D. student in the linguistics department at New Y…
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