Ep12: Eighteen Pounds of Opossum

Shoeless Sam Sugarman. The man.
The legend.

We start on teddy bear and finish on snow. Lots of bear talk this week. Bears and possums and racing cheetahs.

Photos we talk about:
29:00 - Characteristic postures of polar bears
40:05 - Men in white paijama with hunting cheetahs, India 1844

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Ep11: Violent Jostling

Everyone's crazy and having fun!

This week we go from roller derby to Rudy Giuliani, spending way too much time on derby names and Damon Runyon.

Photos we talk about:
27:55 - Daymon Runyon
40:00 - President Bush with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Shanghai, October 21, 2001
47:25 - Blowing a raspberry

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Ep10: Snooty People in Fluffy Pants

""Oh man, I got up so early this morning.
 I mean, I'm always up early, always
been a natural morning person..."

Happy New Year! We're going from Kix cereal to the fur trade, crossing paths with feral camels and macaroni controversies along the way.

Photos we talk about:
26:00 - Jefferson's pasta machine
53:26 - An Unfortunate Bear Hunt by Theodor Kittelsen
57:00 - Dromedary camel in outback Australia

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Holiday Special: We Should Ho Better

Greetings from Krampus!

Tis the season! In this special holiday episode of We Should Know Better we each pick a holiday-themed page and try to thread the needle between them all while Tim blesses us, Kyle gets angry at A Christmas Story, and Sky drinks too much eggnog.

Photos we talk about:
24:50 - A 13th-century depiction of St. Nicholas from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai
27:10 - Excerpt from Josiah King's The Examination and Tryal of Father Christmas
38:10 - A 1900s greeting card reading 'Greetings from the Krampus!'

43:45 - Clifton Mill in Clifton, Ohio

47:25 - Charles Dickens in 1842

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Ep8: Pennsylvania, First in Ketchup

Hi I'm James Buchanan and
everyone thinks I sucked.

This week we start in seasoned salt and finish on James Buchanan. Who will get to the worst president of the United States first?

Photos we talk about:
22:30 - Peppercorn close-up
55:35 - The Heinz Monument

Ep7: I'm Not Saying It Was Robosaurus, but It Was Robosaurus

Others would make a joke like,
"Is this a photo of Robosaurus, or the Pope?"
 but we're classier than that.

We go from Robosaurus the car-eating dinorobot to beloved Pope John Paul II, stopping at a couple television shows along the way (one iconic, one terrible).

Ep6: BYOHOH (Bring Your Own Hooker of Hollandaise)

This one is a weird one; make sure you've eaten before listening. We go from Mad Libs to the Trojan War.

Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon oh god

Photos we talk about:

• 44:25 - Baron Pierre de Coubertin
• 55:55 - Hercules and the Mares of Diomedes
• 56:35 - "Hercules and the Hydra" by Antonio Pollaiuolo
• 58:45 - An engraving of the death of Astyanax (The Trojan Women)