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Info On The Go is a family-friendly podcast for curious minds of all ages, delivering engaging stories and fascinating facts you can enjoy anywhere. The show covers history, science, space, technology, and everything in between, connecting the past to the world we live in today.
Perfect for commutes, travel, or downtime at home, learning is made fun, accessible, and entertaining—packed with insights, surprises, and the occasional laugh. Tune in weekly and discover why the journey of knowledge never truly ends.
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Send a text Have you ever spotted a bright yellow flower poking through the grass and thought, “Just a weed”? Think again. The humble dandelion has been a healer, a food source, a pollinator’s ally, and a muse for centuries. In this episode, we explore the dandelion’s surprising history, ingenious biology, culinary versatility, cultural symbolism, and ecological importance. From medieval gardens to modern kitchens, from folklore to urban ecosystems, these unassuming plants are quiet sur...
Send a text The History of Cornhole: From Backyard Game to Competitive Sport You’ve probably played cornhole at a barbecue, a tailgate, or a family reunion—but where did this simple game actually come from? In this episode, we trace cornhole’s unlikely journey from hazy folklore and Midwestern backyards to ESPN broadcasts and professional tournaments. Along the way, we explore legendary origin stories, the game’s modern birth in the American Midwest, how informal house rules became official r...
Send a text Before Watergate, before political resignations were common, there was Teapot Dome—a scandal that shook the highest levels of American government. When Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall secretly leased the nation’s strategic oil reserves for personal profit, it wasn’t just corruption—it was a crime. For the first time in U.S. history, a Cabinet member went to prison for betraying public trust. From the quiet plains of Wyoming to the halls of Washington, this episode d...
Send a text From the gentle lessons of Sesame Street to the quiet wisdom of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, from sweeping historical storytelling by Ken Burns to the scientific curiosity of Nova and the hidden histories revealed on Antiques Roadshow, Public Broadcasting Service has quietly shaped generations of Americans. This episode explores the remarkable story of PBS — how a non-commercial experiment in educational television became one of the most trusted institutions in media. We’ll trace ...
Send a text The Origin of the Smile explores the surprising, and slightly unsettling, history behind one of humanity’s most familiar expressions. From its possible beginnings as a fear signal and gesture of submission to its role as social glue, cultural code, and digital shorthand, this episode traces how a baring of teeth meant to avoid violence became a symbol of joy, trust, and connection. Blending anthropology, biology, and cultural history, it reveals why smiles don’t always mean happin...
Send a text Pickleball: Fad or Here to Stay? It sounds like a joke. Pickleball. A sport that feels like it should involve a jar, a fork, and maybe a questionable sandwich. And yet—your parents play it, your neighbors won’t leave the court, and somehow your doctor is really into it too. In this episode, Kat and William have a little fun poking at pickleball’s vibes-only reputation before digging into a very real question: is pickleball just a passing fad, or is it reshaping American recreation...
Send a text Turquoise Alert tells the story of what happens when a person goes missing—and the system meant to protect them stays silent. Using the tragic 2025 disappearance of 14-year-old Emily Pike as its emotional starting point, this episode explores why many missing Indigenous people don’t qualify for Amber or Silver Alerts, how those gaps have left families searching alone, and why a new alert system was created to address a long-ignored crisis. We unpack the origins, purpose, and limit...
Send a text What if numbers could snitch? In this episode of A Dash of Info, we explore Benford’s Law—a strange mathematical rule where smaller digits appear far more often than larger ones. From worn-out log tables in the 1800s to modern fraud detection, elections, scientific research, and even pandemic data, this “numerical fingerprint” shows up everywhere. We’ll break down how Benford’s Law works, where it comes from, how it’s used to spot deception, and why it feels almost spooky when it ...
Send a text Why do we buy what we buy—often without realizing why? In The Psychology of Marketing, we pull back the curtain on the subtle forces shaping your decisions every day. From colors, sounds, and scents to pricing tricks, cognitive biases, and emotional triggers, this episode explores how marketing is less about persuasion and more about psychology. We’ll break down how the brain really makes choices, why “$9.99” works, how brands sell identity—not just products—and where influe...
Send a text Gaslighting Explained: How to Protect Your Mind and Trust Yourself What happens when you slowly stop trusting your own memory, instincts, and perceptions—and don’t even realize it’s happening? In this deeply reflective episode, we unpack gaslighting: a subtle but powerful form of psychological manipulation that erodes confidence, rewrites reality, and leaves people doubting their own minds. From everyday moments at home and work to its roots in history and pop culture, we br...
Send a text During the Cold War, selling soda to the Soviet Union wasn’t just difficult—it was nearly impossible. The ruble wasn’t convertible, capitalism was suspect, and Coca-Cola was seen as pure American propaganda. So how did Pepsi pull it off? This episode unpacks one of the strangest business deals in history: how Pepsi broke into the USSR through bartering, traded soda for vodka, and—briefly—became the owner of a Soviet naval fleet. From Khrushchev’s televised first sip to subm...
Send a text Saltville, Virginia — “The Mineral That Won Wars” Winter, 1863. Confederate soldiers chew on salt-cured meat. Civilians line up, ration cards in hand. No cannon fire echoes here—but this quiet Virginia town may matter more than any battlefield. Long before refrigeration, salt meant survival. It preserved food, fed armies, sustained livestock, and powered economies. And deep in the mountains of southwestern Virginia sat one of the most valuable salt sources in North America. This e...
Send a text The Space Garbage Problem – How We’re Turning Orbit into a Junkyard Space isn’t empty anymore—and what we’ve left up there could shape the future of satellites, exploration, and everyday life on Earth. Orbiting at 17,500 miles per hour, dead satellites, rocket bodies, and millions of invisible fragments form an unseen minefield above our heads. A piece of debris no bigger than a paint chip can strike with the force of a bullet, and one collision can trigger thousands more in...
Send a text Is Our Current Calendar Wrong? — On a Dash of Info We check the date every day—but what if the calendar itself is flawed? From ancient Egyptian star-watching and Babylonian moon cycles to Julius Caesar’s reforms and the Gregorian calendar we use today, humanity has been tweaking timekeeping for thousands of years. Each system solved problems… and created new ones. Drift, leap years, religious divides, cultural clashes—no calendar has ever been perfect. In this episode of On a Dash...
Send a text The History of Doctor Who Regeneration, Reinvention, and a British Institution It looks like a police box. Old. Blue. Ordinary. But step inside—and it breaks the rules of reality. For more than sixty years, Doctor Who has defied cancellation, criticism, and cultural change to become the longest-running science fiction television series in history. This episode traces the extraordinary journey of a show that shouldn’t have survived—yet keeps reinventing itself. From its humb...
Send a text Pepsi: The Challenger Brand Pepsi is the story of the underdog that refused to stay down. Born in a small Southern pharmacy as a so-called medicinal tonic, Pepsi went bankrupt twice, survived Prohibition and the Great Depression, and reinvented itself again and again to challenge the most powerful brand in the world: Coca-Cola. From selling twice the soda for the same nickel, to breaking racial barriers in advertising, to defining youth culture with pop icons and the explosive Col...
Send a text The Green Children of Woolpit: Folklore or Alien Encounter? In the 12th century, in the quiet farming village of Woolpit, Suffolk—about eight miles east of Bury St Edmunds and roughly seventy miles northeast of London—two children emerged from the fields near deep wolf traps dug to protect livestock. Their skin was green. Their language was unknown. And they survived on nothing but raw beans. Recorded by medieval chroniclers during a time of war, famine, and fear, the story of the...
Send a text Coca-Cola: The Most Recognized Symbol on Earth A red circle. A white script. A bottle you can recognize by touch alone. Coca-Cola is more than a soft drink—it’s one of the most powerful ideas ever bottled. But it didn’t start as refreshment. It began as a failed medicine, born from war, addiction, and 19th-century patent science. This episode traces Coca-Cola’s unlikely rise—from a cocaine-laced nerve tonic mixed at a pharmacy soda fountain to a global icon carried int...
Send a text In 1963, a homeowner in Cappadocia, Turkey knocked down a wall—and uncovered a tunnel that led not to a cellar, but to a city buried beneath his feet. What emerged from the darkness was Derinkuyu: an underground metropolis plunging 18 stories into volcanic rock, once capable of sheltering up to 20,000 people. Carved into soft stone shaped by ancient eruptions, this hidden world contained homes, stables, chapels, schools, wells, and air shafts—everything needed to survive for month...
Send a text A sharp, sweet-sour smell drifts from a silo on a winter morning—an odor that has quietly kept civilizations alive. This episode explores silage, the centuries-old practice of preserving green plants through fermentation, and how “pickled grass” became one of the most important food-security technologies in human history. From accidental discoveries in buried fodder pits to the precise science of microbes, pH, and oxygen control, we trace how farmers learned to guide decay i...
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