In our annual Halloween episode we finally put Halloween itself under the microscope, putting an end to the ongoing constitutional crisis...should Halloween be a national holiday?
On the day of South Korea's first ever state elections--March. 26 1991--5 boys go missing, leading to perhaps the strangest (stupidest) series of events in the history of missing persons cases.
2001: A Space Odyssey warned us not to, but in October 2024 we are going there anyway. Is there life on Jupiter's moon Europa, and how stupid an idea is it to go looking for it?
Is our entire reality just the sandbox of a flying spaghetti monster? Where did it all come from? And if it came from there, where did that come from? A lot of stupid questions that need answering.
Did Luke follow in his father's prosthetic foot steps and give in to the temptations of the dark side? I guess sometimes there's just no coming back from kissing your sister...
Is the greatest comedy of our generation also the greatest "who done it" of our generation? When the Court of Public Opinion wont do, all you can do is ask: Stupid/Not Stupid?
Dr. Tyler, the shows wealthiest fan, returns to the podcast to debate the need to finally cap his outrageous earnings for the good of all humankind.
Never murder if you can help it, but if you must murder, then don't get caught. Happy Halloween!
In 1977 NASA sent a time capsule out into the cosmos that has since left our solar system and is traveling at 61,500 km/h through the vastness of space. That record contains a summary of our entire species...and a map to Earth. One of the coolest things ever done? Sure. Perhaps also one of the stupidest...
World famous philosophical thought leader Dr. Dandashi joins the show to make the point that there is no point, and everything we do is in furtherance of our own self interest.
Let's dig a hole! With some earth shattering insights, the guys answer the question, are we too stupid to dig to the center of the Earth?
Having wiffed on the entire point of the podcast by not putting an episode out on May 4th, we reconvene to determine once and for all...we're the Empire the Good Guys?
From Vikings to Napster, have pirates made the world a better place? Also, just to prove a point, we turn Dr. Tyler's mic down to pirated level quality for the last 10 minutes.
Yuba County, 1978...5 "boys" head out to watch a college basketball game and are never seen alive again. Are the stupidest theories surrounding their fate actually the most plausible?
There are lots of ways that WW3 could kick off, some less stupid than others...
Is the most titanic thing about the Titanic disaster the lies that we've been told? And just how contiguous is the James Cameron multi-verse?
With the Superbowl now behind us, its not time to reevaluate what we've learned over the past season of various sports, and consider some stupid rule changes that will both improve the game, and drastically up the entertainment value.
This week we open up with some bonus content, a review of Matrix Resurrections, before determining if our entire stupid reality is in-fact a simulation. Oh, and Dr. TJ is back.
1km sized objects strike the Earth on average every 500,000 years, and we are WAY overdue. If we detected one headed for Earth today could we do anything about it, or would we just refuse to look up?