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Script Supervising Jurassic Park
If you heard this week's episode of Underunderstood, you know that Adrianne talked to Ana Maria Quintana, who was the script supervisor on Jurassic Park, as well as many other films you're probably seen. The conversation was great, and we could only use a small portion of it in the episode, ...
A Different Type of TikTok Challenge
Snopes is focusing more and more on investigating TikTok rumors, and Billy decides to create a new game out of it: According to Snopes.Show notes: CBS This Morning’s Eye Opener from 1/2/2021 @weather_katie on TikTok: Don’t eat icicles! 12/30/2020 Did a Meteorologist Claim That Icicles Contain Po...
How we use Logic to make our podcasts
Hi friends! A slightly different kind of post today...For most of Underunderstood's run, John has done the bulk of the final audio editing/mixing inside Logic Pro. We wanted to spread that labor around a little bit, so last weekend John organized a little tutorial session to get Billy, Adrianne,...
City of Demons
Adrianne gets to the bottom of some Russian graffiti she spotted in Brooklyn.Small content warning: there's a little bit of salty language in the last 5 minutes of this episode.Show notes: A photo of the sticker and Babka Found in Queens and the Lower East Side Stopfake.org's writeup of Vlad...
Cooler Ranch Doritos
John presents an unsolved snack food mystery he first started trying to solve in 2018.Do you know more about this one? Help us solve it in Discord or email us at hello@underunderstand.com!Show notes: Doritos on Wikipedia Doritos’ Long, Slow Descent Into Madness (Jezebel) I can’t find the bag I b...
Trivia night
Hi Patreon patrons,We will be hosting a virtual trivia night THIS WEDNESDAY, January 13, at 8 p.m. EST.We'd love for you to join. Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/GinMGKt8dR8VvVD8AWe will send out the details by email.Should be a good time!
Helen in the Wild
Hi patrons,This episode was recorded this past Monday, January 4. We are severely shaken by the storming of the U.S. Capitol yesterday facilitated by the president and 140-some members of Congress. No doubt many of you, particularly our American listeners, feel the same way.It feels strange to publi...
Birch Bird
What's the deal with this online chicken restaurant?Show notes: Birch Bird on Grubhub What Are Ghost Kitchens? - The Markup Category:Fast casual restaurants - Wikipedia The Burgerim disaster - Restaurant Business Magazine Smashburger #COMFORT4ALL press release MBMBAM Munch Squad playlist on YouT...
Xanadu/American Dream
A megamall in New Jersey took almost 18 years to open. When it did, it was missing one of the most unique aspects of the original plans.If you'd like to listen to Overunderstood in your regular podcast app, you can! Follow Patreon's instructions here, or message/DM/email/Discord us for help!...
Bobby Gosh & Dick McCormack
We're trying something different this week: extended interviews about animatronics with Bobby Gosh and Vermont senator Dick McCormack, from this week's Underunderstood.Spoiler alert: If you haven't heard this week's Underunderstood, this won't make much sense!
Woodsy Owl
The storied history of a United States Forest Service mascot, and why the government wanted him incinerated.Show notes: 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...
Game Players Gametapes
Who's the voice of these video game VHS tapes? My Life in Gaming on YouTube Video Game VHS Tapes video Game Players Magazine issues on the Internet Archive Video Game B-Roll, MLiG's second YouTube channel, which contains lots of full Game Players VHS tapes The Mass Effect 3 Codex, which is v...
Amazon Scams
After our episode about mystery seeds and brushing, Adrianne learned about lots of other Amazon seller and buyer scams, so she shared them with the rest of us.Show notes: We were not talking about a Reply All episode; it was a Planet Money episode called Cat Scam Even Amazon’s own products are get...
Why It's Called a Triscuit
John talks to comedian Sage Boggs about Triscuit's bizarre relationship with its own name. Sage's viral tweet John's original tweet to Triscuit Some old Triscuit advertisements Triscuit's response to Sage Triscuit tweets about three ingredients Snopes article on this matter Charles L...
The Man on Page 602
Billy finds a little-known story from the 1970s. The Man on page 602 on Museum of Hoaxes Jamie Lauren Keiles's piece on this case "The Man on Page 602" song
Missing Chimp and Bananas
Adrianne's presents a decades-old unsolved mystery about a chimp, plus a look at advertising on bananas. Unfriendly Chimp Stolen from Cage in Central Park (NYT) 1970 photo by Jill Freedman (Getty Images) New security system installed in 1974 (NYT) Advocates called out terrible conditions in New ...
Scots Wikipedia and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Adrianne finds herself in a free association rabbit hole involving Wikipedia drama and kidney stones.Show notes (spoilers): Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in MangledEnglish (Vice) Scots Wikipedia The photo of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad that started this rabbit hole I Rode Thunder ...
Accessing Overunderstood and Discord
Hello new subscribers! Adrianne here. Thank you so much for supporting us. We're overcome with gratitude. Seriously.We just wanted to sent out a quick message about how to access our ****special subscriber stuff****.To listen to our bonus show, Overunderstood, outside of Patreon: Go here https:/...
Manhunt
John finds high drama in a little-known UPN reality show. Clip from Manhunt on YouTube The Stingray (archived webpage) The Stingray's evidence of manipulation Is Survivor legally a game show? New York Times' reporting on ManhuntProgramming note: starting next week, Overunderstood will drop o...
Beyoncé and Pigeons
It's our first episode! Billy looks for an old internet fight with Beyoncé and John shares a story about pigeon races.(By the way, we decided to change the name of this feed after we recorded the episode. It's called Overunderstood now.)Beyoncé on the early internet: RIP James Getty Surviv...
Underunderstood returns October 13th!
Hello listeners! We've been quiet for a while. Did anything happen while we were gone?We have some news: the show is returning October 13th for a new season. And if you're reading this, you also know that we're launching a second feed!It's called Overunderstood, and it's exclusiv...
