Avocado toast isn’t the first hipster craze in the City By The Bay, oh no! This week, Kevin and Jason whip up the scrambled story of the Egg War of 1863, wherein a boatload of mercenary Florentines made a hash of a completely avoidable egg shortage in young San Francisco. Omelet the guys take it from here.
This week, the guys fondly remember the brief time in the 80s when Pepsi was the sixth-largest military power in the world. Don’t worry, you read that correctly. Hear the wild tale as you enjoy this week’s episode. Maybe sit back and crack open a bottle of the most delicious soda, Coke.
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Ah, Florida, you’ve done it again. America’s marshy haven for the socially-impaired has long had a reputation for producing weirdos with a penchant for headline-grabbing eccentricity, but Kevin and Jason simply had to know: what is the origin of Florida Man? Well, we found him, and his name is Carl Tansler. The OG Florida creep, this fake Count and quack […]
Space may be the final frontier, but try telling that to a bunch of people who are about to die. This week, the guys plunge into the story of the ill-fated Pan Am Flight 121, which crashed in the Syrian desert in 1947. Among the crew was a young Gene Roddenberry, who boldly went into the burning wreckage to save […]
The citizens of Great Britain are known for a great many contributions to world culture–their delicious cuisine, their penchant for colonization, and of course, being total sexual freaks. This week, the guys take it outside to explore the very British tradition of “dogging,” the performance of public sex. Anglophiles be warned: this episode may give you a whole new image […]
“I’m so baked.” Usually, that’s the ideal statement before attempting to listen to an episode of The Bright Side. This week, however, it could just as well have been said by our subjects, the brave women and men who get stuffed into cakes and pies, only to thrill some retiree who’s just one sexual harassment suit away from the full […]
Remember the good old days, when the worst thing that Pepsi did was set Michael Jackson’s hair on fire? If you’re nostalgic for that, well, two things. First, you have a problem. Second, dig in, because this week the guys are travelling back to the Philippines of 1992 to blow open the case of Pepsi’s disastrous bottlecap promotion, wherein they […]
These days, it’s hard not to feel like the sky is falling all the time. What if it really did, though? This week, the guys plunge into the story of SkyLab, the world’s first successful space station. Representing the pinnacle of scientific advancement at the time, SkyLab was the precursor to the International Space Station and the crowning jewel in […]
Pets, amirite? We love them, we need them, we can’t get enough of them. But what happens when our emotional well-being is too dependent on those little cuties? Find out this week, as the guys join the SPCA(P), the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Airline Passengers, and take to the skies with some of the most outlandish Emotional […]