500 Open Tabs

• 97: Listener Email Extravaganza - Thanksgiving Edition!

  It's Thanksgiving week so we're showing our thanks to our tens of listeners by dedicating an entire episode to their tabs! Join us as we learn about Existentialism, criminals who are bad at stealing ruby slippers, and a prophet's foreskin.Listener Tabs:Philosophize Thishttps://www.philosophizethis.org/Austin Dam 1911https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DmZCpgl1FDYCatherine of Sienahttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_SienaEmail your closed tab submissions to: [email protected] us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/500OpenTabs500 Open Tabs Wiki: https://500-open-tabs.fandom.com/wiki/500_Open_Tabs_Wiki500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Continue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aGet 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 96: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Pumpkin Mammoth Theory, and Bao Xishun

  This week we're joined by very special guest, comic artist Harris Fishman AKA BeetleMoses as we discuss Roald Dahl's relationship to Tim Burton's 2005 adaptation of his book, how Wooly Mammoths helped propagate pumpkins in the Americas, and how the world's tallest man helped save some dolphins. A listener mail tells us about the GOAT of goats, the Christmas Gävle in Sweden.Episode Tabs:Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_(film)Study reveals ancient link between mammoth dung and pumpkin piehttps://insider.si.edu/2015/11/dull-mastadon-taste-buds-once-helped-pumpkins-wild-ancestor-thrive/World's tallest man saves dolphinshttps://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2006/dec/14/anotherdolphinListener Tabs:Gävle goathttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävle_goat#Email your closed tab submissions to: [email protected] us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/500OpenTabs500 Open Tabs Wiki: https://500-open-tabs.fandom.com/wiki/500_Open_Tabs_Wiki500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Continue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aGet 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 95: Billy Possum and The Thing

  This week we deep dive into how a political cartoon of William Howard Taft inspired Billy Possum who once tried to take control of the plush market from the Teddy Bear and how a listening device within a seemingly innocent gift from the Soviets during the Yalta Conference inspired the modern day RFID. A listener email shows us a TV portal to the past.500 Open Tabs Wikihttps://500-open-tabs.fandom.com/wiki/500_Open_Tabs_WikiEpisode Tabs:Politics and Possum Feasts: Presidents Who Ate Opossumshttps://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/09/politics-and-possum-feasts-presidents-who-ate-opossums/Leon Theremin Changed Spying FOREVER with this 1940s invention!https://youtu.be/GyryQltyDwA?si=5xtxJGadvhtLxyH3Listener Tabs:My Retro TVshttps://80s.myretrotvs.comEmail your closed tab submissions to: [email protected] us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/500OpenTabs500 Open Tabs Wiki: https://500-open-tabs.fandom.com/wiki/500_Open_Tabs_Wiki500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Continue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aGet 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 94: The Acali Experiment and Bat Boy

  This week we deep dive into the true story of ten strangers who were picked to live on a "sex raft" to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start banging, and the hilarious origins of Bat Boy, the Weekly World News's flagship creation. A listener email informs us about the PT Barnum of Baseball.Kaveh's KPop Demon Hunters / Calvin and Hobbes mashup shirt (also available in kids' sizes )https://www.blacksmithfilms.com/store/rumi-and-derpy-t-shirt500 Open Tabs Wikihttps://500-open-tabs.fandom.com/wiki/500_Open_Tabs_WikiEpisode Tabs:Mutiny on the Sex Rafthttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/14/mutiny-on-the-sex-raft-70s-experiment-santiago-genovesBAT BOY’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY!https://weeklyworldnews.com/mutants/183465/bat-boy-30th-anniversaryListener Tabs:BILL VEECK, THE P. T. BARNUM OF BASEBALLhttps://www.historynet.com/bill-veeck-the-barnum-of-baseball/A Brief History of "The Firelands"https://www.hcc-ogs.org/firelands-history.htmlEmail your closed tab submissions to: [email protected] us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/500OpenTabs500 Open Tabs Wiki: https://500-open-tabs.fandom.com/wiki/500_Open_Tabs_Wiki500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Continue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aGet 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 93: Gef the Talking Mongoose, Origin of Haunted Houses, and Halloween Candy Myths

  It's finally Halloween! This week we're joined by very spooky guest Alyssa Cooper as we learn about Gef, a talking Mongoose who haunted a rural home on the Isle of Man, how haunted houses share a history with Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, and how unfounded rumors about razor blades in apples continue to ruin trick or treating for everyone. A listener mail tells us about an aspiring lawyer who took a bite out of crime.Episode Tabs:The strange and deeply unlikely tale of Gef the talking mongoosehttps://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/03/the-strange-and-deeply-unlikely-tale-of-gef-the-talking-mongoose/The Great Depression Origins of Halloween Haunted Houseshttps://www.history.com/articles/halloween-haunted-house-great-depressionHalloween Sadismhttps://www.joelbest.net/halloween-sadismListener Tabs:Fabric of a Nation – American Quilt Stories at Boston MFAhttps://cottoncandyfabrics.blog/2022/01/03/fabric-of-a-nation-american-quilt-stories-at-boston-mfa/Summer Associate’s Naughty Toddler Impression Gets Her Bounced From Biglawhttps://abovethelaw.com/2025/07/summer-associates-naughty-toddler-impression-gets-her-bounced-from-biglaw/Email your closed tab submissions to: [email protected] us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/500OpenTabs500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Continue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aGet 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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