HeyJaredA Little Knowledge
Two lifelong friends grab the mic to talk about everything from culture and current events to random facts they half-remember from somewhere.
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Joe Saw the Sign, Jackson Saw the Ark (opens the original)
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This week on A Little Knowledge , Jackson takes us down the rabbit hole of the Ark of the Covenant, and Joe does his best to figure out what the hell he's talking about. We dig into the Ark, its biblical significance, the mystery surrounding it, and why people have been fascinated by it for thousands of years. Along the way, Joe tries his best to relate to the story while Jackson attempts to keep things on track. What exactly was the Ark? What happened to it? And will Joe actually learn somethin
Explosive Superstitions: Curses, Part 2 (opens the original)
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This week, we dive deeper into the strange world of curses. From the so-called Kennedy curse and the witchcraft behind some of history's most famous superstitions to the Salem witch trials, we try to figure out why people have believed in curses for centuries. Then we bring it all the way to baseball, where curses, superstitions, rituals, and a little bad luck have become part of the game itself. Are curses real, or are we just really good at finding patterns when things go wrong?
A Little Superstition: Curses, Part 1 (opens the original)
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This week on A Little Knowledge , we're getting a little supernatural. We talk about the occult, curses, blessings, and self-fulfilling prophecies, and how much power these ideas can have simply because we believe in them. Joe and Jackson look back at growing up in a time when our exposure to news and media was much more limited. Before the internet put nearly every answer at our fingertips, a lot of what we knew about the strange and unexplained came from family, friends, television, books, rum
Wait... It Was an Emu? Jokes, Part 3 (opens the original)
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This week on A Little Knowledge , we take a questionably researched trip through the modern history of joke telling, from the 1800s to today. We look at how jokes have changed over the years, what people found funny in different eras, and how humor became such a big part of popular culture. Jackson gets personal, talking about his family, the jokes he grew up with, and what humor has meant to him throughout his life. Joe also shared a few jokes of his own... unfortunately, those jokes will never
Is This Thing On? Jokes, Part 2 (opens the original)
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This week on A Little Knowledge , we look back at our history with telling jokes, where we learned them, who we learned them from, and how our sense of humor changed as we got older. We talk about our fathers' very different senses of humor and the lessons we picked up along the way about what gets a laugh, what crosses the line, and what probably should've never been said in the first place. We also get into why racist and degrading jokes have never sat right with us, and how learning what not
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