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Grab a cold one and join hosts Will and Chet as they hop from topic to topic — from everyday curiosities and offbeat stories to bold opinions and good-natured debates. It’s a variety podcast where beer-fueled banter meets genuine conversation.
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The CIA and Its Great Ideas | Hoppy Thoughts Podcast | Episode #49 (opens the original)
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Chet gets 22 CIA gadgets and plots and has to call each one: real or fake. 14 are real. A cat wired with a microphone and an antenna running down its tail. A robotic dragonfly. A pistol that fired frozen shellfish toxin, held up on camera by Senator Frank Church in 1975. A wetsuit dusted with skin fungus meant as a gift for Fidel Castro. Pigeons flying camera missions over Washington. We start with the Church Committee, the Senate investigation that forced all of it into public record, then work
Bananas are Evil | Hoppy Thoughts Podcast | Episode #47 (opens the original)
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A Boston fruit company owned Guatemala's port, its telegraph lines, and more farmland than it could plant. When President Jacobo Árbenz moved to redistribute the idle acreage in 1952, he offered compensation at the valuation United Fruit had claimed on its own tax filings. The company went to Washington instead. Two years later, Operation PBSUCCESS put Árbenz on a plane and Guatemala on a path to a 36-year civil war with roughly 200,000 dead. We trace the whole arc: Minor Keith's railroad conces
Biosphere 2 Electric Boogaloo | Hoppy Thoughts Podcast | Episode #46 (opens the original)
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Biosphere 2: eight people sealed inside a glass dome in Oracle, Arizona for two years starting in 1991. This episode covers the $150 million experiment funded by Ed Bass, the oxygen levels that fell from 20.9% to around 14.5% with no explanation, the constant hunger, and the crew fracturing into two factions that stopped speaking. Also covered: Jane Poynter leaving through the airlock 12 days in for a hand injury and returning with a duffel bag, the cockroaches and ants that thrived while the po
Chernobyl did not need to happen | Hoppy Thoughts Podcast | Episode #45 (opens the original)
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April 26, 1986. A routine safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ends with Reactor 4's core blowing through the roof — and the Soviet Union deciding, for a day and a half, that the safest thing to do was say nothing. This episode covers the disaster start to finish: what the test was supposed to prove, the reactor design flaw the operators were never briefed on, the exact sequence of the explosion, and the response that followed — the firefighters, the 36-hour delay before Pripyat was
Is Kalshi Good? | Hoppy Thoughts Podcast | Episode #44 (opens the original)
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Kalshi is a $22 billion prediction market app that lets you trade on sports in states where sports betting is illegal — and it got there by filing a form the federal government never answered.This episode is the full story. We start with the history of gambling itself: the ancient sheep-bone dice that predate the invention of the die, the first government-sanctioned casino in 1638 Venice, the colonial lotteries that funded Harvard and Yale, and the Las Vegas timeline from Nevada's 1931 legalizat
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