30 episodes
Learnin' with Lauren and Mary Learnin’ with Lauren & Mary
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- Education
Join childhood best friends Lauren and Mary as they navigate life as adults who don’t know nearly as much as they should. Each week, the duo follows their natural curiosity, picking two topics to casually research and present to each other. They’ll explore topics they should have learned in school to topics that aren’t appropriate for school, finding the most absurd stories along the way.
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Mary and Ventriloquism
Our Season 2 finale! Mary turns 30 for the second time and looks back fondly on eating sand for dinner. Then, your favorite two dummies are traumatized by voice throwing and are horrified to realize that a large part of their childhoods involved a very famous ventriloquist.
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Listener Questions
Mary and Lauren take listener questions from regular people and also a celebrity.
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Bitcoin and Quantum Computing
This week, Lauren and Mary pick each other's topics! And they are not easy. But hey, they did the research! (Or did they?)
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Bonsai and Art Heists
What do tiny trees and tiny paintings have in common? They're hard to make, but easy to steal. Look for us in the news if we get arrested.
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Bedbugs and The Order of the Solar Temple
There are no fun facts about bedbugs, just gross ones, like the fact that they reproduce via something called traumatic insemination. If you think that's deeply disturbing, just wait until you hear about the notoriously violent and criminal cult, The Order of the Solar Temple. Lauren describes it as: “Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll if the Sex was rape, the Drugs were poison and Rock n’ Roll was murder.”
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BONUS EPISODE: Mary Finally Watches The Lord of the Rings
We're still in lockdown and if we need a break, we bet you do too! After 20 years of complaining about it, Mary finally watches one of Lauren's favorite movies- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Listen to her dissect what she's learned here, in our bonus mini episode!