Stuff That We Like/Enjoy at Least at This Point in Time

Caleb and Christina Castaneda
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Join us, the Castanedas as we spontaneously sit down once a week to talk about something that we like/enjoy, at least at this point in time... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC01eymjXjmdwOXmb590kdnQ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stuff-that-we-like-enjoy-at-least-at-this-point-in-time/id1777848509

  1. Oct 26

    S9E11 (Ep 108) What A 50-Mile Race Does To Your Body / Two Truths And A Lie

    50 miles will do things to the human body you wouldn't expect. And one of these three statements is a lie. This week we cover both. Caleb takes the science chair for a change and walks through exactly what the human body goes through during a 50-mile race, with his own race from Saturday as the live case study. The fuel system switching from carbs to fat, the blood getting rerouted away from the gut (and why that makes you nauseous), the brain's internal governor dialing down how hard your muscles can work, what a muscle "lockup" actually is (scientists still argue), the strange reason you can't sleep after a race, and the real timeline of recovery (hint: your legs are still rebuilding weeks after your blood tests look normal). Plus his honest account of the pretzels that saved his race, the GPS watch that lied to him, and the last 15 miles with Christina pacing him in. Then Christina flips the format and runs a full round of Two Truths and a Lie. Five themed categories: Accidental Fame, National Parks, Bible Plot Twists, Surprising Résumés, and Animals. BJ Novak, wombat poop, Mackinac Island, Mother Teresa, and sea otters all make appearances. Caleb's job is to guess which one is the lie in each round, and he fails more than he succeeds. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end. Full video episodes and Shorts on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stuffThatWeLike Contact us at stuffthatwelikepodcast@gmail.com with any questions, concerns, or corrections! Follow the show on Instagram: @stuffthatwelikepodcast Christina on Instagram: @Cjoyfully Caleb on Instagram: @CalebcMedia

  2. Oct 19

    S9E10 (Ep 107) Oskar Schindler: The Nazi Who Saved 1,200 Lives

    A profiteer, a spy, and a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party saved roughly 1,200 Jewish lives during the Holocaust. He ended up broke, buried in Jerusalem, and recognized as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. This week we take on Oskar Schindler. For the latest in our Heroes of History series, Caleb and Christina tag-team the story of Oskar Schindler. Caleb walks through the early years: the small-town upbringing in Moravia, the expulsion from technical school for forging report cards, the charm-first salesman who stumbled through jobs, and the pivot that mattered most, becoming a spy for German intelligence and joining the Nazi Party for the opportunities it opened up. From there we move to Kraków in 1939, where Schindler takes over a Jewish-owned enamelware factory, hires Jewish workers because they're cheap, and builds a fortune off the war he helped prepare for. Then Christina takes over for the part that matters most. The slow shift that turned a profiteer into one of the most unlikely heroes of the 20th century. How a man with a Nazi pin on his lapel ended up spending everything he had to keep the people on his list alive, and what we can actually learn from a story where the hero was nothing like a hero when it started. Two hosts. One of the most paradoxical lives of the 20th century. A conversation about how change really happens.

  3. Oct 12

    S9E9 (Ep 106) The Origins Of Yellowstone / Carbohydrates Explained With LEGO Bricks

    Yellowstone has been a national park for over 150 years, and the whole reason the national park system exists at all is weirder than it should be. Also, carbohydrates are basically LEGO bricks, and understanding them that way makes everything else about nutrition click. This week we cover both. Christina takes the history chair and walks through the origin story of Yellowstone National Park. The 19th-century explorers who first brought back the stories (which nobody believed), the near-mythical tales of geysers and bubbling mud that sounded like tall tales, the campfire conversation that supposedly sparked the whole national park idea, and the surprising political coalition that got Ulysses S. Grant to sign the 1872 bill creating the first national park in world history. Yellowstone didn't just protect a place. It basically invented a category. Then Caleb breaks down carbohydrates using one simple analogy: carbs are LEGO bricks. Single bricks (glucose, fructose, galactose), snapped-together pairs (table sugar, milk sugar, malt sugar), and giant LEGO castles (starch, fiber). He walks through what actually happens from the moment a carb hits your mouth to where it ends up stored in your body, why chewing a cracker makes it taste sweet, why two-thirds of adults can't digest milk sugar, why marathon runners hit the wall, and the real difference between refined carbs (lighter fluid) and whole carbs (a big log). If you've been confused about carbs for years, this is the segment that finally clears it up. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end. Contact us at stuffthatwelikepodcast@gmail.com with any questions, concerns, or corrections! Follow the show on Instagram: @stuffthatwelikepodcast Christina on Instagram: @Cjoyfully Caleb on Instagram: @CalebcMedia

  4. Sep 21

    S9E8 (Ep 105) The Bible Iceberg: Stories They Skipped In Sunday School

    You know Jonah and the whale. You know Jericho fell. You've heard of Lot's wife. This week Christina takes an entire episode to walk through everything else. The Bible stories most people never hear, told from the top of the iceberg all the way down. She built a full Bible iceberg list, and this episode is the tour. She goes tier by tier, from the stories you kind of know but have never actually read (way weirder than you remember) all the way down to the ones your Sunday school teacher definitely skipped. Talking animals, unlikely weapons, prophets settling arguments in ways you would not believe, judgments that don't make it into any children's book, and at least one story involving a fat king that has become required listening in this house. One host. One iceberg. A lot of stuff that didn't make Sunday school.

  5. Sep 7

    S9E6 (Ep 103) How Labor Day Actually Became A Holiday / Ranking Every Labor Day Tradition

    Labor Day started as a day of protest for exhausted workers. Now it's a three-day weekend of mattress sales, beach traffic, and cookouts. This week we cover how we got from one to the other. Christina takes the science-and-history chair for the history of Labor Day itself. She walks through the labor movement that made the holiday necessary, the union parade in 1882 that became the blueprint, the strike that shocked the country and pushed Congress to make it federal in 1894, and the quiet reason a president who was actively fighting striking workers signed it into law anyway. It's a shorter history than you'd think, and messier. Then Caleb takes it live. He built a ranking sheet of every major way Americans celebrate Labor Day now, and ranks them in real time. Backyard cookouts, road trips, pool parties, the Southern 500 at Darlington, the actual Labor Day parade (the whole original point), the 45 million people traveling this weekend, the ever-present mattress sales, and the one option that's arguably the most historically accurate of all: doing absolutely nothing. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end.

  6. Aug 31

    S10E5 (Ep 102) Who Was William Tyndale? The Story Behind The English Bible

    He was strangled and burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English. The King James Bible you know today? Roughly 84% of the New Testament is his exact words. And his last words were a prayer that got answered less than a year after he died. This week we take on William Tyndale. For our next joint episode, Caleb and Christina tag-team one of the most quietly consequential figures in Western history. We start with his early life: the brilliant Oxford-educated linguist, the priest who watched ordinary people fumble through Latin scriptures they couldn't understand, and the moment he decided he'd translate the Bible into English himself or die trying. Turned out to be both. From there we trace his years on the run through Europe. The secret print runs smuggled into England in bales of cloth. The bounties on his head. The King and the Church that wanted him silenced. And the friend who eventually betrayed him for money, leading to his arrest, imprisonment, and execution in 1536. Then we get to the part that lands hardest. His final recorded words were "Lord, open the King of England's eyes." Within a year of his death, Henry VIII authorized an English Bible for every church in the country. The man who was killed for translating the Bible into English had his prayer answered by the same king who let it happen. Two hosts. One of history's best. A conversation about what it actually costs to change something that matters. Contact us at stuffthatwelikepodcast@gmail.com with any questions, concerns, or corrections!

  7. Aug 24

    S9E4 (Ep 101) How Humans Used To Sleep / The Best Horror Comedies Ranked

    Humans didn't always sleep 8 hours. And ranking horror comedies is somehow harder than ranking either genre on its own. This week we cover both. Christina takes the science chair for the history of sleep. She walks through how humans actually slept before electricity (spoiler: not in one long stretch), the "first sleep" and "second sleep" pattern that dominated for centuries, why the Industrial Revolution rewrote our sleep schedules almost overnight, and what the research says about whether the way we sleep now is even good for us. Turns out the 8-straight-hours rule might be a modern invention we all just accepted. Then Caleb rolls into a full ranking of horror comedies. The genre nobody takes seriously and everybody secretly loves. He breaks down the movies that nailed both the scares and the laughs, the ones that whiffed on one and coasted on the other, and the surprise picks that shouldn't work but absolutely do. If you've been looking for a Halloween-season watchlist that doesn't take itself too seriously, this is the segment. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end. Contact us at stuffthatwelikepodcast@gmail.com with any questions, corrections, or your own horror comedy ranking hot takes!

  8. Aug 17

    S9E3 (Ep 100) Our 100th Episode: The Get-To-Know-Us Special

    100 episodes. Two hosts who somehow kept showing up. This week we're pulling back the curtain and letting you actually meet us.We wrote out 20 questions across three tiers (fun and dumb, getting-to-know-you, and genuinely reflective) and took turns pulling from the pile with zero prep and zero editing out the messy answers.Round one is the light stuff. The food we pretend to like but secretly can't stand. The useless skill we're weirdly proud of. Our go-to karaoke songs. The show we're embarrassed to admit we love. It's the round where you learn who's the bigger disaster on any given topic.Round two goes deeper. What we wanted to be when we grew up and why. The person outside our families who shaped us the most. A belief we hold that most people disagree with. A risk we took that we're glad we took. This is where you start to understand how each of us actually got here.Round three is the one we didn't fully prepare for. A moment that changed the direction of our life. Something we're still working on. A piece of advice we still think about. What we'd tell our younger selves. It got quieter than we expected in the best way.100 episodes in, and this is the one where you actually get to know us. Contact us at stuffthatwelikepodcast@gmail.com with any questions, concerns, or corrections!

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