Momentary Experts

Momentary Experts
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Simon and Craig try to blow each other's minds on topics that are outside their actual expertise.

Episodes

  1. 04/22/2024

    How the internet changed the way humans think

    Simon and Craig discuss research on how the internet change human memory, attention spans, and dating habits.

  2. 04/08/2024

    Why the Polynesians were the greatest explorers in human history

    Simon tells Craig about Polynesian navigation and why they were able to find islands thousands of miles apart while using canoes.

  3. 03/26/2024

    What most outsider art has in common

    Craig explains what outsider art is to Simon and discusses the similarities between several examples.

  4. 03/12/2024

    How James Garfield's assassination changed the field of medicine

    Simon tells Craig why basic antiseptic practices failed to catch on with doctors for decades after they were first pioneered. They also discussed what surgery was like before the invention of anesthesia.

  5. 03/05/2024

    How the Cold War gave birth to the Hollywood Western

    Craig takes Simon through 100 years of cinema and explains how contemporary anxieties shaped pop culture, from musicals in the 1930s to Westerns in the 1950s to quicksand deaths in the 1970s to YouTube thumbnails in the modern day.

  6. 02/27/2024

    Why HBO was a much bigger disruptor to the TV industry than Netflix

    Simon tells Craig about the birth of the cable industry and how HBO pioneered entire new forms of entertainment that had never before existed.

  7. 02/19/2024

    Why the decline of the neighborhood barbershop led to the rise of conspiracy theories

    Craig tells Simon about the decline of "third places" and why this has made Americans more isolated, which led to all sorts of mayhem, from lower life expectancy to the embrace of right wing conspiracy theories.

  8. 02/12/2024

    What the women's suffrage movement and the income tax have to do with the passing of Prohibition

    Simon and Craig discuss all the movements that came together to pass Prohibition, including 1. The rise of Women's Suffrage 2. The rise of Jim Crow laws 3. Protestant pro-temperance movements 4. The passage of the income tax We also learn how rich people got around Prohibition laws and why it was eventually repealed. Finally, we talked about what effects from Prohibition we still see today.

  9. 02/06/2024

    Why jello used to be a luxury food

    Did you know that jello used to be extremely expensive? Or that the color purple used to be banned in Europe? Did you also know that the Greek Parthenon wasn't always white? And what do these things have to do with one another? Craig explains it all and then ties it to Marie Kondo and Target.

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Simon and Craig try to blow each other's minds on topics that are outside their actual expertise.

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  • Creator
    Momentary Experts
  • Years Active
    2024
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Momentary Experts
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