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030-Mushrooms?


There are about 75,000 scientifically identified species of fungi leaving several million unclassified. Mushrooms hold world records and help our bodies return to the earth after death. Some are edible mushrooms, deadly mushrooms, glow in the dark mushrooms and many beautiful and strange. Our guest today is Danamae Scarborough. She helps guide us through this magic journey among the mushroom patch.

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028-Vaudeville?


Vaudeville was the most popular form of American entertainment from its rise in the 1880s through 1930s. It played much the same a role in people’s lives that radio and later television would for later generations. Many early radio, television and film stars began as vaudeville performers. It was variety entertainment, consisting of a diverse series of short acts. The acts ranged from singing groups, animal acts, comedians, contortionists, magicians to short musical plays. Very rarely freaks or sideshow acts were performed.

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027-Twenty Seven?


There are numbers that just seem to pop up over and over again. Twenty Seven is one of these. It’s in the moon and stars. It’s the atomic number of cobalt. It forms a perfect cube. When adding the integers between 2 and 7 they add up to 27. 2+3+4+5+6+7=27 Twenty seven shows up heavily in numerology and doomsday conspiracies. Then of course there is the infamous “27 Club”.

Our guests this episode are Ray Wroten and Don Selner.

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