Disalmanac Podcast 047 (approximately eight minutes)

This week: an exciting podcast about the also-exciting William Howard Taft, who is among our most spherical of presidents (as opposed to Harry Truman, who was our squarest president, and Richard Nixon, our most rhomboid).

And stay tuned for a Random Bonus Fact about pet rocks from Janet Varney–she’s the founder of SF Sketchfest, the voice of Korra on Nickelodeon’s “The Legend of Korra,” and, if she were president, she would be among our most parallelogrammatical. Good job, Janet!

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Disalmanac Podcast 046 (approximately eight and a half minutes)

This week’s podcast is about the planet Mars, and certainly not the Roman god Mars. That guy’s a troublemaker. Who died and made HIM god of war, anyway?

And stay tuned for a Random Bonus Fact about your Disalmanacarian, Scott Bateman, from Matt Oswalt, the brains behind the daily video comic Puddin’ on YouTube. We wish we’d been smart enough to create a job that allows us to eat pudding every damn day. The dude’s a genius.

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REMEMBER: Pre-order the Disalmanac book, get a free autographed bookmark! And maybe win some original art from the book–details here.

Disalmanac Podcast 045

This week, learn all about 20th century art. Not that awful 19th century art! Jesus, who wants to look at water lilies all damn day? Let’s look at some damn soup cans!

And stay tuned for a Random Bonus Fact about the Dalai Lama from Tao Lin, the author of the novella Shoplifting From American Apparel. Kids: do not shoplift from American Apparel. Shoplift from a less trashy store, like The Gap. Have some taste when you steal.

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Disalmanac Podcast 044

This week’s Disalmanac Podcast is about Illinois. The “s” is silent, as we all should be when the subject of Illinois comes up. Illinois is decidedly not for mixed company.

And stay tuned for a Random Bonus Fact from Kevin Murphy of Rifftrax and the classic TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000. Sadly, it’s been over 20 years and yet some people STILL can’t get used to Tom Servo’s new voice.

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Disalmanac Podcast 043

This week’s Disalmanac Podcast is about presidential elections. We’ve had three or four of them in our nation’s long history. Have they always been as loud and stupid as this year’s? Pretty much, yeah.

And stay tuned for a Random Bonus Fact about Hattiesburg, MS from comedian Sharon Spell! She is from Hattiesburg, and that’s why she hosts The Sharon Spell Podcast, which you should subscribe to as ASAP as possible, Slappy.

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Disalmanac Podcast 042

This week’s Disalmanac Podcast is all about geometry. Have you forgotten all that geometry you learned in the eighth grade? Time to get re-aquainted, because that time your geometry teacher said you’d need geometry in real life? It’s coming SOON. Get on it!

And stay tuned for a Random Bonus Fact from the comedy-music duoReformed Whores! They are former whores who are somewhat reformed and sing about it! Their debut album is out NOW.

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Disalmanac Podcast 041

This week’s Disalmanac Podcast is about quantum mechanics. It’s the scientific theory that turned physics upside down, at a subatomic level! At the Newtonian level, we’re all still right side up. Confused? Get in line, Slappy.

And stay tuned for a Random Bonus Fact about Andy Warhol from comedian Bridey Elliott!

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