Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast
1) 051 - These People Are Not Your Friends (August Mailbag)
Questions Kyle and Jennie join me for an unusually strong mailbag. In this first part we talk the wild events of the last month in the presidential election, fielding several questions about what is a...Show More
2) 050 - Biden's Brain, Trump's Ear
Questions Kyle and Jennie join me for a close look at three of the wildest weeks in recent American political history - we talk the Trump assassination attempt, Biden's brain, JD Vance, and (checks no...Show More
3) 049 - Race to the Future with Kassia St. Clair
Kassia St. Clair, author of the 2017 best-seller The Secret Lives of Color and the Sunday Times Book of the Year follow-up The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (2019) joins me to talk about...Show More
4) Minicast G2: Dundee United
In 1972 a middling team from the Scottish Premier League played four exhibition matches in Nigeria and distinguished itself so profoundly with its pitiful play (and boorish attitude) that its name bec...Show More
5) Minicast G1: The Flying Boy trick
Question Kyle and Question Jennie join me as we discuss the 18th century fad of using the emerging understanding of the phenomenon of electricity to entertain. Men who considered themselves worldly na...Show More
6) Minicast F3: Operation Washtub
Perhaps you've heard of Operation Gladio, the infamous post-World War II NATO program to train "stay-behind" agents to fight guerilla-style against a future hypothetical Soviet invasion of Western Eur...Show More
7) 048 - The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal (with Laine Nooney)
Dr. Laine Nooney (NYU) joins me to discuss the early days of personal computing - particularly how people figured out what to do with home computers after they became convinced that they needed one - ...Show More
048 - The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal (with Laine Nooney)
43:24 | Nov 21st, 2023
8) 047 - The Great American Transit Disaster
Professor and author Nicholas Dagen Bloom joins me to discuss his new book The Great American Transit Disaster: Austerity, Autocentric Planning, and White Flight (University of Chicago Press). You kn...Show More
9) 046 - Assemble for Assemblies
Continuing a topic we broached on a recent bonus episode on Patreon, Questions Kyle and Jennie join me as we sort through the wonderful if baffling world of school assemblies submitted by listeners an...Show More
10) 045 - All-Mailbag Episode 2023
Question Cathy returns for a long overdue dip into the mailbag. We hit a range of topics including: how the recent Supreme Court ruling will affect college admissions, 90s cultural fads, the mind-bend...Show More