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500 Open Tabs: episode 19 Rose-Colored Overpasses

This week we wrap up the MacArthur Maze debacle and learn about pioneering cartoonist Rose O'Neill. A listener email dives into the mysterious poisoning of a Chinese billionaire.

Originally posted on May 29, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 18 Get in Loser We're Burning Bridges

This week we learn about the renegade Anne Hutchinson and how the MacArthur Maze was reconstructed in record time after a fire. A listener email explains the sword-fighting roots of the Best Man.

Originally posted on May 22, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 17 Twenty Thousand Legos Under the Sea

This week we are joined by special guest Steven Ray Morris (My Favorite Murder, See Jurassic Right) as we learn about fake buildings, Sperm whale defense tactics, and Lego lost at sea. A listener email penetrates some myths about lobotomies.

Originally posted on May 15, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 16 Pansexual Polycule of Tortles

This week we learn about Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise and Air Force One petty theft. A listener email clarifies what the Grishaverse actually is.

Originally posed on May 8, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 15 Racist Alien Time Capsules

This week we learn about the 1976 Tehran UFO Incident and the father of the modern time capsule. A listener email fetes a disgusting historical figure.

Originally posted on May 1, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 14 The Pat-Ant Wars

This week we learn about horrific ant genuses and how the film industry was born out of everyone hating Thomas Edison. A listener email answers the age old question of "how long do pig orgasms last?"

Originally posted on April 24, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 13 Gruey Le Prince

This week we learn about Louis Le Prince, the REAL inventor of the motion picture camera and the origins of the color Grue. A listener email inspires a high end horse jacket clothing line.

Originally posted on April 17, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 12 1-800-HotLion

This week we discuss Roar, one of the most unsafe movies ever made and the Nintendo Power Hotline. A listener email reveals all the animals in elected office.

Originally posted on April 10, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 11 A Michelin Man's Funeral

This week we discuss the origins of the Michelin Man and a first hand account of Vikings from 922. A listener email answers the question of why we don't see Pandas in toilet paper ads.

Originally posted on April 3, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 10 A Hiker, a Mime, and a Shark Walk onto a Mountain

This week we have our first ever special guest, 500 Tabs' very own editor and friend Alyssa Cooper! We discuss a mountain murder mystery, the importance of March 27th, and sharks on a golf course. A listener email taps into some of our most primal fears.

Originally posted on March 27, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 9 Lobotomize Me, Horse Daddy

This week we discuss insane mental health practices of the 1940s and the NBA's golden horse, Nikola Jokić. A listener email disgusts Kaveh.

Originally posted on March 20, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 8 Intermittent Werewolfing

This week we discuss the trial of alleged werewolf Peter Stump and folk etymology. A listener email reveals how McDonalds tried to buy their way into fandom.

Originally posted on March 13, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 7 The Panda Man Can (not leave the airport)

This week we discuss people who live at airports and panda diplomacy. A listener email reveals how rabbits frankly don't give a damn.

Originally posted on March 6, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 6 Every Dam Has Its Þ

This week Kaveh concludes the Katamari style horrors of the Johnstown flood and Hannah shares how the Europeans had their own American Idol but for letters of the alphabet instead of singers. A listener email reveals if a childhood memory was in fact cake, and how it exploded.

Originally posted on February 21, 2024. (x)

Correction: the Phoenician alphabet comes after the Proto-Sinaitic script and before the Greek alphabet.

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500 Open Tabs: episode 5 A Murder of Dams

This week we return to Niihau for an insane adventure that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor and learn about the Johnstown Flood and how dams are just like us and also like candy. A listener email finally puts the debate about white chocolate to rest.

Originally posted on February 7, 2024. (x)

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500 Open Tabs: episode 4 Robinson Crucified

This week we discuss a forbidden Hawaiian island and Jesus's definitely legitimate final resting place in northern Japan. Also a listener clues us into the little discussed Eternal Riverdale phenomenon.

Originally posted on January 24, 2024. (x)