Bring On The Questions

60 - What Is Spotify's Origin Story?

Here we go, another big corporation origin story! Born from the idea of legally listening to music on the internet, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon created Spotify. The word is actually a portmanteau of “Spot” and “Identify”. It was a struggle but those guys built something pretty important for the world, but with every Big Corporation problems would soon come. The BIG part tends to come from the corporation stepping on the people they claim to be serving.   #BringOnTheQuestions #Podcast #Spotify #OriginStory #BigCorporation

59 - Where Did 6-7 Come From?

Happy 6-7 Day!!! Well it was 6/7 this past week. We dig into the origin of this recent meme/idiom that has inundated society so much that schools have banned students from saying it and doing the motion associated with it. We also get into origin stories of some other idioms involving numbers. We may not be going The Whole Nine Yards with idioms but we certainly had moments where we were on Cloud Nine in this episode.  #BringOnTheQuestions #Podcast #67 #Idioms #OriginStories #TheWholeNineYards #CloudNine

58 - What Are Mass Hysterias?

Can you believe at one point mass hysterias were blamed on roving uteruses?? Of course the males in power giving out diagnoses only blamed females for a long time. Eventually males were diagnosed as part of mass hysteria epidemics, but it was still a female dominated ailment according to the patriarchy of the time. A woman started the dancing plague, Nuns acting out in wildly radical ways for around a century, and the Salem witch trials are some major mass hysterical events that appear to be led by women, but there were certainly men holding positions of power that could have been better leaders of people.  #BringOnTheQuestions #Podcast #MassHysteria #DancingPlague #SalemWitchTrials

57 - What Is The Chupacabra?

Welcome to our next cryptid origin story. The origin of the Chupacabra is really recent in the grand scheme of things. The first alleged sighting or encounter was in March of 1995 where 8 sheep were discovered dead. After that, other mysterious livestock deaths were attributed to the same creature. The coining of the term "chupacabra" is credited to the Puerto Rican comedian and radio personality Silverio Pérez, who used the label during a broadcast in 1995 while commenting on the livestock deaths. The name translates literally from the Spanish chupar (to suck) and cabra (goat).  #BringOnTheQuestions #Podcast #Chupacabra #Cryptozoology #PuertoRico

56 - Do You Think The Earth Is Flat?

Early observers of the world, scientists before there were really scientists, were adamant that the world was flat and then observed a little closer and decided there were too many circles or partial circles being observed on celestial bodies to continue to say it was flat. Well according to some people those scientists were feeding people lies. Those people believe only what’s right in front of their eyes. If they can’t observe it on their own it simply isn’t true….and yet the unobserved ice wall dominates their belief system on how the waters of the earth are held in place. #BringOnTheQuestions #Podcast #FlatEarth #IceWall #RoundEarth