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UPS Rewards
Regina embarks on a journey to the center of an exclusive UPS customer rewards program.Show notes: Dyson V11 UPS Rewards page Brandmovers About Brandmovers customer rewards program HOW LOYALTY PROGRAMS ARE IMPORTANT FOR COLLECTING FIRST-PARTY DATA FUN IDEAS FOR TREATING (NOT TRICKING) LOYALTY PROGRAM MEMBERS eCommerce Loyalty Programs: A Comprehensive Guide (2022) Rewardian
Report Now, Score Later
There might be a new factor in your credit score.Show notes: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: What is a credit score? NerdWallet: What Is Buy Now, Pay Later? NerdWallet: Buy Now, Pay Later Is Everywhere. Should You Opt In? ForbesAdvisor: TransUnion Follows Equifax’s Move To Include Buy Now, Pay Later Data In Credit Reports @shondamartin_ on TikTok: GET IN HERE WE NEED TO TALK‼️ The Financial Brand: ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Is Now Officially Mainstream: What It Means for Lenders Consumer Reports: I Bought a Burrito From Chipotle in Fo...
The Prosciutto Ban
Did Italian cured meats really disappear from the US for 50 years?Show notes: "I Can Do Better Than That" (YouTube) Jason Robert Brown tweet thread Prosciutto (Wikipedia) Italy's Parma Ham Gains Approval for Importation (South Florida Sun Sentinel) Prosciutto Is Back From the Ban : Gourmet foods: This Italian ham is as different from most American imitations as French Champagne is from most sparkling wines (LA Times) It's No Baloney: Real Italian Mortadella's Back (Chicago Tribune) The Return of Mortadella (NY Times) No More...
Welcome to the Food Bag
Some personal news and a couple stories about food!Show Notes:Grills, sausage, and Tumblr misinformation: The video Johnsonville's Big Taste Grill Marks 20 Years On The Road A Traveler’s Guide to Johnsonville (The Town, Not the Brats) War is a Racket - Goodreads Johnsonville - Wikipedia The confessionAn abundance of information on the Rice Krispies shortage: Rice Krispies Treats Cereal was just so good. Brand Informers: Do They Still Make Rice Krispies Treats Cereal? – Answered 8 News Now Las Vegas: Can’t find Rice Krispies on store s...
No copyright intended with Andy Baio
We're joined by friend of the show Andy Baio to talk about 20 years of Oscar screener leaks.Show notes: Oscar Screener Piracy 2003-2022 (Google Sheets) Andy's 2021 roundup (waxy.org) Ken Rudolph’s movie screeners page Release BB Pirated Oscar Screeners Have Become a Rare Breed (TorrentFreak) Hive-CM8 Apologizes For Leaking Hateful Eight DVD Screener (TorrentFreak) Kind of Bloop Kind of Screwed (waxy.org) No Copyright Intended (waxy.org) The Westworld video we talked about seems to be gone now (The Outline) Waxy.org Skittish
Australian Target
A listener sent us a TikTok about an imposter big box store.Show notes: The TikTok Gaby sent us (Alexa Johnson) Aussies Are Sharing Their Experiences Of Trying American Target For The First Time And Guys, It's So Much Better Than What We Have Here (Buzzfeed) Target Australia (Wikipedia) Full list of the Target stores closing, rebranding as Kmart (9News) Trader Joe's Podcast Hershey’s v. Hershey’s: An Investigation (Doug Mack/Snack Stack)
ADHD on the Internet
Note: Some listeners have pointed out that in our attempt to discuss the rise in armchair ADHD commentary online, we participated in some of the damaging parts of that discourse ourselves. We hear you and are sorry. We will be keeping the episode up for now for the sake of transparency. Thank you for all of your thoughtful feedback.Show notes: r/ADHD_partners #ADHD on TikTok Darcy and Jer (TikTok) Connor DeWolfe (TikTok) KC Davis (TikTok) Dani Donovan (TikTok)
The Cults Among Us
A listener is curious about a local deli run by a cult, but no one else seems to be.Show notes:Let's Talk About SectsChildren of Sect Seized in Vermont (New York Times)I Escaped From The Yellow Deli (Karen Draper)Death of Twelve Tribes founder leaves future uncertain for international Christian movement (Chatanooga Times Free-Press)Marshall fire investigation spotlights Twelve Tribes religious sect (Denver Post)The Idyllic Restaurant Chain Owned by a Homophobic, Racist, Child-Beating Cult (VICE)
When Chipotle doesn't give you lemons... make lemon-aid?
I know, it's not a great joke. But there could be a good joke in there somewhere. If only we had a Chief Laugh Officer.Anyway, this week we uncover the history of the elusive Chipotle lemon wedges.Show notes: This is Chipotle's website, for anyone who isn't familiar FastCasual.com's Chipotle coverage Shout-out r/Chipotle, a truly helpful resource for all things ChipotleNo more self-served lemons??Did Chipotle remove lemons?Ran out of oranges for the kids fruit, seriously considered giving out lemons insteadLemon wedgesWe acciden...
Get Your MTV Dial Sticker
Has anyone seen this 80s artifact?Show notes: A new "remaster" of the first hours of MTV (Internet Archive) The dial sticker clip (YouTube) A recent re-upload of the dial promo (YouTube) Martha Quinn tweet about the sticker
Two Churches
Adrianne wants to become a minister in the Universal Life Church. But which one?Show notes: A Word From Your Officiant (for Better or Worse) - One of the many New York Times trend stories about marriage and online ordination American Marriage Ministries $40 stole The Church of the Latter-Day Dude - Ordination Celebrant Institute fee list ULC.net ULC.org The ULC Network (ulc.net) Universal Life Goes On (Modesto Bee, republished on Catholic.org) Kirby Hensley on a call-in show (YouTube) Hoesly, Dusty, 2015. “‘Need a Minister? How About Your ...
Happy New Year
Hey Patreon subscribers,We're off this week and we hope you are too!We want to sincerely thank everyone for supporting the podcast this year. The people who wrote in with questions. The listeners who hang out in Discord. Everyone who left us a nice review. And you, the people who send us actual money to do things like:-commission a pop song-use Rev.com for the first draft of transcripts-upgrade to Izotope 9 Advanced (software for making things sound good)What else happened in 2021? Well besides all the bad stuff that you know about from the...
What happened to Super Jojo?
Billy explores the curious similarities between two popular children's YouTube channels.Show notes: Ozy - Allegations of fraud - Wikipedia Super Jojo - Wikitubia CoComelon - Wikitubia Why Do Kids Love CoComelon - Romper Super JoJo vs. Cocomelon - mumsnet.com Screenshot of “Who created Super Jojo?” (searched on 12/23/2021) List of most-viewed YouTube videos - Wikipedia Youtube Terminates Cocomelon Rival Super Jojo Channel With 22 Million Subscribers Kids' YouTube Channel CoComelon Files IP Suit Against Rival Full Moonbug vs. Babybus ...
Sleuth Songs
Who sang these Cole Porter songs?Show notes: Sleuth (Wikipedia) Sleuth (IMDb) The Sleuth Saga Carries On (Reddit) The scene in question (YouTube) Cole Porter sings "Anything Goes" (YouTube) Thread on the Soundtrack Collector forum Massive thread on the IMDb 2.1 forum "One More Kiss, Dear" (YouTube)
Department of Fun
"The internet's oldest mystery" brings us to a part of Wikipedia we'd never seen before.Show notes: Markovian Parallax Denigrate (Wikipedia) The Markovian Parallax Denigrate: Unraveling the Internet’s oldest and weirdest mystery (Daily Dot) The only remaining MPD message on Google Groups "I Am Not a Bot" (Reply All) Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles Wikipedia:Humor @depthsofwikipedia (Instagram) - Live show on January 4th in NYC Wikipedia:Essays Wikipedia:Unusual articles "100 Years" actually seems ...
Aftershow: Boy Bands in Space
Thanks to everyone who participated in Discord and to our guest Jon Fuller, creator of the song "Is There Anyone Out There."Show notes: Adrianne said "Hard Heart to Break." She meant "Hard Habit to Break." 🙃 TEAM 5ÜNF lyric video for Liebe überall (YouTube) The "Mouth Sounds" guy a.k.a. Neil Cicierega a.k.a. Lemon Demon (Wikipedia) Jon's new single "Voice" (Spotify)
Live After-Show Tonight!
Hi Patreon patrons,We're hosting a virtual live show TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT (Tuesday, November 30, at 9:00pm EST).You should definitely join. We'll be talking about everyone's favorite almost-extra-terrestrial boy band, Natural, and sharing some extra stuff that didn't make it into the full episode.We really hope you can make it because it will be really fun. You don't need to RSVP or anything. Just show up ready to enjoy some sweet tunes and some even sweeter banter.You can join in Discord by going into the #the-stage chan...
Is There Anyone Out There
Greetings patrons! It's Thanksgiving here in the US, and we're taking our first-ever week off from Overunderstood to become overoverstuffed.(Main show spoilers below)But we're not leaving you empty handed. If you've heard this week's episode of Underunderstood, you heard the original song "Is Anyone Out There" at the end. We're excited to release the track here in full, as well as a pack of isolated stems that you can chop and remix however you like.We're releasing these all under a Creative Commons Attributi...
Space Stylii
The Golden Record diagram (NASA) What is the best iPad stylus? (The Verge/YouTube) Sounds of Earth (NASA/Soundcloud) Music from the Voyager Golden Record (YouTube playlist) Video showing images from the record (Vox) Photo essay (NASA) How do you pronounce "Ann Druyan"? Not like Adrianne did! Here's Druyan saying it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1-D2X5_9CQ Adrianne said "magnetic" when she meant to say "non-magnetic" to refer to the type of stylus that Timothy Ferris recommended NASA use. How embarrassing. Solvin...
Who Is Celebrity Number Six?
Billy thinks the Underunderstood community can solve a mystery that has stumped Reddit. The first post: "A sub where people recognize celebrities in curtains with silhouettes of celebrities" (r/findareddit) Pic of the curtains (Imgur)Note: We said seven but there are actually eight celebs. Celebrity #1 Celebrity #1 revealed Celebrity #2 Celebrity #2 revealed Celebrity #3 Celebrity #3 revealed Celebrity #4 Celebrity #4 revealed Celebrity #5 Celebrity #5 revealed Celebrity #7 Celebrity #7 revealed Celebrity #8 Celebrity #8 revealed ...
New York Forkin' City
Meet New York City's new mayor. Sagging Pants And The Long History Of 'Dangerous' Street Fashion (Code Switch / NPR) Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence (YouTube / The New York Daily News) Tweet from Eric Adams / @BKBoroHall Tweet from Wildbell Tweet from Aaron Naparstak in 2015 Backwards fork thread! Post pictures of incorrectly installed forks! (MTBR forums); more specifically Target guy Manitou makes forks that look like they are on backwards. Manitou Reverse Arch (YouTube / Hayes Performance Systems) Stick a Fork In It (Bike...
Aftershow: Chief Laugh Officer
We're creating a database of Laffy Taffy jokes! Underunderstood subreddit Laffy Taffy product inquiries and feedback hotline, open Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. EST: 1-800-358-1971 The Clegg family Laffy Taffy joke collection We started a joke database — Reddit post that explains more
Can Openership
Riffing about modern conveniences and millennials.Show notes: The thing Adrianne asked John and Billy to guess Amazon Best Sellers: Best Electric Can Opener (updated hourly) Desert preppers (Twitter) The Trouble With Tuna (Wall Street Journal) How many Millennials own a can opener? (Quora) Sure, millennials might be killing canned tuna. But not because they hate can openers. (Washington Post) Cuisinart Deluxe Stainless Steel Opener
Our Team Is Fully Doxxed
Sorry, this is an episode about crypto.Show notes: Gallant Token Yankees Wildcard radio commercial (YouTube) Gallant Token's Website What is blockchain technology? (IBM) Binance (Wikipedia) What is Binance Smart Chain? (decrypt.co) Gallant Token Relaunched with Enhanced Security Features after being a SafeMoon Fork (Yahoo! Finance) For the love of the loot: Blockchain, the metaverse and gaming’s blind spot (TechCrunch) The Metaverse, play-to-earn and the new economic model of gaming (Cointelegraph) How Axie Infinity is turning gaming on i...
Empathy Swine
Regina wonders if boars feel empathy.Show notes:New York Post: Shakira and son attacked by wild boars: ‘They’ve destroyed everything’ - They “Waka Waka’d” off with her purse.- pilfering pigs,- She got into pig trouble in Spain- the bacon-y bling ring- porcine purse-snatchers @hellotefi's video on TikTok NME: Shakira reveals she was attacked by a sea lion The Guardian: Boar wars: how wild hogs are trashing European cities Nature.com: Observation of rescue behaviour in wild boar (Sus scrofa)
Is Something Weird Happening on Facebook?
Adrianne rambles about judgment zones, and then dissects a conspiracy theory behind some Facebook spam. Michigan Court Ruled Against Planet Fitness’ Policy of Respecting Trans Members’ Gender Identity (The Mary Sue) Something Weird Is Happening on Facebook (Political Orphans) It's Always Autumn Scary Mommy The Typical Mom Cambridge Analytica (Wikipedia) Hacker News thread Blacklight privacy inspector Macedonian teens in BuzzFeed News and Wired Article that includes the fact about Christian Facebook groups being troll farms (MIT Tech Rev...
Season 5 is coming
Hello listeners! It’s been a while since we’ve been in the main Underunderstood feed. We had busy summers filled with Major Life Events (mostly good!) and some time off. But it’s time to dust off our digital magnifying glasses and put our mystery-solving hats back on. Underunderstood is coming back for Season 5 on October 26.We’ll be changing our release schedule a little bit, moving to every other week. This should give us a little more room to work on stories, and it also means that we’ll be “in season” for a longer stretch of t...
TIL on TikTok: Zillow Buys Houses
Regina shares a viral TikTok that shows a potentially dark future for real estate. TikTok number 1 TikTok number 2 Planet Money (Jul. 2021): Three Reasons for the Housing Shortage Planet Money (Apr. 2020): What If No One Pays Rent? (this is the one I referred to that made me cry) The Zillow skit on SNL New York Times (Jul. 2019): Real Estate’s Latest Bid: Zillow Wants to Buy Your House CNN Business (Feb. 2020): Zillow is losing millions on selling homes. But its risk-taking CEO isn't worried New York Times (Mar. 2020): A $60 Billion Housi...
The Bunion King
Adrianne investigates an internet-famous surgeon.Show notes: Video promo The Bunion King on TikTok (CW: bodies, graphic medical stuff, feet) NYT article Dr. Miami on TikTok (CW: bodies, graphic medical stuff, blood) the Canadian Bunion King New York's physician misconduct database Medicare/Medicaid exclusion list Pacer.gov (federal lawsuits) and CourtListener (state and federal)
Emergency Pod: McFlurries in the News
The McFlurry is back in the news, and we comb through it all.Show notes: McDonald's self-own tweet They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War (Wired) Biden signs executive order aimed at cracking down on Big Tech (New York Post) Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy (whitehouse.gov) McDonald’s McFlurry Machine Is Broken (Again). Now the FTC Is On It. (Wall Street Journal - paywalled)
