500 Open Tabs
by Kaveh Taherian and Hannah Hillam
Each episode, hosts Kaveh Taherian and Hannah Hillam choose one of their countless open browser tabs and finally take the time to read and discuss its contents until they gain enough strength to close that tab once and for all.
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Episodes
Episode 15: Racist Alien Time Capsules
1h 41m · PublishedThis 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.
Episode Tabs:
1976 Tehran UFO incident
http://www.iiaf.net/tehran-dogfight-incident/
The Crypt of Civilization
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/crypt-of-civilization/
Listener Tabs:
https://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/Man_takes_armoured_vehicle_on_rampage_through_Western_Sydney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare
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Episode 14: The Pat-Ant Wars
1h 42m · PublishedThis 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?"
Episode Tabs:
These ants decorate their homes with the heads of their enemies
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ants-head-hunters-attack-trap-jaw-enemies-nests
Thomas Edison: The Unintentional Founder of Hollywood
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/03/thomas-edison-the-unintentional-founder-of-hollywood
Listener Tabs:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/100659-longest-orgasm-in-mammals
https://nypost.com/2022/07/18/phrogging-hider-in-my-house-stranger-secretly-lived-with-us/
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Episode 13: Gruey Le Prince
1h 33m · PublishedThis 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.
Episode Tabs:
Who Killed Louis Le Prince? On the forgotten father of film
https://harpers.org/archive/2022/04/who-killed-louis-le-prince-on-the-forgotten-father-of-film/
No one could describe the color blue until modern times
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2
Listener Tabs:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/855685.Fly_Away_Home#CommunityReviews
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159116302192?via%3Dihub
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Episode 12: 1-800-HotLion
1h 41m · PublishedThis 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.
Episode Tabs:
Hollywood's real Tiger King: Insane big cat movie Roar getting VOD rerelease
https://ew.com/movies/roar-movie-vod/
Inside The Nintendo Power Hotline
https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/02/22/inside-the-nintendo-power-hotline
Listener Tabs:
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/top-9-animals-elected-to-office-in-the-united-states/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments
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Episode 11: A Michelin Man's Funeral
1h 33m · PublishedThis 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.
Episode Tabs:
Allied Forces on D-Day Used a Popular Tourist Guide to Help Liberate France
https://www.military.com/history/allied-forces-d-day-used-popular-tourist-guide-help-liberate-france.html
“The Rus” (An Arab among the Vikings)
https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/12938.ch01.pdf
Listener Tabs:
https://youtu.be/aQthclI55Rk?si=Bw8xdEs8K-Ikbb0j
https://youtu.be/4eJxAhhMiCk?si=xDb9O4IkpDOjEwrL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Alley_(TV_series)?wprov=sfti1
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Episode 10: A Hiker, a Mime, and a Shark Walk onto a Mountain
1h 16m · PublishedThis 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.
Episode Tabs:
Ghosts on the Glacier
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/09/world/americas/aconcagua-mountain-expedition-photos.html
The Wikipedia entry for the day of March 27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_27
Six bull sharks inadvertently made their home on an Australian golf course. Then they vanished
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/18/sport/carbrook-bull-sharks-australia-golf-course-spt-spc-intl/index.html
Listener Tabs:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/four-acre-spider-web_n_6095724
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Episode 9: Lobotomize Me, Horse Daddy
1h 39m · PublishedThis week we discuss insane mental health practices of the 1940s and the NBA's golden horse, Nikola Jokić. A listener email disgusts Kaveh.
Episode Tabs:
Mother’s Little Helper: Vintage Drug Ads
https://www.goretro.com/2014/08/mothers-little-helper-vintage-drug-ads.html
How Nikola Jokić Became The World’s Best Basketball Player
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/how-nikola-jokic-became-the-worlds-best-basketball-player
Listener Tabs:
https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_%27Em_Dry
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Episode 8: Intermittent Werewolfing
1h 23m · PublishedThis 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.
Episode Tabs:
Confessions of a Werewolf: The Trial of Peter Stump
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/a-german-werewolfs-confessions-horrified-1500s-europe
What the Folk?
https://daily.jstor.org/what-the-folk-the-charming-yet-totally-malappropriate-story-of-words/
Listener Tabs:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved
https://kotaku.com/mcdonalds-grimace-wiki-ad-happy-meal-fandom-history-1850552640
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Episode 7: The Panda Man Can (not leave the airport)
1h 32m · PublishedThis week we discuss people who live at airports and panda diplomacy. A listener email reveals how rabbits frankly don't give a damn.
Episode Tabs:
Terminal Dwellers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_lived_in_airports
A Chinese cigarette tin launched D.C.’s 50-year love affair with pandas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/16/pandas-china-nixon-dc/
Listener Tabs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(film)
https://historianandrew.medium.com/how-bugs-bunny-and-clark-gable-created-false-belief-that-rabbits-like-eating-carrots-65d25059b7d0
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Episode 6: Every Dam Has Its Þ
1h 38m · PublishedThis 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.
Correction: the Phoenician alphabet comes after the Proto-Sinaitic script and before the Greek alphabet
Episode Tabs:
The Johnstown Flood pt. 2
https://www.geoinstitute.org/news/johnstown-flood-1889-catastrophe-civil-engineering-part-1
The Forgotten Letters of the English Alphabet
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31904/12-letters-didnt-make-alphabet
Listener Tabs:
https://www.teachertube.com/videos/physical-science-for-children-all-about-forces-and-gravity-349164
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/larping-your-job
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500 Open Tabs has 16 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 21:55:40. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on December 17th 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 2nd, 2024 14:10.