Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
An encyclopedic reference of strange-but-true stories compiled as a time capsule for future generations.
- Website
- https://www.omnibusproject.com/
- Description
- An encyclopedic reference of strange-but-true stories compiled as a time capsule for future generations.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-20 14:12
- last episode published
- 2025-02-20 11:00
- publication frequency
- 4.12 days
- Contributors
- HowStuffWorks
- Owner
- iHeartRadio
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 642
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-20 | In which we celebrate the post-Valentine's season by looking back at the sleazy 1970s when adult films briefly became mainstream chic, and Ken avoids a Y2K for his marriage. Certificate #25369. |
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| 2025-02-13 | In which a veiled, fume-huffing priestess tells the ancient world what to do for over a millennium, and John only knows what time it is from his truck clock. Certificate #25192. |
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| 2025-02-06 | In which a Disneyland-trained dreamer invents a new art form with the help of a cookie entrepreneur and a jellybean innovator, and Ken has a theory about the worst balloon vendors. Certificate #32691. |
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| 2025-01-30 | In which an inescapable awards-season acronym is jump-started twenty-five years earlier by an eccentric TV cop actor and a pop reference book, and John's family would like to kick in hotel room doors. Certificate #42952. |
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| 2025-01-23 | In which an Atlanta pastor changes his name after a very inspiring visit to Germany and begins an American civil rights dynasty, and Ken gets to make a chart. Certificate #45274. |
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| 2025-01-16 | In which scientists and paranormal investigators puzzle over a string of mysterious deaths beginning with a "dull and heavy" Italian countess, and John learns about the peat of the Maldives. Certificate #40714. |
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| 2025-01-09 | In which British investors power the Industrial Revolution with arguably too many waterways for the nation's barges, and Ken thinks escalators are not cheating. Certificate #27217. |
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| 2025-01-02 | In which a solar storm in 1859 leads to eye-popping auroras and a harboring of technological doom, and John compares gold pan and pizza sizes. Certificate #54094. |
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| 2024-12-26 | In which the childhood Christmas tradition of two Georgia twins becomes a cultural tug-of-war over surveillance psychology, and Ken is going to buy a light blue tree. Certificate #45509. |
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| 2024-12-19 | In which astronauts and cosmonauts smuggle sandwiches, golf clubs, harmonicas, collectibles, and ashes into orbit, and John wants to blow bubbles on the Moon. Certificate #54825. |
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