Episode
497: No Such Thing As Oceans Eleven with Puffins
When Virginia's Barter Theatre first opened in 1933, it paid playwrights their royalties exclusively in ham, except for George Bernard Shaw, who was a vegetarian, and managed to negotiate his payment to be in spinach.
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It was by two married couples who both had daughters named Zoe Renault. Their surname was Renault. So they said, our daughter's lives will be irreversibly damaged if you call your new car the Renault Zoe. They basically…
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He was a hero dog, really famous, because he was part of a team of sled dogs who saved a town in Alaska in 1925 called Nome, and they had a terrifying outbreak of a really horrible disease — diphtheria.
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