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Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia

Race and Tyler discuss topics in geography, history, law, and whatever other Wikipedia articles they’ve been clicking into lately.

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00:58:04

42: The Voyager Golden Records

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/08/31

We discuss the gold discs on board the twin Voyager spacecrafts, and what those discs tell us about ourselves.

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00:43:29

41: Amazon Rainforest (Chicxulub Crater Part 3)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/08/25

We talk about a surprising result of the Chicxulub Crater asteroid collision: the creation of the Amazon Rainforest.

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00:54:16

40: Dinosaurs (Chicxulub Crater Part 2)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/08/17

We talk about the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, and the most famous victims of the Chicxulub Crater: the dinosaurs.

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00:42:27

39: Chicxulub Crater (Part 1)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/08/10

We talk about the formation of the Chicxulub Crater off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, and how the earth was impacted by it.

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00:52:28

38: Pepsi Madness

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/07/27

Two incidents in Pepsi’s history will both fill you with 90s nostalgia and leave you scratching your head. Hear about how Pepsi botched two prize games, one ending with deadly consequences.

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01:02:07

37: Yucca Mountain (Part 2)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/07/20

We take a look at some of the zaniest solutions proposed in order to warn future civilizations about nuclear waste.

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00:42:19

36: Yucca Mountain (Part 1)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/07/13

We begin a two-part episode about the craziest Wikipedia article that we have ever come across for this podcast. In this first part, we begin by discussing Yucca Mountain, a desert peak of Nevada which is a proposed location for the burial of large amounts of nuclear waste.

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00:39:57

35: Grab Bag

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/07/06

Salmagundi the sequel! Ryder, Race’s fourth least-favorite nephew, joins us for seven unrelated mini episodes! Go back and listen to our first grab bag episode to get in the spirit of assorted trivia!

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01:03:04

34: The Star Spangled Banner

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/06/29

We discuss Francis Scott Key’s poem, written on the back of some scrap paper, that became the US National Anthem, but not until over 100 years after it was written.

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01:00:32

33: Conclusion (La Valse)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/06/22

We end the series by synthesizing the context of the previous four episodes, and by listening to La Valse by Maurice Ravel in its entirety.

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00:36:20

32: Maurice Ravel (La Valse)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/06/15

We talk about the Belle Epoque, impressionism in music, and the composer of La Valse: Maurice Ravel.

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01:05:57

31: The Lost Generation (La Valse)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/06/08

We talk about the Lost Generation, who lived through World War I, and who included writers and artists like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali.

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00:47:38

30: World War I (La Valse)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/06/01

What do World War I and Mean Girls have in common? We continue in our series about La Valse, speaking with special guest Jeremy Moore about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, its capital city of Vienna, and their involvement in World War I.

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00:44:35

29: The Blue Danube (La Valse)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/05/18

We start off our discussion of La Valse by listening to one of the most famous waltzes in concert music history. You probably already know this piece, whether you want to or not!

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00:06:48

28: Introduction to La Valse (La Valse)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/05/10

We introduce the next series of episodes, which will provide context to Maurice Ravel's concert masterpiece, La Valse.

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00:50:18

27: Abe Fortas

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/05/04

We discuss Abe Fortas, the fiddle-playing, deal-making Supreme Court justice who resigned in order to avoid being impeached and removed from the Court.

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00:39:39

26: Olympus Mons (???)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/04/20

What's Olympus Mons?

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00:43:20

25: Nazca Lines (Unsolved Mysteries)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/04/13

We discuss the beautiful, mysterious, gigantic drawings on the Peruvian desert floor.

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00:40:14

24: Mount Kilimanjaro (The World's Tallest Mountains)

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/04/06

We talk about the first humans on Earth, and the mountain that sat in their background.

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01:01:44

23: Grab Bag Episode!

Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia ·

2021/03/30

We mix it up, combining seven mini topics into a gallimaufry—a salmagundi—an omnium-gatherum! This macédoine of an episode featured seven unrelated but fascinating discussions. None of these brief topics could be an episode on its own, but they deserved to be heard so we created this farrago for your enjoyment.

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