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Bring On The Questions

BringOn TheQuestions

How do you learn about the world? You ask questions. That"s exactly what Foennix and Will (her dad) are doing here. They"re going to ask some not so serious questions. Why do we say cats have nine lives? They will also ask some slightly more serious questions. How much does the earth weigh and how do we know? They"re gonna Bring On The Questions and hopefully bring on some good answers too.

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46 - Why Do We Celebrate Valentines Day?

Bring On The Questions ·

2026/02/09

Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s that time of year where goats are sacrificed and naked priests run around spanking women with strips of goat hides to ensure fertility and ease of pain during childbirth….oh wait….no no….that’s how Lupercalia, the precursor to Valentine’s Day, is celebrated. Sometime later the church decided that kind of celebration was a little too intense to find a partner for a romantic occasion. Later still Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls introduced something that was a

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45 - What Is A Squonk?

Bring On The Questions ·

2026/02/02

Here we go, we’re breaking down another cryptid creature. This time we want to know about the sad sad loose skinned teary eyed Squonk that lurks around the hemlocks of north-central Pennsylvania. It was described early on in William T. Cox’s Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts. It’s a long name, but the short book is packed full of cryptids from all over the United States. Cox says about the Squonk “Because of its misfitting skin, which is covered with warts

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44 - What Is Synchronicity?

Bring On The Questions ·

2026/01/26

Do you ever recognize or tune in to those moments where if you were just a couple minutes or even seconds later it would have meant disaster? Do you ever think of someone and suddenly you’re getting a text message or a phone call from them? Any time you feel that sense of “Right Place, Right Time”. These are coincidences that have meaning to you, “Meaningful Coincidences” or more simply Synchronicity. #BringOnTheQuestions #Synchronicity #Jung #Coincidence #RightPlaceRightTime

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43 - How Did The Months Get Their Names?

Bring On The Questions ·

2026/01/21

This is a bit of a sequel to our 6th episode! Then we asked “How did the days of the week get their names” Now we’re asking How Did The Months Get Their Names. For a long long time a long long time ago the Romans would march in March and finish the year in December totaling 304 days in the year. So what happened during those other 61 days? Nothing. It was just this void of time passing. Fun fact: September, October, November, and December have always been named that, but they were in fact the 7th,

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42 - What Is Bibliomancy?

Bring On The Questions ·

2026/01/12

Bibliomancy. Divining prophecy via a sacred text or eventually any literature that holds meaning for you. It was practiced regularly for sometime in history in all religions. Eventually Christianity decided it was a little too witchcraft-like. We tried our hands at a little Bibliomancy ourselves. We miiight have confirmed there is a multiverse. I think we predicted the Philadelphia Eagles losing the chance to go to the Superbowl? #BringOnTheQuestions #Bibliomancy #Divining #Prophecy #Religion

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41 - Did Vince Li Go Wendigo?

Bring On The Questions ·

2026/01/05

The 2008 killing of Timothy McLean on a Greyhound bus remains one of Canada's most disturbing criminal cases. Vincent Li, suffering from untreated paranoid schizophrenia, beheaded and cannibalized McLean near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Li believed he was fulfilling a divine command to destroy a "demon."In 2009, Li was found Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder (NCRMD). The court ruled that his delusions rendered him incapable of understanding that his actions were wrong. He

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40 - What Is Yule And How Is It Celebrated?

Bring On The Questions ·

2025/12/29

Happy Yule! Merry Advent! Soon we'll be in the new year! First we need to celebrate the last few days of 2025 with the final days of the Yuletide season. Much like Advent Yule was formally celebrated or rather observed much longer during the colder months. Now it's nice and condensed down to just 12 days ending on the first day of the new year. Day 1: Mother's Night (Mōdraniht (MO-dra-nikht)): Modern rites for the first night often follow scholarly theories regarding ancestral worship. Practitioners

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39 - Who Or What Is Krampus?

Bring On The Questions ·

2025/12/15

The short answer is Krampus is the anti-Santi. He’s the yang to Santa’s ying. He was cool in the early days of Germany and then he was too cool for Germany in World War II. In more modern days Krampus is the mascot for a more goth type Christmas. #BringOnTheQuestions #History #Myth #Krampus #Christmas

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38 - What Is Advent?

Bring On The Questions ·

2025/12/08

Formally, Advent was a time of personal sacrifice or abstinence much like Lent and it lasted 40 days as well. Essentially it was a second Lent for the year. It very slowly evolved into the 24 day countdown we have today. From personal abstinence to a miniature daily treat in a handy tandy countdown box. #BringOnTheQuestions #BOTQs #History #Advent #Christmas #Christian #Countdown

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37 - What Are Wendigo Or Wendigos?

Bring On The Questions ·

2025/12/01

A Wendigo is not some cryptid creature that can just be done away with like modern media likes to portray. Succumbing to the Wendigo spirit or going Wendigo is more of a breakdown of one's spirit due to harsh physical conditions, but again that’s an oversimplification of the idea of the Wendigo. It begins with hallucination and paranoia, then moves into seeing regular food as something non-consumable, and finally seeing human flesh as the only thing that can nourish your hunger. Consuming human

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36 - Why Is It Called Black Friday?

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2025/11/25

Why is it called “Black Friday”? Well it’s not because the retailers go from not making profits to suddenly making profits on that day. The insane amount of consumerism certainly helps profits, but in reality the profits were already there. When someone started playing with gold standards in 1869 it made lots of days dark for the stock market. However, in the 1960s the day after Thanksgiving evolved into something altogether different. Philadelphia, PA would get overwhelmed by hordes of jolly

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35 - What Is A Homunculus Or What Are Homunculi?

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2025/11/17

The early concepts of a Homunculus or Homunculi is absolutely unreal to us as modern people. They were attempting to create a human outside of the body via alchemical razzle dazzle. The whole idea really threw us for a loop for a chunk of the episode. It got weird for awhile. The modern Homunculus makes a bit more sense to us in this day and age, but things are starting to skew into moral quandaries. #BringOnTheQuestions #BOTQs #Homunculus #Homunculi #Weird #History #Alchemy #Chemistry

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34 - Are Younger Siblings Always The Tallest?

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2025/11/12

Foennix's oldest sibling wanted to know Are Youngest Siblings Always The Tallest, because Foennix is rapidly catching up to her even though she is over 10 years older than her. Genetics, it turns out, is only a part of the factors that determine overall height in humans. One suprising factor that can effect overall height is the time the parents give to any given offspring. #BringOnTheQuestions #BOTQs #Siblings #Sisters #Youngest #Height #Genetics #Heriditary

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33 - Who Celebrates And How Is Samhain Celebrated?...

Bring On The Questions ·

2025/11/05

We're finishing up our impromptu two part episode on Samhain/Halloween. We finished Part 1 by starting to talk about Mischief Night and we started this episode with a positive spin on it. The toilet paper in a tree and throwing eggs was/is more like malicious donations. It's Malicious Donation Night! We actually learned those last few days of October and first few days of November can be used to honor the dearly departed. Whether you simply leave an empty chair or set a serving for your departed

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32 - Who Celebrates And How Is Samhain Celebrated?

Bring On The Questions ·

2025/10/27

Samhain that liminal time of year when the veil between the living and the dead spirits thins and we can commune with or attempt to protect ourselves from the otherside. It's a time for the community to thank mother earth for her bountiful harvest to sustain us through the cold that is to come. Oh and there's that whole dressing up and begging for treats door-to-door thing we do to. #BringOnTheQuestions #BOTQs #History #Autumn #Fall #Samhain #Halloween #AllHallowsEve #AllSaintsDay

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31 - What Are Skinwalkers?

Bring On The Questions ·

2025/10/20

The deeper narrative of what a Skinwalker actually is goes much deeper than just some shape shifter that can transform into an animal. The Navajo or Diné people continue to believe that a medicine man or woman can become a skinwalker if they were to commit an atrocity on their own family or clan. It’s not some myth, it's part of their continued religion that things can and do happen. As for Skinwalker Ranch, it might just be a battleground for warring tribes of Native Americans where their

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30 - Are You Scared Yet?

Bring On The Questions ·

2025/10/13

Phun with Phobias! Of course we start with a history lesson on what phobia means and where it came from. The Greeks did it again! Then we get into a bunch of rational and irrational fears. As irrational as some sound people do get diagnosed with them, because they actually exhibit fight or flight response to some of these things.

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29 - What Are The Hopkinsville Goblins?

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2025/10/06

Something spooked the Suttons and their guests so much that they fled their home to alert the local authorities on the night of August 21, 1955 and into the morning of August 22. The simplest explanation is a Great Horned Owl doing owl things, but would an owl really cause so much chaos at one place for hours and hours? Maybe this incident was a bit more out of this world.

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28 - What Are Dark Theories Of The Teletubbies

Bring On The Questions ·

2025/09/29

Ahhh Teletubbies those lovable technicolor creatures with screens in their bellies that would dance around on your television and entertain young children. They look and sound innocent enough, but what if we told you they allegedly have some seriously dark inspirations? This week we’re asking What Are Dark Theories Of The Teletubbies?

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27 - What Is The Beast Of Gevaudan?

Bring On The Questions ·

2025/09/22

A creature of cryptozoology? A hoax? Some kind of hybrid of real life animals that was trained to kill? Possibly an out of place animal just surviving? Or more simply than that a larger version of an animal that is native to the region? Regardless of any out of this world or fully within the realms of possibility theories something or multiple somethings was/were killing people, not animals, in the hills of mid 18th century France. A singular creature was to blame by not only the people of the

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