Improbable Research

Improbable Research

75 episodes

Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK — research about anything and everything, from everywhere —research that's good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. Presented by Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/improbableresearch/support

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Episode #1095: Saliva and Frog Puppets

Published: May 22, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode #1094: Can You Navigate in a Crowd, While Distracted by Your Mobile Phone?

Published: May 8, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode #1093: Why Pedestrians Do Not Constantly Collide

Published: April 24, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode #1092: The Bacteria in Discarded, Chewed Chewing Gum

Published: April 10, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode #1091: Hula Hoop Syndrome

Published: March 27, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode #1090: Obesity of Politicians, Corruption in Countries

Published: March 13, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode #1089: Inverted Rhino Translocation

Published: Feb. 27, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode #1088: Cursing Babinski

Published: Feb. 13, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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Episode #1087: Modes of Cat-Human Communication

Published: Jan. 30, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 1 second

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Episode #1086: Beards and Face-Punching

Published: Jan. 16, 2022, 7:35 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode #1085: "Mindful Dishwashing"

Published: Nov. 14, 2021, 6:43 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode #1084: Chalk and Mathematicians

Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode #1083: Faces and Smoked Ham

Published: Oct. 17, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode #1082: "The Man in the Black Bag"

Published: Oct. 3, 2021, noon
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode #1081: Ear Bigness Through the Years

Published: Sept. 19, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode #1080: Pleasurability of Scratching an Itch

Published: Sept. 5, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 2 seconds

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Episode #1079: "Cats and Appropriate Music

Published: Aug. 22, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode #1078: Are People Happier on Weekends?

Published: Aug. 8, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode #1077: "Danger Assessment of Holy Water"

Published: July 25, 2021, 1:44 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode #1076: "Adventure of the Random Million Digits"

Published: July 11, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode #1075: The Rheology of Cats

Published: July 4, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode #1074: Vibrate That Earthworm

Published: June 27, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 1073: Smelly People in the Office

Published: June 20, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode #1072: The Misery of Misophonia

Published: June 13, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode #1071: Umbrella Progress on a Crowded Sidewalk

Published: June 6, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode #1070: Kissing and Income Inequality

Published: May 30, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode #1069: What Sort of Person is Named Rupzoiyat

Published: May 23, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode #1068: Eyebrows of Narcissists

Published: May 16, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode #1067: Using Voodoo Dolls to Measure Aggression in Married Couples

Published: May 9, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode #1066: Arachnophobia in Bug Scientists

Published: May 2, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode #1065: The Physics of Skulking and Falling Cats

Published: April 25, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode #1064: The Best Life Opera (Act 3)

Published: April 18, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode #1063: And Now, a Needle in the Rectum

Published: April 11, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode #1062: Happiness from Painful Insect Stings

Published: April 4, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode #1061: Jean Berko Gleasons Disgusting Word List

Published: March 28, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode #1060: How Much Saliva Does a Five-Year-Old Produce?

Published: March 21, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode #1059: The Best Life Opera (Act 2)

Published: March 14, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode #1058: How Kids Learn to Say Trick or Treat

Published: March 7, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode #1057: Fifty Shades, by Gray

Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode #1056: Egg in Your Eye

Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode #1055: The Best Life Opera (Act 1)

Published: Feb. 14, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode #1054: Effect of Eating Garlic on Armpit Odor

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode #1053: Does One Armpit Smell Like the Other?

Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode #1052: Do Frogs in Helium Get Squeaky Voices?

Published: Jan. 24, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode #1051: Did His Orgasm Lead to Blindness

Published: Jan. 17, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 1 second

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Episode #1050: Bottle-Cork in Your Eye

Published: Jan. 10, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode #1049 The M-through-Z of Social Dilemmas

Published: Jan. 3, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 53 seconds

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Episode #1048: Stress Analysis of a Strapless Dress

Published: Dec. 27, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode #1047: Garlic Sensory Pleasure or Social Nuisance?

Published: Dec. 20, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode #1046: Standardized Food Glops

Published: Dec. 13, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode #1045: Do Cats Sometimes Pay Some Attention to Their Owners?

Published: Dec. 6, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode #1044: "Boring Machines"

Published: Nov. 29, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Leaping Fish Injuries"

Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: Hot Rod Magazines - A Harmless Diversion?

Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: Drunk German Speech

Published: Nov. 8, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 31 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: Automatically Recognize Boredom

Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: The A-through-L of Social Dilemmas

Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Ice Cream & Sluggo"

Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Chernoff Faces"

Published: Oct. 11, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 22 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Ice Cream & Intense Scholars"

Published: Oct. 4, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "What Is Stupid"

Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 19 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Ice Cream & Human Flight"

Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 44 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Look Into Each Other's Eyes"

Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 7 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Ice Cream & Dr. Land"

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Another Look at Who Can Touch Whom"

Published: Aug. 15, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Microwave Oven Astronomer"

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 48 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: Abnormal Blinking

Published: Aug. 8, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 56 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Ruck in a Rug"

Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 53 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: Happiness Equation

Published: Aug. 1, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Swimming in Fat Metaphors"

Published: July 29, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 38 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: German Sense of Humor

Published: July 25, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 7 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Surgery Grapefruit"

Published: July 22, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: Frozen Shirt of a Stranger

Published: July 18, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 26 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: Ice Cream & Term Paper Doug

Published: July 15, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 9 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Rain Run Walk"

Published: July 11, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 33 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Spin-Stretched Ant Neck"

Published: July 8, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Hand Clap Shape-sounds"

Published: July 4, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 58 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Centrifugal Chicken Sh*t"

Published: July 1, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 37 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Normally Chasing Their Tails"

Published: June 27, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 213: The 29th 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

Published: June 24, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 45 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Apewoman Siren"

Published: June 20, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Scary Masks in Zoos"

Published: June 17, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 52 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Just A Sigh"

Published: June 13, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 212: Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake

Published: June 10, 2020, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 58 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Death to Improve Basketball"

Published: June 6, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Monkeys and College Students"

Published: June 3, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 9 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Judging Aggressive Roaring"

Published: May 30, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 211: Richard Wassersug

Published: May 27, 2020, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 9 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Hot Potato Voice"

Published: May 23, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 8 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Barefoot Running"

Published: May 20, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Horse Calculus"

Published: May 16, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 210: Famous Monks with Bad Breath

Published: May 13, 2020, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 40 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Bereitschaftspotential"

Published: May 9, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Hot Sauce Aggression"

Published: May 6, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Creepiness"

Published: May 2, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes

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Episode 209: "Words for Food in Your Mouth"

Published: April 29, 2020, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 15 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: Mask Wiggling

Published: April 25, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 3 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: Dogs Favorite Garbage

Published: April 22, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: "Food Allergies & Kissing"

Published: April 18, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 208: "Repetitive Physics of 'OM'"

Published: April 15, 2020, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 35 seconds

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Pocket-Sized: Cockers Arithmetick

Published: April 12, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 207: "The Psychoanalysts's Nose"

Published: April 1, 2020, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 206: "Flatulence in Dogs"

Published: March 18, 2020, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 205: "Color Preferences in the Insane"

Published: March 4, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 204: "The Longest Oath"

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 203: "Who Can Touch Whom"

Published: Feb. 5, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 202: "Sneezing and a Full Stomach"

Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 201: "Crunchiness Loss"

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 200: "Disgusting Sounds?"

Published: Dec. 25, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes

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