I wasn’t so sure I could even make it past the title of this one, folks. It’s hard to cleverly squeeze four podcast titles into a single line. This week brings another double dose of the podcast goodness because of our out-of-town trip last week. With that, let’s get on with it.

Last Tuesday we got into the Large Hadron Collider. You may have heard about this humongous machine that lives underground in Europe. Pretty soon, the scientists that operate the LHC are hoping to juice it up to full speed and slam some particles together in order to simulate the moments directly after the big bang. Pretty heady stuff indeed and we did mess some stuff up on the physics front. First and foremost, I think we said they were beams of light and this isn’t quite right. They are particles, so you stop the email corrections!

Last Thursday was a show on the Hells Angels. As tremendous squares, we managed to do a decent job with this one and have heard some good stories from folks who know some real Hells Angels. Interesting factoid on this one — Hells Angels is a legitimate corpration and their insignia and name are both trademarked. This means they can sue, say Disney for say, a horrible movie like Wild Hogs. We also talked a little about the famous incident at the Rolling Stones concert in Altamont.

This week we hit on narco states and kleptomania. The narco states show made me a little wary about traveling to certain parts of Central America and Africa any time soon. There are some sad things going on there as a result of the massive drug trade and the puppet governments that allow it to happen.

Yesterday we closed out the week with a little show on kleptomania. We learned that it is indeed an actual compulsive mental disorder that may have its roots in chemical defects in the brain. Not sure if this is the case with Winona Ryder, but Josh was severely dismayed to know that Ryder is a stage name.

So let’s hear from you, folks. Who out there has a good inside story here about one of these four juicy topics? Surely someone out there is a Hells Angel or has kleptomania, right?

Read up:
How Kleptomania Works
How The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club Works
How the Large Hadron Collider Works
How Narco States Work