Midnight Facts for Insomniacs

More Idioms, a.k.a Say What?

You downloaded, we listened. In part 2 of one of the most popular MFFI episodes, Shane and Duncan reveal the meaning and origin behind more of the most-requested common sayings and idioms. 
In this episode:
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Fall off the wagon
Long in the tooth
Cold shoulder
Face the music
Close, but no cigar
Welcome wagon
Get out of Dodge
At the drop of a hat
Salt of the earth 
Second wind
Heard it through the grapevine
...and more
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Cryptids, Mark 2: From the Mothman to the Wendigo

Back by popular demand! More cryptids, weirder cryptids, and cryptids with funnier names.
For the second installment in the cryptids series, the focus is North America (US and Canada). Enjoy!
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In this episode:
The Dover Demon
The Squonk
The Mothman
The Flatwoods Monster (Green Monster)
The Ogopogo
The Wendigo
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Episode Transcript:
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Welcome to the Manosphere: Pick-up Artists, Incels, and the Seduction Community

What's the difference between an MRA and a MGTOW? Should you even care? Probably not, but we'll tell you anyway. Join the guys for a weird and occasionally uncomfortable journey through the confused, incestuous network of online communities collectively known as the manosphere. 
*TW: There is discussion of sensitive topics in this episode, including brief references to sexual assault.*
In this episode:
The history of PUAs
Ovid and the Ars Amatoria ("Art of Love")
Don Juan (Don Giovanni) 
Giacomo Casanova
Jack Hanley and Being a Gentlemen's Guide to Guide to Scientific Seduction in 8 Easy Steps
Norton Hughes Johnathan's Guide Book for the Young Man About Town
Eric Weber and How to Pick Up Girls!
Neil Strauss and The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Mystery (Erik Von Markovik)
PUA Techniques and Terminology:
Peacocking
Negging
Approach Anxiety
Targets, Sets
Sarging
Last Minute Resistance
Assuming Familiarity
Keno Escalation/Compliance Test
HBs and the hotness scale
Template of a pickup
Dr. Bianca Fileborn
VH1 and The Pickup Artist
The Manoshpere:
Men's Rights Activists
MGTOWs
Incels
Red Pill
The appeal of PUA
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The Devil

Lucifer. Satan. Beelzebub. Prince of Lies.
The Devil has a thousand names, a chip on his shoulder, and major daddy issues. He also has one hell of a backstory. Join the MFFI guys as they piece together the convoluted mythology of Satan, from his origins as a minor Egyptian deity to his ultimate Christian incarnation. 
 
In this episode:
The Book of Enoch (Dead Sea Scrolls)
The Book of Isaiah and the Sketchy Origin of "Lucifer"
The Book of Job and the Satanic Bet
The Jewish Perspective
Shaitans and Islamic Devils
Ezekiel and Revelations
The King of Tyre
Dante Alighieri and the Pettiness of the Divine Comedy
The Circles of Hell and Torture Porn
Demonic Aesthetics
Links to Pan and Bes
The Medieval Devil
The Enlightenment Devil
John Milton, Paradise Lost, and the Sympathetic Devil
Eve, the Serpent, and the Toad
The Modern, Sophisticated Devil
The Fine Print (Devil's in the Details)
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Spectacular Failures: From New Coke to Segway

Not just your garden-variety screwups; these were epic, painful misfires that everyone should have seen coming. (We’re lookin' at you, Quibi.) 
In this episode:
Microsoft BOB
New Coke
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Olestra (Olean)
Subprime Mortgages 
The Pontiac Aztec
The Segway 
The No-Phone
Toilet Golf
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The Sordid Science Behind Interrogation and Torture

We have ways of making you talk...
 
In this episode:
Interrogation Techniques: Bargaining, Lying, Guilt Trips, Flattery
"Pride and Ego Up" Vs. Down
Reading Body Language
Good Cop/Bad Cop
Intoxicants (Sodium Pentathol etc)
Suggestibility
Morals and Grey Areas
Legal Limits of Interrogation
Law Enforcement Deception Scenarios
Torture and "Enhanced Interrogation"
Methods of Torture
Reliability and Results
Three Degrees of Torture
Legality of Torture
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Battle for the Living Room: from Atari to the Console Wars

The next generation of gaming is about to arrive, which makes this the perfect time to take a look at how we got here. Join the boys for a guided tour through the cutthroat history of gaming, and the battle for the living room. 
 
In this episode:
Edward Uhler Condon and the NIMATRON
Ferranti and the NIMROD
Ralph Baer and the Brown Box
Magnavox and the Odyssey
Atari and the VCS (2600)
Activision
1983 Atari Shock, ET, and subpar PacMan
The rise of Nintendo
Famicon becomes the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
NES becomes the Super NES
TurboGrafx-16 and the 16-bit revolution
The Atari Jaguar flames out
The rise of Sega
The genesis of the Genesis
The story of Sonic
The golden era of SNES: Metroid, Street Fighter, Zelda, Mega Man
The rise of Sony
32 and 64 bits
The Nintendo 64
The Sega Saturn
Playstation crushes the competition
The decline of Nintendo and the Gamecube debacle
Microsoft gets in the game
Enter the Xbox
Xbox 360 and the Red Ring of Death
Playstation 2
Playstation 3
Xbox One
Xbox Series X and the Playstation 5
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Mentalists, Faith Healers, and Frauds

Scammers and con artists are unavoidable facts of life, but only a select few manage to take the art of deception to the next level. All of the unscrupulous scumbags in this episode reached the pinnacle of scumminess, and perfected the art of the con. 
 
In this episode:
International Sleazebag Uri Geller
Disgraced Televangelist Peter Popoff
Unlikely Shaman Juliette D'Souza
Infomercial Psychic Miss Cleo
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Sketchy and Unethical Psychological Experiments

Modern researchers are expected to follow strict ethical guidelines, but it wasn't always this way. For thousands of years, scientific experimentation was a free-for-all, and while American psychological experiments may never have reached Josef Mengele levels on the Evil Meter, there have been some notorious misfires that were downright disturbing. Follow along as Shane and Duncan explore some of the sketchiest psychological experiments every conducted. 
 
In this episode:
The Milgram Experiment
Robber's Cave
The Monster Study
The Stanford Prison Experiment
...and more
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Sleep and Insomnia (finally!)

In an episode that is long overdue, the boys explore the biology and science of sleep, and offer useful tips for tackling sleep disorders (including...you know). 
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In this episode:
Why do we sleep?
The Dead Zone
REM and REM Behavior Disorder
Sleep Paralysis
The Body's Battery - ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate)
Effects of Sleep Deprivation
Prehistoric vs Modern Sleep Cycles
Dreams and Dream Interpretation
Hypnagogic Jerk
The Egyptian Dream Book
Sleep Positions and Ergonomics
Sleep Apnea and Snoring
Hard vs Soft Mattresses vs the Floor
Onset Insomnia
Maintenance Insomnia
Techniques for Managing Insomnia
...and more
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