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About Half as Interesting
Half as Interesting is an entertaining, fact-based, educational series covering diverse topics of general interest presented in a somewhat humorous, quirky style. Topics range from curious to weird and are rarely important to know unless you're looking for some lunch room or coffee break conversation starters.
Half as Interesting episode schedule
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| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| August 11, 2026 | S2026·E30 | United and American's Bitter Feud Over Chicago's Airport |
| August 5, 2026 | S2026·E29 | Why Almost Every Airline Has Sued This One Website |
| July 28, 2026 | S2026·E28 | The Missing Island Mexico Desperately Wants to Be Real |
| July 24, 2026 | S2026·E27 | How Tonga Made $100 Million Renting Space in Outer Space |
| July 14, 2026 | S2026·E26 | The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a Person |
| June 26, 2026 | S2026·E25 | Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful |
| June 25, 2026 | S2026·E24 | Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018 |
| June 22, 2026 | S2026·E23 | New Jersey's Big Fight with FIFA |
| June 1, 2026 | S2026·E22 | What's The World's Longest Domestic Flight? |
| May 29, 2026 | S2026·E21 | Russia's Weird, Bad Alternative Internet |
| May 28, 2026 | S2026·E20 | Why They Built The World's Longest Rail Tunnel |
| May 12, 2026 | S2026·E19 | The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies |
| April 30, 2026 | S2026·E18 | How Forensic Linguistics Works |
| April 29, 2026 | S2026·E17 | How the Nuclear Football Works |
| April 22, 2026 | S2026·E16 | Why This River Doesn't Reach the Ocean |
| April 11, 2026 | S2026·E15 | The Logistics of 911 |
| April 10, 2026 | S2026·E14 | The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use |
| April 8, 2026 | S2026·E13 | Why Amtrak's Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed |
| March 27, 2026 | S2026·E12 | The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey |
| March 24, 2026 | S2026·E11 | The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution |
| March 17, 2026 | S2026·E10 | Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works |
| March 2, 2026 | S2026·E9 | The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America |
| February 27, 2026 | S2026·E8 | The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck |
| February 25, 2026 | S2026·E7 | The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink |
| February 10, 2026 | S2026·E6 | Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky |
| January 31, 2026 | S2026·E5 | The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage |
| January 30, 2026 | S2026·E4 | The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design |
| January 28, 2026 | S2026·E3 | The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette |
| January 21, 2026 | S2026·E2 | This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time |
| January 14, 2026 | S2026·E1 | How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes |
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| December 31, 2025 | S2025·E52 | The Time the US Sent 813 Soldiers to Cut Down One Tree |
| December 24, 2025 | S2025·E51 | Why It Was Illegal to Sell All Your Raisins Until 2015 |
| December 22, 2025 | S2025·E50 | How This Country Overestimated Their Population by 7 Million People |
| December 15, 2025 | S2025·E49 | The US Military's Fast Food Division |
| December 4, 2025 | S2025·E48 | Why It's So Hard To Know Where the Utility Pipes Are |
| November 30, 2025 | S2025·E47 | How FEMA's Doomsday Radio System Works |
| November 18, 2025 | S2025·E46 | The US Military's Really Big, Really Controversial Radar System |
| November 11, 2025 | S2025·E45 | The Design of the World's Most Secure Banknote |
| October 31, 2025 | S2025·E44 | How Do They Choose the Spelling Bee Words? |
| October 30, 2025 | S2025·E43 | How They Just Discovered a New 14,000 Foot Mountain |
| October 23, 2025 | S2025·E42 | How Indonesia Is Accidentally Sinking Their Capital |
| October 21, 2025 | S2025·E41 | The Risky Logistics of Alaska's Food Supply Chain |
| October 3, 2025 | S2025·E40 | Why This Car Basically Only Exists in NYC |
| September 30, 2025 | S2025·E39 | Why Does the World's Biggest Ship Exist? |
| September 29, 2025 | S2025·E38 | France Sent Their Dumbest Spies to Blow Up This Boat in NZ |
| September 25, 2025 | S2025·E37 | Why There's a 61-Mile Conveyor Belt in the Sahara Desert |
| September 22, 2025 | S2025·E36 | All The Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway |
| September 1, 2025 | S2025·E35 | The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year (Again) |
| August 29, 2025 | S2025·E34 | The Decades-Long Fight Over The Font on Highway Signs |
| August 25, 2025 | S2025·E33 | The Multimillionaire Feud Over Horse Clones |
| August 19, 2025 | S2025·E32 | The Insane Production Schedule of Love Island |
| August 11, 2025 | S2025·E31 | The Fake Countries the US Fights Fake Wars Against |
| July 31, 2025 | S2025·E30 | Detroit's Tiny, Terrible Metro System |
| July 29, 2025 | S2025·E29 | The Most Controversial Half-Acre in NYC |
| July 25, 2025 | S2025·E28 | The Insane Logistics of Pro Baseball |
| July 11, 2025 | S2025·E27 | Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks |
| June 30, 2025 | S2025·E26 | Why the US' 2nd-Busiest Passenger Railway Is Doomed |
| June 27, 2025 | S2025·E25 | Why Isn't There Public Transit from the Airport to the Vegas Strip? |
| June 26, 2025 | S2025·E24 | The CIA's Secret Star Wars Fan Blog |
| June 24, 2025 | S2025·E23 | How Much of the Moon Is On Earth? |
| June 17, 2025 | S2025·E22 | The Absurd Science Behind Really Good Bowling Balls |
| May 30, 2025 | S2025·E21 | The 467 Rules You Have to Follow to Put an Animal in a Movie |
| May 29, 2025 | S2025·E20 | The Absurd Lengths Billionaires Go to Not "Live" in NYC |
| May 28, 2025 | S2025·E19 | The Scam That Hit Every Adult in Canada |
| May 21, 2025 | S2025·E18 | Why You Need Sand from This Town to Make a Computer |
| April 30, 2025 | S2025·E17 | The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper That Sold for $10 |
| April 28, 2025 | S2025·E16 | Why Isn't There Public Transit From the Airport to Disney World? |
| April 25, 2025 | S2025·E15 | All The Loopholes to Travel from Europe to Russia |
| April 15, 2025 | S2025·E14 | How The Largest Human Gathering In The World Works |
| April 11, 2025 | S2025·E13 | The Decades-Long Battle Over Low-Flow Toilets |
| March 31, 2025 | S2025·E12 | How to Design the Perfect F1 Track |
| March 18, 2025 | S2025·E11 | The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices |
| March 13, 2025 | S2025·E10 | The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple |
| March 4, 2025 | S2025·E9 | 500 Terrible Topics We Didn't Make Videos About |
| February 28, 2025 | S2025·E8 | The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil's Economy |
| February 21, 2025 | S2025·E7 | Brooklyn's Only Interstate Is Doomed |
| February 13, 2025 | S2025·E6 | The Unspoken Rules of LEGO Sets |
| January 31, 2025 | S2025·E5 | The Swimsuit So Good They Banned It |
| January 29, 2025 | S2025·E4 | This 2-Mile Long Gondola Cost $52 Million |
| January 24, 2025 | S2025·E3 | The Nuke-Proof US Military Base in a Mountain |
| January 21, 2025 | S2025·E2 | How Renault Won an F1 Race by Crashing a Car |
| January 14, 2025 | S2025·E1 | Why People Live In Tubes At The Bottom of the Ocean |
| December 26, 2024 | S2024·E56 | The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau |
| December 24, 2024 | S2024·E55 | How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole |
| December 17, 2024 | S2024·E54 | How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days |
| December 12, 2024 | S2024·E53 | The US' Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team |
| November 30, 2024 | S2024·E52 | How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours |
| November 26, 2024 | S2024·E51 | How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes |
| November 19, 2024 | S2024·E50 | The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship |
| November 12, 2024 | S2024·E49 | Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever |
| October 31, 2024 | S2024·E48 | How The USA's Only Car-Free Village Works |
| October 30, 2024 | S2024·E47 | How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency |
| October 25, 2024 | S2024·E46 | How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market |
| October 17, 2024 | S2024·E45 | How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth |
| October 10, 2024 | S2024·E44 | Why Only One US City Doesn't Add Fluoride to Its Water |
| September 30, 2024 | S2024·E43 | How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer |
| September 26, 2024 | S2024·E42 | Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans |
| September 18, 2024 | S2024·E41 | The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S. |
| September 7, 2024 | S2024·E40 | The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a "Miracle" |
| September 3, 2024 | S2024·E39 | The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year |
| August 26, 2024 | S2024·E38 | The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People |
| August 20, 2024 | S2024·E37 | The Logistics of Mount Everest's Base Camp |
| August 9, 2024 | S2024·E36 | The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics |
| August 1, 2024 | S2024·E35 | The One Long Wire Ruining America's Most Important Train |
| July 30, 2024 | S2024·E34 | How the US Gov's Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses |
| July 19, 2024 | S2024·E33 | How America's Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works |
| July 15, 2024 | S2024·E32 | How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable |
| July 8, 2024 | S2024·E31 | How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time |
| July 1, 2024 | S2024·E30 | Mumbai's Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System |
| June 25, 2024 | S2024·E29 | The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea |
| June 13, 2024 | S2024·E28 | Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means |
| June 6, 2024 | S2024·E27 | Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week |
| June 3, 2024 | S2024·E26 | Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps |
| May 24, 2024 | S2024·E25 | Why There's a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho |
| May 17, 2024 | S2024·E24 | The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri |
| May 14, 2024 | S2024·E23 | The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors |
| May 9, 2024 | S2024·E22 | Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong |
| May 1, 2024 | S2024·E21 | How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million |
| April 23, 2024 | S2024·E20 | The Obscure System That Syncs All The World's Clocks |
| April 16, 2024 | S2024·E19 | The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel |
| April 6, 2024 | S2024·E18 | How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up) |
| March 31, 2024 | S2024·E17 | Why Don't Planes Carry Parachutes? |
| March 27, 2024 | S2024·E16 | The Logistics of Prescribed Fires |
| March 22, 2024 | S2024·E15 | Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot |
| March 19, 2024 | S2024·E14 | Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC |
| February 29, 2024 | S2024·E13 | Why We're Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana |
| February 28, 2024 | S2024·E12 | Why It's So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome |
| February 25, 2024 | S2024·E11 | Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other |
| February 19, 2024 | S2024·E10 | How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand |
| February 5, 2024 | S2024·E9 | The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US' Highest Taxicab Density |
| January 31, 2024 | S2024·E8 | The Logistics of White House State Dinners |
| January 31, 2024 | S2024·E7 | The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students |
| January 26, 2024 | S2024·E6 | Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes |
| January 25, 2024 | S2024·E5 | How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof |
| January 19, 2024 | S2024·E4 | How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons |
| January 16, 2024 | S2024·E3 | The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible |
| January 11, 2024 | S2024·E2 | Why There's a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert |
| January 4, 2024 | S2024·E1 | South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere |
| December 28, 2023 | S2023·E76 | Why China Took the US' Pandas |
| December 26, 2023 | S2023·E75 | The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use |
| December 19, 2023 | S2023·E74 | What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag |
| December 12, 2023 | S2023·E73 | The Controversial Machine That's Ruining Bowling |
| December 7, 2023 | S2023·E72 | The Vault That Holds 5% of the World's Gold |
| November 30, 2023 | S2023·E71 | NASA's Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars |
| November 27, 2023 | S2023·E70 | The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse |
| November 21, 2023 | S2023·E69 | Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht |
| November 17, 2023 | S2023·E68 | The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They're Banned in the EU |
| November 15, 2023 | S2023·E67 | Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies |
| November 6, 2023 | S2023·E66 | How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town |
| October 28, 2023 | S2023·E65 | How 70% of Britain's Cash Went Missing |
| October 26, 2023 | S2023·E64 | Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide |
| October 25, 2023 | S2023·E63 | Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC |
| October 20, 2023 | S2023·E62 | How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below |
| October 12, 2023 | S2023·E61 | Australia's Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water |
| October 6, 2023 | S2023·E60 | The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal |
| September 30, 2023 | S2023·E59 | Why Venice's New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works |
| September 29, 2023 | S2023·E58 | How The President's Official Vacation Home Works |
| September 28, 2023 | S2023·E57 | How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection |
| September 21, 2023 | S2023·E56 | The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific |
| September 19, 2023 | S2023·E55 | Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant |
| September 12, 2023 | S2023·E54 | The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World |
| August 31, 2023 | S2023·E53 | Every Mistake We've Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie |
| August 30, 2023 | S2023·E52 | The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns |
| August 29, 2023 | S2023·E51 | How The Pentagon Became The World's Most Secure Building |
| August 22, 2023 | S2023·E50 | The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires |
| August 16, 2023 | S2023·E49 | Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport |
| August 10, 2023 | S2023·E48 | Chicago's $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake |
| August 8, 2023 | S2023·E47 | The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans |
| August 4, 2023 | S2023·E46 | Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns |
| July 31, 2023 | S2023·E45 | How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche |
| July 21, 2023 | S2023·E44 | Trains' Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves |
| July 18, 2023 | S2023·E43 | Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month |
| July 15, 2023 | S2023·E42 | Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana |
| July 12, 2023 | S2023·E41 | We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones. |
| July 4, 2023 | S2023·E40 | How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything |
| June 30, 2023 | S2023·E39 | Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire |
| June 26, 2023 | S2023·E38 | The Intense Logistics of Truffles |
| June 22, 2023 | S2023·E37 | How the World's 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work |
| June 16, 2023 | S2023·E36 | How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin' Dots |
| June 12, 2023 | S2023·E35 | Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback |
| June 8, 2023 | S2023·E34 | How Planes Forecast Turbulence |
| June 5, 2023 | S2023·E33 | Dyson's Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel |
| May 26, 2023 | S2023·E32 | The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague |
| May 23, 2023 | S2023·E31 | Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap |
| May 20, 2023 | S2023·E30 | Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power |
| May 12, 2023 | S2023·E29 | The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws |
| May 9, 2023 | S2023·E28 | How Much Happiness Can Money Buy? |
| May 7, 2023 | S2023·E27 | How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets |
| May 1, 2023 | S2023·E26 | The Giant Propaganda Show That's In Almost Every City |
| April 28, 2023 | S2023·E25 | Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship |
| April 24, 2023 | S2023·E24 | This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos) |
| April 15, 2023 | S2023·E23 | The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It |
| April 12, 2023 | S2023·E22 | The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama |
| April 7, 2023 | S2023·E21 | How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery |
| March 31, 2023 | S2023·E20 | The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That's Coming for Florida |
| March 28, 2023 | S2023·E19 | How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office |
| March 23, 2023 | S2023·E18 | How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate |
| March 18, 2023 | S2023·E17 | North Korea's Bizarre New Propaganda Program |
| March 16, 2023 | S2023·E16 | The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System |
| March 9, 2023 | S2023·E15 | Why American Lawns All Look The Same |
| March 6, 2023 | S2023·E14 | Why It's Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine |
| March 1, 2023 | S2023·E13 | Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules |
| February 24, 2023 | S2023·E12 | How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts |
| February 22, 2023 | S2023·E11 | The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota |
| February 16, 2023 | S2023·E10 | Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River |
| February 13, 2023 | S2023·E9 | Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii |
| February 5, 2023 | S2023·E8 | How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity |
| February 2, 2023 | S2023·E7 | The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California's Smallest Town |
| January 30, 2023 | S2023·E6 | Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income |
| January 21, 2023 | S2023·E5 | The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal |
| January 20, 2023 | S2023·E4 | The Navy's Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke |
| January 18, 2023 | S2023·E3 | Why Canada's Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore |
| January 11, 2023 | S2023·E2 | The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite |
| January 4, 2023 | S2023·E1 | Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard |
| December 30, 2022 | S2022·E76 | How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World |
| December 27, 2022 | S2022·E75 | Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They're Fake) |
| December 22, 2022 | S2022·E74 | The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land |
| December 15, 2022 | S2022·E73 | Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day |
| December 9, 2022 | S2022·E72 | Spotify's Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste |
| December 6, 2022 | S2022·E71 | Roosevelt Island's Pneumatic Trash System |
| December 2, 2022 | S2022·E70 | The McDonald's McPizza: A Huge Failure |
| November 22, 2022 | S2022·E69 | Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US |
| November 18, 2022 | S2022·E68 | The NFL's Secret Plan For If All The Players Die |
| November 15, 2022 | S2022·E67 | All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries |
| November 10, 2022 | S2022·E66 | Why This is The World's Most Dangerous Dam |
| November 8, 2022 | S2022·E65 | Why DC's Shaped Like That |
| November 1, 2022 | S2022·E64 | Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It? |
| October 27, 2022 | S2022·E63 | Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem |
| October 22, 2022 | S2022·E62 | Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World's |
| October 15, 2022 | S2022·E61 | The US Army's Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake |
…and 347 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.
