The Microwave

Happy New Year!! Hope you all had lovely and relaxing holidays, and are ready to celebrate 2021 with what we think is our worst episode ever! This is the last of our unreleased group, so enjoy it! Hopefully next week you will be stunned by the incredible difference in our research and banter skills when we jump back into the present.

In this week's episode, Zack has 30 minutes to become an "expert" on... The Microwave! For some reason, a quote that is maybe from Albert Einstein features heavily in this episode. It's a little off the rails. But once we finally get into microwaves, it gets good. Although we do refer to the inventor of the microwave as "chocolate boy" (for a good reason, at least), and it's very uncomfortable. Lots of crazy words in this one... Raytheon, magnatron, diathermy, whew! This one does have a happy accident story (remember, chocolate boy), which you know we love. So that's fun! Zack really works hard to explain some serious science in this one. Electrons, wave functions, it's nuts. Cheers to him, but also, we don't really know what we are talking about. We are confident in the fact that Percy Spencer invented the microwave, first tested it on popcorn, and then exploded an egg. In his honor, and to celebrate this wonky episode exploding onto the podcast scene, we shall do those things today as well.

 

Highlights include:

- Microwaves used as therapy

- A six-foot tall, 750 pound microwave!

- Zack explains how microwave technology works!

 

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Podcast artwork by Rick Radvanksy

Intro and Outro music by Jake Radvanksy