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New Episode of Rip It! Now available. Find out what Doug regretfully traded for his AT-AT when he was 8.

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Previous guest @steve_soroka is back, joining hosts Seth and Doug to play a mind boggling game of Never Have I Ever, where dark secrets involving pop culture and fast food are revealed. If you've ever enjoyed films such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and The Goonies (aka, you were ever a kid with functioning eyeballs), you're in for a retro treat. Also back by popular demand, Steve updates listeners on his latest visit to the super market. Of course this conversation devolves into random trips down memory lane including waiting at the post office, underage driving, and Polish soap operas. Did Seth and Doug escape arrest after a late night bike ride in Tampa? Find out in this exciting episode of Rip It!

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This is a picture of Doug's mother and grandparents on the farm circa 1990. Doug says "they never didn't look a million years old". Listen as Doug talks about the weekly summer visits to his grandparent's house in the rural West Virginia mountains. #appalacianpeople #mountainfolk

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New episode now available. Sorry it's been so long but we are back! Great poets, from William Shakespeare to William Smith, have composed odes to the time of year when school is out, fun is in, and humidity is unbearable. We jump on this illustrious bandwagon, discussing the magic that is summer

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@flula is our guest this episode of Rip it! Learn about Flula's beat boxing roots and how fast he's driven on the autobahn. It's a great episode and thanks for listening! #ripit #flula

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@steve_soroka What does your purchase at the checkout line say about you? Listen to episode 19 of Rip it! and find out. #ripit #crispyrice

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It's that time again folks! New episode now available. This episode we welcome @steve_soroka.

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The tesseract video that Doug and Seth discuss in Rip It! Episode 18.

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Doug’s reaction to the Tesseract Video

I watched the Carl Sagan Tesseract video and I totally got the "Flatlanders" idea. I think I got it before, but this solidified it. I think I'm more aware of Carl Sagan as a person than I am somebody who has watched or listened to Carl Sagan, because I thought his delivery was surprisingly wacky, so that was pleasant. But, yeah. I get the 3D creature intersecting a 2D world. But the tesseract doesn't really make sense to me. Like he says a billion times, "We can't even imagine a shape in 4D", but then says, "Here's a wrong visual representation of a 4D object". If we can't even begin to conceptualize a 4D thing, how did that tesseract shape get to be the standard for us to view? To me it looks like a cube in a cube, which is totally 3D, and doesn't even begin to explain 4D. And if we can't represent it, or even conceptualize it, why is everyone hell bent on thinking that 4D is even a real thing? And even more than that, who cares if four dimensions exist if we can't interact or even deal with it without breaking our brains. And when do the dimensions stop? How many of them are there? Was Buckaroo Banzai's 8th dimension merely a drop in the bucket? Seth claims that the knowing of things is important, which I agree with, but if we can't even fathom what we're trying to know, it seems like we're kind of just making it up.

It's all very HP Lovecraftian in his descriptions of the elder gods in his Cthulhu stories. He writes that people can't even begin to contemplate what their worlds look like, with acute angles that appear obtuse, and apparently just looking at the stuff drives you insane. So, thanks for trying, Carl. But the 4th dimension is still an utter mystery to me.

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All new episode available now! We answer listener questions! Thanks for listening! #ripit!

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The 100 inch mirror telescope Hubble used to discover the expansion of the Universe. Doug's mind was blown. #ripit! #mtwilsonobservatory

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We visited Mt. Wilson observatory, listen to the tales we tell on the podcast. #ripit! #mtwilsonobservatory

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Prepare to have your mind blown as Doug and I tackle the complexities of time. From the Apple Watch to the veracity of the film "Interstellar", we stumble and stammer through the 4th dimension, and put the "special" in "special relativity". What would Doug do if he travelled back in time to 1986? Find this out, and more, in this consciousness expanding 17th episode of Rip It!

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Today’s daily cartoon by Joe Dator.

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Anyone remember Cousin Oliver? He was totally erased from my brain until Doug brought him up in the latest episode of Rip It. Watch the shenanigans here.

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What the hell is this thing? Find out on Episode 16 of the podcast! Thanks for listening!

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12 year old Doug and his lego head hair helmet, standing in front of a 280ZX T-Top on his way to a Jr. High dance where he would partake in no dances with no girls. Listen to us talk about this bowl in the newest episode of the podcast!