🚨 DID YOU KNOW? 🚨Lies that Rewrote History

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47.8 million people vacation in Mexico yearly, averaging eight drinks daily at all-inclusives.

The episode opens with Jeff Stanfield and Andy Shaver discussing Mexican tourism, revealing that 47.8 million people vacation there annually, with an average of eight drinks per day at all-inclusive resorts. They transition to random body facts, such as belly buttons hosting over 2,300 bacterial species and pineapples containing acid that eats tongue protein. A segment on women's fertility calculates that women bleed for about seven years over their lifetime, losing 391 liters of blood. The hosts then explore historical lies, including De Beers' diamond marketing, Edward Bernays' promotion of breakfast, and the fabricated Gulf of Tonkin incident. Victorian-era oddities are highlighted, like arsenic-laden green dresses, mummy unwrapping parties, and tapeworm pills for weight loss. The conversation shifts to modern weight loss drugs, speculating on increased divorces and bone density issues from GLP-1 medications. Ancient mysteries are detailed, such as the 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism, ancient batteries from Iraq, and the rustless iron pillar in India. The episode concludes with a debate on moon landing conspiracies, questioning NASA photos and the firmament theory, before ending with a lighthearted question about what to ask God.

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A Mexico vacation quiz turns into tapeworm lore, flat-earth questions, and God questions about JFK and OJ.

The Big Honker Podcast turns conversational whiplash into the point. Jeff Stanfield and Andy Shaver start with Mexico vacation totals and all-inclusive drinking habits, then slide into corsets, tapeworm pills, jewelry made from a dead relative's hair, and whether flat-earthers…

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You get Mexico vacation trivia, all-inclusive drink counts, tapeworm corsets, and a flat-earth detour before the one question for God.

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