About this season
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.
Episodes (52)
1. Why People Live In Tubes At The Bottom of the Ocean
Aired 14 January 2025 • 9 min
2. How Renault Won an F1 Race by Crashing a Car
Aired 21 January 2025 • 9 min
3. The Nuke-Proof US Military Base in a Mountain
Aired 24 January 2025 • 7 min
4. This 2-Mile Long Gondola Cost $52 Million
Aired 29 January 2025 • 8 min
5. The Swimsuit So Good They Banned It
Aired 31 January 2025 • 9 min
6. The Unspoken Rules of LEGO Sets
Aired 13 February 2025 • 8 min
7. Brooklyn’s Only Interstate Is Doomed
Aired 21 February 2025 • 8 min
8. The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil’s Economy
Aired 28 February 2025 • 8 min
9. 500 Terrible Topics We Didn’t Make Videos About
Aired 4 March 2025 • 8 min
10. The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple
Aired 13 March 2025 • 8 min
11. The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices
Aired 18 March 2025 • 7 min
12. How to Design the Perfect F1 Track
Aired 31 March 2025 • 8 min
13. The Decades-Long Battle Over Low-Flow Toilets
Aired 11 April 2025 • 8 min
14. How The Largest Human Gathering In The World Works
Aired 15 April 2025 • 9 min
15. All The Loopholes to Travel from Europe to Russia
Aired 25 April 2025 • 7 min
16. Why Isn’t There Public Transit From the Airport to Disney World?
Aired 28 April 2025 • 8 min
17. The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper That Sold for $10
Aired 30 April 2025 • 8 min
18. Why You Need Sand from This Town to Make a Computer
Aired 21 May 2025 • 8 min
19. The Scam That Hit Every Adult in Canada
Aired 28 May 2025 • 7 min
20. The Absurd Lengths Billionaires Go to Not “Live” in NYC
Aired 29 May 2025 • 8 min
21. The 467 Rules You Have to Follow to Put an Animal in a Movie
Aired 30 May 2025 • 8 min
22. The Absurd Science Behind Really Good Bowling Balls
Aired 17 June 2025 • 7 min
23. How Much of the Moon Is On Earth?
Aired 24 June 2025 • 8 min
24. The CIA’s Secret Star Wars Fan Blog
Aired 26 June 2025 • 8 min
25. Why Isn’t There Public Transit from the Airport to the Vegas Strip?
Aired 27 June 2025 • 8 min
26. Why the US’ 2nd-Busiest Passenger Railway Is Doomed
Aired 30 June 2025 • 8 min
27. Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks
Aired 11 July 2025 • 8 min
28. The Insane Logistics of Pro Baseball
Aired 25 July 2025 • 8 min
29. The Most Controversial Half-Acre in NYC
Aired 29 July 2025 • 8 min
30. Detroit’s Tiny, Terrible Metro System
Aired 31 July 2025 • 7 min
31. The Fake Countries the US Fights Fake Wars Against
Aired 11 August 2025 • 9 min
32. The Insane Production Schedule of Love Island
Aired 19 August 2025 • 7 min
33. The Multimillionaire Feud Over Horse Clones
Aired 25 August 2025 • 9 min
34. The Decades-Long Fight Over The Font on Highway Signs
Aired 29 August 2025 • 8 min
35. The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year (Again)
Aired 1 September 2025 • 8 min
36. All The Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway
Aired 22 September 2025 • 8 min
37. Why There’s a 61-Mile Conveyor Belt in the Sahara Desert
Aired 25 September 2025 • 8 min
38. France Sent Their Dumbest Spies to Blow Up This Boat in NZ
Aired 29 September 2025 • 8 min
39. Why Does the World’s Biggest Ship Exist?
Aired 30 September 2025 • 8 min
40. Why This Car Basically Only Exists in NYC
Aired 3 October 2025 • 8 min
41. The Risky Logistics of Alaska’s Food Supply Chain
Aired 21 October 2025 • 7 min
42. How Indonesia Is Accidentally Sinking Their Capital
Aired 23 October 2025 • 7 min
43. How They Just Discovered a New 14,000 Foot Mountain
Aired 30 October 2025 • 9 min
44. How Do They Choose the Spelling Bee Words?
Aired 31 October 2025 • 9 min
45. The Design of the World’s Most Secure Banknote
Aired 11 November 2025 • 8 min
46. The US Military’s Really Big, Really Controversial Radar System
Aired 18 November 2025 • 6 min
47. How FEMA’s Doomsday Radio System Works
Aired 30 November 2025 • 8 min
48. Why It’s So Hard To Know Where the Utility Pipes Are
Aired 4 December 2025 • 8 min
49. The US Military’s Fast Food Division
Aired 15 December 2025 • 8 min
50. How This Country Overestimated Their Population by 7 Million People
Aired 22 December 2025 • 7 min
51. Why It Was Illegal to Sell All Your Raisins Until 2015
Aired 24 December 2025 • 8 min
52. The Time the US Sent 813 Soldiers to Cut Down One Tree
Aired 31 December 2025 • 8 min