Race and Tyler Talk Wikipedia

What do World War I and Mean Girls have in common? We continue in our series about La Valse, speaking with special guest Jeremy Moore about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, its capital city of Vienna, and their involvement in World War I.

We start off our discussion of La Valse by listening to one of the most famous waltzes in concert music history. You probably already know this piece, whether you want to or not!

We introduce the next series of episodes, which will provide context to Maurice Ravel's concert masterpiece, La Valse.

We discuss Abe Fortas, the fiddle-playing, deal-making Supreme Court justice who resigned in order to avoid being impeached and removed from the Court.

What's Olympus Mons?

We discuss the beautiful, mysterious, gigantic drawings on the Peruvian desert floor.

We talk about the first humans on Earth, and the mountain that sat in their background.

We mix it up, combining seven mini topics into a gallimaufry—a salmagundi—an omnium-gatherum! This macédoine of an episode featured seven unrelated but fascinating discussions. None of these brief topics could be an episode on its own, but they deserved to be heard so we created this farrago for your enjoyment.

We talk about the tallest mountain outside of Asia, and the human sacrifices that have been found on its slopes.

We discuss a case that absolutely deserves a spot on the Mt. Rushmore of Unsolved Mysteries: the head-scratching 1972 highjacking of a Boeing 727 by a mystery man who gave the pseudonym Dan Cooper, took $200,000 and then parachuted into the night.