Join co-hosts Zack and Katie as they learn about a different topic every week. Real-life couple Zack Radvansky and Kathryn Feeney are two curious individuals who love learning. Although Katie is in her third year of law school and Zack didn't go to college, they never run out of fascinating things to learn about together. In this podcast, every episode Katie challenges Zack to "become an expert" on a totally random topic - but the catch is, he only has 30 minutes to do it. Using the power of the internet, and a little humor and love, Zack and Katie want to prove that no matter who you are, or how much education you have, anyone can learn about anything in the world if they put their mind to it.
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Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Happy Holidays, experts! Hopefully you are all finding some kind of peace and comfort in this crazy time. We have both finished finals (hooray!!) and are taking a holiday break to catch up on sleep and celebrate. But we didn't want to leave you hanging, especially if you were looking forward to the soothing sounds of our voices to keep you company. So we decided to do something fun! We had a couple episodes backlogged from before we officially launched the podcast - test episodes, if you will, that we have never released. So we are releasing them now! Here's the first of our trio of oldies to get you through to 2021. Are they terrible? Maybe! Should they have been left on the cutting room floor? You decide! Tell us what you think, and if we have improved at all over the past 8 weird months.
In today's episode, Zack has 30 minutes to become an "expert" on... The Interstate Highway System! So here's the thing, as we mentioned, this was early on in 30 Minute Expert's existence, so Zack's research skills were not great. He started by researching the wrong topic... But, that means that we got to learn about the predecessor to the Interstate Highway System as well! If you are taking a road trip this holiday, you have Dwight D. Eisenhower to thank for the ease of travel you are (hopefully) experiencing. We often take the highway system for granted, but it is quite a feat of infrastructure. Lastly - want to know why the 405 sucks so bad? Because 380,000 cars PER DAY travel on it. Wow.
Highlights include:
- Contraflow: Opposite Day on the Highway
- Highway H1? Hawaii's 27 miles of interstate highway
- The shortest highway in America (you could walk it!)
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