The Internet Says it's True
Hosted by Michael Kent, The Internet Says it’s True is a podcast about learning something new every week. From trivial tidbits of info to more serious topics that should have been taught in school, every week begins with a caller telling Kent a surprising fact they recently learned before he does a deep dive on the subject. Then every episode ends with a “game show” style quick quiz of a guest about the topic.
Latest Episodes
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In this episode of The Internet Says it's True, we unpack the true story of how ten small lizards smuggled home by a ten year old on a family trip to Italy became a thriving reptile population in Cincinnati, Ohio. -
In the 1930s, the United States quietly expelled over a million people during the Great Depression - and more than half of them were American citizens. This episode of The Internet Says it's True explores how fear, economics, and bureaucracy combined to erase a chapter of history that sounds impossible but is tragically real. -
There is a lightbulb in California that has been glowing since 1901, and it is still on today. In this episode of The Internet Says it's True, we explore the true story of the Centennial Light, how it survived a century of technological change, and why its endurance has less to do with lost engineering secrets and more to do with the tradeoffs we choose. -
At some point, presidential food stopped being private and started becoming a message. In Part Two of this two-part series, The Internet Says it's True follows the shift from quiet meals to cultural flashpoints, from jelly beans and broccoli to fast food and ice cream, and explore how what presidents eat becomes shorthand for personality, politics, and power. -
In Part One of this two-part series, we trace the favorite foods of America’s earliest presidents and discover how corn, salt fish, macaroni, and cherries reveal a young country still figuring out how to feed itself. -
This week on The Internet Says it's True, we explore the bizarre true story of an invisible barrier inside a 3M manufacturing plant that workers could feel as they walked through a doorway. It sounds like science fiction, but it was actually caused by massive static electricity fields generated during high speed film production. -
In this episode of The Internet Says it's True, we explore how Jean-Baptiste Lully, the towering figure of French Baroque music, met an unexpectedly grim fate. -
In this episode of The Internet Says it's True, we explore a truly unexpected heritage-risk story: the Poison Book Project, where conservators discovered that beautiful emerald-green book cloths from the 19th century were hiding arsenic-based pigments. -
Long before YouTube, before Twitch, before livestreams were everywhere, the first webcam pointed at something we'd consider boring by today's standards: a coffee pot. In this episode of The Internet Says it's True, Michael Kent tells the story of how a small convenience in a Cambridge lab changed the internet forever. -
What is memory, what is identity, when the “now” always feels like the “before”? This episode of The Internet Says it's True features a story that will make you question what’s real—and what’s remembered.
