Apple, Baseball, and Halloween

In our last episode, we learn how to drink tea, build human towers, watch the sunset forever and find the Ian inside all of us. 

We learn what happened to a two-thousand year-old toe, and what to do when our voices make you sick. 

Nowadays it feels like everyone has a baseball cap at home... even though most of the folks wearing them do not, in fact, play baseball. So how did this one type of hat become so ubiquitous -- not just in the US, but the rest of the world? To answer the question, Ben, Noel and Ma ...  Show more

Cubs outfielder Ian Happ joins the show to talk about the MLB lockout and his unique perspective as the Cubs union rep. We solve the MLB playoff crisis among many other issues plaguing America’s pastime. Elsewhere we get into WSD’s move to a new home, Carl almost dying over the w ...  Show more

Are we just too impatient for America’s famously leisurely national pastime? Hanna Rosin asks staff writer Mark Leibovich whether the changes MLB is making to baseball this summer could help him, and the rest of us, fall in love with baseball all over again. Interested in the cha ...  Show more

Ben Verlander is joined by Atlanta Braves’ legend John Smoltz to discuss the hottest topics in MLB with the AL MVP race between Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani and New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge, Albert Pujols’ chase to 700 home runs, and the new rules MLB is adopting in the com ...  Show more