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Fascinators!

Fascinators is a show about the wonderful, weird and sometimes puzzling things that fascinate us. Each episode, father and son duo Ken and Evan Atkinson explore the histories, concepts and stories that fascinate them. Find out why Santa Claus is buried in New York City, why every film director eventually wants to make a Pinocchio movie, why no one is really sure why there are 52 cards in a deck and so much more!

The Sweet Science of Where Eels Come From

51 mins; October 15, 2025

Skywriting with Leaded Gasoline

45 mins; August 27, 2025

Werner Herzog Circles Back

57 mins; August 13, 2025

Traffic Jams and Polish Clams

53 mins; July 30, 2025

Eat Your Veggies And Win A Tony

43 mins; June 04, 2025

Jocko Flocko's Prison Break

44 mins; May 14, 2025

How to Stop Choking and Start Cheating (At Baseball)

41 mins; April 09, 2025

Chappell Roan's Flesh Eating Squirrels

55 mins; March 26, 2025

Johnny Cash is the Name and Bird Murder is my Game

54 mins; March 05, 2025

Hidden Messages in Popular Mascots

53 mins; February 05, 2025

Are Child Actors Really Happy?

54 mins; January 22, 2025

The Ig-Nobel Dinner Guest

48 mins; January 08, 2025

How to Game the Oscars

69 hours 2 mins; December 28, 2024

Little Cats and Cardiff Giants

54 mins; November 20, 2024

Faking News and Building Zoos

54 mins; October 23, 2024

Snoopy Versus Count Zeppelin

47 mins; October 02, 2024

The War on Pinball

52 mins; September 04, 2024

Only Scrubs Shake Vending Machines

48 mins; August 21, 2024

A Collect Call From The CIA

50 mins; August 07, 2024

The Ups and Downs of Treasure Hunting

43 mins; July 24, 2024

Godzilla (A)Tax

53 mins; June 19, 2024

Fake Names and Real Deaths

40 mins; June 07, 2024

Boneless Gummy Worms and Headless Robots

41 mins; May 22, 2024

Rap Beef is Tough to Digest

44 mins; May 07, 2024

From First Street to Last Avenue

45 mins; April 24, 2024

The Birth of Jack Black and the End of a Marathon

37 mins; March 27, 2024

Curious Terrence and the Sacred Pentagon

45 mins; March 13, 2024

It's Illegal to be Named Captain America in New Zealand

47 mins; February 28, 2024

Talking About the Elephant in the Moon

53 mins; February 06, 2024

I Sure Hope That Sauna Is Insured

46 mins; January 24, 2024

Starting a Sex Cult Out of Spite

32 mins; January 10, 2024

What Not to Wear to the North Pole

56 mins; December 27, 2023

The Quesarito Bowl, Sponsored by Government Cheese

43 mins; December 13, 2023

This Library is Brought to You by the Letter T

36 mins; November 29, 2023

EPCOT: Experimental Prototype Community of Trees

43 mins; November 14, 2023

An Encore for Bob Ross

34 mins; November 01, 2023

From Dracula to Dominoes

30 mins; October 18, 2023

The Con Man-on-the-Street

29 mins; October 04, 2023

Cheating Death and Taxes

32 mins; September 20, 2023

The Colorful World of Rascal Birds

34 mins; September 06, 2023

The Orbs are Headed for Boston

32 mins; August 23, 2023

History is Written by Victors, and Shakespeares

34 mins; August 08, 2023

A Five Cent Can of Psychological Manipulation

46 mins; July 26, 2023

It's a Wonderful Life for Tom Bombadil

38 mins; July 05, 2023

How to Eat a Murder of Crows

33 mins; June 28, 2023

That Sounds Illegal!

39 mins; June 20, 2023

In Life, One Sometimes Makes Bad Arms Deals

33 mins; May 07, 2023

Shoe Brothers 2 Furious

42 mins; April 17, 2023

Six Degrees of Cleopatra

44 mins; April 09, 2023

Doing Virtual Chores in Fictional Countries

40 mins; March 19, 2023

I'm a Robot Wars Sun, but a Battlebots Rising

44 mins; March 13, 2023

C.R.E.A.M (Cash is Really Evident Around Me)

44 mins; March 01, 2023

There Were Dragons in Ireland Before Potatoes

36 mins; February 13, 2023

Olympic Level Mixology

44 mins; January 20, 2023

Playing Cards with Kublai Khan

39 mins; January 09, 2023

James Cameron Presents: Santa Clause in New York

42 mins; December 28, 2022

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