Out Of My Mind

As podcast host Jay Douglas tells the story in Episode 44, when John Harvey Kellogg invented corn flakes he hoped he'd found a cure for masturbation.

In Episode 43, host Jay Douglas explains the truth about what makes a real trivia question as told to him by trivia co-creator Dan Carlinsky.

In Episode 42 of Out Of Your Mind, the tale of the unromantic story of the World Wide Web's creator. (Hint: It's not the romantic Tim Berners-Lee.)

What you know about the ordinary sneeze? In Episode 41 of Out Of Your Mind, podcast host Jay Douglas shares a secret you must keep out of the wrong hands.

In Episode 40 of Out Of My Mind, host Jay Douglas tells the story of Thomas Edison and the invention of Hollywood.

Why couldn't Snoopy get past, “It was a dark and stormy night?” Perhaps he was reluctant to share the story of the night when coffee lost its caffeine.

In Episode 38, Out Of My Mind podcast host Jay Douglas, tells a story of Fredericks of Hollywood, his father's foray into bras, and the greatest pick-up line ever.

Your parents said it to you. You said it to your kids. But do you know what you’re talking about? In Episode 37 of Out...

Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum wasn’t replaced by an artificially-intelligent computer. He was chased out his job by the one he created.

You can't get a man with a gun? Hah. Tell that to Mary Shanley. She got a thousand of them, some of whom were women.

Few people are betting on who's right, Albert Einstein or Gene Roddenberry. But host Jay Douglas tells a story about why a fairly new, and totally spooky, behavior might dent Einstein’s winning streak.

In this episode of Out Of My Mind, host Jay Douglas tells a story about how it's not only hearing New Yorkers that tawk the tawk. Deaf New Yorkers can have New York accents, too.

Host Jay Douglas tells the story of how he saved his marriage. It's a tale of anxiety, advertising, and the avoidance of a halitosis epidemic that could be traced back to his address.

When host Jay Douglas heard there might have been a real Peter Pan, he investigated. Here's the story of why it's a mistake know what's behind a fairy tale.

In Episode 30 of the podcast, host Jay Douglas tells the story of why we all marched out of our high school and college graduations to the same music without, for legal reasons, naming that tune.

Playing the National Anthem before a sporting event might be a good idea, but it isn't the law.

Why did Thomas Edison offer to buy an electric generator from his arch opponent, George Westinghouse, to use in the first execution by electric chair? Listen in.

There’s lots of talk today about facts. So what better story to tell then one about Dragnet‘s Joe Friday who spent a career asking for...

The top story of 2015 is...well, you'll have to listen. It's another Out Of My Mind Short Story.

In this episode, host Jay Douglas revisits two stories about gift giving. Kevin McManus talks about giving a shelter dog or cat the gift of a good home this holiday season. Then, Time magazine columnist Joel Stein recounts his efforts to give his new son the gift of a manly father. It's another Out Of My Mind Short Story.