Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Why did the chicken cross the road

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and special guest Joey Clift explore why “why did the chicken cross the road” is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

• gonenative.tv — comedy shorts by Joey Clift! “Animated comedy shorts about weird stuff Native American & Indigenous people deal with way too often.”
• Netflix page for Spirit Rangers
• Joey Clift on Twitter
• Joey Clift on Instagram

• Katie Goldin on Twitter
• @ProBirdRights
• ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

• Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes by Jim Holt 
• Why does a chicken cross the road? (Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University) 
• Car by Gregory Votolato 
• Loose Chicken Halts Traffic At The Bay Bridge Toll Plaza (CBS News) 
• Fleeting Wonders: A Chicken That Crossed the Road, in Traffic (Atlas Obscura) 
• Scottish Police Arrest Road-Crossing Chicken (Atlas Obscura) 
• ‘Nervous’ wandering chicken caught at US Pentagon security checkpoint (The Guardian) 
• An opossum crashed a college football game in Texas and became a viral star (NBC News) 
• Some examples of Internet aggregation of the dark meaning of the joke: Esquire UK, The Indianapolis Star, BuzzFeed.
• What makes the world’s first bar joke funny? No one knows. (WBUR “Endless Thread”) 
• 1900-1930: The years of driving dangerously (The Detroit News) 
• How to Help Animals Cross the Road – or Canal or Dam (National Geographic) 
• Why did the road cross the chicken? (New Hampshire Public Radio “Outside/In”) 
• Some More News: “Do Cities Really Need All These Cars?” (YouTube) 
• Inside the massive effort to tackle one of America’s greatest rabies threats (National Geographic) 
• U.S. Department Of Energy: “Whooshh Innovations’ “Salmon Cannon” Gives Fish A Boost Over Dams” (YouTube) 
• Lions in the Santa Monica Mountains (National Park Service) 
• Litter of kittens provides hope for Los Angeles mountain lions after dreadful year (The Guardian)