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An Intro to Anthro with Two Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

Growing traditional corn is a labor-intensive operation that requires constant vigilance. In 2014, I attempted to grown ...
10/09/2025

Growing traditional corn is a labor-intensive operation that requires constant vigilance. In 2014, I attempted to grown corn in my back yard. After three months of continuous love, care, and attention, this one ear was the fruit of my labors. My wife keeps it in a gold bowl to remind me of what I'm capable of when I put my mind to it...

Ironically, the size and condition is very similar to what corn would have looked like 3,500 years ago.

For more on CORN, see Episode 80: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-80-gettin-corny-the-amazing-history-of-maize/

Part of being a "corn nut" is the urge to buy every piece of art you find that has corn on it...The two pieces at the up...
10/09/2025

Part of being a "corn nut" is the urge to buy every piece of art you find that has corn on it...The two pieces at the upper right are from Acoma Pueblo, the piece at the bottom is from La Posada Hotel in Winslow, AZ, the belt buckle is from Albuquerque, and the corn candle is a gift from my wife (I'm easy to buy for).

Corn crazed? Check out Episode 80: "Gettin' Corny! The Amazing History of Maize" - https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-80-gettin-corny-the-amazing-history-of-maize/ .

Thanks to our friend and listener Winnie for sending us this photo from the Los Angeles production of "SHUCKED!" Shucked...
08/09/2025

Thanks to our friend and listener Winnie for sending us this photo from the Los Angeles production of "SHUCKED!" Shucked is a 2022 Broadway musical that tells the story of Cob County, a town that is obsessed with CORN. The musical was nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and a film adaptation is in the works.

When in Los Angeles, Shucked played at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, a 2700-seat theater in the heart of Hollywood. When The Two Humans played Hollywood, we were at the 100-seat Elephant Asylum. Not to sound jealous, but the fact that an ear of corn is selling-out a bigger house than us is not lost on me...

For more on CORN, see Episode 80: Gettin' Corny! https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-80-gettin-corny-the-amazing-history-of-maize/ .

Photo: Winnie Lok - thanks, Winnie!

You can often find piki bread on the menus of restaurants in the Southwest, but the best piki bread I've had was at the ...
08/09/2025

You can often find piki bread on the menus of restaurants in the Southwest, but the best piki bread I've had was at the Hopi Cultural Center on Second Mesa in Arizona. For those trying piki bread for the first time, careful when you apply that hummus smearingly...

For more on CORN, see Episode 80: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-80-gettin-corny-the-amazing-history-of-maize/ .

For more on the Hopi Cultural Center on Second Mesa: https://hopiculturalcenter.com/ .

Image and more on piki bread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piki.

In her 1928 book "Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage," Emily Post said that corn on the cob could be eliminated fr...
08/09/2025

In her 1928 book "Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage," Emily Post said that corn on the cob could be eliminated from formal settings, but if you had to eat it, you should do so with as "little ferocity as possible" because it is at best an "ungraceful performance and to eat it greedily or smearingly is a horrible sight.” Along with this young cornnoisseur, I'd just like to say, "Stuff it, Post!"

BTW, I'm trying to work the word "smearingly" into as many daily sentences as possible...

For more on CORN, see Episode 80: Gettin' Corny! The Amazing History of Maize - https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-80-gettin-corny-the-amazing-history-of-maize/ .

Image: https://www.reporterherald.com/2016/08/20/competitive-corn-eaters-of-all-ages-indulge-at-event/

For those of you who don't have time to CHEW your corn, you could always drink it! Corn whiskey, aka "moonshine," is dis...
07/09/2025

For those of you who don't have time to CHEW your corn, you could always drink it! Corn whiskey, aka "moonshine," is distilled from a mash of 80 percent corn. Also, unlike those fancy-pants aged bourbons, you don't have to wait to drink it! This jar is "less than 30 days old!"

Years ago when I lived in Chicago, I used to drink at a bar called "Moonshine's" on Broadway Avenue and there was a regular who would come in every day and yell to the bartender, "Give me a glass of corn!" He was the "Norm" in our cast of "Hillbilly Cheers;" I was the hillbilly Frasier Crane...

For more on CORN, see Episode 80: Gettin' Corny - https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-80-gettin-corny-the-amazing-history-of-maize/.

For the image and more on corn whiskey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_whiskey

For those who love CORN, there's nothing like a trip to the CORN PALACE in Mitchell, SD. For over a hundred years, the e...
05/09/2025

For those who love CORN, there's nothing like a trip to the CORN PALACE in Mitchell, SD. For over a hundred years, the exterior of the building has been decorated with corn and other grain products! According to Wikipedia, from 1887 to 1930, thirty-four corn palaces were built across the Midwest, but only the Mitchell Corn Palace remains. Gotta love the true believers!!

For more information on corn, see Episode 80: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-80-gettin-corny-the-amazing-history-of-maize/ .

Image and more info on the Mitchell Corn Palace, see: https://www.sdpb.org/rural-life-and-history/2023-07-25/history-of-the-worlds-only-corn-palace and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Palace.

While working on the CORN episode, our new assistant Oksana couldn't control herself and got on the table to binge on ou...
04/09/2025

While working on the CORN episode, our new assistant Oksana couldn't control herself and got on the table to binge on our supply of corn nuts. HN1 had to go to the Fruit Basket, a local market, to replenish our corn nuts before recording. People do crazy things for corn. By the way, Oksana is now known as "Princess Corn Dog" around the office.

For more on CORN and CORN MANIA, see Episode 80: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-80-gettin-corny-the-amazing-history-of-maize/

Photo: Susan Ladd.

Domesticated maize kernels (left) compared with teosinte kernels (right). Despite appearances, teosinte still pops like ...
01/09/2025

Domesticated maize kernels (left) compared with teosinte kernels (right). Despite appearances, teosinte still pops like corn and experts think prehistoric people may have eaten it like we eat popcorn (without the Milk Duds and giant Coke, of course).

For more on CORN, see Episode 80: Gettin' Corny! The Amazing History of Maize https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-80-gettin-corny-the-amazing-history-of-maize/

For the image and more on the domestication of corn, see: https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/scientists-take-major-step-understanding-domestication-corn

Teosinte, the ancestor of modern corn, looked much bushier than the corn plants we know today and produced fewer kernels...
01/09/2025

Teosinte, the ancestor of modern corn, looked much bushier than the corn plants we know today and produced fewer kernels on each ear. Humans began the process of domesticating teosinte approximately 9,000 years ago in the Balsas River basin in southwestern Mexico.

For more on CORN, see Episode 80: Gettin' Corny - The Amazing History of Maize https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-80-gettin-corny-the-amazing-history-of-maize/

For the image and more on teosinte: https://evolution.earthathome.org/grasses/andropogoneae/maize-domestication/

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