SmartDrivel
Hosted by Jon and Kurt · Smart Drivel Media LLC
4.9from 63 ratings
- 310
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 63
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About SmartDrivel
SmartDrivel is the podcast that promises the drivel and hopes for the smart in every episode. Listeners have described the podcast as funny, quirky, and secretly educational. Join co-hosts Kurt Schneider and Jon Ellenthal as they dig into a wide range of topics drawn from pop culture, history, word play, business, martinis, and more. If you want to impress your friends with your knowledge of the origin of popular phrases, fun facts about pretty much everything, what a contronym is, how beer saved the world, great nicknames, products that accidentally found a market, and pet peeves, then SmartDrivel is the podcast for you.
- Publisher
- Smart Drivel Media LLC
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Mar 2020
- Latest episode
- 26 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
14 of 310 episodes have a transcript.
26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
S2E19: Michael and the Guillotine
12 Oct 2026
S2E18: The Can Opener for Life
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
S2E17: Gerrymandered
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S2E19: Michael and the Guillotine
Published 26 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Right. Love that. And the next thing you know, everyone that that name goes on. It goes into the annals, not to be confused with the other pronunciation of annals. All right. Give me another one, because now I'm ready. I'm warmed up. All right. This was also a surprise. Silhouette. A silhouette is actually named after somebody. Tell me more, Kurt. Well, he was a French guy. There's going out on a limb. No, but we know this one. He's a French guy and he had a early, early photo studio and he would sit there and make actual these black and white pictures for people and then he'd cut them out. So the gentleman's name was Etienne de Silhouette and he was a French finance minister back in the 18th century and he was associated with austerity and for some reason, inexpensive portraiture. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 58 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
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- Quality
- 61
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts SmartDrivel?
Jon and Kurt host the show. Published by Smart Drivel Media LLC.
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