Mountain Goats
Denton
Also known as wolfram, this metal has the highest melting point of all metals. It is used for welding electrodes, and due to its density, it is often used as ballast, and in high end dart barrels.
Tungsten
This tool, a frustrating adaptation of the hex key, features a 6 lobed star shaped tip, theoretically allowing more torque to be applied to a fastener without damaging the tool or fastener head. The design also provides a degree of tamper resistance as the tool is less ubiquitous than hex keys.
Torx Driver
This long running (though not continuously) BBC show features a two hearted lord who travels time and space, sometimes saving the universe, but usually just saving Cardiff.
Dr Who
This weekly news quiz panel show, produced by WBEZ in Chicago awards its winning contestant one of the host’s voice on their answering machine.
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
Jeff and Cyrus never settled on a name for their band, but of the top three contenders, which has since been used by a band to achieve mainstream success?
The Killers
This strong, lightweight metal, the ninth most abundant element in the earths crust, is fairly expensive in its metallic form due to the difficulty of processing. It is used in oxide form as a white pigment, its nitride form as a wear surface (though the nitride part tends to get left off the packaging), and in metallic form is heavily used in aircraft, medical implants, and jewelery, it is also used in name by some marketing departments to denote premium tier
Titanium
Generally known by this generic trademark, and used primarily for rounding off nuts and pranking new mechanics by requesting a metric variant, this uh… spanner features a movable jaw adjusted via a worm gear.
Crescent Wrench
According to Mitch Hedberg, Mr. Pibb is a bullshit replica “‘cause the dude didn’t even get his degree”
Dr. Pepper
This show, airing at the end of each week, and hosted by Ira Flatow discusses nature, medicine, and technology and such.
Science Friday
In the song Jenny, the narrator is picked up from their southwestern ranch style house by Jenny on her new Kawasaki of this displacement
The cap of the Washington Monument is made from this metal which at the time of production cost about the same as silver due to the difficulty and small scale of production. It is now used for everything from packaging to aircraft.
Aluminum
This woodworking tool, presumably used by wheelwrights is similar to a hand plane, but has a handle on each side of the blade, rather than fore and aft, it is used to cut long curves and chamfers.
Spokeshave
Mitch Hedberg recommends you avoid this doctor, as all he will do is suck blood from your neck.
Dr. Acula
Tom and Ray Magliozzi, known for their long lists of humorously named fictional support staff, Boston accents, wheezing laughter, banjo theme music, and occasionally answering a question about cars, are known to Car Talk listeners by these radio pseudonyms:
Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers
John Darnielle co-hosts the I Only Listen to The Mountain Goats podcast he and this person, the creator of Welcome to Nightvale among other things discuss The Mountain Goats and such.
Joseph Fink
While solid at room temperature, this metal will melt in one’s hand. In liquid form, it causes dramatic liquid metal embrittlement in aluminum. It is used in low melting alloys, and semiconductors.
Gallium
Named for its inventor this screwdriver has a tapered square tip that interfaces with a matching fastener head. The matching screws were used in the Ford Model A, but when Ford tried to license the design to produce their own screws the inventor refused leading Ford to switch to Phillips head screws, and this screw/driver combination to live on in obscurity everywhere except Canada, where it remains in common use.
Robertson Screwdriver
his work of fiction, published in 1957 earned its author a Nobel prize that he was unable to accept as the Soviet Union deemed the work anti_Soviet, has been part of the Russian school curriculum since 2003.
Dr. Zhivago
This show, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, and hosted by Ira Glass, airs weekly, and each episode featuring several ‘acts’ centered around that episode’s theme.
This American Life
This item, formed in the stomach of a goat (and also a type of Ibex) appears in folklore as a kind of universal antidote, and is used as a minor plot point in a popular series who's author John Darnielle is morally at odds with on at least one subject.
Bezoar
This metal is used as an alloying edition in steels to improve hardenability, and its disulfide form is used as a dry film lubricant.
Molybdenum
This tool which shares a name with a character in Bob The Builder generally consists of a box end or adjustable wrench with a tapered spike for a handle, used for aligning holes in ironworks.
Spud Wrench
This popular american author wrote allegories about environmentalism, the cold war, consumerism, and anti-authoritarianism among other things.
Dr. Seuss
Airing every weekday morning for two hours, this show was originally hosted by Joshua Johnson, and is now hosted by Jenn White, its title was taken from the first amendment and not a backwards steak sauce.
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