ADHD And The Theory Of All The Things
ADHD and the Theory of All the Things is a podcast born from one of the most recognizable parts of ADHD: relentless curiosity.
Hosted by Andrew Perry, each episode follows a single question down the rabbit hole to uncover the history, science, psychology, and human stories behind the ordinary things we often take for granted. From photography and clocks to coffee, sleep, Apple, money, friendship, and everything in between, you’ll discover how everyday things became extraordinary.
You don’t need to have ADHD to enjoy this podcast. You just need to love asking, “Why?” If you’ve ever lost an afternoon chasing one fascinating question after another, you’ll feel right at home.
This isn’t a lecture or a textbook. Think of it like a conversation around a campfire with a good friend, uncovering forgotten stories, and making complex topics surprisingly easy to understand.
Because every ordinary thing has an extraordinary story. And once you know it, you’ll never look at the world the same way again.
Episodes
9 episodes
The Ancient Dream Dictionary Was Basically Google
You go to sleep in your own bed and wake up with the lingering feeling that you were somewhere else entirely. That split reality is the hook that sends me down the rabbit hole: why does the sleeping brain create a full world with people who do ...
How Your Brain Rebuilds Your Past
A memory can hit you like a physical place. You can see the kitchen, hear the music, feel the moment and yet the brain is not pressing play on a recording. We pull apart the uncomfortable truth that remembering is reconstruction, and that the a...
BONUS: The Hidden History Behind Cake, Candles, And Wishes
There’s a cake on the table, tiny flames flicker in the dark, everyone sings the same melody, and then you’re told to do something oddly specific: make a secret wish and blow the fire out. We all accept it as “normal” which is exactly why we wa...
How Your Brain Builds Reality From Electrical Signals
A railroad blast in 1848 drove an iron rod through Phineas Gage’s brain and somehow didn’t end his life, but it did reshape who he seemed to be. That story pulls me straight into one of the strangest questions in neuroscience: if a small change...
The Science And History Behind Your Nightly Shutdown
You spend nearly a third of your life unconscious, unable to hunt, react, or protect yourself and somehow nature decided that was the best deal on the table. That contradiction is where we start: if evolution trims anything that hurts survival,...
Listener Rabbit Hole: The Squishy Toys
A squishy dinosaur. A stress ball. A sticky hand that somehow never fully dries out. We all know the feeling, you pick it up, squeeze it once, then immediately squeeze it again. When listener William asked where the squishy “goo” actually comes...
Who Decided What Time It Is
Nobody has ever seen time. You have seen clocks, sunsets, birthdays, and countdown timers, but time itself stays invisible while quietly controlling when we wake up, eat, commute, meet friends, and fall asleep. That mystery sent me down a rabbi...
A Hole In The Wall Started Your Selfies
A photograph feels simple until you ask the one question that started it all: how do we make the picture stay? We follow that question back more than 2,000 years to a tiny hole in a wall, an upside-down street scene, and the discovery that ligh...
