Interesting Things with JC
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Interesting Things with JC is a new podcast mini series, with highlight on some of the more interesting historical stories, current events as well as under-told stories.
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Interesting Things with JC #1498: "The History of Hot Tubs" – From ancient stone pools to backyard bubbles, people have been sinking into hot water for the same reason: relief. Greeks soaked, Romans socialized, presidents healed, and engineers added jets!
Interesting Things with JC #1497: "French Fries" – What we call fries began as a way for families to get through the bitter cold when the river froze. A simple food with a tougher story behind it.
Interesting Things with JC #1496: "The Mysterious Death of Sam Cooke" – A man who mastered control of his music lost it in a single night. Conflicting accounts, missing evidence, and a silence in the timeline keep the questions alive.
Interesting Things with JC #1495: "The Grand Island Bridges - 90 Years of Steel and the People Who Took Care of It” – They did not replace them. They repaired them. For 90 years, these steel spans stood because people took them personally. Because someone climbed them in the heat and the cold, checked every beam, every bolt, and fixed what time and weather tried to take away. People like Karen Fischer, and the men and women of the New York State Thruway Authority, who carried the responsibility of keeping others safe, often without recognition. This episode is dedicated to them, and to the idea that care, done well and done consistently, is what keeps a society moving.
Interesting Things with JC #1494: "What Is Auracast and How Does It Work?" – In rooms where sound never reaches you, a free broadcast is already moving through the air. Auracast lets your earbuds lock onto it, revealing the audio the space has kept just out of reach.
Interesting Things with JC #1493: "Donald Ewen Cameron" – A respected psychiatrist pursued a radical idea he believed could remake the mind, while patients never knew who was really funding the work. A story of authority, secrecy, and the cost carried by the vulnerable.
Interesting Things with JC #1492: "10,000 Days – Wings for Marie" – A son tries to make sense of the years he spent watching his mother hold on, and the music that became the only place he could speak to her strength without saying a word.
Interesting Things with JC #1491: "Judith – A Perfect Circle" – A rock anthem wrapped in disbelief. Not anger. Not protest. Just a son trying to understand a mother's faith, while the world mistook it for rage.
Interesting Things with JC #1490: "What Are Moop Eyes?" – A single widened glance becomes a whole new language online, turning playful exaggeration into a cultural signal shared across millions. A tiny look, suddenly loud with meaning.
Interesting Things with JC #1489: "Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 5402" – In the middle of a crisis, a watch no one asked for changed everything. Steel instead of gold. Screws instead of polish. It shouldn’t have worked…until it did.
Interesting Things with JC #1488: "Cold Showers and Ice Baths" – The body meets cold with shock, steadies itself with reflex, and finds clarity in the discomfort. A brief plunge becomes a test of focus, resilience, and control.
Interesting Things with JC #1487: "The Laurel Run Mine Fire" – A forgotten lamp. A weekend without crews. And a coal seam that kept burning long after the miners left. A century later, the heat still rises through the ridge.
Interesting Things with JC #1486: "December" – A month named for ten, yet placed at the end of the year, still carries the weight of old rituals and returning light. December holds the quiet tension between darkness and renewal, asking what we choose to keep alive.
Interesting Things with JC #1485: "Professor Abel Wolman" – Clean water seems automatic, until you learn what it took to make it that way. One civil engineer rewrote the rules of sanitation, and reshaped the modern world. Thank you to long time listener and friend of the podcast the Tech Ed Teacher for suggesting today’s topic!
Interesting Things with JC #1484: "Indoor Plumbing" – It’s the quiet system that reshaped human survival, hiding its power behind every faucet and drain. A story that begins in ancient streets and ends in the walls of your own home, still holding secrets worth hearing. This episode was insired by Dr Igo!
Interesting Things with JC #1483: "100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry" – A fiddler in a small Nashville studio started something bigger than he knew. A kitchen radio show grew into a Saturday night tradition that stuck with folks through moves, floods, and change, still carried forward by that old circle of wood. This episode is dedicated to long time listener Justin! Thank you for suggesting today’s topic.
Interesting Things with JC #1482: "The First NFL Thanksgiving Game" – A cold Ohio field. A rising league. A fight for pride that shaped a holiday tradition. The roots of Thanksgiving football still echo with grit and stubborn joy.
Interesting Things with JC #1481: "The Real History Behind Eleven" – Behind Stranger Things is a darker reality: secret experiments, Cold War paranoia, and psychological tests on real kids. Eleven wasn’t invented. She was based on something real.
Interesting Things with JC #1480: "Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina" – A woman in a Soviet lab, a compass that won’t stay still, and a Cold War desperate for proof of the impossible. Her story leaves one question hanging: what moved, and what only seemed to?
Interesting Things with JC #1479: "The Montauk Project" – A Cold War outpost, sealed bunkers, and decades of denials form the fault line where rumor meets record. The mystery endures because the silence under Montauk feels louder than the facts.
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