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 #1579: "Dorsey’s Art Gallery and the Man Who Opened the Door" – A modest storefront on a Brooklyn block became something rare: a place where anyone could walk in and see history on the walls. Lawrence P. Dorsey didn’t just frame paintings, he opened the art world to a neighborhood.
Interesting Things with JC #1578: "Neil Sedaka" – A Brooklyn kid with classical discipline turned teenage heartache into gold records, survived the British Invasion, and rebuilt himself across decades. When the industry changed formats, he did not fade. He rewrote the melody. Some songs do not just chart. They endure.
Interesting Things with JC #1577: "Thin Mints" – Before the green box, it was a cookie with an identity crisis. One small mint wafer got renamed, reshuffled, and standardized...until it became the knock that starts a sale, a goal, and a story at the door. Thanks to Sheri for the story suggestion!
Interesting Things with JC #1576: "Barbara Ann and the Accidental Hit" – A band on a deadline. A tape machine still rolling. They were just messing around, and accidentally made one of the most recognizable chants in pop history.
Interesting Things with JC #1575: "Joni Eareckson Tada: Paralyzed at Seventeen" – At 17, Joni Eareckson dove into shallow water and never moved her body the same way again. No miracle fixed her. What changed instead was her life’s direction. Sometimes healing is not physical. Sometimes it is deeper.
Interesting Things with JC #1574: "Milli Vanilli and the Sound of Silence" – Three No. 1 hits. A Grammy. Millions of fans. Then one skipped track blew it all up. When the truth came out, music had to face a brutal question: who are you really listening to?
Interesting Things with JC #1573: "Levi Strauss" – He never chased gold, he sold survival. A broken seam, a copper rivet, and one brutal workday at a time, Levi got richer than the miners. The real strike wasn’t in the ground.
Interesting Things with JC #1572: "Is Matter an Illusion?" – It feels solid. It isn’t. What you call “touch” is force pushing back. Matter is real, but your experience of it is a high-speed brain edit hiding a far stranger truth.
Interesting Things with JC #1571: "What Loss Leaves Behind" – Loss doesn’t happen once. It comes back on birthdays, holidays, and random afternoons when you still reach for the phone. Over time, you realize it didn’t just take something. It changed you.
Interesting Things with JC #1570: "Snake Oil: Why Smart People Still Buy It" – A bottle. A bold promise. A line of believers. Snake oil was never just a scam. It was a lesson in how fast the brain trades doubt for hope.
Interesting Things with JC #1569: "Polyphonic Perception" – Four voices sing at once. You can follow each one. That is not a talent. It is how human hearing works.
Interesting Things with JC #1568: "Ski Mountaineering" – Before sunrise in the Alps, headlamps move uphill in silence. No lifts. No engines. Just lungs, legs, and gravity waiting at the top. In a world built for shortcuts, ski mountaineering still makes you earn every turn.
Interesting Things with JC #1567: "The Reverend Jesse Jackson & Progressive Supranuclear Palsy" – He marched with Dr. King. He ran for president. He stood in rooms where history was made. After a long public battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Reverend Jesse Jackson passed away at 84. His final years revealed a rare disease. His life revealed resolve.
Interesting Things with JC #1566: "Smokey Robinson" – Before Motown had a sound, it had a poet. From a small Detroit studio to thousands of songs that shaped American music, Smokey Robinson didn’t just write hits, he built the emotional architecture of an era.
Interesting Things with JC #1565: "Robert Duvall" – From the stillness of Boo Radley to the authority of Kilgore and the hard earned humility of Mac Sledge, Robert Duvall shaped American film through discipline and restraint. Across six decades, he proved that control, not volume, creates lasting power.
Interesting Things with JC #1564: "China's Hypersonic Threat" – For most of American history, oceans meant time. At Mach 10, a thousand miles can disappear in minutes. As hypersonic weapons compress distance into decision, the question is no longer geography....it’s judgment under pressure.
Interesting Things with JC #1563: "Mach 5 - Battlefield Dominance" – At five times the speed of sound, war becomes a race against minutes. Hypersonic flight compresses decision time, reshapes missile defense, and turns speed into strategy. In this new band of physics, leverage is measured in seconds.
Interesting Things with JC #1562: "The Helios Laser" – A $4 million missile… or a beam of light. On the deck of USS Preble, the U.S. Navy flipped the cost of war with 60 kilowatts of focused energy traveling at the speed of light. For the first time, naval firepower depends on power generation, not ammunition.
Interesting Things with JC #1561: "Saint Valentine" – A third-century execution along a Roman road becomes a feast day, a medieval poem, and billions in modern commerce. Before romance, there was martyrdom. How did a man named Valentinus become the patron of love?
Interesting Things with JC #1560: “The 3 Squeeze Rule” – Three gentle squeezes, a form of nonverbal communication shared from parent to child and between couples. A simple touch tied to oxytocin bonding, stress relief, and emotional connection, showing how love can be expressed without words.
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