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Interesting Things with JC

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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1506: "Eating the Top Tier of the Wedding Cake”

Interesting Things with JC ·

2025/12/21

Interesting Things with JC #1506: "Eating the Top Tier of the Wedding Cake" – Saving the cake wasn’t romantic at first. It was practical, hopeful, and rooted in an uncertain future. What we taste now is really a measure of time.

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00:02:59

1505: "Misheard Lyrics"

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2025/12/20

Interesting Things with JC #1505: "Misheard Lyrics" – Your brain does not hear what singers sing. It hears what it expects. From “kiss the sky” to “kiss this guy,” this episode explores why the wrong words feel so right, and why you can never unhear them.

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00:02:49

1500: "James Brown - Inmate 155413"

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2025/12/15

Interesting Things with JC #1500: "James Brown - Inmate 155413" – On December 15, 1988, the Godfather of Soul woke up as a prisoner, not a performer. This is the moment when unmatched influence collided with consequence, and fame offered no shield.

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00:05:46

1499: "Dance Hall Days"

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2025/12/14

Interesting Things with JC #1499: "Dance Hall Days" – Before the neon, before the synths, there were floors that creaked and shoes that scuffed. This one hit track holds more ghosts than glitter.

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00:07:06

1496: "The Mysterious Death of Sam Cooke"

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2025/12/11

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.

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00:05:53

1495: “The Grand Island Bridges - 90 Years of Steel...

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2025/12/10

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

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00:02:50

1494: "What Is Auracast and How Does It Work?"

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2025/12/09

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.

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1493: "Donald Ewen Cameron"

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2025/12/08

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.

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00:02:32

1490: "What Are Moop Eyes?"

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2025/12/05

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.

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00:05:22

1481: "The Real History Behind Eleven"

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2025/11/26

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.

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00:02:59

1478: "Sensory Deprivation"

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2025/11/23

Interesting Things with JC #1478: "Sensory Deprivation" – When the world goes silent, the brain doesn’t shut down, it shifts. What happens when you take away all the noise? You start to hear yourself.

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00:03:54

1477: "Telekinesis"

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2025/11/22

Interesting Things with JC #1477: "Telekinesis" – The claims were bold, the tests were careful, and each new setup revealed something the stories never mentioned. The mind is powerful, but not in the way people hoped.

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00:02:57

1475: "Coriolis Effect Explained"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2025/11/20

Interesting Things with JC #1475: "Coriolis Effect Explained" – A breeze feels simple enough, but its path hides an influence turning just beneath our feet. A subtle shift in motion reveals how the planet gently redirects the world above it.

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00:02:59

1471: "The Importance of Alpha and Gamma Brainwaves"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2025/11/16

Interesting Things with JC #1471: "The Importance of Alpha and Gamma Brainwaves" – There’s a moment when your brain shifts gears, and it changes everything from how you calm down to how you solve a problem. Most people never notice it happening, but it’s running the whole show.

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00:02:59

1463: "The Red Ball Express"

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2025/11/08

Interesting Things with JC #1463: "The Red Ball Express" – In 1944, thousands of trucks raced across France to fuel an army on the move. Most were driven by Black soldiers who never got the glory, but kept victory alive.

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00:02:30

1462: "Cream City Brick"

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2025/11/07

Interesting Things with JC #1462: "Cream City Brick" – Milwaukee didn’t get its look from a catalog, it got it from the land. Bricks made from ancient seafloor clay gave the city its warm hue, its strength, and its soul.

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00:07:00

1461: "Inside the Black Hole We Call Home"

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2025/11/06

Interesting Things with JC #1461: "Inside the Black Hole We Call Home" – What if our universe isn’t floating in space… but folded inside it? A radical cosmology flips collapse into creation, and changes where we think we live.

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00:04:19

1460: "Katharine Story: The Designer Who Trusted Her...

Interesting Things with JC ·

2025/11/05

Interesting Things with JC #1460: "Katharine Story: The Designer Who Trusted Her Eye Over Tradition" – She shaped her world by feel, not formula. From Camden to Laguna, Katharine's instinct carved a career that tradition would never have greenlit.

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00:02:59

1459: "The Woman Who Danced Between Two Worlds"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2025/11/04

Interesting Things with JC #1459: "The Woman Who Danced Between Two Worlds" – She didn’t ask to belong. She proved she did. King Lan Chew stepped into history not by force, but by grace and grit. A Chinese-American woman who danced her way through barriers, on her own terms.

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00:02:55

1457: "The 1492 Ensisheim Meteor"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2025/11/02

Interesting Things with JC #1457: "The 1492 Ensisheim Meteor" – In 1492, a thunderous roar split the skies over Ensisheim, and a blazing stone crashed to Earth. Villagers saw a sign from God. Centuries later, science revealed something far older...a fragment of creation itself.

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