Interesting Things with JC

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1669: "The Rare Blue Moon"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/05/31

Interesting Things with JC #1669: "The Rare Blue Moon" – A second full Moon rises over May, carrying a rare name it will not appear to deserve. It will not look blue, and it may look completely ordinary, but the calendar has left room for one extra full Moon while the Moon itself is near the farthest edge of its orbit.

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00:02:24

1668: "History of the Stanley Cup"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/05/30

Interesting Things with JC #1668: "History of the Stanley Cup" – The Stanley Cup keeps changing hands while its silver bands record winners, mistakes, and accidents. A trophy meant for amateur hockey becomes the NHL championship prize, then survives misspellings, stolen time as a flower vase, hidden names, fires, dogs, babies, and fingerprints.

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00:01:03

1666: "A Billion Seconds"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/05/28

Interesting Things with JC #1666: "A Billion Seconds" - A million seconds goes by pretty fast. A billion seconds is something else entirely. Once you truly understand the difference, it changes the way you look at time, money, and the scale of the world around you.

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00:04:33

1665: "Grizz Chapman"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/05/27

Interesting Things with JC #1665: "Grizz Chapman" – Grizz was working security when a friendship with Tracy Morgan led to a 30 Rock audition, and the nearly seven-foot bouncer became one of the calmest, warmest faces on TV while fighting kidney disease off-camera. He pushed past the roles Hollywood expected from a man his size.

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00:04:10

1664: "Rob Base"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/05/26

Interesting Things with JC #1664: "Rob Base" – Rob Base passed away four days after his 59th birthday, but the 1988 record he made with DJ E-Z Rock still moves crowds nearly four decades later; “It Takes Two” climbed the charts, then kept showing up at weddings, cookouts, games, and parties long after the charts moved on.

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00:04:56

1663: "Kyle Busch"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/05/25

Interesting Things with JC #1663: "Kyle Busch" – Kyle Busch is steering a go-kart while his father works the throttle because his feet cannot reach the pedals, and the Las Vegas kid who built racetracks from crushed soda cans grows into one of the most successful drivers in NASCAR history.

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00:02:39

1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/05/17

Interesting Things with JC #1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators" – A muon forms high above Earth and should decay before reaching the ground, but many survive the trip as their internal clocks slow near light speed; particle accelerators use the same effect to study unstable particles before they vanish

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00:02:27

1648: "Why Are Manhole Covers Round?"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/05/10

Interesting Things with JC #1648: "Why Are Manhole Covers Round?" – A heavy cover sits over a city access hole, but its shape keeps it from dropping into the tunnel below; the same circle also spreads traffic force and lets workers roll 90-to-250-pound cast iron through the street. This episode is inspired by Mr. Paul.

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00:03:40

1646: "Electrostatic Propulsion"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/05/08

Interesting Things with JC #1646: "Electrostatic Propulsion" – A fixed-wing aircraft flies with no propeller, no combustion, and no exhaust while electric fields push ionized air across its wings; the same thrust pattern is already moving spacecraft through vacuum and spreading into quiet drones, high-altitude platforms, and long-duration electric space missions.

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00:02:56

1638: "Route 66 Turns 100"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/30

Interesting Things with JC #1638: "Route 66 Turns 100" – Route 66 was stitched together from wagon trails, trading paths, and desert camel routes before becoming the first fully paved transcontinental highway in America. A century later, the old road still runs through the towns, diners, ruins, and forgotten stretches the interstate system went around.

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00:02:37

1637: “Norbert aka Tony Pork”

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/29

Interesting Things with JC #1637: “Norbert” – They call him Tony Pork. He’s a 175 pound pig that pushed himself down a suburban Illinois street on a skateboard using his back legs while steering with his front trotters, then crossed a 10 meter Guinness World Record track in 11.32 seconds after learning to balance on the board… but nobody’s seen him land a kickflip yet.

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00:04:33

1636: "AM Radio as the Last Mass-Mind Medium"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/28

Interesting Things with JC #1636: "AM Radio as the Last Mass-Mind Medium" – A 50,000-watt AM station is transmitting one voice across multiple states at night while millions of people in different places hear the same signal at the same time, even as every other modern system splits audiences into separate individualized streams.

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00:05:24

1635: "Nahanni: The River That Refused to Be Touched"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/27

Interesting Things with JC #1635: "Nahanni: The River That Refused to Be Touched" – A river runs for hundreds of miles with no dams and no control, then suddenly drops nearly twice the height of Niagara while the land around it was never flattened by glaciers, leaving terrain that still acts differently and forces anyone who goes in to stay there for weeks

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00:02:44

1632: "Double Slit Experiment at the Quantum Level"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/24

Interesting Things with JC #1632: "Double Slit Experiment at the Quantum Level" – One photon goes through two slits and hits as a single dot while a wave pattern still builds, even after the setup removes anything that should make waves, and it keeps forming from one hit at a time.

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00:02:17

1631: "We Stopped Talking Without Noticing"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/23

Interesting Things with JC #1631: "We Stopped Talking Without Noticing" – Two people sit together while one speaks and the other looks at a phone, and the conversation continues as if it was heard even though part of it wasn’t, repeating through messages sent elsewhere until both rely on moments they believe happened but didn’t.

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00:06:06

1630: "The 392 HEMI"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/22

Interesting Things with JC #1630: "The 392 HEMI" – Inside the 392 HEMI, air is pulled across a wide hemispherical chamber as the piston drops, but the same layout that improves high-RPM cylinder filling also makes the engine wider, hotter, and harder to package, carrying a 1901 combustion design through Chrysler racing dominance and into a modern 6.4-liter V8 that still depends on airflow instead of boost.

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00:05:07

1625: "Radiation Experiments on Civilians"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/17

Interesting Things with JC #1625: "Radiation Experiments on Civilians" – A man is already on the table when something is injected before his injuries are treated, and nothing appears wrong as his body quietly carries it while measurements continue. Others follow the same pattern without being fully told.

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00:05:04

1621: "The Blue Room"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/13

Interesting Things with JC #1621: "The Blue Room" – A sealed room inside Wright-Patterson is treated as routine. The name used for it does not exist in any confirmed record, but it keeps appearing anyway. The descriptions do not match, yet they repeat the same materials that should not be there. The crazy part is this setting is real.

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00:04:38

1618: "Signals Intelligence in Commercial Radio"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/10

Interesting Things with JC #1618: "Signals Intelligence in Commercial Radio" – You hold on one AM station and notice it fading in and out every few seconds. The transmitter isn’t doing that. Someone else is using the frequency. By the time you can prove it… the signal may already be gone.

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00:02:40

1614: "Lunar Sphere of Influence"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/04/06

Interesting Things with JC #1614: "Lunar Sphere of Influence" – This is the invisible point where the Moon’s gravity overtakes Earth’s on Artemis II. The spacecraft is already inside this boundary, where it stops losing speed and begins accelerating again without firing engines. The path has not changed, but the force controlling it already has.

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