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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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1463: "The Red Ball Express"

Interesting Things with JC ·

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...

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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"

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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"

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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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00:03:45

1456: "The Invention of the Time Zone"

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2025/11/01

Interesting Things with JC #1456: "The Invention of the Time Zone" – Before the trains, every town kept its own noon. Then one day in 1883, a single telegraph signal reset an entire continent. The moment time itself was standardized, and trust was synchronized.

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00:07:26

1455: "The Houdini Séance"

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2025/10/31

Interesting Things with JC #1455: "The Houdini Séance" – Every Halloween, a candle flickers for a man who escaped everything…except death. Houdini swore he’d return from the grave. What happens when the world keeps listening?

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1454: "The Sordid History of Black Cats"

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2025/10/30

Interesting Things with JC #1454: "The Sordid History of Black Cats" – A vanished boy. A papal decree. A plague. For centuries, one animal took the blame. But what were people really afraid of?

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00:03:00

1453: "Bear Lake Monster"

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2025/10/29

Interesting Things with JC #1453: "Bear Lake Monster" – Along the Utah-Idaho border, a ripple in the water has stirred more than just curiosity. For over a century, people keep seeing something that shouldn’t exist.

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00:02:35

1452: "Okapi – The African Unicorn"

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2025/10/28

Interesting Things with JC #1452: "Okapi – The African Unicorn" – Locals swore a secret animal roamed the Congo, with stripes like a zebra and a neck like a giraffe. No one believed them… until proof showed up. The okapi is real!

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00:02:41

1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518"

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2025/10/27

Interesting Things with JC #1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518" – In the summer heat of 1518, hundreds danced themselves to death in the streets of Strasbourg. Was it hysteria, hunger, or something buried deep in the brain? Science still can’t say for sure.

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00:02:44

1450: "The Alkonost"

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2025/10/26

Interesting Things with JC #1450: "The Alkonost" – In the frozen heart of old Slavic myth, a bird with a woman’s face sang of joy so pure it could destroy. Her song promised paradise, but at a cost no mortal could bear.

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00:02:52

1449: "The Encantado"

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2025/10/25

Interesting Things with JC #1449: "The Encantado" – In the Amazon, a pink dolphin dances as a man. He laughs, he charms, then vanishes into water, with someone missing beside him. Myth or biology? The river knows.

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00:03:20

1443: "Carbon Fiber"

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2025/10/19

Interesting Things with JC #1443: "Carbon Fiber" – Metal was strong but heavy. Plastic was light but weak. Carbon found the space between...threads thin as hair, strong enough to reshape flight. From Edison’s glow to hypersonic shells, the lightest answers carried the most force. This episode was inspired by Dr. Igo.

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00:06:48

1442: "Albrecht Dürer"

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2025/10/18

Interesting Things with JC #1442: "Albrecht Dürer" – He carved apocalypse from wood, measured beauty with calipers, and turned art into a science. What happens when precision becomes philosophy?

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00:01:33

1441: "A Simple Riddle 12"

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2025/10/17

Interesting Things with JC #1441: "A Simple Riddle 12" – What starts with a question, stalls for suspense, and ends with a smile? This riddle waits patiently for you to press pause… if you dare.

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00:05:45

1440: “Start of the Cuban Missile Crisis”

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2025/10/16

Interesting Things with JC #1440: “Start of the Cuban Missile Crisis” – A single flight over Cuba revealed the weapons that nearly ended the world. Thirteen days, two superpowers, one narrow escape from nuclear war. How reason and restraint kept humanity alive.

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00:02:23

1439: "Shenzhou 5 – China’s First Human Spaceflight"

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2025/10/15

Interesting Things with JC #1439: "Shenzhou 5 – China’s First Human Spaceflight" – One man. One orbit. A nation’s arrival in space. Discover how a single rocket launched China into the spacefaring elite.

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00:05:06

1438: "Diane Keaton"

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2025/10/14

Interesting Things with JC #1438: "Diane Keaton" – She turned down the spotlight, and still changed what it meant to be a leading lady. A life built on quiet defiance and stunning reinvention.

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