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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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00:04:58

1609: "What If the Earth Actually Doesn’t Spin?"

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2026/04/01

Interesting Things with JC #1609: "What If the Earth Actually Doesn’t Spin?" – It looks like everything moves around you. For centuries, that was enough. But when perspective shifts, the universe changes with it, and the cost of standing still becomes impossible to ignore.

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00:05:30

1608: "Inside a Patriot Battery"

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2026/03/31

Interesting Things with JC #1608: "Inside a Patriot Battery" – When seconds decide everything, there is no room for instinct. Inside a Patriot battery, precision is not a preference.

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00:04:44

1605: "The Complexity of Midair Refueling"

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2026/03/28

Interesting Things with JC #1605: "The Complexity of Midair Refueling" – Two aircraft meet in unstable air at high speed, separated by feet and failure. Midair refueling is not just engineering. It is precision, pressure, and trust where even a single foot can break everything.

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00:05:44

1604: "What Is Time Dilation?"

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2026/03/27

Interesting Things with JC #1604: "What Is Time Dilation?" – Two perfect clocks start together, then reality pulls them apart. Motion changes time. Gravity changes time. And once you see how, the universe feels far less stable than it did a moment ago.

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00:06:00

1602: "Redstone Arsenal"

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2026/03/25

Interesting Things with JC #1602: "Redstone Arsenal" – Before rockets carried Americans into space, they were built to fail on purpose in Huntsville, Alabama. At Redstone Arsenal, every rupture, misfire, and crash became part of the blueprint for something that could finally rise.

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00:04:16

1601: "Muhammad Ali vs. Chuck Wepner"

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2026/03/24

Interesting Things with JC #1601: "Muhammad Ali vs. Chuck Wepner" – The greatest fighter alive hit the canvas, and for a moment, everything changed. A man built to bleed refused to fall, stretching time itself to the brink. What happened in those final seconds didn’t just test a champion, it created something that would last forever.

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00:07:20

1599: "Remembering Chuck Norris"

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2026/03/22

Interesting Things with JC #1599: "Remembering Chuck Norris" – A young man from Oklahoma served his country, became a world champion, and built a career in film and television. He carried those lessons into teaching and mentorship, reaching students and families across generations. In this episode, we remember and honor his life and legacy.

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00:02:38

1598: "Lewis Latimer and the Globe-Supporter for...

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2026/03/21

Interesting Things with JC #1598: "Lewis Latimer and the Globe-Supporter for Electric Lamps" - Everybody talks about the bulb. Almost nobody talks about the small fix that helped keep electric light alive out in the real world. Lewis Latimer was helping hold the future together while everybody else was staring at the glow.

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00:04:30

1597: "Albert Pinkham Ryder"

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2026/03/20

Interesting Things with JC #1597: "Albert Pinkham Ryder" – He spent more than twenty years on a single painting, building it up until it started to crack under its own weight. While others aimed for clean and finished, Ryder let the surface carry the struggle.

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00:02:58

1593: "USS Pickerel"

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2026/03/16

Interesting Things with JC #1593: "USS Pickerel" – Before nuclear power changed undersea warfare, one diesel boat stayed below for 21 straight days and crossed the Pacific on discipline, batteries, and nerve. USS Pickerel did not make a show of it. She just kept making way in the dark.

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00:03:55

1590: "The Penn Dixie Fossil Site"

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2026/03/13

Interesting Things with JC #1590: "The Penn Dixie Fossil Site" – In western New York, families split open shale and touch a vanished sea nearly 380 million years old. Beneath an old quarry floor, the Devonian still waits...silent, buried, and full of creatures that never saw the world to come.

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00:02:34

1589: "Nathan Detroit"

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2026/03/12

Interesting Things with JC #1589: "Nathan Detroit" - The gamblers roll the dice but Nathan Detroit runs the game. He knows where the next floating crap game will land and how to keep it one step ahead of the police. But when he bets one thousand dollars on Sky Masterson he sets a gamble in motion he cannot control.

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00:02:22

1588: "Sarah Brown"

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2026/03/12

Interesting Things with JC #1588: "Sarah Brown" - In a Broadway world built on wagers and floating crap games one woman refuses to play. Sarah Brown runs a Salvation Army mission surrounded by gamblers and drifters. Then the most confident gambler in the city walks through her door and everything changes.

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00:02:25

1587: "Sky Masterson"

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2026/03/12

Interesting Things with JC #1587: "Sky Masterson" - A gambler who never feared the odds takes a wager no one expects him to win. Convince a Salvation Army missionary to fly to Havana for dinner. Sky Masterson built his legend on impossible bets but this one forces him to gamble on something far riskier than dice.

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00:04:25

1586: "The Crap Game That Cleaned Up Broadway"

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2026/03/11

Interesting Things with JC #1586: "The Crap Game That Cleaned Up Broadway" - A Broadway reporter sits at Lindys drinking cup after cup of coffee while gamblers and hustlers talk. Their slang and street stories become the world behind Guys and Dolls. Damon Runyon created it all but never lived to see the curtain rise.

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00:03:00

1585: "Lake Warren"

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2026/03/10

Interesting Things with JC #1585: "Lake Warren" – Long before modern Lake Erie, a much larger glacial lake cut the bluffs, shaped the beaches, and left old shorelines miles inland. The land still carries the mark of water that disappeared 13,000 years ago.

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00:03:38

1584: "The Hafele–Keating Experiment"

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2026/03/09

Interesting Things with JC #1584: "The Hafele–Keating Experiment" – In 1971 four atomic clocks boarded commercial airliners and circled the Earth. When they returned, the clocks no longer matched those on the ground. The difference was measured in billionths of a second and confirmed Einstein’s prediction that motion and gravity change time.

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00:09:22

1582: "Remembering Lou Holtz"

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2026/03/07

Interesting Things with JC #1582: "Remembering Lou Holtz" – A boy from a crowded basement apartment in a steel town refused to accept the limits others placed on him. Decades later his words echoed through one of college football’s most famous tunnels, reminding generations that champions are not built tomorrow. They are built today.

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00:03:43

"The Central–Mid-Levels Escalator"

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2026/03/06

Interesting Things with JC #1581: "The Central–Mid-Levels Escalator" – In Hong Kong, the hill behind the harbor used to demand a daily climb. Then the city built a half-mile chain of moving steps that flips direction with the clock, and rewired an entire neighborhood around the flow of footsteps.

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00:05:35

1576: "Barbara Ann and the Accidental Hit"

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2026/03/01

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.

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