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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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00:09:22

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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00:02:46

1575: "Joni Eareckson Tada: Paralyzed at Seventeen"

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2026/02/28

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.

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00:02:30

1572: "Is Matter an Illusion?"

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2026/02/25

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.

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00:02:36

1571: "What Loss Leaves Behind"

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2026/02/24

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.

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00:02:07

1570: "Snake Oil: Why Smart People Still Buy It"

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2026/02/23

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.

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00:05:00

1567: "The Reverend Jesse Jackson & Progressive...

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2026/02/20

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.

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00:04:06

1562: "The Helios Laser"

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2026/02/15

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.

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00:03:37

1561: "Saint Valentine"

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2026/02/14

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?

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00:02:59

1559: "What is Love?"

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2026/02/12

Interesting Things with JC #1559: "What is Love?" – That rush. That obsession. That can’t stop thinking about them feeling. Science says it is not magic. It is brain chemistry, attachment, and a bond built to last long after the fireworks fade.

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00:04:14

1555: "Project Nobska"

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2026/02/08

Interesting Things with JC #1555: "Project Nobska" – A 1956 Navy study at Woods Hole, near Nobska Lighthouse, concluded that nuclear submarines had made traditional anti-submarine warfare obsolete, shaping new undersea weapons and the future of nuclear deterrence.

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00:09:41

1554: “Radio Signals from Pluto”

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2026/02/07

Interesting Things with JC #1554: “Radio Signals from Pluto” - A spacecraft rushed past Pluto with no second chance. A fading signal passing through Pluto’s thin air revealed temperatures, pressure, and hidden layers beneath the ice. For a few minutes in 2015, physics lined up just right, and Pluto gave up details images never could.

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1552: "Milano Cortina"

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2026/02/05

Interesting Things with JC #1552: "Milano Cortina" – Can the Olympics survive without billion-dollar stadiums? Italy’s 2026 Winter Games test a radical return to terrain over transformation.

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00:02:45

1551: “Birthplace of the Winter Olympics – Chamonix...

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2026/02/04

Interesting Things with JC #1551: “Birthplace of the Winter Olympics – Chamonix 1924 to Beijing 2022” - On February 4, 1924, winter sports quietly stepped onto the world stage in Chamonix, France. Ninety eight years later, on the same date, the Winter Olympics opened in Beijing. This episode traces how a small experiment became a global event.

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00:02:53

1550: “Hákarl”

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2026/02/03

Interesting Things with JC #1550: “Hákarl” - This food smells like poison because it used to be. Hákarl is fermented Greenland shark, made edible through chemistry, time, and desperation. This episode explains how Icelanders turned something toxic into survival.

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1549: "February 2, 1876: Start of the MLB"

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2026/02/02

Interesting Things with JC #1549: "February 2, 1876: Start of the MLB" – Baseball wasn’t born on a field. It was rescued in a hotel. A broken league, a bold plan, and one winter meeting that saved the game.

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00:05:19

1548: "Sly Dunbar"

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2026/02/01

Interesting Things with JC #1548: "Sly Dunbar" – He approached music as a responsibility. By holding time steady and sessions together, he became one of the most trusted figures in Jamaican recording history. This episode reflects on a working life defined by discipline, clarity, and trust.

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00:06:18

1547: "John Archibald Wheeler and the Words That...

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2026/01/31

Interesting Things with JC #1547: "John Archibald Wheeler and the Words That Shaped the Universe" – He didn’t just explore the universe. He named it. Black holes, wormholes, quantum foam. The words he gave us changed what we could see.

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00:03:44

1545: "The Eltanin Antenna"

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2026/01/29

Interesting Things with JC #1545: "The Eltanin Antenna" – In 1964, a deep-sea camera caught something standing straight up on the ocean floor. Not floating. Not drifting. Just... there. What it turned out to be still surprises people today.

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