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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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1489: "Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 5402"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2025/12/04

Interesting Things with JC #1489: "Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 5402" – In the middle of a crisis, a watch no one asked for changed everything. Steel instead of gold. Screws instead of polish. It shouldn’t have worked…until it did.

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00:02:49

1488: "Cold Showers and Ice Baths"

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2025/12/03

Interesting Things with JC #1488: "Cold Showers and Ice Baths" – The body meets cold with shock, steadies itself with reflex, and finds clarity in the discomfort. A brief plunge becomes a test of focus, resilience, and control.

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00:02:40

1487: "The Laurel Run Mine Fire"

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2025/12/02

Interesting Things with JC #1487: "The Laurel Run Mine Fire" – A forgotten lamp. A weekend without crews. And a coal seam that kept burning long after the miners left. A century later, the heat still rises through the ridge.

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00:02:30

1486: "December"

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2025/12/01

Interesting Things with JC #1486: "December" – A month named for ten, yet placed at the end of the year, still carries the weight of old rituals and returning light. December holds the quiet tension between darkness and renewal, asking what we choose to keep alive.

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00:04:39

1485: "Professor Abel Wolman"

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2025/11/30

Interesting Things with JC #1485: "Professor Abel Wolman" – Clean water seems automatic, until you learn what it took to make it that way. One civil engineer rewrote the rules of sanitation, and reshaped the modern world. Thank you to long time listener and friend of the podcast the Tech Ed Teacher for suggesting today’s topic!

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00:05:06

1484: "Indoor Plumbing"

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2025/11/29

Interesting Things with JC #1484: "Indoor Plumbing" – It’s the quiet system that reshaped human survival, hiding its power behind every faucet and drain. A story that begins in ancient streets and ends in the walls of your own home, still holding secrets worth hearing. This episode was insired by Dr Igo!

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00:02:57

1483: "100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry"

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2025/11/28

Interesting Things with JC #1483: "100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry" – A fiddler in a small Nashville studio started something bigger than he knew. A kitchen radio show grew into a Saturday night tradition that stuck with folks through moves, floods, and change, still carried forward by that old circle of wood. This episode is dedicated to long time listener Justin! Thank you for suggesting today’s topic.

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00:02:23

1482: "The First Thanksgiving Game"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2025/11/27

Interesting Things with JC #1482: "The First NFL Thanksgiving Game" – A cold Ohio field. A rising league. A fight for pride that shaped a holiday tradition. The roots of Thanksgiving football still echo with grit and stubborn joy.

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00:03:59

1480: "Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina"

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2025/11/25

Interesting Things with JC #1480: "Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina" – A woman in a Soviet lab, a compass that won’t stay still, and a Cold War desperate for proof of the impossible. Her story leaves one question hanging: what moved, and what only seemed to?

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00:02:57

1479: "The Montauk Project"

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2025/11/24

Interesting Things with JC #1479: "The Montauk Project" – A Cold War outpost, sealed bunkers, and decades of denials form the fault line where rumor meets record. The mystery endures because the silence under Montauk feels louder than the facts.

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00:02:49

1476: "Do Dogs Sweat?"

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2025/11/21

Interesting Things with JC #1476: "Do Dogs Sweat?" – You sweat. Your dog pants. But why? And what’s with those damp paw prints? A closer look at how dogs handle heat, when sweating just isn’t an option.

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00:02:22

1474: "Do Hard Things"

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2025/11/19

Interesting Things with JC #1474: "Do Hard Things" – When you face one tough task, the mind shifts from threat to control. Hard work shrinks imagined problems and restores the world to its real size.

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00:02:59

1473: "Can a Thought Move Faster than Light?"

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2025/11/18

Interesting Things with JC #1473: "Can a Thought Move Faster than Light?" – When nerve signals crawl at human speeds yet decisions feel instant, the mystery isn’t distance but design.

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00:04:15

1472: "Rumi and Poetry"

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2025/11/17

Interesting Things with JC #1472: "Rumi and Poetry" – Rumi’s days ran the same for years until a stranger showed up and challenged everything he thought he understood. Then the man disappeared, and the fallout pushed Rumi into writing that still grips readers centuries later.

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00:04:50

1470: "Forbidden City, Beijing"

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2025/11/15

Interesting Things with JC #1470: "Forbidden City, Beijing" – A palace built in fourteen years with quake-flexing timber, golden bricks that rang underfoot, and a cosmic axis meant to bind an emperor to the stars. Step inside and you find a city engineered to survive fire, war, and anyone who dared to cross its gates.

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00:02:55

1469: "Subjectivity and Judging"

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2025/11/14

Interesting Things with JC #1469: "Subjectivity and Judging" – From courtroom rulings to puppet shows, we’re not as rational as we think. What shapes our gut reactions, and can we ever judge fairly?

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00:04:12

1468: "The Hobbit of Flores"

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2025/11/13

Interesting Things with JC #1468: "The Hobbit of Flores" – A skull the size of two hands rewrites what endurance looks like. On an island no one could reach without crossing open sea, a small human lineage held on far longer than it should have, and left questions modern science still can’t answer.

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00:02:41

1467: "History of the Electricians Wire Stretcher"

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2025/11/12

Interesting Things with JC #1467: "History of the Electricians Wire Stretcher" – A lost Roman tool. A Da Vinci sketch. A telegraph miracle. Across centuries, one device keeps reappearing... when wires come up short.

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00:02:45

1466: "What is a Veteran?"

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2025/11/11

Interesting Things with JC #1466: "What is a Veteran?" – From ancient Rome to today’s armed forces, the word “veteran” has carried centuries of honor. What does it really mean to serve, to return, and to keep faith long after the battle ends?

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00:04:50

1465: "250 Years of the Marine Corps"

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2025/11/10

Interesting Things with JC #1465: "250 Years of the Marine Corps" – Forged in a tavern, tested in war. From Tripoli to Iwo Jima to Kabul, the U.S. Marines built 250 years of elite grit where precision meets chaos.

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