Interesting Things with JC

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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.


Episode Date
1487: "The Laurel Run Mine Fire"
Dec 02, 2025
1486: "December"
Dec 01, 2025
1485: "Professor Abel Wolman"
Nov 30, 2025
1484: "Indoor Plumbing"
Nov 29, 2025
1483: "100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry"
Nov 28, 2025
1482: "The First Thanksgiving Game"
Nov 27, 2025
1481: "The Real History Behind Eleven"
Nov 26, 2025
1480: "Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina"
Nov 25, 2025
1479: "The Montauk Project"
Nov 24, 2025
1478: "Sensory Deprivation"
Nov 23, 2025
1477: "Telekinesis"
Nov 22, 2025
1476: "Do Dogs Sweat?"
Nov 21, 2025
1475: "Coriolis Effect Explained"
Nov 20, 2025
1474: "Do Hard Things"
Nov 19, 2025
1473: "Can a Thought Move Faster than Light?"
Nov 18, 2025
1472: "Rumi and Poetry"
Nov 17, 2025
1471: "The Importance of Alpha and Gamma Brainwaves"
Nov 16, 2025
1470: "Forbidden City, Beijing"
Nov 15, 2025
1469: "Subjectivity and Judging"
Nov 14, 2025
1468: "The Hobbit of Flores"
Nov 13, 2025
1467: "History of the Electricians Wire Stretcher"
Nov 12, 2025
1466: "What is a Veteran?"
Nov 11, 2025
1465: "250 Years of the Marine Corps"
Nov 10, 2025
1464: "NCO vs Officer"
Nov 09, 2025
1463: "The Red Ball Express"
Nov 08, 2025
1462: "Cream City Brick"
Nov 07, 2025
1461: "Inside the Black Hole We Call Home"
Nov 06, 2025
1460: "Katharine Story: The Designer Who Trusted Her Eye Over Tradition"
Nov 05, 2025
1459: "The Woman Who Danced Between Two Worlds"
Nov 04, 2025
1458: "How a Wardrobe Malfunction Invented the Modern Bra"
Nov 03, 2025
1457: "The 1492 Ensisheim Meteor"
Nov 02, 2025
1456: "The Invention of the Time Zone"
Nov 01, 2025
1455: "The Houdini Séance"
Oct 31, 2025
1454: "The Sordid History of Black Cats"
Oct 30, 2025
1453: "Bear Lake Monster"
Oct 29, 2025
1452: "Okapi – The African Unicorn"
Oct 28, 2025
1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518"
Oct 27, 2025
1450: "The Alkonost"
Oct 26, 2025
1449: "The Encantado"
Oct 25, 2025
1448: "Fall Foliage"
Oct 24, 2025
1447: "The Invention That Rewired the World"
Oct 23, 2025
1446: "Transmitting Electricity Through the Air"
Oct 22, 2025
1445: "Ace Frehley"
Oct 21, 2025
1444: "The Plane Crash that Changed Music Forever"
Oct 20, 2025
1443: "Carbon Fiber"
Oct 19, 2025
1442: "Albrecht Dürer"
Oct 18, 2025
1441: "A Simple Riddle 12"
Oct 17, 2025
1440: “Start of the Cuban Missile Crisis”
Oct 16, 2025
1439: "Shenzhou 5 – China’s First Human Spaceflight"
Oct 15, 2025
1438: "Diane Keaton"
Oct 14, 2025
1437: "The Silkworm"
Oct 13, 2025
1436: "Quantum Entanglement – Spooky Action at a Distance"
Oct 12, 2025
1435: “The Tiny Sausages of Nuremberg”
Oct 11, 2025
1434: "Thelonious Monk and the Shape of Modern Jazz"
Oct 10, 2025
1433: "The James Webb Space Telescope"
Oct 09, 2025
1432: "The Lowell Observatory"
Oct 08, 2025
1431: "Viewing 3I/ATLAS from Mars"
Oct 07, 2025
1430: "Richard Dedekind Redefining Number Theory"
Oct 06, 2025
1429: "Alternate and Special Uniforms in the NFL"
Oct 05, 2025
1428: "Jane Goodall"
Oct 04, 2025
1427: "GPS Trackers on Birds"
Oct 03, 2025
1426: "The Tunnel of Whiteface Mountain"
Oct 02, 2025
1425: "The Steam That Moved a Nation"
Oct 01, 2025
1424: "The Mustang"
Sep 30, 2025
1423: "Three Kings Kaikomako"
Sep 29, 2025
1422: "What the Garden Gives Back"
Sep 28, 2025
1421: "Carbonated Soda"
Sep 27, 2025
1420: "Vanta Black"
Sep 26, 2025
1419: "Stanislaw Petrow"
Sep 25, 2025
1418: "What is Leucovorin?"
Sep 24, 2025
1417: "Dr. Green’s Light"
Sep 23, 2025
1416: "Water on Mars"
Sep 22, 2025
1415: "The 21st Night of September"
Sep 21, 2025
1414: "The Real Castles and Lands of Game of Thrones"
Sep 21, 2025
1413: "Rods, Cones, and Blindness"
Sep 20, 2025
1412: "Robert Redford"
Sep 19, 2025
1411: "Acoustic Shadows"
Sep 18, 2025
1410: "White Corn vs. Yellow Corn Chips"
Sep 17, 2025
1409: "The Hidden Patterns of Statistics"
Sep 16, 2025
1408: "The Imperial Castle"
Sep 15, 2025
1407: "What is a Reddit Kid?"
Sep 14, 2025
1406: "The British Lion"
Sep 13, 2025
1405: "Tropical Waves"
Sep 12, 2025
1404: "The Amateur Radio Operators of 9/11"
Sep 11, 2025
1403: "September 10th, 2001"
Sep 10, 2025
1402: "Keithroy Maynard"
Sep 09, 2025
1401: "Dorothy Dandridge"
Sep 08, 2025
1400: "The Blood Moon"
Sep 07, 2025
1399: "Giorgio Armani"
Sep 06, 2025
1398: "American Paint Horse"
Sep 05, 2025
1397: "What is a Florida Ounce?"
Sep 04, 2025
1396: "An Animal Lying on the Side of the Road Probably Isn’t Sick or Napping"
Sep 03, 2025
1395: "September 2nd - The Beginning and the End"
Sep 02, 2025
1394: "The Great Barrington UFO Encounter of 1969"
Sep 01, 2025
1393: "Mary Ann Nichols: The First Victim of Jack the Ripper"
Aug 31, 2025
1392: "What is Calculus"
Aug 30, 2025
1391: "Sauerkraut Balls"
Aug 29, 2025
1390: "Dr. Joseph Murphy"
Aug 28, 2025
1389: "Krakatoa"
Aug 27, 2025
1388: "How are Fossils Made?"
Aug 26, 2025
1387: "Northwest Mountain Rose Apples"
Aug 25, 2025
1386: "Water Can Boil and Freeze at the Same Time"
Aug 24, 2025
1385: "Judge Frank Caprio"
Aug 23, 2025
1384: "Does Black Paint Make Metal Hotter"
Aug 22, 2025
1383: "Hawaii, the 50th Star"
Aug 21, 2025
1382: "Lazy Pierogi"
Aug 20, 2025
1381: "Terence Stamp"
Aug 19, 2025
1380: "The Battery that Refuses to Die"
Aug 18, 2025
1379: "The Tunnel That Never Thaws"
Aug 17, 2025
1378: "The Brazilian Current"
Aug 16, 2025
1377: "Explosive Pancake Batter of WWII"
Aug 15, 2025
1376: "Explosive Pancake Batter"
Aug 14, 2025
1375: "The Piri Reis Map"
Aug 13, 2025
1374: "Dragon Man - A Face from the Human Past"
Aug 12, 2025
1373: "Betelgeuse – The Unsteady Giant"
Aug 11, 2025
1372: "James Lovell - Commander of Apollo 13"
Aug 10, 2025
1371: "Bookless Library"
Aug 09, 2025
1370: "Fly Fishing"
Aug 08, 2025
1369: "Purple Heart Day"
Aug 07, 2025
1368: "The Truth About Glass"
Aug 06, 2025
1367: "Loni Anderson"
Aug 05, 2025
1366: "Today Is a Great Day!”
Aug 05, 2025
1365: "Heterochromia"
Aug 04, 2025
1364: "What is the Cryospheric Process?"
Aug 03, 2025
1363: "Does the Past Still Exist?"
Aug 02, 2025
1362: "The Man Who Betrayed Washington"
Aug 01, 2025
1361: "The Metric Crescent Wrench"
Jul 31, 2025
1360: "Invisible Ink"
Jul 30, 2025
1359: "The Runit Dome"
Jul 29, 2025
1358: "George ‘Fiji’ Veikoso"
Jul 28, 2025
1357: "Hulk Hogan"
Jul 27, 2025
1356: "Chuck Mangione"
Jul 26, 2025
1355: "Malcolm-Jamal Warner"
Jul 25, 2025
1354: "John Michael 'Ozzy' Osbourne"
Jul 24, 2025
1353: "Interglacial Period"
Jul 23, 2025
1352: "The Soto Dolmen in Trigueros, Spain"
Jul 22, 2025
1351: "Mitochondria"
Jul 21, 2025
1350: "The Kiss Cam"
Jul 20, 2025
1349: "Connie Francis"
Jul 19, 2025
1348: "Ozempic Venom"
Jul 18, 2025
1347: "Kola Superdeep Borehole"
Jul 17, 2025
1346: "Napoleon's Rabbit Hunt Gone Wrong!"
Jul 16, 2025
1345: "Flash Floods"
Jul 15, 2025
1344: "The SnackWrap Guy of Hendersonville"
Jul 14, 2025
1343: "The Cochno Stone"
Jul 13, 2025
1342: "Jumping Out of a Moving Car"
Jul 12, 2025
1341: "The History of 7-Eleven"
Jul 11, 2025
1340: "Ellesmere Island in Canada"
Jul 10, 2025
1339: "Zoroastrianism"
Jul 09, 2025
1338: "Don't Skip Lunch"
Jul 08, 2025
1337: "Tamerlane"
Jul 07, 2025
1336: "Iceland Has No Trees"
Jul 06, 2025
1335: "The Housefly That Didn't Drown"
Jul 05, 2025
1334: "1775: When Independence Became Inevitable"
Jul 04, 2025
1333: "Why Doesn't South America Have Hurricanes?"
Jul 03, 2025
1332: "The Fighter Mafia"
Jul 02, 2025
1331: "The Sheep That Stopped the Bite"
Jul 01, 2025
1330: "The General Who Gave Reform Its Rank"
Jun 30, 2025
1329: "The Queen of Vacations – Beverly D'Angelo"
Jun 29, 2025
1328: "The Year Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, and Freud Were Neighbors"
Jun 28, 2025
1327: "The Impossible Coin Flip"
Jun 27, 2025
1326: "Patent No. 5,255,452: Michael Jackson’s Secret to the Lean"
Jun 26, 2025
1326: "Before the Crown - A Tribute to the Career of Michael Jackson"
Jun 25, 2025
1324: "A Simple Riddle 11"
Jun 24, 2025
1323: "The Human Fingernail"
Jun 23, 2025
1322: "Chevy Corvette C2"
Jun 22, 2025
#1321: "Carroll O'Connor"
Jun 21, 2025
1320: "Why Do People Install Wall Plugs Upside Down?"
Jun 20, 2025
1319: "The Vessel at Hudson Yards"
Jun 19, 2025
1318: "Spring Water"
Jun 18, 2025
1317: "Do You Drink More Through a Straw?"
Jun 17, 2025
1316: "Cranberry Pills"
Jun 16, 2025
1315: "The Rongorongo Script"
Jun 15, 2025
1314: "Could a Hidden Parasite Make You a Mosquito Target?"
Jun 14, 2025
1313: "Brian Wilson"
Jun 13, 2025
1312: "Sly Stone"
Jun 12, 2025
1311: "Not Broken, But Injured"
Jun 11, 2025
1310: "Can Your Eyes Predict How Long You’ll Live?"
Jun 10, 2025
1309: "The Cornea That Turned to Cone"
Jun 09, 2025
1308: "Hyperion"
Jun 08, 2025
1307: "The Device That Proved We Don’t See With Our Eyes"
Jun 07, 2025
1306: "Cocoa and Cancer"
Jun 06, 2025
1305: "Pozzolanic Concrete"
Jun 05, 2025
1304: "Astigmatism Lens Flares"
Jun 04, 2025
1303: "Clock It"
Jun 03, 2025
1302: "The Man Who Controlled a Computer with His Mind"
Jun 02, 2025
1301: "Marilyn Monroe"
Jun 01, 2025
1300: "When the F5 Came to Pennsylvania"
May 31, 2025
1299: "How to Properly Clean a Fish"
May 30, 2025
1298: "86 Oldsmobile Cutlass"
May 29, 2025
1297: "The Chain of Rocks Bridge"
May 28, 2025
1296: "What Was Cash for Clunkers?"
May 27, 2025
1295: "Get Out and Move"
May 26, 2025
1294: "5/25/25"
May 25, 2025
1293: "Traditions of the Indy 500"
May 24, 2025
1292: "Corvette ZR1"
May 23, 2025
1291: "Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome"
May 22, 2025
1290: "Love, Possibility, & Awareness"
May 21, 2025
1289: "Linoleum"
May 20, 2025
1288: "Don't Put Dawn in the Dishwasher!"
May 19, 2025
1287: "The Six Flags Over Texas"
May 18, 2025
1286: "Where do you find a Left Handed ScrewDriver?"
May 17, 2025
1285: "The Serpent That Watches the Sky"
May 16, 2025
1284: "Strawberries and Garlic are Companion Plants"
May 15, 2025
1283: "The Strange Strength of Mixed Emotions"
May 14, 2025
1282: "May 13, 1981 – The Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II"
May 13, 2025
1281: "Wild Horse Hooves Explained"
May 12, 2025
1280: "The Sword in the Stone of Saint Galgano"
May 11, 2025
1279: "The World’s Smallest Army"
May 10, 2025
1278: "1965 Buick Riviera Gran Sport"
May 09, 2025
1277: "Insulin’s Legacy - The Untold Stories"
May 08, 2025
1276: "What is SubTropolis?"
May 07, 2025
1275: "When the Man Comes Around"
May 06, 2025
1274: "Texas is Bigger than You Think"
May 05, 2025
1273: "What are Organoids?"
May 04, 2025
1272: "Steve’s Lava Chicken – Guinness Book Record for Shortest Charting Song"
May 03, 2025
1271: "Strawberries and the Rose Family"
May 02, 2025
1270: "Jack"
May 01, 2025
1269: "What Is a Carnelian?"
Apr 30, 2025
1268: "Murder on the High Seas – The Case of the Mignonette"
Apr 29, 2025
1267: "What is a Chicken Jockey?"
Apr 28, 2025
1266: "The Secret Life of a Single Note"
Apr 27, 2025
1265: "Tavistock, The Beatles, and Pink Floyd: Unraveling the Conspiracy Theory"
Apr 26, 2025
1264: "Pick 33 – The First of the Forgotten"
Apr 25, 2025
1263: "The Malibu Secret"
Apr 24, 2025
1262: "How Does a Septic Tank Work?"
Apr 23, 2025
1261: "Grapes of Spring"
Apr 22, 2025
1260: "Replacing the Pope"
Apr 21, 2025
1259: "Farming in April"
Apr 21, 2025
1258: "The History of Peeps!"
Apr 20, 2025
1257: "Easter Lily"
Apr 19, 2025
1256: "The Smell of Fresh Bread Out of the Oven"
Apr 18, 2025
1255: "Fire from Ice"
Apr 17, 2025
1254: "The Cost Beneath Our Feet"
Apr 16, 2025
1253: "What is a Burl?"
Apr 15, 2025
1252: "April 14th, 1939, The Book That Brought America to Its Knees"
Apr 14, 2025
1251: "The Gene That Won’t Let Go"
Apr 13, 2025
1250: "Great Loop Boating"
Apr 12, 2025
1249: "What is a Carpenters Board Stretcher?"
Apr 11, 2025
1248: "Mahuffer – Wurst Place on the Beech!"
Apr 10, 2025
1247: "The Mathematics Behind Music Theory"
Apr 09, 2025
1246: "The Notes in Ricky’s Pocket"
Apr 08, 2025
1245: "A Simple Riddle 11"
Apr 07, 2025
1244: "Operation Midnight Climax: The CIA's Covert Safehouses"
Apr 06, 2025
1243: "Mystery of Dark Matter and Dark Energy"
Apr 05, 2025
1242: "The Mountain Named for Gods"
Apr 04, 2025
1241: "The Day the Sky Erased the Map"
Apr 03, 2025
1240: “Opossum vs Possum”
Apr 02, 2025
1239: “The Manitou Springs Incline”
Apr 01, 2025
1238: "The Calendar That Made Fools"
Mar 31, 2025
1237: "Cryo-Electron Microscopy"
Mar 30, 2025
1236: "A Simple Riddle 10"
Mar 29, 2025
1235: “Three Turns to Freedom”
Mar 28, 2025
1234: "Yuri Gagarin - The First Human in Space"
Mar 27, 2025
1233: "Notification Hijacking – How Hackers Take Over Your Phone and Accounts"
Mar 26, 2025
1232: "What is Geographic Tongue?"
Mar 25, 2025
1231: "The Boeing F-47"
Mar 24, 2025
1230: “The Heavens Declare”
Mar 23, 2025
1229: "The Damage of Fast Fashion"
Mar 22, 2025
1228: "Sea Cucumbers: Butt Breathers"
Mar 21, 2025
1227: "The Plastic Recycling Myth”
Mar 20, 2025
1226: "Finding a Can of Arc Light?"
Mar 19, 2025
1225: "The Infamous Gardner Museum Heist"
Mar 18, 2025
1224: "Ghost in the Coffee Shop – How Nearby Hackers Hijack Your Phone in Real Time"
Mar 17, 2025
1223: "The Silent Heist – How a Simple Notification Can Unlock Your Entire Digital Life"
Mar 16, 2025
1222: "Registration of the First Internet Domain Name"
Mar 15, 2025
1221: "Psychological Warfare"
Mar 14, 2025
1220: "Magnetoreception in Animals"
Mar 13, 2025
1219: "The Law of Assumption"
Mar 12, 2025
1218: "5000 Year Battery"
Mar 11, 2025
1217: "ADHD A Hunters Edge or Desk Job Disorder?"
Mar 10, 2025
1216 "American Shipbuilding"
Mar 09, 2025
1215: "Apollo and Daphne - The Chase of Immortal Desire"
Mar 08, 2025
1214: "The Leshy"
Mar 07, 2025
1213: "How Do Escalators Work?"
Mar 06, 2025
1212: "Hawk-Eye Technology"
Mar 05, 2025
1211: "3425"
Mar 04, 2025
1210: "Why use a Rebar Stretcher?"
Mar 03, 2025
1209: "GibberLink"
Mar 02, 2025
1208: "The Eye on the Back of the US Dollar"
Mar 01, 2025
1207: "Mystery of the Twelfth Imam"
Feb 28, 2025
1206: “What Is a Topoconductor and Why Does It Matter?”
Feb 27, 2025
1205: "How do Automated Car Wash Tiers Work?"
Feb 26, 2025
1204: “Eastern Air Lines Flight 304 – The Tragedy Over Lake Pontchartrain”
Feb 25, 2025
1203: "The Speed of Light"
Feb 24, 2025
1202: "Raising Valor - The Flag on Iwo Jima"
Feb 23, 2025
1201: "Glycine – The Sleep Boosting Secret in Your Soup"
Feb 22, 2025
1200: "The Dark Factor Behind Human Behavior"
Feb 21, 2025
1199: "The Battle of Edinburgh 1547 – The Rough Wooing War"
Feb 20, 2025
1198: "IWO JIMA"
Feb 19, 2025
1197: "The 133rd Seabees – Built on Sacrifice, Deserving of Honor"
Feb 18, 2025
1196: "Skara Brae"
Feb 17, 2025
1195: "Pineapple Cucumber Salad"
Feb 16, 2025
1194: "Stonehenge of Lake Michigan"
Feb 15, 2025
1193: "What are Reciprocal Tariffs and Sovereign Wealth Funds?"
Feb 14, 2025
1192: "Chromosome 2 - The Fusion That Made Us Human"
Feb 13, 2025
1191: "B-2 Spirit"
Feb 12, 2025
1190: "Von Neumann Machines"
Feb 11, 2025
1189: "Marilyn vos Savant"
Feb 10, 2025
1188: "Your Thoughts and Beliefs Shape Your Reality"
Feb 09, 2025