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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| 10/24/26 |  1815: "James Brown - Live at the Apollo, 1962" | Interesting Things with JC #1815: "James Brown - Live at the Apollo, 1962" — James Brown spent $5,700 of his own money recording a concert his record company didn't want. On October 24, 1962, he took the stage at Harlem's Apollo Theater, backed by performers whose contributions would go uncredited on the original album. What followed challenged the industry's assumptions about live recordings. | 2m 43s | ||||||
| 10/23/26 |  1814: "A Simple Riddle #16" | Interesting Things with JC #1814: "A Simple Riddle #16" — Another simple riddle is ready to test your thinking. Listen carefully, consider the clues, and see whether you can solve it before the answer is revealed. Make sure to pause the podcast, give yourself time to think, and best of luck! | 0m 59s | ||||||
| 10/22/26 |  1813: "Flock Cameras and Your Kids" | Interesting Things with JC #1813: "Flock Cameras and Your Kids" – Police investigating a missing 13-year-old girl in Tennessee use Flock Safety license plate cameras and a witness's video to follow a lead nearly 300 miles into North Carolina. Meanwhile, parents routinely post children's sports photographs revealing faces, school names, and team schedules, raising an unexpected question about which cameras expose children's identities. | 2m 53s | ||||||
| 10/21/26 |  1812: "John Atkinson Grimshaw" | Interesting Things with JC #1812: "John Atkinson Grimshaw" – His parents reportedly threw his paints into the fire, but John Atkinson Grimshaw abandoned his railway job to become an artist. He later painted Victorian streets with such remarkable realism that some of his works used actual photographs beneath the paint. | 2m 52s | ||||||
| 10/20/26 |  1811: "Newton’s 3rd Law and Friction" | Interesting Things with JC #1811: "Newton’s 3rd Law & Friction" – Your foot pushes backward against the ground when you walk, but on ice, that same movement can send you sliding. Vehicle tires depend on a similar interaction for traction, while rockets follow Newton's third law without needing contact with the ground. | 2m 18s | ||||||
| 10/19/26 |  1810: "How Deep is the Mariana Trench" | Interesting Things with JC #1810: "How Deep is the Mariana Trench" — Challenger Deep reaches nearly 36,000 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean, more than three times the depth of the Titanic wreck. In 1960, two explorers reached the bottom, but a fractured window threatened their ability to leave the vessel after surfacing. | 2m 55s | ||||||
| 10/18/26 |  1809: "Physics - Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws" | Interesting Things with JC #1809: "Physics - Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws" – A playing card shoots sideways while the coin resting on it drops into a glass. Pull the card slowly, and the coin may move with it. The same physics governs passengers in braking cars and the acceleration of loaded shopping carts. | 2m 45s | ||||||
| 10/17/26 |  1808: "The Assistant That Knows What Not to Share" | Interesting Things with JC #1808: "The Assistant That Knows What Not to Share" – Shortly before Meta launched its Muse AI agent, researchers discovered serious vulnerabilities in the systems meant to keep agents isolated. Meta says the flaws were fixed, but agents that can manage accounts, send messages, and act on behalf of users introduce a larger question about how much access they should receive. | 4m 07s | ||||||
| 10/16/26 |  1807: "Creedence Clearwater Revival" | Interesting Things with JC #1807: "Creedence Clearwater Revival" – On October 16, 1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival announced its breakup after releasing 7 studio albums in just 4 years. The California band had scored 9 Billboard Top 10 hits without a number one, while growing disagreements over songwriting and creative control divided its members. | 2m 46s | ||||||
| 10/15/26 |  1806: "Andy Green Breaks the Land Speed Record" | Interesting Things with JC #1806: "Andy Green Breaks the Land Speed Record" – Andy Green drives ThrustSSC faster than sound, but misses the official record deadline by 49.5 seconds. Two days later, he returns to Nevada's Black Rock Desert for another attempt. | 2m 59s | ||||||
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| 10/14/26 |  1805: "Emmanuel Mensah - The National Guard Mechanic” | Interesting Things with JC #1805: "Emmanuel Mensah - The National Guard Mechanic" — In December 2017, 27-year-old Army National Guard mechanic Emmanuel Mensah escaped a deadly Bronx apartment fire, then repeatedly returned to rescue four neighbors. He entered the burning building once more and never emerged. His actions earned him the Soldier's Medal, the Army's highest honor for heroism outside combat. | 2m 27s | ||||||
| 10/13/26 |  1804: "The Paul is Dead Rumor" | Interesting Things with JC #1804: "The Paul is Dead Rumor" — On October 12, 1969, a Detroit radio caller claimed Paul McCartney was dead and that Beatles records contained hidden evidence. Fans began decoding songs, album covers, and photographs, turning a bizarre rumor into an international obsession. | 2m 59s | ||||||
| 10/12/26 |  1803: "Kick by INXS" | Interesting Things with JC #1803: "Kick by INXS" — In 1987, Atlantic Records executives reportedly wanted INXS to scrap their new album, Kick. Manager Chris Murphy refused, and the record went on to produce four American Top 10 hits, win five MTV Video Music Awards, and sell more than 20 million copies worldwide. Behind its success were a taxi driver waiting while a guitarist recorded a riff, an unusual promotional strategy, and a music video inspired by Bob Dylan. | 2m 43s | ||||||
| 10/11/26 |  1802: "James Prescott Joule" | Interesting Things with JC #1802: "James Prescott Joule" — In the 1840s, James Prescott Joule used falling weights and spinning paddles to measure how mechanical work produces heat, challenging a leading scientific theory and helping establish the law of energy conservation. His experiments changed how scientists understood energy, and his name became its international unit of measurement. | 2m 50s | ||||||
| 10/10/26 |  1801: "Projectiles Launched at an Angle" | Interesting Things with JC #1801: "Projectiles Launched at an Angle" — Throw 2 baseballs at different angles, using exactly the same speed, and both can land at the same distance. Discover why a higher throw doesn't always travel farther and what gravity has to do with it. | 2m 53s | ||||||
| 10/9/26 |  1800: "The Siege of Yorktown" | Interesting Things with JC #1800: "The Siege of Yorktown" — On October 9, 1781, George Washington fired an American cannon at Yorktown as 8,000 British troops faced a massive American and French army. But the British had an even bigger problem: their escape by sea had been cut off. | 2m 56s | ||||||
| 10/8/26 |  1799: “Horizontal Projectiles” | Interesting Things with JC #1799: “Horizontal Projectiles” — Launch one ball sideways and drop another from the same height. Ignoring air resistance, they hit the ground at the same time, even though one traveled across the room. | 2m 45s | ||||||
| 10/7/26 |  1798: "Oh, God! starring George Burns as God and John Denver" | Interesting Things with JC #1798: "Oh, God! starring George Burns as God and John Denver" — On October 7, 1977, George Burns appeared as God opposite John Denver, playing an ordinary grocery store manager suddenly expected to convince everyone that God had actually spoken to him. | 2m 35s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 |  1797: "A Reversible Weakness in Alzheimer’s Gene" | Interesting Things with JC #1797: "A Reversible Weakness in Alzheimer’s Gene" – Scientists found a way to reverse some damage linked to the strongest known genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s. Instead of changing the gene, they blocked one of the signals it sets off. | 2m 55s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 |  1796: “Free Fall Kinematics” | Interesting Things with JC #1796: “Free Fall Kinematics” — Drop a baseball and gravity increases its downward velocity every second, but throw it upward and something unexpected happens at the top: its velocity reaches zero while its acceleration does not. | 3m 43s | ||||||
| 10/4/26 |  1795: “Do Redheads Have Special Powers for Survival?” | Interesting Things with JC #1795: “Do Redheads Have Special Powers for Survival?” - Tennessee tried to execute Christa Gail Pike with pentobarbital, but she survived. An online theory pointed to her red hair, where real genetic differences involving anesthesia and pain offer an unexpected scientific connection, but not an explanation for surviving lethal injection. | 2m 35s | ||||||
| 10/3/26 |  1794: "Best of Both Worlds - Van Halen - 5150" | Interesting Things with JC #1794: "Best of Both Worlds" — David Lee Roth was gone, Sammy Hagar was in, and Van Halen responded with 5150, the first number one album of its career, while “Best of Both Worlds” became an unexpectedly fitting title for the band's new era. | 2m 49s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 |  1793: "Velocity & Acceleration vs. Time" | Interesting Things with JC #1793: "Velocity & Acceleration vs. Time" — A car can be moving fast with zero acceleration, while negative acceleration can actually make something speed up. Velocity and acceleration graphs reveal what an object is doing through their slopes, areas, and direction. | 2m 53s | ||||||
| 10/1/26 |  1792: "The Compact Disc Era" | Interesting Things with JC #1792: "The Compact Disc Era" — CDs went from replacing records and cassettes to dominating music sales, appearing in nearly every car, and then losing the dashboard slot to the digital music they helped make normal. | 2m 53s | ||||||
| 9/30/26 |  1791: "The Night Lake Erie Rose” | Interesting Things with JC #1791: "The Night Lake Erie Rose" — In October 1844, powerful winds reversed across Lake Erie and sent water surging into Buffalo, flooding neighborhoods, destroying buildings and driving canal boats into city streets in one of the region’s worst early maritime disasters. | 2m 51s | ||||||
| 9/11/26 | memorialsStaten Island+4 | — | — | Staten IslandNew York Harbor | Staten Islandmemorial+5 | — | 4m 38s | ||
| 9/10/26 | television historypop culture+3 | — | Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | — | Fresh Prince of Bel-AirWill Smith+3 | — | 4m 28s | ||
| 9/9/26 | parasitesbehavioral changes+3 | — | Texas field crickets | Texas | parasitecrickets+5 | — | 4m 26s | ||
| 9/8/26 | footballbrain injury+4 | — | NFL | — | CTEfootball+8 | — | 3m 28s | ||
| 9/7/26 | jealousypsychology+3 | — | — | — | jealousypsychology+3 | — | 2m 54s | ||
| 9/6/26 | heroismrescue+3 | — | — | Paris | Spider-Man of ParisMamoudou Gassama+3 | — | 2m 16s | ||
| 9/5/26 | encrypted communicationradical groups+3 | — | Autistici/InventatiPKK | U.S. | encrypted emailprivate chats+3 | — | 2m 33s | ||
| 9/4/26 | FBI surveillanceMartin Luther King Jr.+3 | — | FBISCLC | — | FBIsurveillance+5 | — | 6m 51s | ||
| 9/3/26 | Treaty of ParisAmerican independence+3 | — | Britain | United States | Treaty of ParisAmerican states+3 | — | 3m 20s | ||
| 9/2/26 | quantum gravitylasers+3 | — | lasersQUEST | Planck scale | quantum gravitylasers+3 | — | 4m 02s | ||
| 7/21/26 | graffitiurban art+3 | — | — | New York Cityfive boroughs+1 | graffitiNew York City+5 | — | 2m 21s | ||
| 7/20/26 | musicguitar+3 | — | — | — | drop D tuningguitar+3 | — | 2m 38s | ||
| 7/19/26 | fashion historyAmerican style+3 | — | New York | ParisNew York | Eleanor LambertPress Week+6 | — | 3m 31s | ||
| 7/18/26 | toilet designpublic restrooms+3 | — | — | — | toilet seatgap+3 | — | 2m 07s | ||
| 7/17/26 | businessleadership+3 | — | Gillette | — | Jim KiltsGillette+3 | — | 2m 47s | ||
| 7/16/26 | twinsrelationships+3 | — | Catskills hotel | — | twinsromance+4 | — | 2m 11s | ||
| 7/15/26 | gut bacteriaintestinal health+3 | — | Bacteroides fragilis | — | gut bacteriaBacteroides fragilis+3 | — | 2m 11s | ||
| 7/14/26 | Legionnaires' diseasepublic health+4 | — | Legionella | Manhattan | Legionnaires' diseaseManhattan+5 | — | 2m 30s | ||
| 7/13/26 | dogsanimal behavior+3 | — | — | — | dogsheat sensor+3 | — | 2m 15s | ||
| 7/12/26 | fast foodbeverage+3 | — | Coca-ColaMcDonald's | — | McDonald'sCoca-Cola+3 | — | 1m 39s | ||
| 6/13/26 | sea ottersanimal behavior+3 | — | — | Pacific Ocean | sea otterssleep+3 | — | 1m 42s | ||
| 6/12/26 | alien signalsglobal protocols+3 | — | Scientists | — | alien signaldisclosure+4 | — | 3m 33s | ||
| 6/11/26 | cosmic perspectiveOverview Effect+3 | — | The Overview Effect | Earthspace | Overview Effectcosmic perspective+4 | — | 2m 55s | ||
| 6/10/26 | Fermi Paradoxintelligent life+3 | — | The Fermi Paradox | Milky Way | Fermi Paradoxextraterrestrial life+4 | — | 3m 37s | ||
| 6/9/26 | ESPpsychology+3 | — | Duke University | — | ESPDuke University+3 | — | 3m 50s | ||
| 6/8/26 | sacred stonesEgyptian mythology+3 | — | The Benben Stone | Egypt | Benben StoneEgypt+4 | — | 2m 37s | ||
| 6/7/26 | economicslabor conditions+3 | — | — | Puerto Rico | Thomas Sowelllabor conditions+3 | — | 4m 47s | ||
| 6/6/26 | mythologyfolklore+3 | — | — | Woolpit | green childrenWoolpit+3 | — | 3m 56s | ||
| 6/5/26 | psychiatryresearch+3 | — | Subproject 68 | — | psychiatric patientsrecorded message+3 | — | 5m 57s | ||
| 6/4/26 | timerelativity+3 | — | — | — | universal nowlight-years+3 | — | 2m 51s | ||
| 5/8/26 | electrostatic propulsionaviation+4 | — | Interesting Things with JCElectrostatic Propulsion | — | electrostatic propulsionfixed-wing aircraft+3 | — | 3m 40s | ||
| 5/7/26 | Vietnam WarGulf of Tonkin Incident+3 | — | U.S. Navy | VietnamNorth Vietnam | Gulf of TonkinVietnam War+3 | — | 3m 39s | ||
| 5/6/26 | space explorationrocket engineering+3 | — | V-2 rocket programPeenemünde+1 | — | Krafft Ehrickerocket engineer+5 | — | 3m 57s | ||
| 5/5/26 | stop signstraffic signs+4 | — | — | — | stop signsoctagon+4 | — | 2m 59s | ||
| 5/4/26 | girl group erapop music history+4 | Nedra Talley | The RonettesBe My Baby | — | Nedra TalleyThe Ronettes+5 | — | 4m 30s | ||
| 5/3/26 | military historyconspiracy theories+4 | — | AmericaCuba | — | Operation NorthwoodsCuba+5 | — | 2m 35s | ||
| 5/2/26 | country musicoutlaw culture+3 | — | — | — | David Allan Coecountry music+3 | — | 3m 27s | ||
| 5/1/26 | weldingmanufacturing+4 | — | Saturn V | — | Eberhard ReesSaturn V+4 | — | 4m 49s | ||
| 4/30/26 | historytransportation+3 | — | — | Route 66 | Route 66transcontinental highway+3 | — | 2m 56s | ||
| 4/29/26 | animalspets+3 | — | — | suburban Illinois | NorbertTony Pork+4 | — | 2m 37s | ||
| 4/28/26 | AM Radiomass media+4 | — | AM Radio | — | AM Radiomass-mind medium+4 | — | 4m 33s | ||
| 4/27/26 | riversgeography+3 | — | — | NahanniNiagara | Nahanni RiverNiagara Falls+3 | — | 5m 24s | ||
| 4/26/26 | Chernobylradiation+3 | — | — | — | ChernobylIgor Khiryak+3 | — | 2m 51s | ||
| 4/25/26 | psychologyhappiness+3 | — | — | — | Alfred Adlerhappiness+5 | — | 3m 28s | ||
| 4/24/26 | quantum physicsdouble slit experiment+3 | — | Quantum Level | — | double slit experimentquantum physics+3 | — | 2m 44s | ||
| 4/23/26 | communicationtechnology+3 | — | — | — | communicationtechnology+3 | — | 2m 17s | ||
| 4/22/26 | automotive engineeringengine design+3 | — | 392 HEMIChrysler+1 | — | 392 HEMIChrysler+5 | — | 6m 06s | ||
| 4/21/26 | librariesAlexandria+3 | — | — | Alexandria | Alexandrialibraries+5 | — | 6m 13s | ||
| 4/20/26 | military aviationdrone technology+3 | — | F-35drone | — | F-35drones+5 | — | 2m 56s | ||
| 4/19/26 | tree seedsseed bank+3 | — | British Columbia Tree Seed Centre | British Columbia | tree seedsBritish Columbia+5 | — | 2m 39s | ||
| 4/18/26 | electricitysound+3 | — | glass globe | London | electricitysound+3 | — | 3m 33s | ||
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