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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.

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  • #1733
    August 3 · 2 min

    1733: "Can Rams Get Brain Damage?"

    Interesting Things with JC #1733: "Can Rams Get Brain Damage?" – Bighorn rams survive violent head-on crashes that would devastate most animals, yet their brains may still carry evidence of those impacts. Scientists are still trying to understand what they're seeing.

  • #1731
    August 1 · 2 min

    1731: "Mac's Drive-In”

    Interesting Things with JC #1731: "Mac's Drive-In" – A drive-in restaurant has kept the same carhop service, horseshoe counter, and frosted root beer tradition alive since 1961, even after moving the entire building to a new location in 1967. While thousands of independent drive-ins disappeared, Mac

  • #1730
    July 31 · 2 min

    1730: "Weed Zappers"

    Interesting Things with JC #1730: "Weed Zappers" – Herbicide-resistant weeds are surviving the chemicals meant to kill them, so some farmers are now sending 15,000 volts through individual plants to destroy them from stem to root as agriculture adapts to evolution.

  • #1729
    July 30 · 2 min

    1729: "Project Skif: Russia's Seabed Nuclear Silos"

    Interesting Things with JC #1729: "Project Skif: Russia's Seabed Nuclear Silos" – Intelligence reports suggest Russia may be testing nuclear missile launchers designed to wait for years on the Arctic seabed.

  • #1728
    July 29 · 5 min

    1728: "Little Italy"

    Interesting Things with JC #1728: "Little Italy" – Millions of Italian immigrants came to America seeking opportunity and helped build New York through hard work, faith, and family. Their neighborhoods became Little Italy, leaving a legacy that shaped both the city and the nation.

  • #1727
    July 28 · 4 min

    1727: "The Pontic Mountains"

    Interesting Things with JC #1727: "The Pontic Mountains" – A mountain range traps rain along Turkey's Black Sea coast while drying the land just beyond it, shaping forests, farms, trade routes, and entire communities that still follow the mountains today.

  • #1726
    July 27 · 5 min

    1726: "The Pontiac Banshee"

    Interesting Things with JC #1726: "The Pontiac Banshee" – Pontiac kept building sports cars it was never allowed to sell. Even so, every generation left pieces of itself on the performance cars that followed.

  • #1725
    July 26 · 3 min

    1725: "The King Who Invented an Invasion"

    Interesting Things with JC #1725: "The King Who Invented an Invasion" – Sweden's King Gustav III needed Russia to attack first before he could legally wage war, so his government staged a border incident to create the appearance of an invasion. The deception started a real war...

  • #1724
    July 25 · 2 min

    1724: "The History of Yo Mama Jokes"

    Interesting Things with JC #1724: "The History of Yo Mama Jokes" – A "Yo Mama" joke appears on a Babylonian clay tablet from about 1500 BC, showing that one of today's most familiar insults was already making people laugh thousands of years before playgrounds, stand-up comedy, or the internet.

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