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1489: "Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 5402"
Episode 1489
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 should…
Published on 7 hours ago
1488: "Cold Showers and Ice Baths"
Episode 1488
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 foc…
Published on 1 day, 7 hours ago
1487: "The Laurel Run Mine Fire"
Episode 1487
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…
Published on 2 days, 7 hours ago
1486: "December"
Episode 1486
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 …
Published on 3 days, 7 hours ago
1485: "Professor Abel Wolman"
Episode 1485
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 res…
Published on 4 days, 7 hours ago
1484: "Indoor Plumbing"
Episode 1484
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 en…
Published on 5 days, 7 hours ago
1483: "100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry"
Episode 1483
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 trad…
Published on 6 days, 7 hours ago
1482: "The First NFL Thanksgiving Game"
Episode 1482
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 e…
Published on 1 week ago
1481: "The Real History Behind Eleven"
Episode 1481
Interesting Things with JC #1481: "The Real History Behind Eleven" – Behind Stranger Things is a darker reality: secret experiments, Cold War paranoia, and psychological tests on real kids. Eleven w…
Published on 1 week, 1 day ago
1480: "Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina"
Episode 1480
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 que…
Published on 1 week, 2 days ago