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Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
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Welcome to Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know,
where every other week we ask our mom a question and then teach her about it through the power of podcasting. We are your tour guides through bizzare history and hope you enjoy your ride. please keep your hands in the vehicle because we bite.
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#61 Does Anyone Want Seconds (The Johan De Witt Story)
May 13, 202300:28:36Tap to summarizeHoly smokes we are back with a vengence baby. After a year of getting our lives together we are back in your ears with a tale of war, war again, war a third time and some other super messed up sh*t. Sit back and relax. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Breda allthatsinteresting.com/johan-de-witt https://darktales.blog/2022/02/02/the-death-of-johan-de-witt/ dutchreview.com/culture/dutch-history-crowds-ate-prime-minister/ emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=johan-de-witt aronson.com/the-disaster-year/ youtube.com/watch?v=tQDgRxTZ-Ls
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#60 Ring ring ring ring ring cat phone
Mar 19, 202200:12:56Tap to summarizeThis week we talk about the 1929 princeton sound experiment and how it helped deaf people. sources blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2017/04/the-cat-telephone/ allthatsinteresting.com/princeton-cat-telephone fantasticfacts.net/1611/ https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/princeton-cat-experiment/ https://www.history101.com/turned-a-cat-into-a-phone/
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#59 Holy shit marathons are hard
Feb 26, 202200:25:05Tap to summarizethis week we talk about the disaster that was the 1904 olympic marathon and what a mess it was. sources: smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/ runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a37039437/1904-olympic-marathon/ olympics.com/en/news/st-louis-marathon-the-strangest-race-in-olympic-history abc.net.au/news/2020-07-26/the-wildest-olympic-event-in-modern-history/12467362 marathonhandbook.com/the-marathon-from-hell/ theatlantic.com/photo/2019/09/the-1904-st-louis-worlds-fair-photos/597658/
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#58 Lets go, In and out, 38 minute adventure (the Anglo-Zanzibar War)
Feb 17, 202200:19:20Tap to summarizeThis week everyones favorite co-host Morgan takes over to tell us about the shortest war in history. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/event/Anglo-Zanzibar-War
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#57 Give me all your money German Airline! this is a robbery
Feb 11, 202200:17:32Tap to summarizethis week we talk about one of the largest heists in American history. the Lufthansa Heist and those involved. sources: britannica.com/event/Lufthansa-heist aetv.com/real-crime/lufthansa-heist-murders-mafia-mobsters https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lufthansa-heist-jfk-airport-goodfellas-henry-hill biography.com/news/real-goodfellas-lufthansa-heist-henry-hill abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/things-goodfellas-henry-hill/story?id=16557945 businessinsider.com/what-happened-during-the-lufthansa-heist-of-1978-2014-1 nytimes.com/1979/05/17/archives/exlufthansa-agent-guilty-in-6-million-airport-theft-witness.html
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#56 What a great time we had. (The Click and Clack story)
Jan 27, 202200:20:22Tap to summarizethis week we dive into some childhood memories for all of us and explore the wonderful NPR program Car Talk and its hosts Ray and Tommy Magliozzi. this episode is dedicated to our dad. hes still alive but we just want him to know we remember the things he showed us Sources: https://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77 npr.org/people/2100834/tom-and-ray-magliozzi https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/09/25/car-talk-click-clack-ray-tom-magliozzi https://www.automotivehalloffame.org/honoree/tom-magliozzi/ radiohalloffame.com/tom-ray-magliozzi cartalk.com/content/tom-and-ray-magliozzi-bios https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2021/09/26/ray-magliozzi-recounts-44-years-of-car-talk/
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#55 what if we just take the building, and push it somewhere else
Jan 8, 202200:17:16Tap to summarizewe are back for a new and exciting 2022 and we are kicking things off with just a fucking ridiculous engineering feat. the moving of the Indiana Bell Telephone Building sources: https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/f8602d8d vintag.es/2021/04/indiana-bell-building-moving.html amusingplanet.com/2019/10/an-incredible-move-indiana-bell.html indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2014/01/07/indiana-bell/4354705/
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#54 Dude looks like a lady (the Deborah Sampson story)
Dec 10, 202100:21:03Tap to summarizethis week we talk about a revolutionary war hero who risked it all to fight for freedom sources: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/deborah-sampson/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Deborah-Sampson https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/diary-sheds-light-deborah-sampson-who-fought-revolutionary-war-180972547/ https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/deborah-sampson https://historyofmassachusetts.org/deborah-sampson-woman-warrior-of-the-american-revoultion/
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#53 Thanksgiving Episode. Fun facts and the best story of all
Nov 25, 202100:25:50Tap to summarizethis thanksgiving we thought we would share some fun facts about thanksgiving and then tell the best thanksgiving story of all time with full orchestration and 5 part harmonies sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/brief-history-alices-restaurant-180967276/ https://www.alicebrockstudio.com/ https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/arlo-guthrie-gets-arrested-littering/
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#52 The Boston Molassacre (yes you read that right)
Nov 25, 202100:14:26Tap to summarizeThis week we talk about the Boston Molassacre when giant waves of molasses caused untold damage through the North End of Boston sources:
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