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WE'RE JUST DIFFERENT.



NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999 due to a mix up between the U.S. customary and metric systems of measurement. The United States remains one of only a handful of countries that has not widely adopted the metric system.



This isn't due to a lack of trying. In its history the United States has tried several time to make the metric system the nation's standard. It just didn't try very hard.



This time on ¡extra! Ordinary, Sonny looks at America's complicated relationship with the metric system including John Quincy Adams' exhaustive report in the 1800's and the push to make the switch in the late 1970's.



Also in this episode: The 1-19, the only metric interstate in the US. 



¡extra! Ordinary is hosted by Sonny Garibay.    

NOW THEY'RE LOST AND GONE FOREVER!



An upcoming John Malkovich movie, is on target to meet its 2115 release date. That wasn't a typo. The already finished film sits in a safe, waiting to open to an audience that likely wasn't around when it was completed.



There are plenty of other movies though, that you will never see because they haven't survived, either due to decay or fires or abandonment. 



This time on ¡extra! Ordinary it's films we'll never see, and the reasons why. 



I also look at "Who Killed Bambi" a proposed Sex Pistols Feature Film that barely got started before it got cancelled and how the band's short run came to a grinding halt after a show in San Fransisco not long after.



¡extra! Ordinary is hosted by Sonny Garibay.  

IF A PHONE RINGS IN THE DESERT AND NOBODY IS AROUND TO HEAR IT DOES IT MAKE A SOUND?



After reading a strange letter in a music magazine, an Arizona man becomes obsessed with a random phone in an abandoned city. 



This time on ¡extra! Ordinary we look at the Mojave Phone Booth, a functioning pay phone in the middle of the desolate California desert that gained a cult following at the turn of century and was ultimately taken down when its fame grew too great. 



We also look at the history of Cima, the town that the booth was meant to service and how the phone outlived the town.







¡extra! Ordinary is hosted by Sonny Garibay. 

BABIES IN THE MAIL! 

When the USPS first commissioned the Parcel Post Service it did so under a different set of rules than we know today, different in that they didn't exist. This time on ¡extra! Ordinary, we look at the history of parcels in the United States and the short period of time when postmasters looked the other way while people were sending people in the mail. 

Humans aren't the only unexpected thing that the Parcel Post has delivered.  We also look at the Utah building that was partially mailed brick by brick to the construction site. 

¡extra! Ordinary is hosted by Sonny Garibay

Published Date: 10MAY20