Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know Stuff Our Mom Doesnt 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. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
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#61 Does Anyone Want Seconds (The Johan De Witt Story)
Holy 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
This 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
this 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)
This 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
this 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)
this 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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