Goff's 3 Minute Histories: Recent Episodes
Isaac Goff
Save The Whales
Sources:
https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/history-and-humanities/history/operation-beluga-whale-rescue-feature-262435425/
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/classical-music-saved-beluga-whales-moskva/
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
Kennedy, Coconuts, and the Corps.
Sources:
https://www.jfklibrary.org/visit-museum/exhibits/past-exhibits/john-f-kennedy-in-wwii
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/john-f-kennedy-and-pt-109
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-jfk-kept-coconut-shell-white-house-desk-180964263/
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
https://ezmp3.cc/
The ship that sunk itself.
Sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/rms-carmania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carmania_(1905)
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
The most embarrassing bathroom break of WWII.
Sources:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/poop-sank-wwii-german-u-boat
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/education/educational-resources/history-of-submarines/submarine-development--a-short-history.html
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
Midnight snack anyone?
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep?xtor=CS3-32-%5BFuture_C__GNL_Q4_22-23%5D-%5BFacebook%5D-%5B23853368466520273%5D-%5B%7B%7Bcreative.id%7D%7D%5D
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
NASA: experts at space exploration, zero gravity, and broom combustion.
Sources:
https://www.iflscience.com/the-broom-test-one-of-the-stupidest-things-that-ever-took-place-at-nasa-67319
https://www.nasa.gov/content/liquid-hydrogen-the-fuel-of-choice-for-space-exploration
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
Hero or Zero? The Holiday Fruitcake.
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fruitcake-101-a-concise-cultural-history-of-this-loved-and-loathed-loaf-26428035/#:~:text=The%20ancient%20Romans%20made%20a,breads%20entered%20Western%20European%20cuisine.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-misunderstood-fruitcake-has-a-magnificent-shelf-life-and-history#:~:text=Fruitcake%20is%20an%20ancient%20goody,dried%20fruit%2C%20often%20pomegranate%20seeds.
https://manitousprings.org/events/fruitcake-toss/
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
Things that go bump in the night....
Sources:
https://greydynamics.com/cia-vampires-us-meddling-in-the-philippines/
https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/cia-aswang-war-a00304-a2416-20191019-lfrm
Music: www.purple-planet.com
Moooooooo......Attack!!
Sources:
https://weavingthetapestry.tumblr.com/post/89195829575/1314-1-4-the-fall-of-roxburgh
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-AngloScottish-Wars-or-Wars-of-Scottish-Independence/#:~:text=The%20Anglo%2DScottish%20Wars%20were,the%20years%20of%201296%20%E2%80%93%201346.
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
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War Games Gone M.A.D.
Sources:
https://timeline.com/proud-prophet-nuclear-strike-1d4ee88fdbe2
Can I Take Your Order?
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/drive-thru-dining-history-in-n-out-burger
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/romans-loved-fast-food-much-we-do-180971845/
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
Sources:
https://time.com/4731787/wojtek-the-bear-history/
Music:
Vivek Abhishek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLByBt4wYTQ
If it fits it ships....
Sources:
https://www.thoughtco.com/when-it-was-legal-mail-babies-3321266#:~:text=Yes%2C%20%22baby%20mail%22%20was,Service%20%E2%80%94%20first%20started%20delivering%20packages.
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/very-special-deliveries
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mail-1992142
https://www.redbookmag.com/life/g26258673/facts-about-the-postal-service/
Music:
www.purple-planet.com
When Hitler pushed into Denmark in 1940 he felt little resistance until a group of teenage boys refused to give in.
Sources: The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Peterson and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
Music: purple-planet.com
The end of an empire...
Sources:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/once-retail-giant-kmart-down-054545661.html
https://transformco.com/about/kmart/kmart-history
Music: purple-planet.com
A tradition unlike any other....The Masters.
Sources:
https://www.masters.com/en_US/tournament/about.html#:~:text=The%20name%20Augusta%20National%20Invitation,first%20full%20week%20in%20April.
https://www.golfmonthly.com/tour/us-masters/masters-history-records/masters-green-jacket-126753
https://golf.com/news/features/this-baltimore-man-owns-a-green-jacket-and-augusta-national-desperately-wants-it/
Music: purple-planet.com
Fortune favors the listener.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/fortune-cookies-invented-chinese-japanese
https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882
Music: 'Awake' by @Sappheiros
Secret Agent Cyborg Cats....what could go wrong?
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/cia-spy-cat-espionage-fail
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-cias-most-highly-trained-spies-werent-even-human-20149/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
Music: www.purple-planet.com
Who? What? Where?
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/clue-game-origin-wwii
Music: www.purple-planet.com
There is only one place in the world that hippos can be found in the wild outside of Africa.....Pablo Escobar's house.
Sources:
https://insightcrime.org/colombia-organized-crime-news/pablo-escobar/
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/584514-pablo-escobars-80-cocaine-hippos-are-wreaking
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/538196-pablo-escobars-hippos-breeding-out-of-control-and
https://www.nathab.com/blog/six-surprising-facts-about-hippos-africa/
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/hippo-fact-sheet/
From turtle spoon to Hollywood icon, the culinary journey of the spork.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/magazine/who-made-that-spork.html
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/invented-spork1.htm
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/history-of-chopsticks-forks-spoons-and-sporks-who-invented-the-spoon-who-invented-the-fork
Music: www.purple-planet.com
They say history is written by the victors....but I've never seen an emu write before.
Sources:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-emu-war-in-which-some-large-flightless-birds-unwittingly-foiled-the-australian-army/
https://nomadsworld.com/great-emu-war/
Music: The Red Soil · Saira Ridley
France and Spain proving that you can share even 350 years later.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42817859
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Spanish_War_(1635%E2%80%931659)
Music: purple-planet.com
Pepsi would have decidedly won the Cola Wars of the 80s if the battle had gone to sea.
Sources:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/pepsi-once-had-the-6th-largest-navy-in-the-world.html?fbclid=IwAR3gpkdL5iPu-qzv1qtoce2tiCdKXN3voR65uvbTwTlcykCG8BwzOFwoTD0
Music: purple-planet.com
Weaponizing cats to capture a kingdom.
Sources:
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/43/the-battle-of-pelusium-a-victory-decided-by-cats/
https://www.purina.com.au/fancyfeast/thelounge/articles/joy/history-of-cats-in-egypt#:~:text=From%20everyday%20people%20to%20the,symbol%20and%20source%20of%20worship.
Music: https://bit.ly/3fgvmOB
Bats and Napalm....what could go wrong?
Sources:
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2016/01/26/bat-bombs-wwiis-project-x-ray/
https://web.archive.org/web/20080531082803/http://www.afa.org/magazine/1990/1090bat.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/old-weird-tech-the-bat-bombs-of-world-war-ii/237267/
Music: www.purple-planet.com
The most famous scream in cinema.
Sources:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60236/where-did-wilhelm-scream-come-and-why-do-so-many-filmmakers-use-it
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-the-wilhelm-scream-sound-effect/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123785/
Music: purple-planet.com
It's like the pony express, except the library version.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_Horse_Library_Project#:~:text=The%20Pack%20Horse%20Library%20Project%20was%20headed%20by%20Ellen%20Woodward,individual%20homes%20and%20to%20schoolhouses.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/horse-riding-librarians-were-great-depression-bookmobiles-180963786/
Music: purple-planet.com
Latin, the language to get famous after it died.
Sources:
https://www.thoughtco.com/why-late-latin-was-called-vulgar-119475
https://allthatsinteresting.com/height-roman-empire-map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire
https://www.th
egreatcoursesdaily.com/language-evolution-one-language-became-five-languages/
https://askdruniverse.wsu.edu/2015/02/11/whats-in-a-name/
Music: www.purple-planet.com
Everyone has an opinion on who has the best sandwich they've ever eaten, but hands down the worst had to be the Raines Sandwich, check out why.......
Sources:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/raines-sandwich
Music: www.purple-planet.com
Talk about carrying a marriage on your back....
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Weinsberg
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-wise-wives-of-weinsberg-cce96e3a1d79
https://www.technewsiit.com/hidden-history-loyal-wives-weinsberg
Music: www.purple-planet.com
Mary Poppins and the Polio Vaccine.
Sources:
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/954413533/his-vaccine-story-inspired-his-father-to-write-a-disney-classic
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/index.html#:~:text=Inactivated%20polio%20vaccine%20(IPV)%20is,four%20doses%20of%20polio%20vaccine.
https://sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/?p=12744
https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/polio-20th-century-epidemic
Music: www.purple-planet.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks4u1NFV4eQ
Who needs to put out milk and cookies when you can play hide and seek with the Christmas Pickle.
Sources:
https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/christmaspickle.shtml
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/2018/12/20/whats-christmas-pickle-tradition-youll-want-start-now/2341958002/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mysterious-christmas-pickle-tradition-hiding-german
https://www.german-way.com/history-and-culture/holidays-and-celebrations/christmas/the-christmas-pickle-ornament/
Music: www.purple-planet.com
Cold or hot....SPAM hits the spot.
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/food/how-spam-went-canned-necessity-american-icon-180963916/
https://www.eater.com/2014/7/9/6191681/a-brief-history-of-spam-an-american-meat-icon
Music:https://www.purple-planet.com
In 1775, as the American Colonies began their revolt against the British Crown, General Washington's biggest battle would be against disease not redcoats.
Sources:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/623428/george-washington-won-american-revolution-with-smallpox-vaccine
https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-george-washington-revolutionary-war
https://www.history.com/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-smallpox?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history
Music: www.purple-planet.com
Pigeons save lives.
Sources:
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-01/geologist-has-probably-figured-out-how-homing-pigeons-find-their-way-home/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20749632
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226203/Skeleton-hero-World-War-II-carrier-pigeon-chimney-secret-coded-message-attached-leg.html
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_425415#:~:text=Cher%20Ami%20was%20later%20inducted,service%20during%20World%20War%20I.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/01/08/unsung-heroes-of-world-war-i-the-carrier-pigeons/
Music: www.purple-planet.com
Communism. Chaos. Cannibals
This episode does have some explicit descriptions of cannibalism and may not be suited for all listeners.
Sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/cannibal-island?fbclid=IwAR10gLfpQ73c6VwCPSrzTf9RKRrkSOSiPU9XGKNZlIW8kk6gDxqZSZiF0-o
https://www.rferl.org/a/cannibal-island-in-1933-nearly-5-000-died-in-one-of-stalin-s-most-horrific-labor-camps/29341167.html
Music: purple-planet.com
The Legend of Stingy Jack. Apologies for the nasal factor on this one. Happy Halloween!!
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/history-of-the-jack-o-lantern-irish-origins
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12865/whats-origin-jack-o-lanterns
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
John Snow (not that John Snow) and the cholera map that saved London and changed the way we view pandemics forever.
Sources:
https://www.ranker.com/list/john-snow-cholera-map/genevieve-carlton
https://www.healthline.com/health/worst-disease-outbreaks-history#cholera
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
Ever want to be President for a day? This guy was.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/the-24-hour-president
Music: purple-planet.com
How a rocket scientist invented a squirt gun that is out of this world.
Sources:
https://www.toyhalloffame.org/toys/super-soaker
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28991/wet-and-wild-history-super-soaker
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/accidental-invention-super-soaker-180972428/
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
Everything you never knew about your favorite toaster accessory.
Sources:
https://www.mashed.com/117295/untold-truth-pop-tarts/
https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/pop-tarts-brief-history
https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/nation/6-skills-you-should-master-this-summer
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/best-selling-poptarts-flavors_n_5836520
Music: purple-planet.com
All you need to know about West Virginia 1.0.
Sources:
https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/857
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/settleland/vandalia.html
http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh40-4.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vKBPk5eA
The wait is over! We're back! And I got the missus to join me on this one for some voice work!
Everything you needed to know about the Lady of the Harbor.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21932675
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus
https://www.history.com/topics/landmarks/statue-of-liberty
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51521/10-statue-of-liberty-facts
Music: purple-planet.com
We've been here before, we will be here again. Let's check out our response last time. Stay safe team.
Sources:
https://www.livescience.com/spanish-flu.html
https://allthatsinteresting.com/1918-flu-pandemic
https://tedium.co/2017/10/16/american-samoa-spanish-flu/
Music: purple-planet.com
That one time President Teddy Roosevelt flexed on the world with the U.S. Navy.
Sources:
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/c/cruise-great-white-fleet-mckinley.html
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Election 2020. Whats up with Iowa? All you need to know about the Iowa Caucuses featuring guest Jenn McCallister.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_caucuses
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/when-was-the-first-iowa-caucus-history-of-americas-kickoff-presidential-contest
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
What if the machines will not only one day take over, but have already begun their revolution? Check it out....
Sources:
https://futurism.com/singularity-explain-it-to-me-like-im-5-years-old
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Technological_singularity_hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatality)
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlE75w2JRxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVZ2NShfCE8&t=128s
Birthdays are about more than cake and ice cream. Check out the history of birthdays now.
Sources:
https://www.pumpitupparty.com/blog/how-did-the-tradition-of-birthdays-begin/
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
And my 2nd period World History Class
We discussed it every day in school but learned nothing about it. Take a few minutes to hear about the pledge of allegiance.
Sources:
https://www.ushistory.org/DOCUMENTS/pledge.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
The fear of the Ancient World. The hope of the Byzantine Empire. Greek Fire. Check it out.
Sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/greek-fire
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Celebrate National Candy Corn Day by investing in some history on the candy, then go grab a bag and make yourself sick.
Sources:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/30/an-oral-history-of-candy-corn-the-most-polarizing-confection-of-them-all/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/10/where-our-love-hate-relationship-with-candy-corn-comes-from/65428/
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Take a journey of the history of the T shirt from underwear to icon.
Sources:
https://www.realthread.com/blog/history-of-the-tshirt-2014-01-30
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/magazine/who-made-that-t-shirt.html
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Potato Potato, regardless of how you say it French Fries aren't French. Check it out.
Sources:
https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/belgian-fries
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/09/the-history-of-french-fries/
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Yooooo JOE! (Apologies for the hot mess of an intro on this one. Will try to fix and resubmit when I get a chance.)
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe:_A_Real_American_Hero_(1985_TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Slaughter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe https://www.history.com/news/why-are-american-soldiers-called-gis https://www.toyhalloffame.org/toys/gi-joe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcaFgT4Slyc Sources: Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
A brief history about that place out in the desert where they keep "them aliens".
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49568127
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Atomic-Energy-Commission-United-States-organization
https://www.britannica.com/place/Area-51
Sources:
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
That one time Key West broke up with America.....
Sources:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-conch-republic-key-west-florida
https://myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/article/14
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4x9n8d/that-time-the-florida-keys-tried-to-secede-from-the-us-by-dropping-conch-fritter-bombs
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Extended local history episode from my neck of the woods. The Ritchie Mines produced asphalt to pave some of the biggest cities in the world. Check it out. (Warning: This one misses the 3 minute mark by a bit.)
Sources: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/ritchie/history/ritchmin.txt https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/86 http://www.newsandsentinel.com/opinion/local-columns/2017/11/look-back-ritchie-county-mines-railroad-fade-into-history/ http://www.newsandsentinel.com/opinion/local-columns/2017/11/look-back-danger-adventure-in-ritchie-mines/?fb_comment_id=1950219821766236_1993505074104377 Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
The man, the myth, the Uncle.
Sources:
https://historydaily.org/who-was-the-inspiration-for-uncle-sam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wilson
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-nicknamed-uncle-sam
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Join myself and special guest Grayson as we delve into the story of Lena Blackburne's famous mud and how it has shaped the game of baseball for 80 years.
Sources:
http://baseballrubbingmud.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/baseballs-secret-ingredient-mud/2017/03/31/af56eeaa-14c7-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Party like it's 1777.
Sources:
https://www.americanpyro.com/history-of-fireworks
https://www.livescience.com/63468-fireworks-history.html
https://time.com/4828701/first-fireworks-history-july-4th/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw7ajsKmbd4
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Crikey! A history of Crocs f/Rylee Copeland.
Sources:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/07/how-crocs-conquered-the-world.html
https://careers.crocs.com/about-us/default.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocs
Rylee Copeland
Brooklyn Smith
https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2007/07/how-the-croc-go.html
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Everything you didn't need to know about the most famous font in history.
Sources:
https://typographyforlawyers.com/a-brief-history-of-times-new-roman.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_New_Roman
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Summa Summa Summa Time!
Sources:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/debunking-myth-summer-vacation
http://mentalfloss.com/article/56901/why-do-students-get-summers
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Fun to play with, not to eat.
Sources:
https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/play-stuff/2016/11/the-history-of-play-doh-good-clean-fun
https://playdoh.hasbro.com/en-us/faq
http://mentalfloss.com/article/52727/10-fun-facts-about-play-doh
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Rain -> Grass -> Cows -> Milk -> Butter Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis https://nowiknow.com/the-great-norwegian-butter-crisis-of-2011/ https://slate.com/business/2011/12/norwegian-butter-battle-an-absurd-dairy-shortage-and-its-very-valuable-economic-lessons.html Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Radar, Rumors, and Root Vegetables
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/
https://www.allaboutvision.com/nutrition/vitamin_a.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/carrots-are-orange-for-an-entirely-political-reason/2011/09/09/gIQAfayiFK_blog.html?utm_term=.dbc78e548b31
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Orange Oranges and which was first.
Sources:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/everything-you-know-is-wrong-oranges-aren-t-orange-1097312640
http://mentalfloss.com/article/29942/which-came-first-orange-color-or-orange-fruit
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/qi/8345477/QI-Quite-interesting-facts-about-orange.html
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
What's in a name?
Sources:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/58440/why-do-we-have-middle-names
https://www.rd.com/culture/why-do-we-have-middle-names/
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Podcast #4 on #2.
Pt. 4 of the Turd Trilogy.
SPECIAL GUEST DWIGHT GOFF!!!!!
Sources:
https://www.lancasterfarming.com/pondering-the-privy-a-history-of-outhouses/article_3f416eae-d0df-5d7f-9e70-3fcfb72a110a.html
Credit: https://www.purple-planet.com
It's a crappy job but somebody's gotta do it.
Pt. 3 of the Turd Trilogy
Sources:
https://www.lancasterfarming.com/pondering-the-privy-a-history-of-outhouses/article_3f416eae-d0df-5d7f-9e70-3fcfb72a110a.html
https://www.nonfictionminute.org/the-nonfiction-minute/gong-farmers-their-crop-was-crap
Credit: https://www.purple-planet.com
Corncobs, seashells, moss, hands, we've come a long way in our search for a better way to wipe. Pt. 2 of the Turd Trilogy
Sources:
https://www.lancasterfarming.com/pondering-the-privy-a-history-of-outhouses/article_3f416eae-d0df-5d7f-9e70-3fcfb72a110a.html
https://www.charmin.com/en-us/about-us/history-of-toilet-paper
http://mentalfloss.com/article/23210/toilet-paper-history-how-america-convinced-world-wipe
http://www.toiletpaperhistory.net/toilet-paper-history/history-of-toilet-paper/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/07/toilet-paper-wasnt-commonly-used-in-the-united-states-until-the-early-20th-century/
http://www.searsarchives.com/catalogs/history.htm
Credit: https://www.purple-planet.com
Dropping some knowledge on the Porcelain Pony.
Pt. 1 of the Turd Trilogy.
Special Thanks to Tyler Booth for help in recording audio effects for this episode.
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/turrets-toilets-partial-history-throne-room-180951788/
http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1940525,00.html
https://www.lancasterfarming.com/pondering-the-privy-a-history-of-outhouses/article_3f416eae-d0df-5d7f-9e70-3fcfb72a110a.html
https://phys.org/news/2015-11-toilets-sewers-ancient-roman-sanitation.html
Credit: https://www.purple-planet.com
Clan before Klan.
Sources:
https://timeline.com/why-does-the-ku-klux-klan-burn-crosses-they-got-the-idea-from-a-movie-75a70f7ab135
https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1213/p25s04-wonq.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_burning
https://cranntara.scot/crannta.htm
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
A story about when a city said enough!
Sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/guardian-angels-photos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Angels
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/guardian-angels-started-protecting-nyc-subways-article-1.804336
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Shhhh! whispers You're listening to a podcast about this history of libraries.
Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/library/The-history-of-libraries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_library
http://dorabwoodyard.lib.wv.us/
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
The greatest Cold War multinational fleet to never set sail.
Sources:
https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-02-22/there-once-was-a-country-in-the-middle-of-the-suez-canal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/09/how-war-marooned-15-ships-in-suez-canal.html
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
Stack 'em. Slam 'em. Repeat.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-12-31-1994365103-story.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/54202/weird-history-pogs
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
Glass + Gas + Fire = boom. Bottle bombs coming at ya.
Sources:
https://www.ozy.com/flashback/how-the-molotov-cocktail-got-its-name/72494
https://newrepublic.com/article/119127/history-molotov-cocktail-nazi-germany-ferguson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
Remember your favorite hoodie you let your girlfriend wear in high school and never got back? Me neither, check out the history of hoodies.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodie
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-history-of-the-hoodie-237791/
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
This local history podcast features the last public hanging in West Virginia. We miss the 3 minute mark, but I think it's worth it if you hang in there.
FYI: Graphic Content
Sources: http://www.wvculture.org/history/crime/hangingofjohnmorgan01.html
http://wvmetronews.com/2014/12/16/site-of-last-public-hanging-in-west-virginia-marked-in-jackson-county/
http://www.hurherald.com/cgi-bin/db_scripts/articles?Action=user_view&db=hurheral_articles&id=51378
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainey_Bethea
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
No matter how you slice it, every boy wants one, every man should carry one, the short history of the pocket knife.
Sources:
http://appalachianmagazine.com/2018/10/24/the-kind-of-men-who-carry-pocketknives/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocketknife
https://gallantry.com/blogs/journal/the-complete-history-of-the-pocket-knife
Music:
http://freemusicarchive.org
Christmas Episode! A unique Christmas tradition sprung from a WWII alliance to bring some cheer to your holidays. Drink up the goodness!
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_Square_Christmas_tree
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/12/01/every-year-norway-donates-a-christmas-tree-to-britain-as-a-thank-you-for-their-help-in-wwii/
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
Nobody panic at the title, just give it a listen. How the Mouse House was able to pay the thanks to one of history's most notorious tyrants.
Sources: https://blogs.shu.edu/ww2-0/1942/09/12/mickey-mouse-gets-drafted/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney%27s_World_War_II_propaganda_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_for_Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkc2yAaU3CY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn20oXFrxxg&t=142s Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
Hot dog hot dog hot diggity dog. By request, all you never needed to know about meat stuffed intestines.
Sources: https://www.history.com/news/break-out-the-buns-the-history-of-the-hot-dog https://nathansfamous.com/about-us/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%27s_Hot_Dog_Eating_Contest https://www.hot-dog.org/culture/hot-dog-fast-facts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
That one time America plotted to take over Canada.
https://www.ranker.com/list/what-if-the-united-states-invaded-canada/stephanroget Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
The short history of the world's most versatile piece of clothing. Blue jeans baby!
Sources: http://www.historyofjeans.com/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-origin-of-blue-jeans-89612175/ https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17101768
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot!
Celebrating the 413th Anniversary of the Gunpowder Treason Plot. A holiday celebrating the man who failed at carrying it out.
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw405.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
This podcast is brought to you by the letter V. This podcast is a story from the book Last Hope Island by Lynne Olson about the graffiti that helped ignite the European resistance movement against the Nazi War Machine in WWII. I know this this may be slightly over 3 minutes, but let’s be honest, most of them will be so ignore the false advertising and get ready for some knowledge bombs about to be dropped.
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of War by Lynne Olson
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
This Halloween special is a double stuff edition meaning it's double time. This is our first mystery podcast. Hope you enjoy!
Show Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wirt_(Attorney_General) https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/08/would-you-be-interested-in-getting-attorney-general-william-wirts-head-back-rebecca-roberts-brings-us-a-tale-from-the-congressional-cemetery/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/19/AR2005101902374.html Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Show Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisbee https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-frisbee-4072561 https://www.frisbiepie.com/our_story/
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Show Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=Z7pYu8mlB1g https://money.cnn.com/2015/05/06/smallbusiness/pez-dispenser/index.html http://us.pez.com/pages/history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pez https://www.candyfavorites.com/blog/history-of-pez-candy-dispensers/
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music