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Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
Stuff Our Mom Doesnt Know
61 episodes
1 week ago
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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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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Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#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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2 years ago
28 minutes 36 seconds

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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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3 years ago
12 minutes 56 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#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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3 years ago
25 minutes 5 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#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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3 years ago
19 minutes 20 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#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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3 years ago
17 minutes 32 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#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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3 years ago
20 minutes 22 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#55 what if we just take the building, and push it somewhere else

we 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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3 years ago
17 minutes 16 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#54 Dude looks like a lady (the Deborah Sampson story)

this 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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3 years ago
21 minutes 3 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#53 Thanksgiving Episode. Fun facts and the best story of all

this 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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4 years ago
25 minutes 50 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#52 The Boston Molassacre (yes you read that right)

This 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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4 years ago
14 minutes 26 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#51 Give me back my land rich man

in this episode we do some local history for us. Daniel Shays Rebellion help shape this country in a more postive way. enjoy

sources

https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/shays-rebellion

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/shays-rebellion/

https://www.ushistory.org/us/15a.asp

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-shays-rebellion-starts-in-massachusetts

http://www.historic-northampton.org/highlights/shays.html

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=3&page=transcript

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/constitutional-convention-begins

https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=f7feed72-0a10-4b77-9dfc-931b6c63cd82

http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/shaysapp/person.do?shortName=william_shepard

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4 years ago
27 minutes 32 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#50 Can you please help us! someone, anyone, please! (the forgotten town of Vulcan)

Holy guacamole Batman its our 50th episode already. we forgot. So here is a story about how a town was used as a pawn in the dick measuring contest that was the Cold War.


sources:

amusingplanet.com/2019/03/how-soviet-helped-vulcan-american-town.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/16/archives/stranded-mining-town-awaits-bridge-connection-for-miners-impetus.html?auth=link-dismiss-google1tap&smid=em-share

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4 years ago
15 minutes 11 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#49 communism bad. america is number 1

this week we finally release the episode causing me mental problems. we talk about the 1970 presidential elections in Chile and the fallout that occured. also with special guests; super fan eric and our brother Jeff 

sources

history.com/this-day-in-history/allende-dies-in-coup

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/allende

theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/07/chile-coup-pinochet-allende

nacla.org/article/declassifying-us-intervention-chile

nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB437/

library.brown.edu/create/modernlatinamerica/chapters/chapter-10-chile/primary-documents-w-accompanying-discussion-questions/document-25-final-speech-by-salvador-allende-1973/

marxists.org/archive/allende/1970/september/20.htm

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4 years ago
52 minutes 16 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#48 You ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
this week we take our first dive into the music industry and we dive in head first in the shallow end. here is the story of sid vicious and the sex pistols.  sources: biography.com/musician/sid-vicious https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/flashback-nancy-spungen-found-dead-at-chelsea-hotel-118648/ independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/sid-vicious-40th-anniversary-sex-pistols-nancy-spungen-murder-heroin-john-lydon-malcolm-mclaren-a8757761.html sexpistolsofficial.com/bio/sid-vicious/ history.com/this-day-in-history/sid-vicious-dies-of-a-drug-overdose-in-new-york-city britannica.com/topic/the-Sex-Pistols rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-the-sex-pistols-come-to-a-chaotic-end-57410/
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4 years ago
34 minutes 6 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#47 Calamity Jane is coming to town

this week we talk about one of the wild wests greatest heroes. or was she. Calamity Jane is exactly how her name describes her. so sit back relax and get ready for a wild wild west ride through history.


sources

https://www.biography.com/performer/calamity-jane

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-calamityjane/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/calamity-jane-is-born

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Calamity-Jane-American-frontierswoman

https://allthatsinteresting.com/calamity-jane

http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.gen.006

http://montanawomenshistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/21-45EtulainSum2014.pdf

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4 years ago
29 minutes 9 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#46 The medal that never was (who would have guessed there was racism in 1936) the Marty Glickman Story

we are back and better then ever. this week we talk about an olympian who lost his shot at gold the day of but rose above his troubles and became the voice of a generation. Mr. Marty Glickman

sources

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/glickman-martin-irving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14HeJUQb6xQ

https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/olympics/?content=jewish_athletes_more

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1746428-marty-glickman-jesse-owens-and-a-forgotten-story-of-the-1936-berlin-olympics

jewishvirtuallibrary.org/marty-glickman

h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=1253

nytimes.com/2001/01/04/sports/marty-glickman-announcer-and-blocked-olympian-83.html

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4 years ago
39 minutes 25 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#45 The British Call Me Daddy

this week we talk about the father of the American navy and a terror to the British; John Paul Jones. 

sources:

britannica.com/biography/John-Paul-Jones-United-States-naval-officer

history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/people/historical-figures/john-paul-jones.html

usna.edu/PAO/faq_pages/JPJones.php

history.com/topics/american-revolution/john-paul-jones

johnpauljonesmuseum.com/about-john-paul-jones-us-navy/

johnpauljonesmuseum.com/about-john-paul-jones-us-navy/letter-from-john-paul-jones-to-lord-selkirk/

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4 years ago
48 minutes 20 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#44 Where the hell is everybody?!? (the mystery of the Mary Celeste)

IT'S OUR 1 YEAR SUPER SPECTACULAR SHOW. Join us as we have very special guests who have been major supports for us over the years and helped us create this little podcast we got going. Thank you Lizz and Eric. We love you a little more than our fans but that could change you never know.

Sources:

britannica.com/topic/Mary-Celeste

history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-mary-celeste

smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/

allthatsinteresting.com/mary-celeste

ucl.ac.uk/news/2006/may/solved-mystery-mary-celeste

abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/radiotonic/the-mystery-of-the-mary-celeste...-solved/6573000

museumhack.com/mary-celeste/

https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/video/show/the-true-story-of-the-mary-celeste/13278

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4 years ago
32 minutes 39 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#43 Harvey Milk Lives!

"Gay people, we will not win our rights by standing quietly in our closets. ... We are coming out to fight the lies, the myths, the distortions. We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it. You must come out."- Harvey Milk

this week we talk about the Castro district and Harvey Milk and how they helped shape America for the gay movement.

sources:

https://www.kqed.org/w/hood/castro/castroHistory.html

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/castro-district-people-and-place/

http://sfbaytimes.com/history-of-the-castroupper-market/

http://www.sfgayhistory.com/neighborhoods/castro/

https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/harvey-milk

https://www.biography.com/activist/harvey-milk

https://milkfoundation.org/about/harvey-milk-biography/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harvey-Milk

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4 years ago
46 minutes 14 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
#42 General Order Number 3 and Juneteenth

this week we dive into the origins of Juneteenth and the recent passing of the Juneteenth Nation Independence Day Act making Juneteeth a federal holiday.

Sources:

https://juneteenth.com/

https://www.history.com/news/what-is-juneteenth

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html

https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/juneteenth-original-document

https://www.nytimes.com/article/juneteenth-day-celebration.html

https://news.yahoo.com/14-house-republicans-voted-against-094140822.html


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4 years ago
50 minutes 16 seconds

Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
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.