Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know

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/

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/

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

This week we talk about the Boston Molassacre when giant waves of molasses caused untold damage through the North End of Boston

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