Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know
Stuff Our Mom Doesnt 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. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
#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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
May 13, 2023
28 min
#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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
Mar 19, 2022
12 min
#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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
Feb 26, 2022
25 min
#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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
Feb 17, 2022
19 min
#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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
Feb 11, 2022
17 min
#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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
Jan 27, 2022
20 min
#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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
Jan 8, 2022
17 min
#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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
Dec 10, 2021
21 min
#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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
Nov 25, 2021
25 min
#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: --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stuffourmomdoesntknow/support
Nov 25, 2021
14 min
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