Useless Information Podcast

Podcasting since 2008! - It really is all true! Quirky, bizarre, and unusual stories from the Flip Side of History.

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Society & Culture
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YesterCast #1 - November 22, 1963 - UI #180
Find out what else was happening around the world on November 22, 1963, the day that President Kennedy was assassinated.
78 min
77
Bad Apples #4 - Gaslight - UI #179
A review of the 1944 movie Gaslight, from which the term gaslighting originated.
54 min
78
Russell Sage: The Meanest Miser in the Land - U...
Russell Sage was once one of the world's wealthiest men. When he passed away in 1906, his wife Olivia gave away nearly every penny to the causes that Sage despised.
88 min
79
Retrocast 12 - UI Podcast #177
Tim Harford cohosts. A man elopes with another man’s wife and blames it on the cake, a dead woman sits up in her coffin, and much more!
87 min
80
The Rise & Fall of the Celestial Comet - UI #176
In 1941, the Plainfield Teachers football team was unstoppable. That was until a shocking team secret was revealed and their storybook season was brought to a grinding halt.
22 min
81
Retrocast #11 - UI Podcast #175
A man speaks an unknown language, a boy’s head is stuck in a toilet seat, a woman slips on a bar of soap and goes flying, and much more!
52 min
82
Almost Over the Hump - UI Podcast #174
A plane crashes in the Himalayans and the two pilots, both with bad ankles, have no choice but to attempt to hike back to civilization.
30 min
83
Retrocast #10 - UI Podcast #173
Sliced bread is banned, popcorn in theaters may be banned, women using fly swatters to lose weight, and more!
63 min
84
From Car Show!: The Jeep and World War II
Eddie Alterman talks about the military background of the Jeep and its lasting popularity in America.
34 min
85
Henry Ford's Peace Ship - UI Podcast #172
In 1915, Henry Ford sought to end WWI by chartering a ship and sailing with many of the prominent peace activists of the day to Europe.
44 min
86
Arbor Day Turns 150! - UI Podcast #171
Arbor Day is 150 years old! Learn the origins of the day, plus how one small upstate New York town continues the annual celebration.
16 min
87
Retrocast #9 - UI Podcast #170
A woman dumps her fiancé at the altar to marry the minister, a jealous husband who used rattlesnakes to keep men away from his wife, and more!
22 min
88
The Father of Voice Radio - UI Podcast #169
It’s hard to believe, but when the first words were spoken on radio, it was dismissed as a novelty. It seems as if everyone thought that Morse code was the future. Everyone except for Reginald Fessenden.
16 min
89
The Case of the Hollow Nickel - UI #168
In 1953, a paperboy discovered a nickel coin that led to the arrest of a high-ranking Soviet spy.
25 min
90
Retrocast #8 - UI Podcast #167
A live baby is auctioned off, a carnival knife thrower accidentally hits his human target, a dog warden with an unusual approach to keeping thieves out of the pound, and much more!
20 min
91
The Eddie Cantor Peace Prize - UI #166
In 1936, Eddie Cantor asked his radio listeners to write essays describing how the United States could avoid war. With no set contest rules, something would go very wrong.
31 min
92
Retrocast #7 - UI Podcast #165
A man falls out of a window and is saved by a flagpole, seven tonsillectomies done in an assembly line fashion, and more!
20 min
93
The Glass House Girl - UI #164
The true story of Hollywood actress Edna Kirby who lived in a glass house for the better part of 25 years.
34 min
94
Bad Apples #3 - Sunset Boulevard - UI #163
We review the classic movie "Sunset Boulevard." Directed by Billy Wilder, this movie tells the story of a struggling screenwriter who gets into a dangerous relationship with a faded Hollywood actress who dreams of a big comeback.
43 min
95
Retrocast #6 - UI Podcast #162
Christmas episode! A reindeer that bit a boy’s finger, a lawsuit over the world’s largest Christmas stocking, the first Christmas film ever made, and much more!
38 min
96
Tom McGee's Back on the Chain Gang - UI #161
Tom McGee wanted nothing more for Christmas than to be able to spend time caring for his hogs. The only catch was that he needed to commit a crime and hope that a judge would sentence him to time on one of Georgia’s infamous chain gangs.
27 min
97
Retrocast #5 - UI Podcast #160
In this episode: A proud father who kidnapped his newborn daughter, a mother jailed for cooking a woodpecker, Einstein gives a student incorrect math advice, a snake that joined a woman in the bathtub, and much more!
35 min
98
The Forgotten Man - UI Podcast #159
A Catch-22: As long as a man remained on death row, he could live. If he tried to get off, he could die. Which would he choose?
29 min
99
Retrocast #4 - UI Podcast #158
The day corsets were arrested, a university lingerie auction, US Customs bans Alice Cooper’s panties, a fish who milked a cow, a box of cookies that started a fire, the highest-paid act at Woodstock, and more!
32 min
100
Don't Mess With Minerva Miller - UI Podcast #157
In 1911, Minerva Miller and two friends went to The Paterson Show to watch a movie. A ticket was 5 cents, but Mrs. Miller was told that she would have to pay 25 cents because she was black. She decided to challenge the theater's racist policy.
29 min