Useless Information Podcast

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

History
Comedy
Society & Culture
1
Braless Fridays - UI Podcast #261
A woman is fired for suggesting that employees at her company should come to work braless.
28 min
2
Retrocast #43 - UI Podcast #260
Al Capone’s son tries to avoid his notorious father’s past, a boy survives a 2-1/2 mile plunge in a tunnel, and much more!
27 min
3
The Battle of the Bangs - UI Podcast #259
A 14-year-old boy was suspended from school for refusing to cut his hair, resulting in a judge sending him to a juvenile detention home for psychiatric evaluation.
34 min
4
Retrocast #42 - UI Podcast #258
A house is cut in half, two babies are switched at birth, an airplane lands at the wrong airport, and much more!
27 min
5
Leaping Leopards - UI Podcast #257
A wild leopard fresh from the jungles of India escaped the Oklahoma City Zoo in 1950, unleashing a frantic manhunt.
27 min
6
Retrocast 41 - Podcast #256
Who or what is ETAOIN SHRDLU, Nat King Cole is attacked, a man breaks into ȧ home to change a baby’s diaper, & more!
28 min
7
Aren't We Devils? - UI Podcast #255
A running gag on the 1944 Truth or Consequences radio show was for host Ralph Edwards to ask, “Is there a Mr. Wickel in the house?”
31 min
8
Retrocast #40 - UI Podcast #254
38 min
9
Lost in the Clouds - UI Podcast #253
An extraordinary true story of survival, sacrifice, and love in the face of impossible odds.
23 min
10
Retrocast #39 - Podcast #252
A woman has 1,446 metal objects in her stomach, a teenager will die unless a nail is removed from her lung, a bullfrog living in a woman's stomach, & more!
42 min
11
The Hot Dog Santa Claus - UI Podcast #251
The true story of Axel Bjorklund, Boston's Hot Dog Santa, who gave thousands of hot dogs away to hungry children throughout the 1920s.
24 min
12
Retrocast #38 - UI Podcast #250
Can a wife legally swipe cash from her husband’s wallet? One Chicago man puts a bizarre social experiment in motion—mailing $1 to 500 people and asking them to mail it back… & more!
32 min
13
A Forbidden Love - Podcast #249
A small Indiana town was rocked by a scandal that made national headlines: a 12-year-old girl and her 13-year-old classmate became parents.
21 min
14
Retrocast #37 - UI Podcast #248
A fire department watches a man's home burn, a pig flies for the first time ever, & a gorilla destroys an American Tourister suitcase.
25 min
15
Bad Apples #6 – Lost Boundaries – UI #247
A modern review of the 1949 movie Lost Boundaries, the screen adaptation of the lives of Dr. Albert and Thyra Johnston.
37 min
16
A White Lie - UI Podcast #246
A New Hampshire doctor and his wife kept a secret from family & friends for nearly two decades.
30 min
17
Rewind: 1st Jewish Couple Married on TV
Cartoonist Leigh Rubin's parents were the first Jewish couple ever to be married on US television, but it almost never happened.
43 min
18
Retrocast #36 - UI Podcast #245
Abbott & Costello agree to perform in a boy’s backyard for 70 cents, parents sue a milk dairy because their son grew too tall, & much more!
34 min
19
Escape from Monkey Mountain - UI Podcast #244
Nearly 175 monkeys escaped from a Long Island zoo in 1935, led by a male named Al Capone. Would they be able to recapture all of them?
21 min
20
Retrocast #35 - UI Podcast #243
8 stories in which someone got the last laugh. Includes: rattlesnakes outsmart a snake trap, jokes aimed at women are funnier, & more!
27 min
21
To Russia for Love - UI Podcast #242
A British man risks his life to see his Russian wife.
43 min
22
The Denver Spiderman - UI Podcast #241
A man was found murdered in his own home. The most unusual part was that all of the doors and windows were locked from the inside. How did the killer get away?
24 min
23
Retrocast 34 - UI Podcast #240
Beware of people with blue eyes, students use ice nickels to pay for phone calls, speed limit for automobiles set at 2 mph, & more!
32 min
24
Diamond Jim's Shack - UI Podcast #239
One man decides to take on the wealthy grandson of financier J.P. Morgan.
27 min
25
Retrocast 33 - UI Podcast #238
The Titanic is supposedly unsinkable, a cat is jailed, clothing seems to instantly combust, & more!
25 min