1402: "Keithroy Maynard"

1402: "Keithroy Maynard"

Author: JC September 9, 2025 Duration: 4:09
Interesting Things with JC #1402: "Keithroy Maynard" – A firefighter. A father. A man who ran toward the danger when he didn’t have to. His life wasn’t only lost on 9/11, it was defined by the choices he made before it.

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1556: "Paul Laurence Dunbar" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:49
Interesting Things with JC #1556: "Paul Laurence Dunbar" - He worked an elevator in Dayton and wrote when the doors closed. What he heard and remembered became poems that carried far beyond Ohio.
1555: "Project Nobska" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:14
Interesting Things with JC #1555: "Project Nobska" – A 1956 Navy study at Woods Hole, near Nobska Lighthouse, concluded that nuclear submarines had made traditional anti-submarine warfare obsolete, shaping new undersea w…
1554: “Radio Signals from Pluto” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:41
Interesting Things with JC #1554: “Radio Signals from Pluto” - A spacecraft rushed past Pluto with no second chance. A fading signal passing through Pluto’s thin air revealed temperatures, pressure, and hidden layers ben…
1553: “Curling - Mixed Doubles” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:59
Interesting Things with JC #1553: “Curling - Mixed Doubles” - Mixed doubles curling strips the sport down to two players, six stones, and no room to hide. With fewer throws and faster games, every decision shows up on th…
1552: "Milano Cortina" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 0:00
Interesting Things with JC #1552: "Milano Cortina" – Can the Olympics survive without billion-dollar stadiums? Italy’s 2026 Winter Games test a radical return to terrain over transformation.
1550: “Hákarl” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:53
Interesting Things with JC #1550: “Hákarl” - This food smells like poison because it used to be. Hákarl is fermented Greenland shark, made edible through chemistry, time, and desperation. This episode explains how Icelan…
1549: "February 2, 1876: Start of the MLB" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:00
Interesting Things with JC #1549: "February 2, 1876: Start of the MLB" – Baseball wasn’t born on a field. It was rescued in a hotel. A broken league, a bold plan, and one winter meeting that saved the game.
1548: "Sly Dunbar" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:19
Interesting Things with JC #1548: "Sly Dunbar" – He approached music as a responsibility. By holding time steady and sessions together, he became one of the most trusted figures in Jamaican recording history. This episod…
1547: "John Archibald Wheeler and the Words That Shaped the Universe" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:18
Interesting Things with JC #1547: "John Archibald Wheeler and the Words That Shaped the Universe" – He didn’t just explore the universe. He named it. Black holes, wormholes, quantum foam. The words he gave us changed wha…