1410: "White Corn vs. Yellow Corn Chips"

1410: "White Corn vs. Yellow Corn Chips"

Author: JC September 17, 2025 Duration: 2:59
Interesting Things with JC #1410: "White Corn vs. Yellow Corn Chips" – They look the same in the bowl. But one was built to blend in, the other to stand tall. Behind every tortilla chip is a story about land, taste, and time.

Curiosity often leads us down the most rewarding paths, and that's the spirit behind Interesting Things with JC. Each episode is a compact dive into a story that makes you pause and think, hosted by JC. You'll find a mix here: forgotten chapters from our past that explain the present, nuanced looks at cultural shifts happening now, and those remarkable tales that simply never got the spotlight they deserved. This isn't a dry lecture but a conversation about the threads connecting history, society, and our everyday lives. The focus is on depth over breadth, making each installment of this podcast a self-contained exploration. Whether it's an obscure historical event with surprising modern echoes or a fresh perspective on a current topic, the aim is to feed that curiosity with something substantive. Tune in for a thoughtfully researched and engagingly presented look at the world's fascinating corners.
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1486: "December" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:30
Interesting Things with JC #1486: "December" – A month named for ten, yet placed at the end of the year, still carries the weight of old rituals and returning light. December holds the quiet tension between darkness and…
1485: "Professor Abel Wolman" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:39
Interesting Things with JC #1485: "Professor Abel Wolman" – Clean water seems automatic, until you learn what it took to make it that way. One civil engineer rewrote the rules of sanitation, and reshaped the modern world…
1484: "Indoor Plumbing" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:06
Interesting Things with JC #1484: "Indoor Plumbing" – It’s the quiet system that reshaped human survival, hiding its power behind every faucet and drain. A story that begins in ancient streets and ends in the walls of yo…
1483: "100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:57
Interesting Things with JC #1483: "100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry" – A fiddler in a small Nashville studio started something bigger than he knew. A kitchen radio show grew into a Saturday night tradition that stuck with…
1482: "The First Thanksgiving Game" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:23
Interesting Things with JC #1482: "The First NFL Thanksgiving Game" – A cold Ohio field. A rising league. A fight for pride that shaped a holiday tradition. The roots of Thanksgiving football still echo with grit and stu…
1481: "The Real History Behind Eleven" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:22
Interesting Things with JC #1481: "The Real History Behind Eleven" – Behind Stranger Things is a darker reality: secret experiments, Cold War paranoia, and psychological tests on real kids. Eleven wasn’t invented. She wa…
1480: "Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:59
Interesting Things with JC #1480: "Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina" – A woman in a Soviet lab, a compass that won’t stay still, and a Cold War desperate for proof of the impossible. Her story leaves one question hanging: what m…
1479: "The Montauk Project" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:57
Interesting Things with JC #1479: "The Montauk Project" – A Cold War outpost, sealed bunkers, and decades of denials form the fault line where rumor meets record. The mystery endures because the silence under Montauk fee…
1478: "Sensory Deprivation" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:59
Interesting Things with JC #1478: "Sensory Deprivation" – When the world goes silent, the brain doesn’t shut down, it shifts. What happens when you take away all the noise? You start to hear yourself.
1477: "Telekinesis" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:54
Interesting Things with JC #1477: "Telekinesis" – The claims were bold, the tests were careful, and each new setup revealed something the stories never mentioned. The mind is powerful, but not in the way people hoped.