1535: "Why We Remember - MLK Day"

1535: "Why We Remember - MLK Day"

Author: JC January 19, 2026 Duration: 2:57
Interesting Things with JC #1535: "Why We Remember - MLK Day" – Martin Luther King Jr. Day did not emerge automatically after his death. It followed fifteen years of congressional debate, failed votes, and sustained public discussion over how the nation would commemorate his legacy.

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1570: "Snake Oil: Why Smart People Still Buy It" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:07
Interesting Things with JC #1570: "Snake Oil: Why Smart People Still Buy It" – A bottle. A bold promise. A line of believers. Snake oil was never just a scam. It was a lesson in how fast the brain trades doubt for hope.
1569: "Polyphonic Perception" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:24
Interesting Things with JC #1569: "Polyphonic Perception" – Four voices sing at once. You can follow each one. That is not a talent. It is how human hearing works.
1568: "Ski Mountaineering" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:38
Interesting Things with JC #1568: "Ski Mountaineering" – Before sunrise in the Alps, headlamps move uphill in silence. No lifts. No engines. Just lungs, legs, and gravity waiting at the top. In a world built for shortcut…
1567: "The Reverend Jesse Jackson & Progressive Supranuclear Palsy" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:00
Interesting Things with JC #1567: "The Reverend Jesse Jackson & Progressive Supranuclear Palsy" – He marched with Dr. King. He ran for president. He stood in rooms where history was made. After a long public battle with…
1566: "Smokey Robinson" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:45
Interesting Things with JC #1566: "Smokey Robinson" – Before Motown had a sound, it had a poet. From a small Detroit studio to thousands of songs that shaped American music, Smokey Robinson didn’t just write hits, he bui…
1565: "Robert Duvall" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:13
Interesting Things with JC #1565: "Robert Duvall" – From the stillness of Boo Radley to the authority of Kilgore and the hard earned humility of Mac Sledge, Robert Duvall shaped American film through discipline and restr…
1564: "China's Hypersonic Threat" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:30
Interesting Things with JC #1564: "China's Hypersonic Threat" – For most of American history, oceans meant time. At Mach 10, a thousand miles can disappear in minutes. As hypersonic weapons compress distance into decisio…
1563: "Mach 5 - Battlefield Dominance" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:21
Interesting Things with JC #1563: "Mach 5 - Battlefield Dominance" – At five times the speed of sound, war becomes a race against minutes. Hypersonic flight compresses decision time, reshapes missile defense, and turns s…
1562: "The Helios Laser" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:06
Interesting Things with JC #1562: "The Helios Laser" – A $4 million missile… or a beam of light. On the deck of USS Preble, the U.S. Navy flipped the cost of war with 60 kilowatts of focused energy traveling at the speed…
1561: "Saint Valentine" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:37
Interesting Things with JC #1561: "Saint Valentine" – A third-century execution along a Roman road becomes a feast day, a medieval poem, and billions in modern commerce. Before romance, there was martyrdom. How did a man…