Useless Information Podcast
Podcasting since 2008! - It really is all true! Quirky, bizarre, and unusual stories from the Flip Side of History.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 258
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2025
Retrocast #14 - UI Podcast #189
In this episode: A man claims his wife snores in Morse code, a student runs away after his teacher tells him not to return until he brings his textbook, a man hitchhikes after his car is stolen and i…
00:28:16 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
The Newburyport Anti-Inflation Plan - UI #188
Inflation in the United States hit 20% shortly after World War II. The government couldn’t get it under control, so the businessmen of Newburyport, Massachusetts came up with their own plan. Soon, ot…
00:36:40 |
Mon 09 Jan 2023
Christmas Retrocast - UI Podcast #187
Ten true, long-forgotten stories from Christmas past! A man pays for 41,000 student accounts at a closed Pittsburgh bank, a Christmas cactus theft epidemic, a wife serves her husband golf ball hash, …
00:22:05 |
Tue 20 Dec 2022
Bad Apples #5 - The Bishop's Wife - UI #186
In this episode, my wife Mary Jane joins me to review the 1947 classic Christmas movie "The Bishop’s Wife," starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven. Released just one year after the class…
00:36:48 |
Thu 15 Dec 2022
200 Years of Twas the Night - UI Podcast #185
December 24, 2022, marks the bicentennial of the classic poem Twas the Night Before Christmas. Pamela McColl, author of the new book Twas the Night, The Art and History of the Classic Christmas Poem,…
01:01:14 |
Mon 05 Dec 2022
The Cryptanalyst (Part 3) - UI Podcast #184
In this third and final segment, 93-year-old Marvin Lautzenheiser discusses his reasons for leaving the FBI, his 17 years consulting with the Pentagon to model future nuclear wars, his patents that a…
01:06:17 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
The Cryptanalyst (Part 2) - UI Podcast #183
In this second segment, 93-year-old Marvin Lautzenheiser discusses his time as an FBI field agent in Charlotte, how his team finally deciphered the hollow nickel message after years of numerous faile…
00:56:48 |
Thu 03 Nov 2022
The Cryptanalyst (Part 1) - UI Podcast #182
93-year-old Marvin Lautzenheiser was the lead cryptanalyst for the FBI team that deciphered the microfilm message contained in the Hollow Nickel (Podcast #168) and was asked to testify at the trial o…
01:00:08 |
Fri 21 Oct 2022
The Great Los Angeles Air Raid - UI Podcast #181
The long-forgotten story of a major battle that took place over Los Angeles just a few months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. It was but a brief blip in the global conflict, yet the US us…
00:35:50 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
YesterCast #1 - November 22, 1963 - UI #180
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a tragic day for the United States. But what else was happening on November 22, 1963? This first episode of the Useless Information YesterCast explo…
01:21:22 |
Thu 22 Sep 2022
Bad Apples #4 - Gaslight - UI #179
In this episode, my wife Mary Jane joins me to review the 1944 classic movie "Gaslight." Starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton, and Angela Lansbury (in her film debut), it is from thi…
00:57:05 |
Wed 07 Sep 2022
Russell Sage: The Meanest Miser in the Land - UI #178
Russell Sage was once one of the wealthiest men in the world. He was ruthless in business and was said to hate philanthropy, upper education, and women. When he passed away in 1906, his wife Olivia g…
01:31:49 |
Mon 15 Aug 2022
Retrocast 12 - UI Podcast #177
In this episode: A man who claimed that he had eloped with another man’s wife because she had fed him a delicious piece of cake, a dead woman who sat up in her coffin just as the undertakers began to…
01:30:04 |
Mon 01 Aug 2022
The Rise & Fall of the Celestial Comet - UI #176
In 1941, the Plainfield Teachers College football team was unstoppable. That was until a reporter exposed a shocking secret about the team and their storybook season was brought to a grinding halt.
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00:24:34 |
Tue 19 Jul 2022
Retrocast #11 - UI Podcast #175
In this episode: A mystery man speaks an unknown language, a boy gets his head stuck in a toilet seat, a woman slips on a bar of soap and flies out the window, and much more! Madison Newton cohosts.
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00:54:40 |
Thu 30 Jun 2022
Almost Over the Hump - UI Podcast #174
Just what happens when your airplane crashes high up in the Himalayan mountains and there is no chance that anyone will ever find you? This happened to pilots Joe Rosbert and Ridge Hammell during Wor…
00:33:19 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Retrocast #10 - UI Podcast #173
In this episode: The United States once banned the sale of sliced bread, the State of Oregon attempted to ban popcorn in movie theaters, women were using fly swatters to swat away their excess pounds…
01:05:45 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
From Car Show!: The Jeep and World War II
We’re shaking things up today and sharing a preview from Car Show!, a new podcast from our friends at Pushkin Industries. Longtime Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman tells the stories of the vital …
00:35:57 |
Wed 25 May 2022
Henry Ford's Peace Ship - UI Podcast #172
In 1915, American industrialist Henry Ford announced that he was willing to use his entire fortune to bring an end to World War I. So, he chartered a ship to take many of the prominent peace activist…
00:46:37 |
Mon 16 May 2022
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.
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00:19:02 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
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