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 #9 - UI Podcast #170
In this episode: A woman dumps her fiancé at the altar to marry the minister, a jealous husband who used rattlesnakes to keep men away from his wife, the unlikely suspects in a case of truck tire sab…
00:25:09 |
Wed 13 Apr 2022
The Father of Voice Radio - UI Podcast #169
It’s hard to believe, but when the first words were spoken on radio, it was dismissed as a novelty. It seems as if everyone thought that Morse code was the future. Nearly everyone except for Reginald…
00:19:20 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
The Case of the Hollow Nickel - UI #168
In 1953, paperboy Jimmy Bozart was counting his newspaper subscription money. He dropped the coins and one nickel split open, revealing a piece of microfilm. This led to the arrest of a high-ranking …
00:27:55 |
Tue 15 Mar 2022
Retrocast #8 - UI Podcast #167
In this episode: A live baby is auctioned off, a carnival knife thrower accidentally hits his human target, a West Virginian dog warden with an unusual approach to keeping thieves out of the pound, a…
00:23:21 |
Mon 28 Feb 2022
The Eddie Cantor Peace Prize - UI #166
In 1936, superstar Eddie Cantor asked his radio listeners to write an essay describing how the United States could avoid war. The prize was a full college scholarship. With no set rules, something wa…
00:33:43 |
Tue 15 Feb 2022
Retrocast #7 - UI Podcast #165
In this episode: A man falls out of a window and is saved by a flagpole, seven tonsillectomies done in an assembly line fashion, the last cigarette commercial on US network television, a baby born in…
00:23:15 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
The Glass House Girl - UI #164
Edna Kirby spent more than a decade in Hollywood appearing in silent movies for Paramount Studios. While she never became a movie star, Edna drew large crowds in nearly every town that she visited. T…
00:37:12 |
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Bad Apples #3 - Sunset Boulevard - UI #163
In this episode, my wife Mary Jane joins me to review the classic movie "Sunset Boulevard." Directed by Billy Wilder, this movie tells the story of a struggling screenwriter who gets into a dangerous…
00:45:43 |
Mon 03 Jan 2022
Retrocast #6 - UI Podcast #162
Christmas episode! A reindeer that bit a boy’s finger, a lawsuit over the world’s largest Christmas stocking, an absent-minded Santa Claus, a Santa caught with his pants down, the first Christmas fil…
00:40:47 |
Wed 15 Dec 2021
Tom McGee's Back on the Chain Gang - UI #161
Tom McGee wanted nothing more for Christmas than to be able to spend time caring for his hogs. The only catch was that he needed to commit a crime and hope that a judge would sentence him to time on …
00:30:17 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
Retrocast #5 - UI Podcast #160
In this episode: A proud father who kidnapped his newborn daughter, a mother jailed for cooking a woodpecker, Einstein gives a student incorrect math advice, a snake that joined a woman in the bathtu…
00:38:15 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
The Forgotten Man - UI Podcast #159
A New Jersey man was caught in a Catch-22 situation. As long as he remained on death row, he could live. If he attempted to get off of death row by challenging his sentence in court, he would likely …
00:32:26 |
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Retrocast #4 - UI Podcast #158
In this episode: The day corsets were arrested, a lingerie auction at the University of Nebraska, US Customs bans Alice Cooper’s panties, a woman hurt in a freak accident, a fish who milked a cow, wo…
00:35:24 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Don't Mess With Minerva Miller - UI Podcast #157
In 1911, Mrs. Minerva Miller and two friends went to The Paterson Show in Paterson, NJ to watch a movie. A standard ticket cost 5 cents, but Mrs. Miller was told that she would have to pay 25 cents b…
00:32:29 |
Wed 29 Sep 2021
Retrocast #3 - UI Podcast #156
A 72-year-old woman who married a 20-year-old man, a 16-year-old girl arrested for cursing, a woman who had some run-ins with modern appliances, speaking English deforms the mouth, a husband who refu…
00:26:45 |
Wed 15 Sep 2021
Lost in the Mountains - UI Podcast #155
In 1941, 5-year-old Pamela Hollingworth disappeared into the dense forest of New Hampshire's White Mountains. In what became the largest search and rescue effort in New England to that date, more tha…
00:30:29 |
Mon 30 Aug 2021
Retrocast #2 - UI Podcast #154
Retrocast #2: Boy runs away because he can·t master Latin, a mother who loaned her son to a stranger, a man who survived a Nazi firing squad, cows killed by lightning, man's leg broken three times, t…
00:25:32 |
Mon 16 Aug 2021
Two Worlds Collide - UI Podcast #153
In 1932, Redondo Beach school superintendent Elliott B. Thomas mysteriously disappeared and his office was ransacked. Was he kidnapped? Could he have been killed? Or was something else going on? Also…
00:29:41 |
Fri 30 Jul 2021
Retrocast #1 - UI Podcast #152
Retrocast #1 - A 106-year-old woman seeks a husband, 5 phonograph records is admission to a dance, Australia gives the US an albino kangaroo, Johnny Cash promoting the Home Equipment Co., A country c…
00:27:57 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
A Blind Eye - UI Podcast #151
In 1933, Helen Vasko was diagnosed with a malignant eye tumor that threatened her life. Her parents would not consent to surgery and the case ended up in court. It was a battle between parental vs. s…
00:31:19 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
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