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
UI #117 - The Adventure of a Lifetime
In 1957, three Chicago aluminum awning salesmen decided to quit the jobs and sail to Africa to join in on the lucrative illegal diamond trade. They were in for a wild ride along with a very big surpr…
00:44:34 |
Sun 02 Dec 2018
UI #116 - The Walking Murphys
Long forgotten headline story about a family who lost everything in the Great Kansas flood of 1951. Yet, all was not as it seemed... Also learn about what a Lucy Stoner is, a man who used handcuffs …
00:43:56 |
Sun 21 Oct 2018
UI #115 - The Monster Crash at Crush
During the late 1800's and early 1900's, people around the United States gathered to watch two trains being smashed together. As a PR stunt, W.G. Crush organized one of these crashes for the Kay Rai…
00:49:04 |
Thu 13 Sep 2018
UI #114 - Baby Moses
Pearl River, Louisiana resident Effie Crawford made the most startling discovery on November 11, 1936. Moving through the brush near her home she spotted a large dog carrying an unusual package in it…
00:30:58 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
UI #113 - Mile-A-Minute Murphy
The world's fastest bicyclist in the 1890's was Charles Minthorp Murphy and he was certain that there was no locomotive on Earth that could go faster than he could. To prove this, Murphy set a goal t…
00:43:37 |
Thu 05 Jul 2018
UI #112 - A Journey to the Center of the Earth
John Cleves Symmes was a popular lecturer back in the 1820's. Not only did Symmes believe that Newton got the concept of gravity totally wrong, he proposed that the Earth had a hollow interior and th…
00:39:52 |
Wed 30 May 2018
UI #111 - Dick the Dog
Pennsylvania resident Jacob Silverman made national headlines back in 1922 for the crime of owning a dog named Dick within the commonwealth. The law at the time required that Dick be killed simply b…
00:36:56 |
Sun 29 Apr 2018
Useless Information Podcast Bonus Episode #1
Bonus episode that includes an interview that I did back in 2014 with Lene Bech Sillesen and a recording of the NBC live news report when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
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00:27:59 |
Wed 28 Mar 2018
UI #110 - Wife for Sale
In 1948, Dorothy Lawlor decided to take an ad out in the Newsday newspaper seeking a husband in exchange for $10,000. Within twenty-four hours she became a media sensation. Did she really marry one o…
00:45:47 |
Mon 26 Feb 2018
UI #109 - The Case of the Phantom Vegetable Oil
In the late 1950's and early 1960's, Anthony "Tino" De Angelis ran a global salad oil empire. Find out how Tino grew his business so quickly, his shocking downfall, how JFK’s assassination ties into …
00:45:59 |
Mon 29 Jan 2018
UI #108 - The Man Who Gave Away His Birthday
When author Robert Louis Stevenson learned that young Vermont native Annie Ide hated her Christmas birthday, he decided to deed his own birthday to her. Listen to this episode to learn how she celebr…
00:49:10 |
Fri 29 Dec 2017
UI #107 - The First Transatlantic Airplane Race
In May of 1929, Old Orchard Beach in Maine was the site for an airplane race that pitted the smaller, more nimble American Green Flash against larger, more powerful French Yellow Bird. Anticipation m…
00:52:43 |
Fri 24 Nov 2017
UI #106 - Elixir of Death
When the S.E. Massengill Co. introduced its Elixir Sulfanilamide to the market in September 1937, there was no law in the United States requiring pharmaceutical companies to test their medicines for …
00:36:33 |
Mon 09 Oct 2017
UI #105 - Le Mars Trilogy: Part 3 - Maybelle Trow Knox
During desperate times some people are forced to do desperate things. The trick is to not get caught. Let's just say that Maybelle Trow Knox was not very good at that last part. Also learn the real n…
00:47:32 |
Thu 31 Aug 2017
UI #104 - Le Mars Trilogy: Part 2 - Farmers in Revolt
The Great Depression was an awful time for farmers in Iowa. It culminated with the near hanging of a judge in Le Mars. It just happens that the farm involved was owned by the T.M. Zink estate, the s…
00:31:24 |
Fri 07 Jul 2017
UI #103 - Le Mars Trilogy: Part 1 - T.M. Zink's Library
The first of a 3-part series on Le Mars, Iowa from the 1930's. Le Mars was thrust into the national spotlight by the actions of just one man: a successful lawyer named T.M. Zink, who left nearly his …
00:37:22 |
Sat 10 Jun 2017
UI #102 - Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was one of the first female doctors in the United States and is the only woman to ever receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, until the government rescinded her award. Also…
00:34:13 |
Sat 06 May 2017
UI #101 - Where There's a Wilby, There's a Way
Between 1942 and 1943 Ralph Marshall Wilby appeared to pull off what appeared to be the perfect crime. An incredible story that has many elements of an international thriller: deception, false identi…
00:36:52 |
Mon 27 Mar 2017
UI #100 - A Miracle Birth in Mexico
On March 5, 2000, Ines Ramirez Perez went into labor but was unable to get any medical care to help with the delivery. In a panic, Ines concluded that she had no other option than to deliver the baby…
00:23:15 |
Tue 28 Feb 2017
UI #99 - Millionaire for a Day
Back in 1911, Wilkes-Barre, PA resident John Jay "Butch" McDevitt won the Democratic Primary for county treasurer. The only problem was that the Democratic Committee didn't want McDevitt on the ballo…
00:43:34 |
Sat 26 Nov 2016
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