Interesting Things with JC

Interesting Things with JC #1540: "Choosing to Receive" – A simple question...do you want the ball now or later? The answer actually unlocks the hidden tempo game inside football. Let's check out how coaches manipulate momentum starting at the coin toss.

Interesting Things with JC #1539: "Soviet Volga Transmitters" – They weren’t just towers...they were weapons. Buzzing across continents. Whispering secrets. And some of them never turned off.

Interesting Things with JC #1538: "Dundurn Castle Hamilton" – It looks like a castle, but it was built for strategy. Beneath the limestone mansion lies a hidden tunnel…and a man preparing for more than just dinner guests.

Interesting Things with JC #1537: "Heavy Whipping Cream" – It started as milk fat floating to the top...and wound up as the backbone of béarnaise, biscuits, and every holiday pie. The red carton has a backstory.

Interesting Things with JC #1536: "Getting Stuck on the Highway in a Blizzard" – You’re just trying to get home…then the sky vanishes. No road, no help, just cold. What happens next isn’t in any manual. It’s in the people beside you.

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.

Interesting Things with JC #1534: "The Henry Plant Museum" – A railroad tycoon built a palace not to house guests, but to sell the journey itself. Silver domes, electric lights, and ambition turned Florida into an idea you could ride toward. Sometimes the destination is just proof the plan worked.

Interesting Things with JC #1533: "What Is Returned – The Story of Thomas Westerhaus" – One man stepped in when no one else could. He thought that moment was behind him...until life flipped, and something unexpected came back.

Interesting Things with JC #1532: "Wasabi or Horseradish?" – That green stuff next to your sushi? It’s not wasabi. It just looks the part. The real thing is rare, pricey, and totally different. You’ll taste the truth.

Interesting Things with JC #1531: "People Who Lie Without Knowing They’re Lying" – Some of the most convincing stories are told by people who fully believe them. This episode explores why memory bends, certainty grows, and truth shifts to protect who we think we are. Confidence feels solid, even when the facts underneath it are not.

Interesting Things with JC #1530: "What Is Boom Bap?" - Before lyrics. Before hooks. Before you even know if you like the song, the beat already has you moving. Boom bap is hip hop at its simplest and strongest, just kick, snare, and space, and it still hits today.

Interesting Things with JC #1529: "Platypus" – It looks like a joke made of spare parts, but hides one of the most advanced sensory systems in the animal kingdom. Nature didn’t make a mistake. It made a masterpiece.

Interesting Things with JC #1528: "Metacognition" – Most people think. Very few notice how they think. This episode looks at why that gap quietly decides who learns, who stalls, and who fools themselves.

Interesting Things with JC #1527: "The Golden Child" – One child becomes the proof that everything is okay, carrying expectations no one names. This episode explores how unspoken family roles form under pressure, and why being praised the most can cost more than anyone realizes.

Interesting Things with JC #1526: "Radio Swan" – A friendly radio voice drifted across the Caribbean, hiding a covert mission meant to shape a revolution. From pop music to coded signals, this is the story of how sound became a weapon.

Interesting Things with JC #1525: "The Trial of Joan of Arc" – She had no lawyer. She couldn’t read. But she faced over 130 men and answered every question. Her words would outlive her fire.

Interesting Things with JC #1524: "Ratification of the 11th Amendment (1798)" – A guy from South Carolina sued Georgia and nearly blew up the Constitution. What came next? A fast-track amendment that pulled federal courts back in line.

Interesting Things with JC #1523: "Manganese" – It hides in nuts and leafy greens, works inside your bones and brain, and shapes desire itself. This unsung mineral is doing more than you think.

Interesting Things with JC #1522: "Project Echo" – In 1960, a huge silver balloon crossed the night sky, reflecting human voices without ever hearing them. This episode traces the moment a simple idea bent the future of communication and accidentally tuned into the birth of the universe.

Interesting Things with JC #1521: “Itzhak Bentov and Consciousness” — He escaped the Holocaust, rewrote heart medicine without a degree, then aimed his mechanical mind at the deepest problem of all: how consciousness works when the system finally locks into place.