Interesting Things with JC #1490: "What Are Moop Eyes?" – A single widened glance becomes a whole new language online, turning playful exaggeration into a cultural signal shared across millions. A tiny look, suddenly loud with meaning.

Interesting Things with JC #1489: "Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 5402" – In the middle of a crisis, a watch no one asked for changed everything. Steel instead of gold. Screws instead of polish. It shouldn’t have worked…until it did.

Interesting Things with JC #1488: "Cold Showers and Ice Baths" – The body meets cold with shock, steadies itself with reflex, and finds clarity in the discomfort. A brief plunge becomes a test of focus, resilience, and control.

Interesting Things with JC #1487: "The Laurel Run Mine Fire" – A forgotten lamp. A weekend without crews. And a coal seam that kept burning long after the miners left. A century later, the heat still rises through the ridge.

Interesting Things with JC #1486: "December" – A month named for ten, yet placed at the end of the year, still carries the weight of old rituals and returning light. December holds the quiet tension between darkness and renewal, asking what we choose to keep alive.

Interesting Things with JC #1485: "Professor Abel Wolman" – Clean water seems automatic, until you learn what it took to make it that way. One civil engineer rewrote the rules of sanitation, and reshaped the modern world. Thank you to long time listener and friend of the podcast the Tech Ed Teacher

Interesting Things with JC #1484: "Indoor Plumbing" – It’s the quiet system that reshaped human survival, hiding its power behind every faucet and drain. A story that begins in ancient streets and ends in the walls of your own home, still holding secrets worth hearing. This episode was insired by Dr

Interesting Things with JC #1483: "100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry" – A fiddler in a small Nashville studio started something bigger than he knew. A kitchen radio show grew into a Saturday night tradition that stuck with folks through moves, floods, and change, still carried forward by that old circ

Interesting Things with JC #1482: "The First NFL Thanksgiving Game" – A cold Ohio field. A rising league. A fight for pride that shaped a holiday tradition. The roots of Thanksgiving football still echo with grit and stubborn joy.

Interesting Things with JC #1481: "The Real History Behind Eleven" – Behind Stranger Things is a darker reality: secret experiments, Cold War paranoia, and psychological tests on real kids. Eleven wasn’t invented. She was based on something real.

Interesting Things with JC #1480: "Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina" – A woman in a Soviet lab, a compass that won’t stay still, and a Cold War desperate for proof of the impossible. Her story leaves one question hanging: what moved, and what only seemed to?

Interesting Things with JC #1479: "The Montauk Project" – A Cold War outpost, sealed bunkers, and decades of denials form the fault line where rumor meets record. The mystery endures because the silence under Montauk feels louder than the facts.

Interesting Things with JC #1478: "Sensory Deprivation" – When the world goes silent, the brain doesn’t shut down, it shifts. What happens when you take away all the noise? You start to hear yourself.

Interesting Things with JC #1477: "Telekinesis" – The claims were bold, the tests were careful, and each new setup revealed something the stories never mentioned. The mind is powerful, but not in the way people hoped.

Interesting Things with JC #1476: "Do Dogs Sweat?" – You sweat. Your dog pants. But why? And what’s with those damp paw prints? A closer look at how dogs handle heat, when sweating just isn’t an option.

Interesting Things with JC #1475: "Coriolis Effect Explained" – A breeze feels simple enough, but its path hides an influence turning just beneath our feet. A subtle shift in motion reveals how the planet gently redirects the world above it.

Interesting Things with JC #1474: "Do Hard Things" – When you face one tough task, the mind shifts from threat to control. Hard work shrinks imagined problems and restores the world to its real size.

Interesting Things with JC #1473: "Can a Thought Move Faster than Light?" – When nerve signals crawl at human speeds yet decisions feel instant, the mystery isn’t distance but design.

Interesting Things with JC #1472: "Rumi and Poetry" – Rumi’s days ran the same for years until a stranger showed up and challenged everything he thought he understood. Then the man disappeared, and the fallout pushed Rumi into writing that still grips readers centuries later.

Interesting Things with JC #1471: "The Importance of Alpha and Gamma Brainwaves" – There’s a moment when your brain shifts gears, and it changes everything from how you calm down to how you solve a problem. Most people never notice it happening, but it’s running the whole show.