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Retrocast 16 – Podcast #193

Published on March 20, 2023

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts

Latest episode! In this episode: a man who recorded the location of buried treasure on a record, a girl who swallowed 200 rocks, a color-blind plumber, the history of McDonald’s Big Mac, and much more!

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Retrocast #15 – Podcast #191

Published on February 14, 2023

Posted in: Love & Marriage, Podcast, Retrocasts

A man who eats match heads, every kiss supposedly knocks 3 minutes off of your life, a couple waits 60 years to marry, a 10-year-ban is proposed to curb the spread of tuberculosis, and much more!

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Retrocast #14 – Podcast #189

Published on January 19, 2023

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts

A man claims his wife snores in Morse code, a man hitchhikes after his car is stolen and is picked up by his own vehicle, the AMA recommends those over 40 not do the Twist, and much more!

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Christmas Retrocast – Podcast #187

Published on December 20, 2022

Posted in: Footnotes to History, Holidays & Celebrations, Podcast, Retrocasts

A special holiday Retrocast featuring 10 true stories from Christmas past, plus a holiday song recorded in 1913.

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Retrocast #12 – Podcast #177

Published on August 1, 2022

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A man elopes with another man's wife and blames it on her cake, a dead woman sits up in her coffin, smog changes the color of a California man’s tie, and much more! Tim Harford of Cautionary Tales cohosts.

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Retrocast #11 – Podcast #175

Published on June 30, 2022

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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 then flies out the window, and much more! Madison Newton cohosts.

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Retrocast #10 – Podcast #173

Published on June 1, 2022

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts

Sliced bread is banned, popcorn in theaters may be banned, women using fly swatters to lose weight, and much more! Matt Breen of the Explorers Podcast cohosts.

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Retrocast #9 – Podcast #170

Published on April 13, 2022

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts

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, and much more!

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Retrocast #8 – Podcast #167

Published on February 28, 2022

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts

A live baby is auctioned, a knife thrower hits his human target, a dog warden with an unusual approach to keeping thieves out of the pound, and more!

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Retrocast #7 – Podcast #165

Published on January 31, 2022

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts

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, and much more!

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Retrocast #6 – Podcast #162

Published on December 15, 2021

Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Podcast, Retrocasts

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 film ever made, and much more!

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Retrocast #5 – Podcast #160

Published on November 16, 2021

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits

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 bathtub, and much more!

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Retrocast #4 – Podcast #158

Published on October 15, 2021

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits

The day corsets were arrested, a university lingerie auction, US Customs bans Alice Cooper’s panties, a fish who milked a cow, a box of cookies that started a fire, the highest-paid act at Woodstock, and more!

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Retrocast #3 – Podcast #156

Published on September 15, 2021

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits

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 refused to buy his wife false teeth, and more!

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Retrocast #2 – Podcast #154

Published on August 15, 2021

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits

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, 200 hog call records stolen, a helicopter melon thief, & more!

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