Retrocast #17 – Podcast #195 Published on April 19, 2023 Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts A train derails and then jumps back on track, a man who owned the universe, a bet in which the loser would eat 1 million peas, and much more!Click to Read More...
Retrocast 16 – Podcast #193 Published on March 20, 2023 Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts 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!Click to Read More...
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!Click to Read More...
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!Click to Read More...
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.Click to Read More...
Retrocast #12 – Podcast #177 Published on August 1, 2022 Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts 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.Click to Read More...
Retrocast #11 – Podcast #175 Published on June 30, 2022 Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts 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.Click to Read More...
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.Click to Read More...
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!Click to Read More...
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!Click to Read More...
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!Click to Read More...
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!Click to Read More...
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! Click to Read More...
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! Click to Read More...
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!Click to Read More...