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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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Retrocast #1 – Podcast #152

Published on July 14, 2021

Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits

A 106-year-old woman seeks a husband, 5 phonograph records is admission to a dance, Australia gives the US an albino kangaroo, Johnny Cash promoting the Home Equipment Co., A country could be 49th US state, and more!

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