Attack of the 50-Foot Garden Hose - UI #063

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2013

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Some mysterious force was bringing garden hoses all over the United States to life back in 1955. Find out what the hoses did and how one owner named George Di Peso finally put an end to all of the madness. Also, learn the original name of the Wheel of Fortune game show, how elephants helped clear traffic in Berlin, where some missing hogs were hiding, and how a tortoise lost during World War II was ultimately found. Retrosponsor: Aero-Wax Images, links, and transcripts for this podcast can be found at https://uselessinformation.org/attack-of-the-50-foot-garden-hose/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.6	Hi, I'm Steve Silverman and you'll sing to a classic episode of the useless information podcast.
1:27.1	This story, The Attack of the 50-foot garden hose was first released on June 8th of 2013, and I have to tell you it's one of my favorite stories ever. Why? Simply because it's a story about
1:30.9	nothing. Well, not exactly nothing, but it's a story about an obscure, quirky, and unexplained
1:36.6	event, and after you hear it, I'm quite certain it'll make no difference in your life,
1:42.7	but I do hope that it leaves you smiling.
1:45.9	It truly is what I think is the perfect, useless information story.
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