Behind the Scenes Minis: Balloons and Cat Trees

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Tracy and Holly talk about the proclivity for destruction that was part of the balloon craze. They also discuss cat trees and how hard it is to find one that's cute.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.3	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:16.0	Hello and happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:18.9	And I'm Holly Fry.
0:20.3	We talked about balloon riots this week.
0:23.0	Sure did.
0:24.1	An episode that was, you know, one riot was the request.
0:29.6	I initially thought that it was going to be about two riots because the one that was initially requested was one.
0:37.4	And then the 1864 one was the other one
0:40.3	that immediately kind of showed up in my preliminary research. And then I was like, oh, there's a lot of
0:46.8	them, actually. And they all have some striking similarities. And also, it seems like everyone who was opening a gardens somewhere that was either part of
0:59.4	the British Empire or had once been British territory, they just all named them after
1:04.4	gardens in London.
1:05.8	Yeah.
1:06.7	Yeah.
1:07.4	Same name over and over.
1:09.2	Yeah, that's one of those interesting factors to me about early U.S. history is that there was so much,
1:18.0	we are our own new thing.
1:21.5	Yeah.
1:22.3	But everything got named after something in Europe.
1:25.8	Yeah.
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