Bonus Episode: History Daily - The First Reported Case of the Spanish Flu
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Here’s an episode of a show we think you’ll love. It’s History Daily which tells the fascinating stories of what happened “on this day” in history. New episodes come out every weekday. In this episode, it’s March 11, 1918. A US army cook becomes the first person diagnosed with the Spanish Flu, setting off the deadliest pandemic in modern history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Extraordinaries. |
| 0:02.4 | Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe is doing a feed swap with History Daily. |
| 0:06.9 | History Daily is a podcast that tackles, well, history daily. |
| 0:10.8 | The episodes are typically pretty short, so for the feed swap, we pick the science topic to share with you. |
| 0:16.1 | We hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:17.2 | We'll be back to our regularly scheduled DKEU fun on Tuesday, and we hope you're |
| 0:22.3 | having an amazing weekend. |
| 0:32.1 | It's early March, 1918, in Fort Riley, a U.S. Army training facility in Kansas. Inside the mess hall, |
| 0:40.3 | the company cook, private Albert Gitchell, ladles beef stew onto a metal tray. His movements |
| 0:45.8 | are mechanical, born of countless repetition, as he adds a second dollop of watery brown |
| 0:51.1 | sludge onto the tray and slides it to a waiting soldier. Gitchell wipes sweat from |
| 0:56.1 | his brow with the back of his hand. But just as he's about to call out next, he feels a slight |
| 1:01.3 | tickle in his throat. A cough rises, but soon he's hacking. Then another man appears at the |
| 1:07.3 | counter, camps notoriously ill-tempered drill sergeant. |
| 1:13.4 | Gitchell stifles his cough and lowers his gaze, |
| 1:16.8 | careful to avoid provoking the ire of the grumpy sergeant. |
| 1:19.8 | Gitchell ladles two scoops of stew onto his tray. |
| 1:21.7 | But as he passes it back, |
| 1:24.9 | the tray falls from his hand and crashes to the floor. |
| 1:29.9 | Gitchell stares at his trembling hand, confused. Then his vision blurs, and there's a burning sensation in his skull. He looks up at the drill sergeant, |
| 1:35.1 | whose boots are now splattered with gravy. The sergeant hisses, what the hell's wrong with you, |
| 1:40.0 | Gitchell? Gitchell tries to mumble an apology, but the sergeant just stares at him, his expression |
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