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Useless Information Podcast

Retrocast 32 - UI Podcast #236

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A man discovers the Roman Ruins of his youth have been torn down, a violin made from a lobster claw, an electric chair that electrocuted itself, and much more! Images, links, and transcripts for this podcast can be found at https://uselessinformation.org/retrocast-32-podcast-236/ You can follow the Useless Information Podcast on these platforms: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uselessinformationpodcast X (Twitter): https://t.co/7pV2H8iXJV Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlipSideofHistory/ The Useless Information Podcast is a member of the Airwave Media podcast network.  Visit https://www.airwavemedia.com/ to listen to more great podcasts just like this one. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:06.1

As a long-time foreign correspondent, I've worked in lots of places, but nowhere is

0:11.3

important to the world as China. I'm Jane Perlase, former Beijing Bureau Chief for the New York

0:16.7

Times. On face-off, the U.S. versus China will explore what's critical to this important global

0:23.3

relationship, Trump and Xi Jinping, AI, TikTok, and even Hollywood. New episodes of Face Off are available

0:31.9

now, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:42.3

Incoming Transition. get your podcasts. Hello, this is Matt and McKinley from History Dispatches.

0:45.9

We are the father-son duo bringing you the weird, the wild, the wacky, and the craziest

0:49.9

tales from across time.

0:51.4

From the ice bowl to the great heathen Army and the head of Oliver Cromwell.

0:55.8

The same head they kept on a pike for three years? Yep, all here on History Dispatches.

1:00.9

New episodes every weekday. Find out more at History Dispatches.com or wherever you get your podcast app.

1:09.2

Today on the 32nd edition of the Useless Information information retrocast, you'll hear about a man who returned

1:14.8

to Italy decades after moving away, only to find out that the Roman ruins which he remembered

1:20.2

from his youth, they had been torn down.

1:23.9

What?

1:24.4

I know what you're thinking.

1:25.6

They tore down the Coliseum?

1:30.3

No, it's still there. Clearly something else is going on here. And another story that I'll share with you is about a woman who refused to look

1:36.0

at an airplane simply because she believed that mankind was unable to fly. Plus, you'll hear about a real

1:43.4

electric chair that electrocuted itself.

1:46.6

While all those stories, the question of the day, today's retro sponsor, and so much

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