Small Wonders: Tiny Inventions. Big Impact.
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week, we tip our hat to the tiny, small innovations that make our lives better.
Like the tiny arrow on your fuel gauge. And the bread clip. And the miniscule treadwear indicators on your car tires.
In every case, the inventor saw something nobody else saw, and their miniature ideas went down in history.
Small Wonders.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an apostrophe podcast production. |
| 0:10.7 | We're going to show you our big news to debaters. |
| 0:14.1 | Start the car! |
| 0:20.4 | Mama me, that's a spicy meatball. |
| 0:23.8 | What love doesn't conquer. |
| 0:25.9 | Al-Ca-Selzer will. |
| 0:27.3 | What a relief! |
| 0:32.1 | You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. |
| 0:43.1 | In 1936, boxer Joe Lewis seemed indestructible. |
| 0:53.1 | His record was 27 and 0 with 23 knockouts. He had speed, |
| 0:59.4 | power, he was tactical, and he had that characteristic all great champions have. He could |
| 1:05.6 | take a punch. Lewis was on track to fight heavyweight champion James J. Braddock for the title. |
| 1:13.2 | Before that highly anticipated bout, he was scheduled to fight German boxer Max Schmelling. |
| 1:20.5 | Schmelling was a former champion and considered a very good fighter. |
| 1:24.9 | But everyone considered the bout a mere tune-up for the championship fight to come. |
| 1:30.9 | The press said Lewis was the greatest thing to happen to sports, and they predicted a massacre. |
| 1:38.0 | Joe Lewis was a 10-to-1 favorite. |
| 1:44.2 | While Schmelling wasn't a Nazi, he was celebrated by Hitler as an example of German supremacy. |
| 1:51.8 | It wasn't the first time a Joe Lewis bout had been politicized. |
| 1:56.1 | The year before, Lewis had fought Italian Primo Carnera. |
| 2:00.7 | Carnara was a giant, standing 6'5-weighing 275 pounds. |
| 2:07.3 | Lewis was 6.1.5-197. |
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