The Cardiff Giant - UI Podcast #038

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2010

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The 1869 discovery of this fossilized giant provided the first definitive proof that giants once did inhabit the Earth. Listen to find out the real facts in the story. Also, find out which serial killer the Texas House of Representatives honored, a storage building destroyed by popping corn, a Denver woman who swallowed a mouse, and burglars who robbed an anchorman's house. Retrosponsor: Shell Gasoline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.0	Hi, I'm Steve Silverman and you'll sing to a classic episode of the useless information podcast.
1:18.0	This episode which is titled The Cardiff Giant was first released back on October 26 of 2010. As you will hear in the intro of the story, my wife Mary Jane and I were staying in a cabin in Gilbert
1:24.4	Lake State Park, which is about a half hour drive from Cooperstown, New York.
1:30.2	And while most people go there to visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame, I told Mary Jane that I prefer to go to the nearby farmers museum to see the Cardiff Giant.
1:39.2	It had been on my list of must-see things for a very, very long time. And it was a few months after that visit
1:46.2	that I wrote and recorded this episode. And I have to tell you, it is a great story, although it's one that I would never ever
1:53.3	record today it's just a little bit too well known and I prefer to record
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