The Inconstant Moon

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Science, Natural Sciences, Design, Arts, History

4.7 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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We're ending this pseudo-series on the golden age of hoaxes with the original mass media fake that started it all. Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now! BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email [email protected] to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.5	Does this story have to begin at the Cincinnati Times Store?
1:08.3	No.
1:09.8	Should this story begin at the Cincinnati Times Store? Probably not. But is this story going to begin at the Cincinnati Times Store? Yes, clearly, because when else am I going to get to talk about it?
1:42.3	The Cincinnati Times Door opened in 1827, the brainchild of Josiah Warren, a local lampmaker and a weirdo. I'm not sure that the people of Cincinnati thought of him as a weirdo, but if you've
1:46.9	spent much time with the people of Cincinnati, you know that doesn't exactly rule it out.
1:51.9	In fairness, Josiah Warren's particular sort of weirdness was kind of the rage in the 1820s.
1:57.4	He was interested in creating a new kind of utopian society. In 1825, he followed the
2:04.5	original utopian socialist Richard Owen to Indiana to form a, yeah, yeah, a socialist utopia.
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