The Story of Captain Kangaroo
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, on October 3, 1955, a television program debuted that would eventually produce nearly nine thousand shows over 40 years. Here’s the History Guy with the story of Captain Kangaroo.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company he |
| 0:21.9 | built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:47.9 | And we continue with our American stories. |
| 0:52.8 | Our next story comes to us from a man who's simply known as the history guy. |
| 0:58.0 | His videos are watched by hundreds of thousands of people of all ages on YouTube. The History Guy is also a regular contributor for us here at Our American Stories. |
| 1:03.0 | On October 3, 1955, a television program debuted that would eventually produce nearly 9,000 shows over a span of almost 40 years. |
| 1:16.3 | Here's the history guy with the story of Captain Kangaroo. |
| 1:22.5 | If you want to know how history can be forgotten, just look at popular culture where a song |
| 1:28.0 | or a movie or a television program can become incredibly popular and important to one generation |
| 1:33.8 | and then wholly unrecognized by the next. |
| 1:37.2 | The first week in October represents the anniversary of the first airing of a television show |
| 1:41.8 | that for many of you will bring back a flood of memories, |
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