UI #101 - Where There's a Wilby, There's a Way

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2011

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Between 1942 and 1943 Ralph Marshall Wilby appeared to pull off what appeared to be the perfect crime. An incredible story that has many elements of an international thriller: deception, false identities, international kidnapping, and the drop dead gorgeous woman who brought his capture. 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.
0:05.0	Hello all, Eric Rivenus with the most notorious
0:08.0	podcast here.
0:09.0	Each week I interview an author or historian about a historical true crime, tragedy, or disaster.
0:16.1	Subject matter ranges from gun slingers to gilded age murder to gangsters to to pirates, to wild prison breaks.
0:24.4	My guests spring their incredible knowledge directly to you.
0:28.0	Please subscribe to Most Notorious on your favorite podcast app.
0:32.0	Cheers and have a save tomorrow. on your
0:35.0	app. Cheers and have a safe tomorrow. If you like this podcast, can we recommend another one?
0:38.0	It's called Big Picture Science.
0:40.0	You can hear it wherever you get your podcast and its name tells part of the story
0:44.4	The big picture questions and the most interesting research in science.
0:49.6	Seth and I are the host Seth is a scientist.
0:52.8	I am Molly and I'm a science journalist and we talk to people
0:56.1	smarter than us and we have fun along the way.
0:58.6	The show is called Big Picture Science and as Seth said,
1:01.3	you can hear it wherever you get your podcast.
1:04.0	This is the useless information podcast. I am Steve Silverman.
1:09.0	If I ask you to name a department store, you probably come up with something like Walmart,
1:13.7	JCPenney, Kohls, Target, Sears, and the like.
1:17.6	These are all humongous chains with hundreds or thousands of stores, but this wasn't always
1:22.3	the case. Prior to the 1920s, multi-store department
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