UI #113 - Mile-A-Minute Murphy

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The world's fastest bicyclist in the 1890's was Charles Minthorp Murphy and he was certain that there was no locomotive on Earth that could go faster than he could. To prove this, Murphy set a goal to ride one-mile in one-minute, a speed that few locomotives could achieve back then. It was the classic battle of man vs. machine. Also learn about the most popular song ever on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, a woman who gave birth twice in a taxi cab, the controversial first self-service gas stations, and a man who was convinced that he was being followed for miles. Retrosponsor: Mollé Shaving Cream 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.
0:04.0	This is the Useless Information Podcast.
0:07.0	I am Steve Silverman.
0:09.0	Useless Information. information.
0:22.0	So for today's podcast, I thought I'd introduce a story with a short interview that I did the other day with my brother Gary Silverman. Just coincidentally I recorded this on the
0:25.2	119th anniversary of today's story. So why don't you tell us about the call
0:31.6	that our grandfather made you about 35 years ago?
0:35.0	Well, I was actually a freshman in college and he called me up and I was very excited because he told me that he had bought me some real estate.
0:42.0	And what can you tell us about this property? me that he had bought me some real estate.
0:43.0	And what can you tell us about this property?
0:45.0	Was it a large parcel or a small parcel?
0:48.0	Well on the grand scale, I'd have to say it was extremely small actually. And what did it overlook like was it a river
0:55.5	you know beautiful piece of land what did it overlook? Specifically it overlooked
1:00.9	the Southern State Parkway I believe.
1:04.0	Okay, so why don't you tell everybody what he really gave you?
1:08.0	Well, he actually gave me was a burial plot.
1:10.5	So I was 17 years old and he decided that I should have my very own burial plot.
1:17.0	And of course I have one also and he bought one for all his children, for his children, their spouses, and of course his grandchildren.
1:26.1	Absolutely, you know, it is the one gift that you can truly say that I can truly wait to open this one.
1:31.9	Yeah, it's not one that I'm looking forward to actually using.
1:36.7	So as I remember it, basically he was a member of a lodge and they had purchased a lot of these plots out in cemeteries on
1:44.7	Long Island and then the next generation didn't join the lodges so they were left with all these
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