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Useless Information Podcast

UI #116 - The Walking Murphys

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Long forgotten headline story about a family who lost everything in the Great Kansas flood of 1951. Yet, all was not as it seemed... Also learn about what a Lucy Stoner is, a man who used handcuffs to hitchhike, twins who were hitchhiking around the world, and a father and son who were reunited through hitchhiking. Retrosponsor: Mahdeen Shampoo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Useless Information Podcast.

0:37.0

I am Steve Silverman.

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Useless Information. information. The school district that I teach him recently asked me to present a teacher

0:48.0

training seminar on the best health and wellness apps that are out there. Unfortunately I use very few of them so I spoke

0:55.4

to a number of colleagues and installed the best of them on my smartphone. So two weekends

1:01.2

ago my wife and I were up in Wornsburg, New York, which is just a bit north of Lake George,

1:06.0

and we were attending their annual town-wide garage sale, which they built as the world's largest.

1:16.0

We go every year mainly for the exercise, honestly hardly buy anything, and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to give

1:20.4

these various apps a test. I turned each one of them on as soon as we exited our car and then we

1:26.9

proceeded to walk up and down the various side streets for hours. Of course when we were done for the day I stopped each of the apps.

1:35.0

Well that's what I thought I had done.

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When we returned home I realized that one of the apps just kept running and recorded a walk in excess of 50 miles. Of course, 46 of those were done while seated in my car.

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Well, today I have you another story about walking, but unlike mine that ended with a journey in the car, this one begins with someone riding in a car.

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During the morning of December 28th, 1951, Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Pauly Jr. and their daughter, Donna,

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they resided at 1525 College Avenue in Trapped, Pennsylvania.

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