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Part-Time Genius

Who Invented the Dunce Cap? (And Other Unusual School Supplies)

Part-Time Genius

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

Society & Culture

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Why is there a bull on the Elmer's glue bottle? What did kids use to carry their books around before they had backpacks? And why does a giant cone tree get everyone excited about starting school in Germany? Will and Mango dig deep into their Trapper Keepers to bring you some stories you definitely didn't learn in school.

Transcript

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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

0:21.6

he 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 Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:38.0

Welcome to part-time genius, the production of IHeart Radio.

0:46.6

Guess what, Mango?

0:47.6

What's that Will?

0:48.4

All right, I know I brought these glue bottles into the studio here

0:51.6

and that we have put, what do you think? Maybe we're on our fifth round

0:55.4

of spreading it on our hands and peeling it off just because it's so much fun. Oh my God,

1:00.8

it's so fun. But there's actually a reason that I do this. I do this in classrooms now because

1:06.2

I'm here to prove a point. I actually need you to know that the glue that kids use in schools,

1:12.2

it's not really glue at all.

1:14.6

What do you mean by that?

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