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Part-Time Genius

Why Are We Obsessed with World Records?

Part-Time Genius

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

Society & Culture

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

There’s a reason records books are routinely stolen from libraries! Learn just how hard it is to grow the world’s longest fingernails; why India’s lone records judge has the hardest job in the world, and how chainsawing apples out of your mouth can lead t

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0:00.0

I'm Mary Kaye McBrayer, host of the podcast The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told,

0:04.8

where I dig into crimes where a woman is not just a victim.

0:07.9

She might be the detective, the lawyer, the witness, the coroner, the criminal,

0:12.0

or some combination of those roles.

0:14.3

These are the stories we need to know to understand the intersection of society,

0:18.9

justice, and the fascinating workings of the human psyche. Listen to the greatest true crime stories ever told on the I-Heart

0:25.9

radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:29.0

When Tracy Raquel Burns was two years old, her baby brother died.

0:35.0

I was told that Matthew died in an accident.

0:38.0

Her parents told police she had killed him.

0:41.0

I'm Nancy Glass.

0:43.0

Join me for Burden of Guilt, the new podcast that tells the true an incredible story of a toddler

0:49.9

who was framed for murder.

0:58.0

Listen to Burden of Guilt on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

1:16.0

Hi everyone, I'm Katie Curran. Yes. about being more conversational. So I've been inviting different people to join me to be my plus ones. I'm not totally abandoning the idea of a one-on-one interview. Sometimes that's the best format.

1:22.4

I'm hoping it'll be more relaxed, a little more

1:25.6

conversational, a little more spontaneous, and quite frankly a little more fun.

1:31.7

Listen to next question with me Katie Couric on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

1:38.0

podcasts.

1:39.0

Hey there, part-time geniuses, before we start the show, we wanted to take a minute to recognize a few of our brilliant listeners.

1:45.7

During an episode on building the ultimate animal superhero, we challenge you guys to draw the bizarre creature created in that episode.

1:52.8

This thing involved parts from the platypus, the salamander, the Texas horn lizard,

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