YesterCast #1 - November 22, 1963 - UI #180

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a tragic day for the United States. But what else was happening on November 22, 1963? This first episode of the Useless Information YesterCast explores the rest of the happenings of that day, including the top movies, songs, and TV shows. Included are a number of quirky and offbeat stories, including that of a man who took an ad out in the newspaper seeking an elephant, a man who mistook a boy for a squirrel and shot him, a bank robbery in which the bank earned money, an escapee who had been in jail nearly the entire time he was supposedly on the run, and so much more. Images, links, & transcript: https://uselessinformation.org/yestercast-1-november-22-1963-podcast-180/ 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.
0:05.6	Let me ask you a question.
0:07.4	Just what were you doing on November 22nd of 1963?
0:10.9	Well, maybe you weren't born yet or you're too young to remember, but that day is most
0:16.0	likely deeply embedded into the memory of just about everyone else.
0:20.4	And that's because that was the day the President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas,
0:25.0	Texas.
0:27.4	But did you ever wonder what else was going on on that day?
0:30.6	I mean, what else was in the news?
0:32.4	What was going on in sports?
0:34.1	Did any other famous person die on that day?
0:36.8	What was the number one movie, the number one TV show, or the number one song do you have
0:40.5	a clue?
0:41.5	I certainly didn't.
0:43.3	And that's the goal of this new segment of the podcast, what I'm calling the Yestercast,
0:48.7	to find out what else was happening on that day.
0:53.3	And while we take this journey back in time, you'll find out why a man in Texas took
0:57.3	at an ad in a newspaper for a real live elephant.
1:01.0	And you'll learn about a bank robbery in which the bank earned money in the end.
1:05.2	And how about a man who shot a boy simply because he thought he was a squirrel.
1:10.4	And then there's a story of an escapee who had been in jail almost the whole time.
1:15.2	Well, all those stories and a whole lot more are coming up next.
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