Week three of the 100 Years
Ago Today: the 1917 podcast introduces you to selling donuts at home for
cash money -- wink wink -- more explosions, the birth of Ernest
Borgnine, the invention of the calorie, Jeff's hazy recollection of what
a kilocalorie is, Vinnie's outrage about a mayonnaise story, and false
memories about cottage cheese.
https://ia801508.us.archive.org/8/items/121Calories/1:21%20--%20Calories.mp3
bttf 1917
Great Scott!
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Monday, January 23, 2017
WEEK TWO: The Kingsland Explosion!
Week 2 of the podcast delves into PG Wodehouse, the Mahareshi, various North Jersey explosions, and the Waltons' view of WWI.
https://ia801506.us.archive.org/30/items/114KINGSLANDEXPLOSION/1:14%20--%20KINGSLAND%20EXPLOSION.mp3
https://ia801506.us.archive.org/30/items/114KINGSLANDEXPLOSION/1:14%20--%20KINGSLAND%20EXPLOSION.mp3
Saturday, January 7, 2017
WEEK ONE: Lawrence of Arabia
WEEK ONE (January 1-7, 1917) -- LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
In our debut episode, Jeff and Vinnie explain the purpose of the show, needle each other about weddings, deal with the best strategies to talk about Lawrence of Arabia when you have not in fact seen Lawrence of Arabia, how Jeff accidentally watched Lawrence of Arabia backwards, a quiz about Jane Wyman's five ex-husbands, and Vinnie's determination what the F-word of 1917 was.
Update: the link would help. https://ia601504.us.archive.org/23/items/Week1LAWRENCEOFARABIA/Week%201%20--%20LAWRENCE%20OF%20ARABIA.mp3
In our debut episode, Jeff and Vinnie explain the purpose of the show, needle each other about weddings, deal with the best strategies to talk about Lawrence of Arabia when you have not in fact seen Lawrence of Arabia, how Jeff accidentally watched Lawrence of Arabia backwards, a quiz about Jane Wyman's five ex-husbands, and Vinnie's determination what the F-word of 1917 was.
Update: the link would help. https://ia601504.us.archive.org/23/items/Week1LAWRENCEOFARABIA/Week%201%20--%20LAWRENCE%20OF%20ARABIA.mp3
Welcome to 100 Years Ago Today! Each week Jeff and Vinnie will discuss the events of precisely 100 years ago this week. This being 2017, that means that all 52 episodes will be devoted to the events of 1917.
Are we historians? No. Are we graduate students in historical fields? No. Did we each take the one required history elective to we could graduate from our New Jersey state school? An empahtic yes. So we're a different sort of tour guide. We're tour guides who are learning about this as you are.
The 1917 version of email was the telegram: electronic communication over telepgraph wires, blazing coast to coast with dots and dashes. In honor of that technology, we will only accept correspondance via Western Union.
Or not: we're at 1917podcast@gmail.com.
If you've got something to add to an episode, if we botched a bit of the historical record, let us know. Seriously: we're in this to learn, and we'll go on saying that President Woodrow Wilson moonlighted as a brothel piano player unless you tell us otherwise.
Or if you've got a favorite bit of 1917 historia you want to share: odds are we don't yet know about it. I had to double-check that Woodrow Wilson was in fact president. You think I know what great culinary trend had its start in 1917? I do not. Let me know.
Thanks for listening, and see you in 100 years!
Are we historians? No. Are we graduate students in historical fields? No. Did we each take the one required history elective to we could graduate from our New Jersey state school? An empahtic yes. So we're a different sort of tour guide. We're tour guides who are learning about this as you are.
The 1917 version of email was the telegram: electronic communication over telepgraph wires, blazing coast to coast with dots and dashes. In honor of that technology, we will only accept correspondance via Western Union.
Or not: we're at 1917podcast@gmail.com.
If you've got something to add to an episode, if we botched a bit of the historical record, let us know. Seriously: we're in this to learn, and we'll go on saying that President Woodrow Wilson moonlighted as a brothel piano player unless you tell us otherwise.
Or if you've got a favorite bit of 1917 historia you want to share: odds are we don't yet know about it. I had to double-check that Woodrow Wilson was in fact president. You think I know what great culinary trend had its start in 1917? I do not. Let me know.
Thanks for listening, and see you in 100 years!
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