WEEK TWENTY-FIVE: Shackleton

 If you're a fan of survival, endurance, and a stunning lack of cannibalism, then you'll love hearing about Antarctic Ernest Shackleton! Jeff and Vinnie travel to Antarctica to learn about ice floes, dogloos, and slirt! Plus a quiz about Salisbury steak, hot dogs, liberty cabbage, and other German words that were unGermanned for WWI. (And for some reason more on the Fantastic Four/Cocoon reboot.)

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/19/items/Week25Shackleton/Week%2025%20--%20Shackleton.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-FOUR: The Pulitzer Prize

 Why did the chicken cross the road? To get a pullet surprise! This week
in 100 Years Ago Today, Jeff and Vinnie discuss the Pulitzer Prize
awards, given out for the first time in 1917. Plus more Enrico Caruso,
more General Pershing, more explosions, our first appearance of drunk
Kurt Vonnegut and poetry-hating Ray Bradbury, and more quizzes!

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/30/items/Week24ThePulitzers/Week%2024%20--%20The%20Pulitzers.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-THREE: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

So much happened this week a hundred years ago today people are STILL talking about it! Well, two people are: Jeff and Vinnie. They celebrate the birthdays of Whizzer White and Dean Martin, discuss the classiness of the Lions Club, and pay tribute to the first baseball celebrity who enlisted for the Great War. Plus a quiz on if birthday boy John Kennedy was never born!

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/10/items/Week23TheMostExcellentOrderOfTheBritishEmpire/Week%2023%20--%20The%20Most%20Excellent%20Order%20of%20the%20British%20Empire.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-TWO: Wonder Woman

The 1917 Podcast goes to the movies, for a special episode recorded in Jeff's car before and then after a screening of Wonder Woman! Find out how 1917 the cars, buses, mustaches, and fashions were! Learn about a large man Vinnie sees in the parking lot, who Vinnie can't stop talking about. Take a quiz on the other wonder women of 1917, and grapple with the question of if this week's sponsor Dr. Batty's Asthma Cigarettes are a real thing or not. 

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/13/items/Week22WonderWoman/week%2022--%20wonder%20woman.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-ONE: John Carter of Mars

What do Star Wars, Star Trek, Dune, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Superman, and Avatar have in common? They all ripped off Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars, written in 1917. Plus celebrate Raymond Burr's birthday, Walter Lippman's anniversary, and accept out apology for the intro song being way, way too loud.

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/22/items/Week21JohnCarterOfMars/Week%2021%20--%20John%20Carter%20of%20Mars.mp3

WEEK TWENTY: The Draft

In a week brought to you by Nash Motors's Jeffery Sedan, learn about the Selective Service Act via a round robin tournament of reason people objected to it. That's right, Jeff and Vinnie do a draft about the draft! Plus learn about Jeff's alternate reality if he drank a ballerina's beer, Vinnie's childhood dream come true, and far too much talk -- or maybe not enough talk -- on Police Acadamy.

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/8/items/Week20TheDraft/Week%2020%20--%20The%20Draft.mp3