The Cullinan Diamond: Mailed in a Cardboard Box to the King
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On January 26, 1905, surface manager Frederick Wells pried a 3,106 carat crystal out of a mine w...
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Al Capone: Undone by a Tax Bill and an Untreated Disease
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Al Capone ended his criminal career plucking a banjo in an Alcatraz prison band. This episode st...
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Tally Sticks: The Wooden Money That Burned Down Parliament
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The word stockholder once meant something literal: the person who held the longer half of a spli...
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The Infomercial: From a 1949 Blender Pitch to Presidential Campaigns
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The infomercial is easy to dismiss as late night filler, but it began as a discovery about dead ...
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Supreme: How a Lafayette Street Skate Shop Became a Billion Dollar Brand
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In April 1994, James Jebbia opened Supreme on Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan with the cloth...
7 Okt 22min
The 2008 Financial Crisis: How Subprime Mortgages Froze the World
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 2008 financial crisis erased $11 trillion in household wealth, yet half of the poorest Ameri...
7 Okt 21min
Spindletop: The Texas Gusher That Launched the Oil Age and Gulf Oil
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the late 1800s, a Beaumont brick maker and Sunday school teacher named Pattillo Higgins led h...
7 Okt 23min
The Dollar Sign: A Spanish Peso Scribble That Conquered the Keyboard
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The dollar sign looks like the purest emblem of American capitalism, yet its origins have nothin...
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