An Ounce - For Your Consideration
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An Ounce - For Your Consideration is a history podcast hosted by Jim Fugate. It has 433 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
Discover hidden stories from history—bite-sized, clever tales that challenge what you thought you knew. At An Ounce, we uncover the little moments that quietly changed everything, surprising truths, and fascinating facts you won’t hear elsewhere.I’m Jim Fugate—retired firefighter, lifelong learner, and an outside-the-box thinker who loves sharing history’s hidden gems. These quick, engaging stories don’t take themselves too seriously, won’t steal your precious time, and might just make you feel a little bit smarter.I hope you’ll join a community of curious minds who enjoy a fresh take on history—where conversation is always open and everyone’s invited.
history ·en-us ·433 episodes
The Olympic Marathon That Was Official… But Wasn’t True
You Could Be Executed for a Dream — The Truth About Salem’s Spectral Evidence
They Saw Titanic’s Distress Signals… and Did Nothing
The Same Water | But Not the Same Story
Yungay Avalanche 1970 | The Mountain That Buried a City
The Most Obvious Problem Is Often the Wrong One
Your Primal Instinct Is Being Exploited
It Made Perfect Sense | Dangerously Common Things From Yesterday
Why 4 – 1 Sometimes Equals 6
Oso: The Landslide That Took a Town
The Forgotten Cat of the Space Race
Everything Is Under Control — A Special Report
It Made Sense at the Time: Why Smart Decisions Fail
Deflating a Little Monster That’s a Big Problem
The Accidentally Invented World — Why Some of the Best Ideas Were Never Planned
The Night We Counterattacked Venus — A True Story
The Warnings We Forgot — Even Though They Were Written in Stone
It Keeps Happening: Where Do People Fit When the World Moves On?
Why People Bought Pills to Survive a Comet — And Why We Still Fall for the Same Panic
The Big Burn: The Forgotten Firestorm That Changed America
Reclaiming Your Mind in the Age of Outrage: Escaping the Algorithm’s Fun House
The New Snake Oil: Outrage and Validation in the Digital World
Queen’s Hidden Genius: The Rock Star Who Helped NASA Map Pluto
Absurdity Becomes Truth: The Crazy Ideas Science Laughed At—Until Proven True
The Eloquence Illusion: Truth in a Tuxedo
Piper Alpha: The Night the North Sea Burned | How 167 Lives Were Lost in Minutes
Zombies That Walk Among Us: A Halloween Story With a Terrifying Truth
The Blessing of Hard Things: Why Struggle Beats Comfort Every Time
The Hartford Circus Fire: The Day the Clowns Cried (July 6, 1944)
What If the Elephant Man Was Beautiful? | Joseph Merrick’s Untold Story
What If Everything You Thought You Knew About History Was Wrong?
They Fell for This?! Bat-Men on the Moon and the First Fake News Frenzy
The Reinvention Game: How These Celebrities Hid Behind New Names
The Ghost Train That Destroyed a Town | Lac Mégantic Disaster Case Study
Masters of Disguise: When Changing Your Name Was the Only Way to Escape
The Day a Cargo Ship Nuked a City
From Fishnets to Fame: The Real Names Behind the Icons
They Demoted Pluto - And Exposed How Dumb We Really Are
The Real Identities of Famous Icons
The REAL Superman Who Built America
How Four Marines Created a Rock Legend—By Accident
London’s Deadly Fog of 1952: A Silent Disaster
How Much Could Your Childhood Toys Be Worth?
The Lost Time: When 11 Days Disappeared and Chaos Followed
What Made this Warrior Vulnerable?
Was She the Unknown Genius behind E=mc2?
The Real-Life Spies That Inspired James Bond
The Tree That Almost Caused a War!
Can We Fix How We Argue Today?
What Happens When 1 Teenager STANDS UP to a Gang of Armed Men?
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