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🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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In this series, Jeff & Andy dive into a mix of useless facts, myths, forgotten stories, and strange truths.
This episode, Jeff explains the history of buying and building a home from Sears, then the guys look at wild and lawsuits.
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0:00.0 | The |
0:07.0 | Phaar, Thank you. Boom. Boom! And welcome to the Big Honker podcast episode of did you know that's right |
0:57.6 | brought you by mallard bay check out mallard bay for any of your hunting and fishing trips |
1:02.0 | anywhere in the united states and probably the world they can take care of you yes sir okay |
1:05.9 | here's i'm going to go first today because i got my pulled up do you know what homes were the most popular homes built in the early 1900s? |
1:16.6 | What does that even mean? |
1:17.8 | Shotgun homes? |
1:19.0 | No, I guess I worded it wrong. |
1:21.7 | Do you know what company sold the most homes in the early 1900s? |
1:25.8 | Sears. |
1:26.3 | Yes. |
1:27.0 | Yes, I do know that. |
1:27.4 | Sears was the modern day, I do know that. |
1:27.7 | Sears was the modern day. |
1:29.4 | At that time, they were Amazon. |
1:31.5 | Right. |
1:32.0 | I mean, it's basically what it was. |
1:33.4 | Anything you wanted to buy, you could buy. |
1:36.4 | It's to understand the profound impact Sears once had on its consumers. |
1:40.0 | It's useful to compare this former catalog and department store giant to Amazon. |
1:44.9 | From 1908 to 1942, the Chicago-based operation sold around 75,000 homes to anyone who had the cash and access to a catalog to choose one. |
1:54.1 | Around 400 different styles were available from craftsmen's to Cape Codds to accommodate homes. |
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