Eggs!

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the 2000s an anonymous American man found an egg worth millions. It was a Faberge Imperial Egg and it's story is fascinating. This episode traces the origin of the Faberge Eggs, and also the story of how it wound up in a kitchen in America’s Midwest. Also, as the Gold Rush boomed in the 1800s there were not enough actually, edible eggs to feed all the new faces in California. As a result, an Egg War developed over unusual eggs laid by murres on an island chain off the the coast of San Francisco

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Mick Sullivan, and I welcome you to this most excellent episode of The Past
0:09.6	and the Curious.
0:11.2	This is the last episode of 2022, so I want to wish you a happy new year.
0:15.6	2023 is going to be fun for me.
0:17.5	There's more fun episodes ahead, and I know I keep talking about it, but my book I see
0:22.0	Lincoln's underpants will be officially published in the middle of January.
0:26.4	We hit a few snags and we've been working through them this month, which is why I
0:29.7	didn't get an episode of Underwear Chronicles out to you.
0:32.8	Sorry about that, but between catching up on the book and the holidays and a few illnesses
0:37.8	in our house and, you know, just kids and all that, I just couldn't manage, so I'm sorry.
0:42.9	But it will work out really well because this way the final podcast installment will be
0:46.8	out when the book is officially released.
0:50.2	In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this episode about some unusual and incredible eggs that
0:55.6	led to a gold rush conflict known as the Egg Wars, and also the most expensive eggs ever
1:02.6	produced, which belonged to Russia's Romanova family.
1:06.8	So let's rock.
1:13.2	Kirin McCarthy was sworn to secrecy about whose house he entered in 2014.
1:20.4	He was even sworn to secrecy about what state the house was even in.
1:25.2	All we know is that it was somewhere in America's Midwest.
1:29.4	The man who lived there is anonymous.
1:32.0	He wanted privacy, and we still don't know who he is.
1:36.0	The only person who knows for sure is McCarthy, who came all the way from London, England,
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