Potatoes and Rocks

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

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Episode 87: Potatoes and Rocks It’s our annual end-of-year episode dedicated to toys and we have some fun with Mr. Potato Head and Pet Rocks. From the first toy on a commercial to the earthiest fad, you might soon find yourself out digging in the dirt in search of one natural new friend or another!

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0:00.0	Are you're looking for a podcast that your whole family can enjoy that asks the deep philosophical questions like do trees fart?
0:08.0	If you are, then you'll love Tumble, a science podcast for kids. I'm Lindsay and I'm Marshall.
0:15.0	Join us as we explore stories of science discovery from butts to animals, dinosaurs,
0:20.1	astronomy and everything in between. You'll love these stories and you'll learn something new.
0:25.0	Find and follow tumble science podcast for kids
0:28.0	wherever you get your podcasts or at science podcast for Kids.com. You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Media Podcast. And a Happy New Year.
0:50.0	Hello everyone, I'm Mick Sullivan and welcome to the past and the curious.
0:54.0	I sure hope that the end of one year and the beginning of a new one are finding you well.
0:59.3	I'm really staggered to look back and think about everything that has happened in 2023.
1:03.5	My kids grew up a lot, I worked on some really cool projects at work.
1:06.8	I released a book, I see Lincoln's Underpants,
1:09.3	I performed in Boston for W-B-U-R's Podcast Festival. I wrote some of my favorite episodes and had a lot of fun along the way. I hope you did too.
1:18.0	So here's two more in 2024, which I like that. I like the sound of that. It has become a tradition of sorts for the end of the year episode to focus on toys and how they came to be. There are some really interesting stories as it turns out about many of the things that we play with.
1:37.3	Sometimes it's a potato and sometimes it's a rock as you will see in this episode.
1:45.0	Happy New Year everybody.
1:47.0	Thank you for listening as always. Television in 1952 in 1952 was in black and white. News programs, sitcoms, dramas, and commercials would not reach American homes in color for two more years in
2:06.8	1954.
2:09.5	There were a lot of shows on the air at this time, nowhere near the number of today, mind you, but of the
2:15.0	lot of today, mind you, but the number one most popular show, by far, was called I Love Lucy.
2:21.0	It was built around the comedic genius of an actress named Lucille Ball and in the show
2:25.9	she portrayed Lucy Ricardo, a woman who wanted to be famous as an entertainer with support
2:31.9	from her musician husband and a pair of friends.
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