Underwear Roundup with Benedict Arnold, Abram Spanel and the Playtex Space Suit

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

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Here's two more underwear stories that aren't in the the book I See Lincoln's Underpants (which is now available!) First Benedict Arnold betrays the American Army but gets caught thanks to something hiding in someone's underwear. Also When NASA planned to get someone to the moon, they needed a special Space Suit, and the only designers and makers up to the challenge had only made underwear for Playtex before the marvelous work of technology.

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0:00.0	MixEleban of the Past and the Curious has a new book available, that's me.
0:04.7	I see Lincoln's underpants as a book about famous people and their underwear, 16 chapters
0:09.8	on 16 people and their undies and lots of other stuff too, like the underwear hall of
0:14.2	fame, lots of laughing, lots of learning.
0:17.5	It's available wherever you get your books, and if you want to put the copy, please leave
0:21.2	a review, be sure to request it at your local library too, that will help.
0:25.5	This is an Indie Effort, I am IndieOperation.
0:29.4	Thank you.
0:38.1	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 75 of The Past and the Curious, 75, that is amazing
0:44.3	to me.
0:45.5	So today I have two new stories that are both about underwear, but they are not in the book
0:50.6	and not available anywhere else, so this is a The Past and the Curious podcast exclusive.
0:55.6	If you're finding the podcast because of icy Lincoln's underpants, welcome, and if
0:59.8	you're an old friend, great to have you back, welcome.
1:03.4	Alright, so one of these stories is actually mentioned briefly in the book, but not in
1:10.6	this much detail, so we're going to go deep, and that is the story of an underwear company
1:15.1	making the moon space suit, and I'm pretty sure you're going to like it, it's really
1:19.6	fun.
1:20.6	So we've got a story about the most notorious traitor in American history, Benedict Arnold,
1:26.6	who was brought down by something hidden in someone else's underwear.
1:31.3	So let's get ready to party, like it's 1776, and then we'll do it all again, and party
1:37.8	like it's 1969.
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