Killer Means Awesome

Apr 15 2024 8
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Welcome to the always entertaining and informative Killer Means Awesome podcast.  

Season 1: Killer Shipwrecks - Think of shiny coins and sunken dreams.  Each episode features an incredible story of a recently discovered shipwreck.

Season 2: Killer Biographies - Do you get Pocahontas and Sacagawea mixed up? So do we! Check out these true stories about historical figures you really should know better.

Season 3: Killer Inventions - Incredible true stories about inventors and the inventions that changed the world.


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Killer Inventions: Dynamite

Apr 15 2024 53 mins  
The invention of dynamite in 1867 transformed industry, mining, railroad building, and modern warfare. It also led to the creation of the Nobel Prizes. For the full story of the brilliant, moody Swede who invented both dynamite and the Nobel Prizes, check out Episode 7 of Killer Means Awesome!Listen to the first two seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear more incredible true stori

Killer Inventions: Chewing Gum

Feb 26 2024 67 mins  
For thousands of years people all over the world have chewed gum or gum-like substances. Still, the invention of the modern chewing gum industry took place in the United States in the 1800s, and while you may be familiar with names like William Wrigley, Jr., an exiled Mexican General was also responsible for the gum you enjoy today. Hear the incredible true story of how chewing gum

Killer Inventions: The Slide Guitar

Feb 12 2024 48 mins  
The magical sound of slide guitar is a modern invention. Though long associated with American blues music, the location of its earliest pioneers may surprise you! Tune into Killer Means Awesome to find out who invented the musical technique, who set the standard for playing, and why you should never, ever let guitarist Ry Cooder drive you through the mountains.Listen to the first t

Killer Inventions: Grace Hopper & The Information Age

Jan 29 2024 62 mins  
Diminutive in stature but a giant in the world of inventions, the brilliant Grace Hopper talked her way into the Navy after Pearl Harbor and went on to become arguably the most pivotal innovator at the dawn of the information age.Listen to the first two seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear more incredible true stories. Season one features amazing tales about recently discovered

Killer Inventions: The Black Box

Dec 12 2023 54 mins  
From its earliest, primitive versions in the 1940s to the powerful, high-tech devices of today, the fabled 'black box' on airplanes has captured both the public imagination and the careful attention of engineers and investigators. Perhaps no other device does more to unravel the mystery of a plane crash than the flight recorder, which is built to withstand explosions, fir

Killer Inventions: Deep Purple

Dec 04 2023 57 mins  
In 1856 William Henry Perkin was an 18 year old college student on spring break when he accidentally invented a method for creating synthetic purple dye, a storied color which also happened to be the most coveted in all of Europe. Still, no one could have imagined William’s home experiment would inadvertently usher in the first science-based industry, making William rich and famo

Killer Inventions: LSD

Nov 08 2023 48 mins  
The Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was the first person to synthesize LSD in 1938. From an accidental LSD trip to today’s worldwide renaissance in government-sanctioned research, perhaps no psychedelic has triggered more controversy and headlines than LSD. What started as the brainchild of the young chemist looking for new medicines, LSD has been used in psychiatry, religious cerem

Introducing Killer Means Awesome: Killer Inventions

Nov 02 2023 3 mins  
Introducing the newly branded Killer Means Awesome podcast and Season #3: Killer Inventions!Listen to the first two seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear more incredible true stories. Season one features amazing tales about recently discovered shipwrecks and Season two highlights biographies of people you really should know!

Killer Biographies: Lewis Howard Latimer

Oct 17 2023 55 mins  
As an expert draftsman, inventor, and scientist, Lewis Howard Latimer helped Alexander Graham Bell patent the telephone and became Thomas Edison’s most trusted partner. Credited with inventing carbon filaments for light bulbs, the first air conditioner, and improvements for elevators and railroad car toilets, Latimer also found time to learn French, write poetry, play multiple in

Killer Biographies: Shirley Chisholm

Sep 29 2023 59 mins  
Get out of the way, it’s Fighting Shirley Chisholm coming through! Chisholm was ‘unbought and unbossed’ — from childhood poverty and time split between Barbados and Brooklyn to a pioneering career in U.S. politics and a historic run for President in 1972 … this is the story of the first black woman elected to Congress. Killer Biographies is now season two of the Killer Me