by Extra Ordinary
If you're looking for a podcast with information that's actually useful, look elsewhere. ¡extra! Ordinary is only here to make you sound like you read, even though you haven't picked up a book since high school. This podcast is about phone booths in the desert, the unexpected histories of everyday objects and the undervalued stories behind the things you know and ignore. Published Tuesday and Thursday. Hosted by Sonny Garibay. This isn't extraordinary. It's extra ordinary.
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5/10/2020
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May 20, 2020
<p>WE'RE JUST DIFFERENT.</p> <p><br></p> <p>NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999 due to a mix up between the U.S. customary and metric systems of measurement. The United States remains one of only a handful of countries that has not widely adopted the metric system.</p> <p><br></p> <p>This isn't due to a lack of trying. In its history the United States has tried several time to make the metric system the nation's standard. It just didn't try very hard.</p> <p><br></p> <p>This time on ¡extra! Ordinary, Sonny looks at America's complicated relationship with the metric system including John Quincy Adams' exhaustive report in the 1800's and the push to make the switch in the late 1970's.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Also in this episode: The 1-19, the only metric interstate in the US. </p> <p><br></p> <p>¡extra! Ordinary is hosted by Sonny Garibay. </p>
May 15, 2020
<p>NOW THEY'RE LOST AND GONE FOREVER!</p> <p><br></p> <p>An upcoming John Malkovich movie, is on target to meet its 2115 release date. That wasn't a typo. The already finished film sits in a safe, waiting to open to an audience that likely wasn't around when it was completed.</p> <p><br></p> <p>There are plenty of other movies though, that you will never see because they haven't survived, either due to decay or fires or abandonment. </p> <p><br></p> <p>This time on ¡extra! Ordinary it's films we'll never see, and the reasons why. </p> <p><br></p> <p>I also look at "Who Killed Bambi" a proposed Sex Pistols Feature Film that barely got started before it got cancelled and how the band's short run came to a grinding halt after a show in San Fransisco not long after.</p> <p><br></p> <p>¡extra! Ordinary is hosted by Sonny Garibay. </p>
May 12, 2020
<p>IF A PHONE RINGS IN THE DESERT AND NOBODY IS AROUND TO HEAR IT DOES IT MAKE A SOUND?</p> <p><br></p> <p>After reading a strange letter in a music magazine, an Arizona man becomes obsessed with a random phone in an abandoned city. </p> <p><br></p> <p>This time on ¡extra! Ordinary we look at the Mojave Phone Booth, a functioning pay phone in the middle of the desolate California desert that gained a cult following at the turn of century and was ultimately taken down when its fame grew too great. </p> <p><br></p> <p>We also look at the history of Cima, the town that the booth was meant to service and how the phone outlived the town.</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>¡extra! Ordinary is hosted by Sonny Garibay. </p>
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If you're looking for a podcast with information that's actually useful, look elsewhere.
¡extra! Ordinary is only here to make you sound like you read, even though you haven't picked up a book since high school.
This podcast is about phone booths in the desert, the unexpected histories of everyday objects and the undervalued stories behind the things you know and ignore.
Published Tuesday and Thursday. Hosted by Sonny Garibay.
This isn't extraordinary. It's extra ordinary.
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