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An Ounce Podcast
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2023
Daily Shorts about what happened in history today, and weekly episodes that include a variety of:
* Good stories
* Humor
* True and Unexpected History
* Plot Twists
* Surprises
* Entertaining real life anecdotes
* Analogies
All delivered with An Ounce of wisdom and unique insights. And all in a way that does not take itself too seriously.
These tales are generally delivered in about 10 minutes. Easy and fun to listen to one, or a dozen, at a time. The offering is also infused with great quotes from all over - if they're pithy, fun, and inspirational.
Enjoy lesser known moments in history, extraordinary people, perspectives, fictions tales, analogies, ideas, things you might not know, and lots of other things that teach, uplift, illuminate, and inspire.
* Good stories
* Humor
* True and Unexpected History
* Plot Twists
* Surprises
* Entertaining real life anecdotes
* Analogies
All delivered with An Ounce of wisdom and unique insights. And all in a way that does not take itself too seriously.
These tales are generally delivered in about 10 minutes. Easy and fun to listen to one, or a dozen, at a time. The offering is also infused with great quotes from all over - if they're pithy, fun, and inspirational.
Enjoy lesser known moments in history, extraordinary people, perspectives, fictions tales, analogies, ideas, things you might not know, and lots of other things that teach, uplift, illuminate, and inspire.
Why Didn’t They Smile in Old Photos?
Ever wondered why people didn't smile in old photos? In this video, we explore the history behind the serious faces in vintage photographs. Serious faces, wild guesses, and fascinating fact, and why old photos were grin-free zones.
👉 Video: The Distasteful History of Toothpaste - th-cam.com/video/wq_H-8_pKKI/w-d-xo.html
VIDEOS TO WATCH NEXT:
Watch Now to learn how to start your own revolution - th-cam.com/video/GwAigCZ2ppM/w-d-xo.html
What are the chances? Watch now to find out - th-cam.com/video/PX2zJddK980/w-d-xo.html
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➡️ Watch Now: Watch Now: The Distasteful History of Toothpaste - th-cam.com/video/wq_H-8_pKKI/w-d-xo.html
➡️ Purchase my book, Firehouse Philosophy, on Amazon - www.amazon.com/Firehouse-Philosophy-Embers-Insight-Exceptional/dp/B0BJ58Q1FS
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“If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” ~ Maya Angelou
“A simple smile. That’s the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.” ~ Dalai Lama
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Inquiries: jim@anounce.org
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References for this episode:
Online References:
www.upworthy.com/why-didn-t-people-smile-in-old-photographs-it-wasn-t-just-about-the-long-exposure-times
time.com/4568032/smile-serious-old-photos/
fstoppers.com/originals/heres-why-people-hardly-ever-smiled-old-time-photographs-408526
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/01/researchers-have-discovered-a-surprising-reason-we-smile-in-photos/
medium.com/@samwooddoowmas/smile-6fb3c2c9fb3c
aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-the-smile-through-art-culture-and-etiquette
Attributions and Credits:
This video includes multiple AI generated images and composite images that use an AI source
Music: Future King of Heaven, Leaning On the Everlasting Arms, and In The Sweet By and By- by Zachariah Hickman. th-cam.com/channels/CxXuycyfYH17CZ_1NtwX1g.html
Images and video from Wikimedia Commons, iStock, Getty, and generated with AI as noted in video.
👉 Video: The Distasteful History of Toothpaste - th-cam.com/video/wq_H-8_pKKI/w-d-xo.html
VIDEOS TO WATCH NEXT:
Watch Now to learn how to start your own revolution - th-cam.com/video/GwAigCZ2ppM/w-d-xo.html
What are the chances? Watch now to find out - th-cam.com/video/PX2zJddK980/w-d-xo.html
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➡️ Watch Now: Watch Now: The Distasteful History of Toothpaste - th-cam.com/video/wq_H-8_pKKI/w-d-xo.html
➡️ Purchase my book, Firehouse Philosophy, on Amazon - www.amazon.com/Firehouse-Philosophy-Embers-Insight-Exceptional/dp/B0BJ58Q1FS
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“If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” ~ Maya Angelou
“A simple smile. That’s the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.” ~ Dalai Lama
--------------------------------------------------
Inquiries: jim@anounce.org
--------------------------------------------------
References for this episode:
Online References:
www.upworthy.com/why-didn-t-people-smile-in-old-photographs-it-wasn-t-just-about-the-long-exposure-times
time.com/4568032/smile-serious-old-photos/
fstoppers.com/originals/heres-why-people-hardly-ever-smiled-old-time-photographs-408526
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/01/researchers-have-discovered-a-surprising-reason-we-smile-in-photos/
medium.com/@samwooddoowmas/smile-6fb3c2c9fb3c
aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-the-smile-through-art-culture-and-etiquette
Attributions and Credits:
This video includes multiple AI generated images and composite images that use an AI source
Music: Future King of Heaven, Leaning On the Everlasting Arms, and In The Sweet By and By- by Zachariah Hickman. th-cam.com/channels/CxXuycyfYH17CZ_1NtwX1g.html
Images and video from Wikimedia Commons, iStock, Getty, and generated with AI as noted in video.
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What another change. Keep up the great work Jim
Happy New Year!!
nice site....may i make a suggestion? pick up your speed and delivery, your a little stiff...try to relax and you'll hit a home run..
I appreciate your advice- my wife says the same thing.
What a beautiful story Jim. Everyone should have a little Ruby in their life.
She is an inspiration - ‘and the little child shall lead them.’
It’s the 23rd. You lied to me right off the hop…..
Yes - it's true. The shorts for each day are uploaded a day early. For example, the short for the 10th is actually released 24 hours earlier, on the 9th (and so on). However, each is clearly titled to indicate what day they are made for - so if you don't know what day it is, you could get confused. The reason we publish a day early is that many viewers really like knowing what's coming up tomorrow - and they can (as appropriate) prepare a proper celebration, for it.
I look forward to these summaries...thanks❤
Thanks for your comment!
Interesting...especially about soda Jim. Is that a new word? Snackification? Ha! Good one.
Now: we hear about how bad the caffeine and sugar are for us. Then: “but it’s got lithium to lift your mood - or cocaine to give you energy! Crazy 🤪
It’s still 19 of december
Yes - it is. But knowing a bit of tomorrow's history today will keep you from being surprised by what happened in the past, tomorrow. -Well, it made sense in my head anway...
@@AnOuncePodcast yeah I understand what your saying
Bill of Rights ratified in 1971? How about 1791?
Dang it-
On this day in 1982 I was born.
Well happy birthday 🎉
Good one! 😊 You have to admit that Mr. Clements added good spice to his stories. I love good story tellers, and their stories; especially those that make me smile, or burst out laughing. In our day, there are so many that are so humorous. Like the member of congress carefully explaining that too much construction on just one side of an island is likely to cause it to flip over! We live in good times for sure!
Hope the people on that island have life preservers-
There ain't no way to help Africa they are good people there they're trapped in hell the good people are they turned it back on God Africa house and God has turned his back on them God does not want to do that he loves everybody if you're black green purple and orange let the people pick their choice and now they have to deal with it God's coming back and he's going to take all the evil out of this world and I'm just trying to tell you why I have so much problem they need to turn their life to God and he's the one that can fix their country not the military in the United States they make things worse
The east Asians still have weird ideas about it.
Cool - I will have to check that out. Thanks 👍
@@AnOuncePodcast Yeah, it's something like "knives and forks are bringing weapons to the table". I think it's just food stick chauvinism. Lol.
1:14 the costumes are totally wrong for the 11th century!
Yes - you are right. And, as a $0 budget hobbyist creator I would have to encourage the viewer not to look too closely at the B roll, and give a guy a little grace.
It’s so nice to see you all dressed up Jim.
It’s the Christmas season - least I could do.
Suspenders!? Perhaps you had a really good Thanksgiving dinner? (I personally love my suspenders!)
Wear them all the time 👍
I knew it!
I would have thought they looked more like Marvin the Martian from Loony Tunes?!
Well done! Fake news is somewhat rampant lately. I agree that our imagination, and our inclination to accept ideas that fit our own narratives, should be kept on a short leash. How long, now, do we all have before CO2 wipes us all out🤔? Thanks Jaime.
When you have an agenda or narrative to promote, it has a strong impact on what parts of the truth you share, and how you share them. And it also helps to justify outright lies.
Did not know babe Ruth was adopted!
Yep - apparently he was quite the handful for those charged to take care of him.
Amazing what people will do for money. Now I want to go and have some pancakes Jim. Good story.
Kinda ingenious though. But syrup - only in Canada 🍁
Wow who knew all of that about Martha Ray. I remember her. Such a good tribute to someone who I thought was just a comedian. She obviously was so much more.
She was a wonderful person. There has got to be more to this story, but time wouldn’t allow for more here.
Good story. Thanks!
Seems she really loves people. An excellent example.
I have never heard this part of the story. Unbelievable. Great episode!
Pretty crazy to look back on - it was truly a different time.
Jfk died from the incompetence of like a 100
Great comment- I wonder if we’ll ever see all that stuff the government still won’t release.
How about an ounce of something else? 😜
You mean, like an ounce of patience, courage, humor, intelligence… Guess I could list more possibilities but right now I’ve got the munchies 😉
Really good Jim.
Thanks - Glad you listened and enjoyed!
Very well done! I learned a lot. Thanks!😊
Awesome! Thank you! And thanks for taking the time to comment. 👍
More the just a tall tale? The? Should probably be "than".
Good Eye! 🤫Hope TH-cam will allow me to dig into the first bit of the video edit that ... If not I guess it will remain as a testament to my persistent fallibility 😆.
At least ur honest about using ai, not trying to deceive anyone
Thanks - I try to make it clear what’s AI and what’s not. But I expect I will miss annotating, or putting a note in the credits or description. But, I and my voice are always real 😉
Good story as usual Jim. Thanks again! My stepdad, Paul, has battled environmentalists for years. He likes to hop on a side-by-side and explore the desert east of town, and the mountains to the west. He is often frustrated when the BLM closes roads on the desert, and the forest service closes logging roads in the mountains. He got his revenge though, when he and mother were called to La'ie Hawaii as service missionaries. There used to be a plot of ground behind the PCC where junk cars and huge piles of used, hollowed-out, pineapple cups found a home. A tall forest of green as thick as Hawaii can make it had grown up around, and through, the junk. He spent months slashing at this green until it was all gone😈. Quite a mission for someone who needed to do some environmental venting.😊
Thanks, Adam! Hey, do you remember when all of that open land around town was referred to as ‘public land’? And we could go out and explore anytime we wanted. Sometimes I miss how isolated we were. Didn’t realize how good we had it. Things have really changed.
@@AnOuncePodcast I think we were lucky being so isolated. It made very self-reliant folks. Good times. 🤠 I remember a certain snowmobile trip when a friend of mine rode on the back of dad's machine, and later confessed that he was praying the whole time that he would live through the experience. I knew the experience exactly! Dad finally sold he's snow machines a year ago; due to his face shield and glasses fogging up at full throttle; he ended up climbing up a Quaking Aspen. That one sent him to the hospital where they serviced his brain bleed. He claims that they took the stupid out. It is probably for the best now that he is 83 years old.🧙♂
I remember praying those prayers. Hahaha. Good to hear he is still kicking around - but not scaring little kids on snow machines anymore.
Such a great story Jim. I love dogs. They are more amazing than we realize.
I was thinking you’d enjoy this one.
Columbus exploitation day.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. MAYA ANGELOU
Very nice. Thanks Jim.
Very welcome 🙏
my like and dislike button does not work on shorts, liked it but the pauses are a hair too long, also instead of just naming things describe them with an interesting sentence or two, like perogi day say why they made a perogi day.
Thank you for your thoughtful response. I have found that the reason for selecting a particular day (as a national day) usually has very little behind it - and often the depth of its meaning is less than trivial. However, in some cases, there is some meaning to placing the day where it is. In those cases, I would have to agree, there is a valid reason to add a sentence or two more of description, in spite of limited time.
Absolutely love your videos!
Ahhh 😌. Thanks so much!
Happy national homemade cookies day! :)
Back at you! Think I’m going to do some classic chocolate chip cookies today fer 👍
Are you an ai?
Nope - I’m real.
My mom and my wife were both born on this day, but in different years of course
A great day for sure 👍
Yes, Accepting things we cannot change and then having the courage to take control of that which we can. That is a daily balance I follow using cognitive behavioral therapy. Thank you for this video it helped me out in many ways today!
So glad it resonated with you. Appreciate your taking time to say so. All the best!
Probably stick to your day job.
Ya - OK - I hear ya. Thanks
I wanna hear some of the stories of mocha dick and the encounters. This had a lot of talking, not a lot of stories. One of those talks a lot, but doesn’t say much type videos. I applaud your attempt at your fledgling TH-cam channel. Wish you all the best.
Excellent input. Thank you 🙏
Thank you for sharing! Never knew of the true story
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fascinating
Thanks 🙏
Doh! That reminds me; I forgot to brush this morning. Thanks Jim.
Which do you prefer? Medieval or Egyptian toothpaste?
@@AnOuncePodcast Just not the one with urine!
Hahaha
Super cool!
Wish we had more like her in politics
This is so interesting! I'm a Tigger with a little Piglet mixed in. Orrr maybe a Piglet with a little mix of Tigger.
Yep 👍 I can see that
Papa Jo is proud. Good work!
scary ounce
When I think of the mummy unwrapping events ... that's a little disturbing.
Good one!
Thank you! Cheers!
There will be a time, in the not so distant future (hopefully), when; mosquitoes won't bite, gnats will stay away from your head, the lamb will snuggle up to the lion, and goat heads will be thornless. Only one thing worse than a goats head... two goats head. 🌱🌱. Thanks Jim.
Appreciate the comment very much. I look forward to that day too. But, until then…