Interesting Things with JC #1568: "Ski Mountaineering" – Before sunrise in the Alps, headlamps move uphill in silence. No lifts. No engines. Just lungs, legs, and gravity waiting at the top. In a world built for shortcuts, ski mountaineering still makes you earn every turn.

Interesting Things with JC #1567: "The Reverend Jesse Jackson & Progressive Supranuclear Palsy" – He marched with Dr. King. He ran for president. He stood in rooms where history was made. After a long public battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Reverend Jesse Jackson passed away at 84. His final years revealed a rare disease. His life revealed resolve.

Interesting Things with JC #1566: "Smokey Robinson" – Before Motown had a sound, it had a poet. From a small Detroit studio to thousands of songs that shaped American music, Smokey Robinson didn’t just write hits, he built the emotional architecture of an era.

Interesting Things with JC #1565: "Robert Duvall" – From the stillness of Boo Radley to the authority of Kilgore and the hard earned humility of Mac Sledge, Robert Duvall shaped American film through discipline and restraint. Across six decades, he proved that control, not volume, creates lasting power.

Interesting Things with JC #1564: "China's Hypersonic Threat" – For most of American history, oceans meant time. At Mach 10, a thousand miles can disappear in minutes. As hypersonic weapons compress distance into decision, the question is no longer geography....it’s judgment under pressure.

Interesting Things with JC #1563: "Mach 5 - Battlefield Dominance" – At five times the speed of sound, war becomes a race against minutes. Hypersonic flight compresses decision time, reshapes missile defense, and turns speed into strategy. In this new band of physics, leverage is measured in seconds.

Interesting Things with JC #1562: "The Helios Laser" – A $4 million missile… or a beam of light. On the deck of USS Preble, the U.S. Navy flipped the cost of war with 60 kilowatts of focused energy traveling at the speed of light. For the first time, naval firepower depends on power generation, not ammunition.

Interesting Things with JC #1561: "Saint Valentine" – A third-century execution along a Roman road becomes a feast day, a medieval poem, and billions in modern commerce. Before romance, there was martyrdom. How did a man named Valentinus become the patron of love?