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July 6, 2025

HOW MONUMENT VALLEY SAVED HOLLYWOOD WESTERNS AND LAUNCHED JOHN WAYNE'…

Journey with me back to 1938 as a young couple named Mike and Leone Goulding, having invested in a trading post in Navaho Country and fallen in love with the beautiful landscape and the Navaho people who populated what we cal...

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May 18, 2025

THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (PT 2)- A DEEP DIVE TO REMEMBER FROM 1001 (SEE…

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May 11, 2025

THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (PART 1) MA RAINEY & THE ONES WHO CAME FIRST

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April 27, 2025

DEATH BY SELFIE (HOW, WHY & WHO)

Taking a Selfie: A strange yearning to experience the thrill of being photographed in a near-death situation which has taken hold of our "under 30" population- not just here in the US but around the world. Its an obsession being fed by...

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April 13, 2025

REMEMBERING I LOVE LUCY

TV history was made in 1951 when the first episode of I Love Lucy aired on CBS starring a fiery red head Irish actress named Lucille Ball and her real life husband, Cuban American band leader Desi Arnaz as New York City apartment dwellers Lucy and...

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Nov. 24, 2024

ELVIS MYTHS & LEGENDS (PT 1)

In this interview with U.K. radio personality and author Neil Nixon () we discuss all things mythical and legendary about Elvis the King,including #"It's Now or Never" (song), #Fortean Magazine, #'Elvis' movie (2022), #AustinButler, ##The...

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Nov. 17, 2024

AMERICAN SCARY: A HISTORY OF HORROR FROM SALEM TO STEPHEN KING AND BE…

In this very enjoyable intervoiew with author Jeremy Dauber we discuss his new blockbuster book American Scary , which is a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror on American culture from the...

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July 24, 2024

BEST OF (#25 OF 467) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST MORMON MINE

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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June 16, 2024

HISTORY'S GREATEST IDIOMS

Idiom- A group of words established by usage as having a mean not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. It's raing cats and Dogs!) There is one explicit idiom - Kick the Bucket- which follows "Laughing Stock"- it is not...

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