Society & Culture Episodes
Society represents the people and their interactions, while culture represents the shared way of life that unites them.
July 6, 2025
HOW MONUMENT VALLEY SAVED HOLLYWOOD WESTERNS AND LAUNCHED JOHN WAYNE'S CAREER
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 call Monument Valley Utah/Arizona today- saved their pennies and photos and took a long road trip to Hollywood to find director John Ford and convince him that their valley would be the ideal place to film his next western movie, despite there being no lodging, no restaurants, ...
May 18, 2025
THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (PT 2)- A DEEP DIVE TO REMEMBER FROM 1001 (SEE NOTES)
see transcript www.bestof1001stories.com
May 11, 2025
THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (PART 1) MA RAINEY & THE ONES WHO CAME FIRST
see transcript below
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...
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...
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...
Nov. 17, 2024
AMERICAN SCARY: A HISTORY OF HORROR FROM SALEM TO STEPHEN KING AND BEYOND
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...
July 24, 2024
BEST OF (#25 OF 467) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST MORMON MINE
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
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...
April 14, 2024
THE TRUE STORY OF ANASTASIA (PT 1) : THE FALL OF RUSSIA AND THE ROMANOVS
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
Dec. 24, 2023
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (LUX RADIO) AND 1001 INTERVIEW W KAROLYN GRIMES (ZUZU BAILEY)
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
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Oct. 1, 2023
MARY SHELLEY, LAKE GENEVA, AND A VISIT TO CASTLE FRANKENSTEIN
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
July 6, 2023
MOTHER JONES AND THE BATTLE OF BLAIR MOUNTAIN W. VA (PT 1)
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
March 26, 2023
AND NOW A WORD FROM YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL.....
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories &n Mysteries
Dec. 25, 2022
A GUIDE TO GENTLEMAN'S MANNERS WHILE TRAVELING AND DINING
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
May 8, 2022
NAMING THE GENERATIONS: EACH HAS ITS OWN CHARACTERISTICS
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
Feb. 8, 2021
NO CHILD'S GAME: ORIGINS OF THE OUIJA BOARD (HOUDINI PT 2)
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
Dec. 2, 2019
THE SHROUD OF TURIN (PART 1) ONE OF HISTORY'S GREATEST MYSTERIES
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries