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    Alfred Hitchcock is known as the Master of Suspense and greatest director of the 20th Century. What made him different? Today’s episode is the Six Degrees of Hitchcock as we encounter Cary Grant, Salvador Dali, John Steinbeck, Thornton Wilder, Ingrid Bergman, James Stewart, Jerry Mathers, Charles Gounod and J. M. Barrie. 

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    Charles Lindbergh is the connecting rod between Delta Air Lines and Pan Am. But how they came to be involves a military plot, some crop dusters, the Skull & Bones society, the Lusitania, a name change and a boll weevil. It’s an amazing story when you hear it all together. 

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    While many think The Beatles took the world by storm, in reality the world was patiently waiting for them. In this episode we explore Brylcreem, Marlon Brando, the Queen of England, Brian Epstein, Elvis Presley, World War II, JFK, Martin Guitars, the Ed Sullivan Show, the British class system, Liverpool England, Disney, Davy Jones, Hamburg…

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    Did you know that a town in Norway wanted to abolish time? They decided to get rid of all the clocks because “shouldn’t people eat when they are hungry and sleep when they are tired?” You’ll be amazed at how we got here in the first place.  Today we connect Rolex, Galileo, Christiaan Huygens, The…

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    Have you heard of Sixto Rodriguez? At one time he was more popular than the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. The Story of Sixto Rodriguez doesn’t start in 1971, it starts with Ghandi and apartheid. In today’s episode we look at Paul Simon, Harry Belafonte, The Beatles, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bob Dylan, the United Nations,…

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    In today’s episode we look at how it all started.  George Lucas, Thor Heyerdahl, Warren Buffet, James Marshall, Roger Cook, Mt. St. Helens, John Houseman, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Michael Jackson, and Wynton Marsalis all come together for one purpose.  Grab the Star Wars Radio Drama here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kkl2tsaf7tskc2m/AABr6AFIukEYAq7kZitrQERHa?dl=0

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    The creation of blue has dyed jeans and caused immeasurable grief. Blue is not an easy color to come by in nature. The path to making blue jeans; therefore is an interesting one. In today’s episode we reach Levi Strauss, John Hershel, Charles Darwin, the American Revolution, Eli Whitney, the California Gold Rush and ultimately…

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    Was Russia the first to make Peace a political campaign? How did the Peace sign come to be? In today’s episode learn the stance Russia has had on peace. Meet Marie Curie, Pablo Picasso, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the situation with Ukraine’s Crimean Coast, the Manhattan Project and hear the words of Russian Premiere Yuri…

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    There was a time when a plan was hatched to bomb Woodrow Wilson, but not the way you’d ever think. Today’s story involves L. Frank Baum, Edith Wilson, the Statue of Liberty, Wilbur Wright, Oberlin College, Ruth Law, Matilda Jocelyn Gage, the State of Tennessee, and William Boeing. Sit back and enjoy as we celebrate…

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    Where did the words in the “I have a dream” speech come from? W.E.B. Dubois, Abraham Lincoln, A. Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes, Mahalia Jackson, Thomas Dorsey, Harry Belafonte, Prathia Hall Wynn, John D. Rockefeller, and so many others have been fighting for the Dream since 1776. When Martin Luther King gave his speech in Washington,…