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The Father of Voice Radio
Season 14 Episode 169
It’s hard to believe, but when the first words were spoken on radio, it was dismissed as a novelty. It seems as if everyone thought that Morse code w…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Case of the Hollow Nickel
Season 14 Episode 168
In 1953, paperboy Jimmy Bozart was counting his newspaper subscription money. He dropped the coins and one nickel split open, revealing a piece of mi…
3 years, 11 months ago
Retrocast #8
Season 14 Episode 167
In this episode: A live baby is auctioned off, a carnival knife thrower accidentally hits his human target, a West Virginian dog warden with an unusu…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Eddie Cantor Peace Prize
Season 14 Episode 166
In 1936, superstar Eddie Cantor asked his radio listeners to write an essay describing how the United States could avoid war. The prize was a full co…
4 years ago
Retrocast #7
Season 14 Episode 165
In this episode: A man falls out of a window and is saved by a flagpole, seven tonsillectomies done in an assembly line fashion, the last cigarette c…
4 years ago
The Glass House Girl
Season 14 Episode 164
Edna Kirby spent more than a decade in Hollywood appearing in silent movies for Paramount Studios. While she never became a movie star, Edna drew lar…
4 years, 1 month ago
Bad Apples #3 - Sunset Boulevard
Season 14 Episode 163
In this episode, my wife Mary Jane joins me to review the classic movie "Sunset Boulevard." Directed by Billy Wilder, this movie tells the story of a…
4 years, 1 month ago
Retrocast #6
Season 13 Episode 162
Christmas episode! A reindeer that bit a boy’s finger, a lawsuit over the world’s largest Christmas stocking, an absent-minded Santa Claus, a Santa c…
4 years, 2 months ago
Tom McGee's Back on the Chain Gang
Season 13 Episode 161
Tom McGee wanted nothing more for Christmas than to be able to spend time caring for his hogs. The only catch was that he needed to commit a crime an…
4 years, 2 months ago
Retrocast #5
Season 13 Episode 160
In this episode: A proud father who kidnapped his newborn daughter, a mother jailed for cooking a woodpecker, Einstein gives a student incorrect math…
4 years, 3 months ago