Richard Bey of “The Richard Bey Show” on Cancel Culture, Iraq War, The Alamo and The Truth – 15th Anniversary Episode Part II

EPISODE LINK: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV6385139510.mp3?updated=1627484449 We are joined by Richard Bey of “The Richard Bey” show and “People are Talking” fame for a talk on a lot of things. We are pleased to have Richard as a long time listener of the show. Richard takes aim at the current depiction of cancel culture as a new thing,…

15th Anniversary Program Part I – Speaking with Listeners, Clips, James Monroe and Lyndon Johnson, The Movies and More

Bruce reviews favorite old clips and speaks to two listeners from all the way back at the beginning, Kevin Willis and Tom Morris. Tom Morris’s podcast The Good The Bad and The Nerdy is located at – https://anchor.fm/tom-morris1 Episode LINK: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV7218526526.mp3?updated=1627238910

Dennis Kucinich on Public Service, Public Power, and His Book “The Division of Light and Power”

We talk to former Cleveland Mayor, Congressman and Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich about his fight to save Cleveland’s municipal power system as mayor of the city in 1970’s. He risked not only his career but his life during that battle, and he gives us some of the details from his new book -“The Division of…

What You May Not Know About Lexington and Concord

You know about the battles of Lexington and Concord, the shot heard around the world, the minutemen and their trifold hats and muskets. But how much do you really know about the day’s events? This episode we look at the day of fighting at Concord, when a British raiding party turned into a display of…

Elephant in the Room: Former Presidents and Their Parties

EPISODE LINK: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV9339161219.mp3?updated=1624810131 About Presidents and their parties, particularly situations where a former President who was not re-elected is still in the political picture. There can be some interesting challenges for the party. We look at four cases in history, Gerald Ford’s golfing and soft-pedaling in 1980, Truman’s attack on a front-runner in 1956, Bush’s…

Hannibal Hamlin Stood Up

Known for being Lincoln’s first VP and dropped from the ticket, Hamlin was actually as well-known as the President he served under. He was a fighter against the expansion of slavery and an important Senator. It was not out of the question that Hamlin could have been in Lincoln’s spot. History has forgotten, but we’ll…

D.C. Representation: A Love Story

EPISODE LINK: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/ADV1329580829?selected=ADV7055465576 This episode is all about voting in the federal capital we now call the District of Columbia. We talk about a movement to get voting rights that succeeded for a group of (then) D.C. residents 180 years ago, And about the petitions, committees, tea parties, bus trips and statements by Presidents over…

Terrible Tuesday 1987 (The Ark of Commerce, Part 6b)

For Wall Street Insiders, Black Monday was not the worst day. The next day, Terrible Tuesday was an agonizing test of the financial system. As part of our series on the commercial history of the United States, we examine the events of Tuesday the 20th. And we look at the history of insurance in America,…

The ‘Ark of Commerce’ Series on The Commercial History of The United States

Here are all the episodes for the ‘Ark of Commerce’ a series that has run since 2019. Part 1 – Crash Party – 1929 Stock Market Crash, Edison and Other Things. Part 2 – Two if By Sea: Maritime Commerce, Arks and More Part 3 – Loco – Train and Other Land Commerce Part 4…

Black Monday 1987 and The Shock of Risk (Ark of Commerce, Part 6a)

Worried hands gripping phones. Black screens with green digits, going downward. Faces pressed against fancy brokerage office glass. Busy signals. The history of Black Monday 1987 crash and the history of what came before it, from stock commodities and even butter and eggs. This is the first of what will be a two-parter on commerce,…

1995: A Story of Politics On The Information Superhighway

Stealth ads. Secret advice. Kids in uniforms. Soft money and hard choices in the information age.  As we discuss in this cast, a Presidential election was almost completely settled a year before it happened.  Some knew an election was going on and some didn’t.  In a time when money was soft and people said things…

Young Dick Cheney

We know the globe-running, terror-fighting, meeting master Vice President Cheney, but did you know his parents were hardcore Democrats?  or that he thought his father turned into a bird (albeit at a pretty young age), or that he was first refused a job when he came to DC?   As we discuss with Tim Pearson, author…