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We’re shaking things up today and sharing a preview from Car Show!, a new podcast from our friends a

In 1915, American industrialist Henry Ford announced that he was willing to use his entire fortune t

Arbor Day is 150 years old! Learn the origins of the day, plus how one small upstate New York town c

In this episode: A woman dumps her fiancé at the altar to marry the minister, a jealous husband who

It’s hard to believe, but when the first words were spoken on radio, it was dismissed as a novelty.

In 1953, paperboy Jimmy Bozart was counting his newspaper subscription money. He dropped the coins a

In this episode: A live baby is auctioned off, a carnival knife thrower accidentally hits his human

In 1936, superstar Eddie Cantor asked his radio listeners to write an essay describing how the Unite

In this episode: A man falls out of a window and is saved by a flagpole, seven tonsillectomies done

Edna Kirby spent more than a decade in Hollywood appearing in silent movies for Paramount Studios. W

In this episode, my wife Mary Jane joins me to review the classic movie "Sunset Boulevard." Directed

Christmas episode! A reindeer that bit a boy’s finger, a lawsuit over the world’s largest Christmas

Tom McGee wanted nothing more for Christmas than to be able to spend time caring for his hogs. The o

In this episode: A proud father who kidnapped his newborn daughter, a mother jailed for cooking a wo

A New Jersey man was caught in a Catch-22 situation. As long as he remained on death row, he could l

In this episode: The day corsets were arrested, a lingerie auction at the University of Nebraska, US

In 1911, Mrs. Minerva Miller and two friends went to The Paterson Show in Paterson, NJ to watch a mo

A 72-year-old woman who married a 20-year-old man, a 16-year-old girl arrested for cursing, a woman

In 1941, 5-year-old Pamela Hollingworth disappeared into the dense forest of New Hampshire's White M

Retrocast #2: Boy runs away because he can·t master Latin, a mother who loaned her son to a stranger