3376 Episodes

  1. EP156: The Humble Potato: Idaho's Superstarch and The Little Boy Who Saved His Family

    Published: 12/31/2021
  2. EP155: The Making of an American Pantheon: Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb

    Published: 12/30/2021
  3. EP154: A Family Lived in the New York Public Library?, Drinking Done New Orleans' Style and Overcoming the Loss of Both My Arms at 10

    Published: 12/29/2021
  4. EP153: Strength in Loneliness is Still Loneliness, Burrito Restaurant Offers Job To Burglar and This Jewelry Store Provides More Value Than Just Rings

    Published: 12/28/2021
  5. EP152: When Dr. Seuss Has Real Life Applications During a Hurricane, From Farm Boy to Founder and Couple Adopts 7 Siblings Separated Throughout 4 Foster Homes

    Published: 12/27/2021
  6. EP152: Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas and The Importance of Giving and Serving during Christmas Time

    Published: 12/25/2021
  7. EP151: The Real Stories Behind Our Cherished Christmas Traditions

    Published: 12/25/2021
  8. EP150: The Christmas Store, The Bigger the Bureaucracy, the Smaller the Customer and The Chicago-area Maintenance Man Who Wrote a Hallmark Christmas Movie

    Published: 12/24/2021
  9. EP149: Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 14), No! No! No! Who the Hell Boos Santa Claus?! and Leland Klassen’s Christmas Comedy

    Published: 12/24/2021
  10. EP148: The Story of my Grandfather and Jim Johnson's Christmas Tree Story

    Published: 12/23/2021
  11. EP147: Roger Latham on Santa Claus, How "A Charlie Brown Christmas" Came to Be and Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie?

    Published: 12/23/2021
  12. EP146: Revisiting Childhood Mysteries, The Shocking Story Behind the Diamond Engagement Ring and The Holiday Tradition That Started At A Gas Station

    Published: 12/22/2021
  13. EP145: The History of Christmas Trees, The Accidental Santa and Why it Took One Man 7 Years to Get His Car Back

    Published: 12/21/2021
  14. EP144: Danny Sacrificed Self For a Stranger, The Cattle King and Are Pro Wrestlers Athletes?

    Published: 12/20/2021
  15. EP143: Selling Her "RedHead" Wine to Walmart and Rishi Sharma Interviewing WWII Veterans

    Published: 12/17/2021
  16. EP142: Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Woman

    Published: 12/16/2021
  17. EP141: A Most Valued Gift… FROM a Homeless Man, Indians, a Jew, and a Hotel Partnership, Her Career is a Tribute to Her Great Uncle, A D-Day Hero and Working with Dad Taught Big Lessons to a Little Bo

    Published: 12/15/2021
  18. EP140: The Tale of the Locomotive "Texas" and The Reluctant Memoirist

    Published: 12/14/2021
  19. EP139: Trapped Inside a Tube: The Iron Lung Story and H.P. Rama, The Accidental Hotelier

    Published: 12/13/2021
  20. EP138: The Old Upright Piano, Joy Neal Kidney, I Paid My Own Child Support and The Story of St. Louie Louie: Have Pool Cue, Will Travel

    Published: 12/10/2021

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