Our American Stories show

Our American Stories

Summary: There's no politics at Our American Stories, just stories. Daily bringing the campfire scene to your ears.

Podcasts:

 National History Day and Lewis and Clark Separate | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:41

(Segment 1) Lewis and Clark Separate...Without Cell Phones?! (Ep 39), (2) History off the Pages: National History Day, (3) Family Sends Five Sons To War, (4) The Great Jerry Maguire Pyramid, (5) Surviving a Shark Attack: Tiffany Johnson's Story, (6-7) Life Expectancy Has Exploded By 4 Decades...Why?! How?!, (8) Technology and Music: Autotune vs. Imperfection

 Skid Row Realities and Henry Ford | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:41

(Segments 1-4) Henry Ford: The Father of the Automobile (b. 1863), (5-6) Love in the Ashes, (7) The Importance Of Friends, (8) Invisible People: Luke (Skid Row Realities)

 The Couple Who Sold Their Inventions to Walmart | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:42

(Segment 1) Company Benefits Include $35K For Your Bucket List!, (2-3) This Couple Sold Their Inventions to Walmart, (4) 99 Reasons Why A Typewriter Is Better Than A Computer!!, (5-8) Coach Dean Smith: So Much More Than Basketball

 Quincy Jones, Connie Francis, and "I Won't Be At My Wedding" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:43

(Segments 1-3) The Highest Selling Female Artist...In History!, (4) How Am I Going To Tell My Wife I Wont Be At Our Wedding?, (5-8) The Great Quincy Jones

 Story of a Song: Wailin' Jennys' "Long Time Traveller" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:40

(Segment 1) Story of a Song: Wailin' Jennys' "Long Time Traveller", (2) The Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge, (3-4) What Shamu Taught Me About Love Life And Marriage, (5) Reconciling Dad The Farmer And Dad the Veteran Pilot, (6) Locked Up For 72 Years, (7-8) A Crooked Cop, An Innocent Man, And An Unlikely Journey Of Forgiveness And Friendship

 A Brief History of the Telephone | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:41

(Segments 1-2) Gold Rush Queen: Nellie Cashman, (3-4) A Brief History of the Telephone, (5-8) DNA Test Changes A Family

 A Most Valued Gift… FROM a Homeless Man and ac"God Only Knows" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:40

(Segment 1) A Most Valued Gift FROM a Homeless Man, (2-4) The Entrepreneur Who Bathed in Cow Dung!!, (5-7) He Ran 50 Marathons... In 50 States In 50 Consecutive Days!, (8) "God Only Knows": The Story of a Song

 Dog Becomes Best Cancer Medicine and "My Dad's Old Number" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:45

(Segment 1) Dog Becomes Best Medicine Through Woman's Cancer Treatments, (2) Burning Question: Why Are Ears Shaped This Way?, (3) Story of a Song: "My Dad's Old Number", (4) Hey Kid, Catch!: How Coca~Cola and Mean Joe Greene Launched a Legend, (5) Pinks, (6-8) The Pistol-Packin' Railroad Conductor: Harriet "Moses" Tubman

 From Janitor to PepsiCo Exec, a Worship Band and a Brothel, and Samuel Colt | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:43

(Segment 1) A Brief History in Air Conditioning, (2) A Worship Band And A Brothel: The Story of "God of this City", (3-4) How a Janitor Invented Flamin Hot Cheetos and Became an Exec at Pepsico, (5-7) Samuel Colt: The Birth Of The Revolver (b. 1814), (8) A Grave Escape

 The Bailey's Story: A Daughter, a Drug Dealer, and a Miracle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:40

(Segment 1) The Bailey's Story: A Daughter, a Drug Dealer, and a Miracle, (2-4) Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human, (5) Heaven is Beautiful, (6-7) The "Trader Joe's" Story, (8) Bible Understood: Tim Dunn Explains "Daniel in the Lions' Den"

 Tom Waits and a Marine Meets His Long Lost Sister with Down Syndrome | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:42

(Segments 1-3) The Venezuelan Dissident Who Started A Company in America...And Raised $200 Million!!, (4) Tom Waits' Story Of A Song: "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You", (5) Once Upon a Time..., (6-7) When A Marine Meets His Long-Lost Sister With Down Syndrome, (8) Invisible People: Homeless Family with 6 Children

 Amazon Opens For Business and Hannibal, MO: The Town that Created Mark Twain | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:44

(Segment 1) Ernest Hemingway's "A Day's Wait", (2) The Soulful Art of Lucious Spiller, (3-4) Hannibal, Missouri: The Town that Created Mark Twain, (5-8) Amazon Opens For Business (This Day in 1995): Bezos Tells All!

 The Man Who Spent $35MM Fighting A $400k Fake Wine Fraud | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:41

(Segment 1-2) The Man Who Spent $35MM Fighting A $400k Fake Wine Fraud, (2) How to Fine-Tune Your BS Detector, (3) 50 Years Later, I Still Speak To My Teacher Almost Every Day, (4) 54 Things I Learned in 54 Years, (5) Brutally Honest Valedictorian Regrets Being Top of the Class, (6-7) Jack Marucci To His Son: You're Not Going to Be A Baseball Player, So Be A Better Person, (8) Couple Adopts 7 Siblings Separated Throughout 4 Foster Homes!

 Hiring "At Risk" Individuals and Forgiving an Abusive Father | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:42

(Segment 1-2) Weifield Group Hires At Risk Individuals and with Good Reason!, (3-4) The Fred Davis Blues, (5) Forgiving an Abusive Father: The Chris Dupre Story, (6-8) The Real Story of Frank Abagnale

 Does Exercise Make You Smarter? and the Unexpected Moment with My 89-Year-Old Father | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:59

(Segment 1) The Unexpected Moment Of Happiness In The Hospital With My 89-Year-Old Father, (2-3) Does Exercise Make You Smarter? , (4) This Jewelry Store Provides More Value Than Just Rings, (5-8) Rodney Dangerfield: Nothing But Respect For The Man Who Got "No Respect"

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