EP50: My Veteran Best Friend and Mark Twain

On this episode of Our American Stories, in 1943, the U.S. government transformed farmland outside Oak Ridge, Tennessee, into a top-secret city of 75,000 people racing to build the atomic bomb before Nazi Germany. Cameras were forbidden, except for one.Richard Cook, author of Ign ...  Show more

On this episode of Our American Stories, in 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard famously hit two golf balls on the Moon. For decades, NASA never revealed their brand, and Shepard never publicly told the story.Then an estate sale in Rogers, Arkansas, uncovered a signed photogra ...  Show more

A bar fight and a stint on the lam transformed Samuel Clemens into Mark Twain — and changed the course of American literature. Settle in for Mark Twain's origin story.   * Hosted by Dana Schwartz, Zaron Burnett, Jason English Written by Zaron Burnett Produced by Josh Fisher Editi ...  Show more

The writer, producer, and veteran radio broadcaster drops by to regale us with stories from the entertainment trenches, explains why he created the podcast Really? no, ...

Josh and Chuck dive into history in this classic episode to tell the story of the Buffalo Soldiers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Jax and Paris have some history together and they're here to tell it all and name names. Plus get to the real Jax by hearing her inspirational story as well as the details behind “My Best Friend’s Ass.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.