EP182: Hollywood Goes To War and Miles C. Collier on Material Culture

EP182: Hollywood Goes To War and Miles C. Col...

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When a 3rd Grade Boy Learned His Father Was Missing in Vietnam

On this episode of Our American Stories, retired U.S. Navy Captain Mike McDaniel takes us back to the day he was a third-grade boy sitting on his bed when his mother told him his father had been shot down during the Vietnam War. His father was Eugene “Red” McDaniel, the famed Nav ...  عرض المزيد

The LLC, Concrete, and the Index Fund: Fifty Things That Shaped the Modern Economy

On this episode of Our American Stories, Tim Harford, author of the bestselling book Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy, shares the stories behind three transformative innovations: concrete, the LLC (limited liability company), and the index fund. From the concrete t ...  عرض المزيد

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Madam C.J. Walker: An Interview with A’Lelia Bundles
Dressed: The History of Fashion

In the early years of the twentieth century, Madam C.J. Walker built an international, Black hair care empire from the ground floor up, transforming herself from a laundry work making $1.50 a day to the woman Guinness World Records identifies as the “first self-made millionairess ...  عرض المزيد

The Hollywood Stock Market: Travis Kelce’s Media Career, Netflix With Ads, Mega Music Docs, and More!
The Town with Matthew Belloni

Live from Bloomberg’s Screentime event in Los Angeles, Matt and Lucas Shaw buy and sell a slew of Hollywood-related topics, including Travis Kelce’s eventual post-NFL career, Netflix’s ad tier, megastar music documentaries, Sam Levinson, the state of talent agencies, Paramount Gl ...  عرض المزيد

Alien Invasion - War Of The Worlds Redux? - Guest : Chris Sharp
WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

The 1938 Orson Welles radio play of "War of the Worlds" allegedly created widespread panic among a gullible listening audience, but in the eight-plus decades since the program was broadcast, the public has acclimated itself to the possibility of visitation by an alien intelligenc ...  عرض المزيد

CLASSIC: Ernest Withers: Civil Rights Hero, FBI Spy
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

55 years ago, the American Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His legacy lives on in recorded speeches, memorials across the country, photographs by legendary photojournalist Ernest C. Withers and more. Withers remains a hero in his ...  عرض المزيد