Our American Stories

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 1496:24:46
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Synopsis

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

Episodes

  • Identical Twins ​Who Won't Let the Gov't $teal Their $$

    10/08/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (Segment 1) The Best Worst Counterfeiter in American History, (2-4) The Identical Twins Who Won't Let the Gov't $teal Their $$... and Good Name!, (5-8) Feeling Unsatisfied In Your 40s?

  • "We Are All Jews Here", Masculine Dads, and Snowboard King

    09/08/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (Segment 1) Great Molasses Flood, (2-3) "We Are All Jews Here" (Roddie Edmonds d. 1985), (4) Caring For My Dying Husband Made Life Worth Living, (5) Imagine If...You Were Known For Your Kindness, (6) Masculine Dads Raise Confident Daughters, (7-8) The Snowboard King: How Jake Burton Created An Industry, A Culture, And An Olympic Sport

  • Candymaker Milton Hershey

    08/08/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (Segments 1-4) Candymaker Milton Hershey, (5) Paul Revere's Ride, (6) The Blessing of Rejection, (7) "The Patient I Failed", (8) Who Will This Be To Me?

  • 155 Tries To Find His Perfect Job, Twilight Zone, YETI, and CJ Walker

    07/08/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (Segment 1-2) Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone, (3-4) 155 Tries To Find His Perfect Job, (5) YETI: How 2 Bros Turned a $300 Cooler Into a $450 Million Cult Brand, (6-8) Before Mary Kay There Was Madam CJ Walker

  • Selling Her "RedHead" Wine to Walmart, Coach Herb Brooks, and Roswell

    06/08/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (Segment 1-4) Coach Herb Brooks and the 1980 Olympic "Miracle on Ice" (b. 1937), (5-6) Selling Her "RedHead" Wine to Walmart, (7-8) The UFO Crash at Roswell

  • The Freedom Train, Feds vs. Disabled Vet, and the "Mobile Homeless Gig"

    03/08/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (Segment 1) How My Dad's Cancer Saved Our Relationship, (2) One Mans Mobile Homeless Gig, (3-4) The Time America Put Its National Treasures on a Cross-Country Train, (5) Feds Send this Disabled Veteran to Prison for Digging Ponds on His Property, (6-8) "Wild" Bill Hickok: Lawman, Legendary Gun Fighter (d. 1876)

  • Arlington Natl Cemetery, MTV, Mitch Hedber, Pink, and "House of the Rising Sun"

    02/08/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (Segments 1-3) Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery, (4) Story of a Song: House of the Rising Sun, (5-6) MTV Changed The World On This Day..., (7) Story of a Song: Pink's "Let's Get The Party Started", (8) Mitch Hedberg: A Shy Alchemist Who Turned Sentences Into Comedy Gold

  • National History Day and Lewis and Clark Separate

    01/08/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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

    31/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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

    30/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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"

    27/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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"

    26/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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

    25/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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"

    24/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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"

    23/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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

    20/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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

    19/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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

    18/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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

  • The Man Who Spent $35MM Fighting A $400k Fake Wine Fraud

    16/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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

    13/07/2019 Duration: 01h21min

    (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

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