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Dry Wheat Stubble -  Chapter 4 – Lousy Lawyers Based on a true story. Six chapters. Mrs. Beckie Parnell Blake thought she was married for life with the perfect husband and three incredible sons.  Then, one day while at her job she received an unexpected phone call. One that changed her life. “Mrs. Beckie Blake, I am Lisa Paternino and I am in love with your stud husband. He loves me too. So, we’re...

Dry Wheat Stubble Based on a true story. Six chapters. Mrs. Beckie Parnell Blake thought she was married for life with the perfect husband and three incredible sons.  Then, one day while at her job she received an unexpected phone call. One that changed her life. “Mrs. Beckie Blake, I am Lisa Paternino and I am in love with your stud husband. He loves me too. So, we’re going to get married. He’s g...

Dry Wheat Stubble Based on a true story. Six chapters. Mrs. Beckie Parnell Blake thought she was married for life with the perfect husband and three incredible sons.  Then, one day while at her job she received an unexpected phone call. One that changed her life. “Mrs. Beckie Blake, I am Lisa Paternino and I am in love with your stud husband. He loves me too. So, we’re going to get married. He’s g...

Dry Wheat Stubble Based on a true story. Six chapters. Mrs. Beckie Parnell Blake thought she was married for life with the perfect husband and three incredible sons.  Then, one day while at her job she received an unexpected phone call. One that changed her life. “Mrs. Beckie Blake, I am Lisa Paternino and I am in love with your stud husband. He loves me too. So, we’re going to get married. He’s g...

Magnetic Woman - A Lies & Detection Episode Jonas interviews Juliet Stuart Poyntz "There are people who literally are magnetic, who wherever they go or whatever they do, they draw others to them. My guest for this episode is a genuinely magnetic person. I believe it is because of her personal magnetism, that the Communist Party came to flourish in the United States during the years before...

In Josie’s Bible Glued inside a grandmother’s Bible is a newspaper clipping with a poem on it. During the Second World War, when the conflict and rationing made many things scarce, some women shared poems clipped from the newspapers instead of sending greeting cards or letters. An investigation leads to the discovery of the poetry of James J. Metcalfe, the most popular of these newspaper poets. In...

Appaloosa Radio’s “Seldom Seen” Challenge Principal contact:  jim-j@appaloosaradio.productions   The urban video poem runs – The bus was too full So, I couldn’t get on I could not go where I always go My usual My consistent My regular Not possible Could not go where I always go So, I took a walk To places often passed by But never seen   Appaloosa Radio is issuing a challenge to its listeners. Fin...

In this light-hearted story, Nell Trustmon talks about the Sazerack Lying Club, an invention of newspaper editor Fred D. Hart. His 1878 book outsold all of Mark Twain’s. “This purports to be a book on lies and lying, but it does not treat of the lies of politicians, stock-brokers, newspaper men, authors, and others, who lie for money; neither does it touch on the untruths of scandal, mischief, or...

Queen of Lies --- Queen of Spies A Lies and Detection Episode  Miss Elizabeth Bentley walked into the New Haven FBI Offices and told the agents that she feared for her life. She said that she had been a spy for the Soviet Union, serving both as a courier who had completed over a thousand dead drops and as the coordinator for multiple networks of spies, working in New York City and in Washington, D...

In this episode, Nell Trustmon tells the story of “George” a western piano man who worked closely with the notorious gambler and boxing promoter, Tex Rickard.  Tex made his first fortune in the Yukon Gold Rush of the late 1890s, running saloons and gambling houses with his long-time partner Wyatt Earp. With a fortune in hand, Tex Rickard arrived in Goldfield, Nevada where he built Nevada’s largest...

Appaloosa Radio is pleased to introduce Nell Trustmon and her collection of Broken Tree Tales  Nell Trustmon was a prolific, Western author who journeyed over 300,000 bumpy miles during the early 1950s to gather stories about the forgotten ghost towns of the Old West. She published many of her stories in her own magazine, the Broken Tree Tales .  She pushed her red 1947 Mercury (which she named Ol...

The General Strike Featuring O.ss. K.ar 44-070-256, Lauren’s personal EeKK//. Imagine a time (in the not-too-distant future) when EeKK//s do all the work. In this episode, Lauren joins a "General Strike" to protest a grave social injustice, and O.ss. K.ar 44-070-256 has to take swift action to prevent harm to her.

Appaloosa Radio is pleased to offer Lies & Detection featuring Senior Polygraph Examiner Jonas Chartogaro. Jonas Chartogaro was a senior government polygraph examiner with over 25 years of experience, who had previously been a New York police officer. He uses his investigatory talents to interview historical figures to ferret out lies and to discover the truth.  In this podcast series, Jonas i...

The morning fog had begun to lift around the pier, and the weekend tourists were starting to leave their hotel rooms for a day at the beach.  The one-armed guitar player opened his guitar case and carefully removed his Les Paul Deluxe 3 E X model from its well-padded home. He put one foot on the small bench and then rested the instrument on his knee. Some would say that it was remarkable that he c...

Appaloosa Radio offers Contemplating Evil  An audio story which includes original, period-specific music performed by: the Howlin’ Wolf, Vernon Dalhart, and Billy Murray An elderly college professor contemplates the nature of evil after he finds an old photograph proving that his own father had been an instrumental participant in the lynching of Leo Frank, one of Georgia’s most notorious vigilante...

I was a rich, white girl who had never chosen to marry. Many of my fellow Southern women would have called me a spinster. I was Miss Hellen Elizabeth Stanberry when I was born and that is how I died. But lonely, I was not. I lived a satisfying (and sexually fulfilling) life of my own choosing. And I did it while teaching school in Ashe County, North Carolina, a forlorn place of high poverty, and l...