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Send us Fan Mail This week, as we start  our 12th Season of podcasting,  we will feature a special two part look at the longest serving Senate Republican Leader in history, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.  He can rightfully be given credit for the conservative control of the United States Supreme Court we now see and our series will look back at his heroic efforts dating back to the shameful...

Send us Fan Mail Coming in 2024, the second part in our three part series looking back on the Presidency of George H. W. Bush.  In this series "The Sweep of History" we will look back at some of the most historic moments of the 20th century, as Communism breathes its last and one of the two Super Powers, the Soviet Union, comes crashing down. Though it all happened without a war and with...

Send us Fan Mail HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!  THANK YOU FOR TUNING IN THIS PAST YEAR OF 2023 TOO!! In this episode, we look back at several people we have featured through the years who passed away during 2023. They included Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Congressman John Jenrette, Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, and Senator Dianne Feins...

Send us Fan Mail Dear Friends,  Thank you for tuning in to our podcast during 2023. It was a year that saw us delve into our most personal of podcasts to date, as we looked back at our friend former Congressman, John Jenrette, and his role on the national stage during the middle - late 1970s. We also examined the Presidencies of the two Presidents that came to office after the overthrow of Richard...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition, we look back at the remarkable life of the longest serving female Senator in American History, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California.  A Democrat that I almost never agreed with on anything except forestry management and protecting endangered fish.  She was a champion of gun control, was an entrenched fighter of the pro-abortion agenda and spent her caree...

Send us Fan Mail In the season finale of our 11th Season, we have the equivalent of the "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of DALLAS mixed with all the excitement of the end of a Roger Moore "James Bond" movie.  In the second part of our look at "A Bloody Christmas" we look back at the suddenly swift, and deadly fall of Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.  He had been the abso...

Send us Fan Mail This is the start of our two part Season 11 conclusion, A BLOODY CHRISTMAS. Two major events occured at the sametime over the Christmas holidays in 1989, the invasion of Panama, and the Romanian Revolution. Both were bloody affairs and both were plotlines no novelist would have ever made up.  In this episode we look back at the invasion of Panama and its dictator Manuel Noriega, d...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at the moment it was clear the Cold War was essentially over.  The story actually begins in 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev is elevated to power after a succession of elderly, Communist leaders, all of whom went back to the early days of the Soviet Union.   Leonid Brezhnev had been a hard line, old school, Communist leader, that had been in power througho...

Send us Fan Mail The Fall of the Berlin Wall was the most significant moment recorded in an era when it became obvious that the winds of freedom were about to sweep through Eastern Europe and around the World.  It came without warning at the end of a rather boring press conference when the Communications Director for East Germany read a final statement ending the press conference that if East Germ...

Send us Fan Mail Deng Xiaoping was the People's Republic of China's Paramount Leader for over a decade.  A decade,  in which the nation rose from a backwards, isolated, command economy,  Communist Nation, to the front doorsteps of becoming an unquestioned World Power.  It is hard to find an argument against Deng Xiaoping's status as one of the most important figures in the history o...

Send us Fan Mail President George Bush had been the first envoy to China during the Ford Administration. A job he had loved.  He was a friend to the People's Republic of China, and he actually picked the nation to be the first place he went on an official trip as President.  Which put him, and his administration, in an awful spot when Deng Xiaoping ordered the military to crush a student demo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we take a look back at one of the biggest environmental disasters of all time. The Exxon Valdez oil tanker hit the Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989 and dumped 10.8 million gallons of oil into the water.   Prince William Sound was so remote that it could only be gotten too by boat or air, and that made getting to it in order to clean the spill up...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look as President George H. W. Bush looks head on into one of the most expensive financial disasters the nation had seen up to that point.  The Savings and Loan industry had long since operated without the same constraints as normal banking operated under and it led to a meltdown for investors and those who had deposited money in them in 1989 just after Presiden...

Send us Fan Mail This episode takes a look at the team President George H. W. Bush put together in order to run his Administration.  They were an impressive group that helped guide the country through the many historical events that this administration faced during its four years in office.  From the Savings and Loan debacle, to the Exxon Valdez disaster, to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Panama...

Send us Fan Mail This episode opens on the joyous occasion of President Bush's Inaugural event and his walking down Pennsylvania Avenue. You will hear from George W. Bush, then a Texas Oilman who had little to do with politics other than working for his Father,  and NBC News personality Willard Scott from the parade route. It was the happy culmination of years of hard work and following a win...

Send us Fan Mail Henry Kissinger, a giant of American History, and arguably the nations greatest diplomat died on November 29, 2023 at the age of 100.  In this episode we look back at his extraordinary 100 years as he worked with Richard Nixon to bring peace to millions of people around the world and keep our nation safe here at home.  His passing comes at an unusual moment as our rebroadcast of t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we hear from George H. W. Bush as he addresses the nation in his Inaugural Address in 1989.  It would begin a single term in office that would see the face of the entire world change dramatically from its start to its finish.  The final triumph for a generation of American Leaders who rightfully could be called the Greatest Generation.  We will also see one of Amer...

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode in our 8 episode look at the 2023 Myrtle Beach City Council Race we bring you to the end of the run off election and the fate of the final seat available on the Myrtle Beach City Council.  In the final  race Bill McClure was elected and we have all the coverage here for you plus a little house keeping about some of the coming episodes and special editions on...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we do a deep dive on one of the most famous speeches ever given by an American President. It was when Ronald Reagan went to the Berlin Wall, just as Mikhail Gorbachev had loosened up restrictions on the Soviet and Communist world, and demanded that Gorbachev prove he was serious about change and tear down the wall that divided the people of East and West Germany. ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we tune in to the race between Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Vice President George H. W. Bush. as they debate each other in a debate that saw Dukakis answer one of the hardest hitting questions ever asked in my memory of any candidate. His answer came off like a robot and with that the slide began that would lead to Bush's victory.  We will join a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we get an overview of the 1988 Presidential election field of candidates. On the republican side the race has 8 candidates but it really is a battle between two:  George H. W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole.  There is also a new rising force that would play a major role in the campaign primaries and continue to do so to this day.  It is the role of Evange...

Send us Fan Mail On November 9, 2023, The City of Myrtle Beach opened its new World War 2 Memorial on the grounds of Warbird Park, just past the front entrance going into the Market Commons area of Myrtle Beach. This was, for nearly a half century, the front gate of the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base until it closed in 1993.  In the years since the city of Myrtle Beach has tried to preserve its histo...

Send us Fan Mail In our final full episode on the 2023 Myrtle Beach City Council Election special series we take you along on election day with a candidate in the race (who is also the host of our show) In it you will hear him talking to people, checking the poll numbers, (which as a candidate he is allowed to do) and talking with people as he goes from precinct to precinct on Election Day.  We al...

Send us Fan Mail Dear Friends,  As you may know I am a candidate tomorrow for the Myrtle Beach City Council. I am asking for and hoping you will vote for me in that election if you live in Myrtle Beach. I have recorded this special message for you and with it my hope to return to the city council and continue to work on your behalf to insure our city remains the great, family, working class beach...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is the recording of the only event in which all 8 candidates appeared together. It was held at the Portside at the Grand dunes meeting room and it features five minutes for each candidate to talk about their positions and issues and it features a question and answer portion with all the candidates.  It is a very informative event and I hope you enjoy this look at all...