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Joseph E. Green is a political researcher and playwright. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Hidden History Center and is the author of the collections Dissenting Views and Dissenting Views II. Joe is back to discuss a bit of his book "Tin Foil Hat Not Included" and how we should examine claims of conspiracy.

Roberto Olivardia is a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Instructor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he specializes in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), executive functioning issues, and issues that face students with learning differences. Roberto joins me to discuss the harmfu...

Sam Perroni is a former trial lawyer and adjunct professor of white-collar crime and trial advocacy. He served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, with an emphasis on prosecuting complex white-collar crime cases. Sam is the author of "Brainstorm: An Investigation of the Mysterious Death of Film Star Natalie Wood" is the first-person account o...

Youssef El-Gingihy is a doctor and author, He studied medicine at Oxford University. He is currently working on a book on CIA covert operations. His journalism has been published published widely including The Independent, The Guardian and The New Statesman. Youssef is back to discuss understanding covert operations and some figures like William Harvey and David Atlee Phillips who at the surface c...

Steven Hill is a Bigfoot researcher in Arkansas and who has been involved in documenting and investigating the illusive creature for many years. Steven joins me to discuss some of his interest and experiences while investigating his area for Bigfoot and his interactions with others in the community and similar stories of sightings that others have shared with him.

Gary Severson is a retired history teacher and JFK assassination researcher who has looked into many suspicious coincidences of this historical event in 63. Gary explains some of his experiences as a informant and how he was being pressured to enlist during the time of the counterculture movements. Gary also explains some of the JFK conferences he has went too for speaking engagements and how some...

Hope Anderson is a Los Angeles-based writer and director whose films include “Jim Thompson, Silk King”, “Under the Hollywood Sign”, and “Peg Entwistle’s Last Walk.” Hope is back to discuss her recent deep dive into Howard Hughes after reading Howard Hughes the untold story and how complex his life really was including his various romances and toxic personality.

Jeff Copper is an ADHD and attention coach and expert on attention issues. As founder of DIG Coaching Practice and the host and founder of Attention Talk Radio and Attention Talk Video. Jeff joins me to discuss Cognitive Ergonomics From the Inside Out which provides a comprehensive understanding of executive function and cognition that reveals insights and intangible relationships to enable indivi...

Richard Bartholomew is a co-founder and director of the Center for Deep Political Research and researcher of the JFK assassination, authoring many writings on the events and repercussions of the national security state. Rich joins me to talk about some of the issues in the Dallas trip and the may reasonable explanations in theories of who did it. This episode discusses backdoor politics and what c...

Cecil Fletcher is a investigator and host of a show called "Wyrd Realities" that brings together those curious and insatiable people with a thirst for history, science, folklore, esoteric ideals, & the unknown. Cecil is back for some good conversation about the paranormal and unexplained as it relates to old society structures, mysterious deaths of inventors and big foot belief.

Chris Gavaler is an associate professor at W&L University, comics editor of SHENANDOAH, and series editor of Bloomsbury Critical Guides in Comics Studies. Chris is back to discuss his new book "The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images" answering foundational questions like "what is a comic" and "how do comics work" in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist appro...

Major General Mark Musick met Eva McLelland in 2002. Eva relayed an unbelievable story to Mark about how she was married to Howard Hughes while Hughes was living under an identity provided by the U.S. Government. After four years of research, Mark finally believed her story. Mark is the author of "Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes" about Eva and her marriage to the eccentric billionaire play...

Douglas Wellman is a former Hollywood television producer-director, and assistant dean of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. For over forty years he has been a historian and researcher of the 20th Century. Doug is the author of "Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes" continues the history-changing story of Eva McLelland and her reclusive life married to a myst...

James B. Steele is one of the nation’s most honored journalists. He has received virtually every major national reporting award, including two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine awards, six George Polk awards and many other honors. He is the co-author with his longtime reporting partner, Donald L. Barlett, of nine books, two of which were New York Times best sellers. James is the author of...

Matthew C. Ehrlich is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ehrlich's research focuses on social and cultural history. Matt is the author of "Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture" and "Journalism in the movies" in which this episode focuses on the idea of journalism and the depictions in culture...

Gil Jesus is a researcher of the JFK assassination and has spent much of his time looking into the corruption in Dallas police and the evidence against Oswald in the case. Gil joins me once again to look closer at the case against Oswald, looking deeper at the some areas like Oswald's lack of legal representation and issues in line ups for suspects in the killing of J,D, Tippit. Throughout the...

Jon Towlson is a UK-based journalist and film critic and has written for various magazines and papers on film. Jon is the author of a few works on horror cinema and throughout this episode we discuss two of his books titled "Subversive Horror Cinema Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present" and "The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936&q...

Sally A. Hoedel is a lifelong Elvis fan and historian, has a journalism degree from Michigan State University and is co-owner of Character Development and Leadership, a curriculum business. Sally is the author of "Destined to Die Young" the definitive examination of why the world lost Elvis Presley on August 16, 1977, when he was only forty-two years old. Author Sally Hoedel has painstakingly rese...

Mark Wheeler is a professor of political communications at London Metropolitan University and a member of the University Research Ethics Committee and Chair of the School of Social Sciences Research Ethics Review Panel. He is the author of six books, including Politics and the Mass Media, European Television Industries, Hollywood: Politics and Society, Celebrity Politics and Public Spheres and Med...

Monika Wiesak is an author and researcher that compounded the life and legacy of a great president into a book on John F. Kennedy and she has recently released a book on Michael Jackson called "Michael Jackson: The Man, the Music, the Controversy:. Monika has written in this book the story of Michael Jackson, from his youth through long past his death. It explores the false rumors spread over the...

Steve Cantwell is a stand-up comedian based out of Houston, Texas and a frequent contributor to the Crab Feast podcast. Steve is well known for his salvia story where he spent eight years in another life which he explained on his first appearance on the show over three years ago, this time we discuss his background of growing up Mormon and moving to Alaska and eventually finding himself catching a...

Russell Ramsay, Ph. D., is a clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He serves as the Associate Director of Penn’s Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program, with a particular expertise in psychosocial treatments for adults with ADHD. Russell joins me to discuss the difference between adult ADHD and childhoo...

Tim Brennan has been studying the JFK Assassination since the 1980’s and has appeared in John Barbour’s ‘The American Media & The Second Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.’ Tim is the co author of various books dealing with political assassinations and he is back to discuss the motive and means of LBJ in the JFK assassination. Through this episode we discuss various areas of the 60s and 7...

Ken Bridges is a Professor of History, Geography, and Political Science at South Arkansas College, where he has taught for nearly 21 years. He has received 4 teaching awards and has published 7 books. He is chairman of the El Dorado Historic District Commission, serves on the board of directors for the Interfaith Food Pantry and writes the History Minute column which appears weekly in 89 newspaper...

Daniel Peretti is assistant professor in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Daniel is the author of "Superman in Myth and Folklore" in which Daniel explores the meaning of folklore inspired by popular culture, focusing not on the Man of Steel’s origins but on the culture he has helped create. Superman provides a way to approach fundamental questions of human nature,...