Tom Reads Your Story

Episode 142: Tom chats with us for a  few minutes about possible changes for Tom Reads Your Story in 2023. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 141 Tom holds the third annual Christmas party with staff and friends.  Included are recorded songs from those he has had connection with in past years.  He dedicates this episode to all performing artists, struggling or not...MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ALL OF US AT TOM READS YOUR STORY...WE'LL RETURN ON JANUARY 4TH, SO JOIN US! --- Send in a voice message: https:...

Episode 140: Tom's a dog lover, so today we'll be hearing some letters that dogs took the time to write us, from various internet posts.  (NOTE: THE THIRD ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY IS NEXT WEEK!!) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 139 Tom poses a few questions about that incredible music we so reverently and lovingly refer to as Jazz. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 138: This Thanksgiving Tom honors Chef, Restaurateur, and Philanthropist José Andrés.  His organization, World Central Kitchen, has delivered his food creations to those facing starvation, war, disasters, and other challenges across the world. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

In episode 137 Tom remembers and reads the speech made by President John F. Kennedy at Rice University on Sept. 12, 1962, challenging America to send a man to the Moon within 10 years. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 136: Tom brings up New York's noticeably increasing rat problem and what's being done about it, with an article from AM New York. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 135: Tom replays an episode from 2021.  A handful of young boys is investigating an old house with a strange feline resident.  A short story by Steve Vernon known as Cat Call. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 134: Why do science and religion clash about life after death?  To shed some light on the subject, Tom reads an article by Kristen French in Nautil.us which asks the age old questions about the NDE (the Near Death experience). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 133, Tom sings his 2 favorite songs from 60's song Parodist, the wonderful Allan Sherman. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 132: Tom talks Jimmy Webb, songwriter and recording artist who wrote and produced so many Glen Campbell classics, such as Wichita Lineman, Galveston, and By the Time I Get to Phoenix. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 131:  Tom waxes melancholy in honor of his upcoming 64th birthday on Oct. 6 by reading a nice little article on the subject, and singing the famous Beatle song that asks the musical question... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 129 Tom proclaims his love for the Latin flavored sounds of Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66.  Included are a good handful of songs, as well as readings about their beginnings and about their vocalist Lani Hall. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 128, Tom executes a not-so-deep dive into the poetry of e e cummings, by reading 4 of his better known poems. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 127: After a week off, Tom returns with readings from the Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran, a subject he last addressed in July of 2020. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 126: Tom concludes his read of the Jessica Thatcher-Moore UFO story, The Berwyn Incident.   (NOTE: To allow time for an Audio-book narration commitment, Tom Reads Your Story will be off next week, and possibly the week after.  Thanks for your continued support!)  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. S...

Episode 125: Tom gives us more of his reading of The Berwyn Incident, Part 2 of Jessica Thatcher-Moore's first hand UFO story. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 124, Tom first apologizes for being a day late.  In turn he gives us part 1 of a good non-fiction UFO story called The Berwyn Incident.  It takes place in Wales, and is written by Jessica Thatcher-Moore. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 123:  Tom performs readings (mostly from WIKI) about the life and times of racial mistreatment toward singer Nat King Cole in the 50's and 60's. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 122: Tom replays an episode from August 11, 2021.  Now recognizing that they are both no longer with us, it contains words from Anthony Bourdain about our relationship with Mexico, and also a nice FB piece about an event with Stephen Sondheim, about the making of the musical Sunday in the Park With George. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyo...

Episode 121: recalling his Arab-American roots, Tom plays music from a rare 50's Lebanese pop music album from his childhood known as "An Evening In Beirut".  He also refers to it's star, later affectionately crowned "the Soul of Lebanon". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 120: In keeping with the Spoken Word purpose of his podcast, Tom tells us the tragic story behind the Gordon Lightfoot song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" with a reading from The Shipwreck Museum website entry called "The Fateful Journey". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...

In episode 119, Tom replays (with a few new touches added), the episode about the fond memories from one of his favorite movies, My Dinner With Andre. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 118: Tom plays the first audio-book he read for Author John Isaac Jones called GOING HOME.  The story of the final moment of a death row prisoner that takes an unexpected, and unfamiliar turn. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 117 Tom digs into the '70s and '80s Swedish vocal group ABBA, their music, and recent mass media re-birth thanks in large part to the Broadway musical, Mama Mia. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomreadsyourstory/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.