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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #124: Fluorescent Decade on a Hill XIV

Ronald Reagan's years as US president during the 1980s is commented on and discussed by armchair history watchers Mac Daddy McWilliams and Spun Counterguy. The Marine bombing in Beirut, Reagan's assassination attempt, jump-starting the economy, the air traffic controller strike and Iran-Contra are some of the main points the boys ramble on about. 

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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #123: Hargrove's Highheels in Hazmat Suits

Jason Hargrove is a street artist based near the Paducah, Kentucky area whom uses the jarring marriage of normalcy and nuclear imagery to provoke thought about the several radiation energy and storage facilities around the Middle South. Hargrove comes back by the woodpile to explain his vision and his own experience working within the atomic industry.

 

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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #122: Randy Stehle's Jazz II

 

Randy Stehle has returned back by the woodpile with a milk crate full of 78s to share some of his favorite finds of late! Jellyroll Morton, Bennie Moten, Louis Armstrong and a bunch others are all top on this jazzy scratchy episode!

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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #121: Nancy McEldowney

Former diplomat, Director of the Foreign Service Institute and Al-Qaeda target Nancy McEldowney joins us to talk about her career in the State Department and the unfolding historical events she got to witness up close. The Cold War, reunification of Germany, the Middle East crisis, the break up of the Soviet Union and so many other issues that effect our current events are all commented on by Mrs. McEldowney.

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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #120: The Frederick Douglass House

Frederick Douglass was a runaway slave, writer, preacher, abolitionist leader, accomplished violinist and eventual advisor and friend to President Abraham Lincoln. For this episode of In the Corner Back by the Woodpile, we get a special tour inside and out of the Frederick Douglas house in Washington DC, and in the process get a better picture of the man who changed American history.

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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #43: Ghosty Stories II [repost]

Gather near the speakers ya'll,  it's time for more spooky stories told round the graveyard bonfire! On this episode of In the Corner Back by the Woodpile we've gathered tales from Guatemala, Korea, Zimbabwe and the American South about tree chattering, bursting coffins, grabby doorways, cooking children, library witches and snakes coughing up cash.

 

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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #119: Robinson's Bottlecaps, Woodpeckers and Jazz

Musicologist Dave Robinson has us over and down in his basement of treasures to talk jazz recordings, history, bottlecaps, woodpeckers and piano rolls!

 

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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #118: Tryna Herd Cats XIX

More philisophical adventures! This time talking the strength of forgiveness, humility revealing need, irritating mothers, the not-so-good ole days, Christian parents loving homosexual children, drug dealer’s welcome wagons and crimes where the cameras aren’t.

 

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In The Corner Back by the Woodpile #117: Tao of Tao VI Weren't We Supposed've Turned Back There?

Adventures in China all in pursuit of the Tao! Spun Counterguy tells stories and proverbs both ancient and modern all in his quest to know less than he already knows.

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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #117: Sonny's Jazz

 

On this episode of In the Corner, we’re back up in Indianapolis hanging out with all the record collectors at the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors record bash. Manning the Victrola on this episode is Sonny McGown telling all about his love of the music and all the lucky treasures he's scored in his digging!

 

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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #115: Fluorescent Decade on a Hill XIII

 

If the 1980’s had a president representative of it’s spirit, it was Ronald Reagan both symbolically and literally. With some help from Brother Mac Daddy McWilliams, we chat on this episode on everything leading up to The Gipper’s election in 1981. His days in Hollywood, being both a union boss and union fighter, tangling with Berkeley campus activists and communists, wrestling with abortion are all here plus much more.

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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #114: Ride Around III Hopkins County Kentucky

We’re back rolling around Hopkins County Kentucky talking the tyranny of preservation, teachers who made a difference, Obama phones, debaucherous riverboats and Klu Klux Klan hotdogs and pop.

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