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Beyond The Call Hosted By Arroe Collins
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The men and women who sacrifice their lives to serve their nations. Beyond the call is how art has become part of their path of connection.
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America 250 With Newt Gingrich Celebrating U.S. History And It's Greatest Moments
2w ago00:11:11Tap to summarizeNewt Gingrich's "America 250" series is airing from June 20 to July 4 on the Newt's World on iHeart podcast.The series features daily and weekly episodes exploring the nation's upcoming 250th anniversary, including historical events, American patriotism, and foundational stories.Specific episodes from the series lineup include:Episode 993: America 250 - All American Patriotism with Rachel Campos-Duffy: Featuring the FOX & Friends Weekend co-host discussing her book about celebrating 250 years of America's greatness and countering negative historical narratives.Episode 992: America 250 - George Washington's Forgotten Highway West: Exploring George Washington's history as an obsessive surveyor and land speculator prior to his generalship
Transcribe →The Declaration Decoded From Katie Kennedy The Guide That Inspired Our Nation
2w ago00:11:43Tap to summarizeA Guide to the Document That Inspired Our Nation “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. . . .” So begins the Declaration of Independence, the fabled 1776 document in which a group of men in a distant colony of the British Empire declared their freedom from that Empire — and thus changed the world. But WERE “all men created equal”? What are “unalienable rights”? And how did these men come to write this document anyway?History and civics professor Katie Kennedy knows how important it is to understand the meaning behind these often-quoted words. In the style of her acclaimed THE CONSTITUTION DECODED and THE PRESIDENTS DECODED, THE DECLARATION DECODED goes through the Declaration sentence by sentence and idea by idea. Readers will gain a deep understanding of not only the basic meaning of the Founders’ now-arcane language, but the historical background against which the Declaration was written, the situations that animated it (especially its 27 distinctly modern “grievances” against King George III), and the powerful arguments it makes about government, rights, responsibilities, and freedoms—arguments that we’re still having 250 years later THE DECLARATION DECODED brings this powerful text to life for a new generation.
Transcribe →Breaking Down Pressure Starring Brendan Fraser Directred By Anthony Maras
Jun 1400:11:42Tap to summarizeIn the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, PRESSURE follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg as they face an impossible choice-launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.Here's the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdM4tdLQBg0
Transcribe →8 Lessons To Keep Your Head Above Water Drown Proof From Andy Stumpf
Jun 1300:09:52Tap to summarizeDrawing from his extensive military career, renowned Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf shares his hard-earned wisdom by reflecting on his own journey and offering advice to empower readers to avoid costly mistakes and navigate the complexities of life with confidence and purpose.From the grueling training programs to intense combat situations, Stumpf recounts the highs and lows, the challenges he faced, and the pivotal moments that shaped his leadership abilities. How can you take the toughest situations in your life and make them the most formative moments you've ever had? How do you take a leap of faith in your life? How can you combat fear when it comes to crush you? How can you build discipline in your life instead of building regrets? In his down-to-earth, sometimes humorous but always honest voice, Stumpf addresses these questions and more in Drownproof.
Transcribe →More From The Navigators Letter From Author Jan Cress Dondi
May 2400:10:58Tap to summarizeThe True Story of Two WWII Airmen, a Doomed Mission, and the Woman Who Bound Them TogetherAt its core, this true story traces the striking parallels between two friends from the same small Illinois hometown, John B. and Bob, bound by the same woman, Polley—one man’s sister, the other’s unrequited love. Both join the Army Air Corps, train as B-24 navigators, and rise to lead crews into combat. Months apart, each is shot down over the same target—and both go missing. Guided by luck and fate, only one finds his way home.The larger picture is the U.S. campaign to destroy Hitler’s fuel source at Ploesti, Romania. From Benghazi, Libya, the 8th and 9th Air Force launched Operation Tidal Wave, the first-ever zero-altitude raid— of the 1,700 men that took off that morning, 532 failed to return, including John B. Bob set out to learn John B.’s fate. Months later, the 15th AF regrouped and followed with relentless high-level bombing—some 2,300 airmen went missing, captured or killed, including Bob. Back home, Polley could only wait and hope as friendship, loyalty are forever reshaped by war.At its heart, is a deeply human story— told through the voices of John B. and Bob and the eyes of Polley (based on hundreds of letters a POW diary and family verities corroborated by primary sources including the national archives, both US and German), where war unfolds not only in missions and survival but in the fragile bonds forged amid wartime chaos.A USA Today bestseller, THE NAVIGATOR’S LETTER by JAN CRESS DONDI, reveals one of the most audacious and overlooked World War II stories. It chronicles a dangerous U.S. Army Air Force campaign through the voices of two airmen bound by duty—and one woman, forming a deeply human narrative. A gripping blend of military history and war biography, it captures brotherhood, love, and sacrifice.
Transcribe →An Oral History Of The Final Marines In WWII From Scott Davis
May 2300:11:54Tap to summarizeAn oral history of the brutal Pacific Theater in WWII, told by many of the last living U.S. Marine veterans.During World War II, over 16 million Americans served in the Armed Forces. Today, less than 1 percent are still alive. The Last of the Old Breed is an unprecedented oral history of the final living United States Marines from World War II, featuring over 130 veterans, ranging in age from 90 to 103. Told in harrowing detail, the witnesses reveal the brutal reality of combat against a fanatical enemy and the heavy toll it took on their post-war lives.From retirement facilities, veteran's hospitals, and modest homes across the country, the last witnesses opened up about the war like never before, determined to leave an honest account for future generations. For many of the veterans, this was the first - and final - time telling their stories.The Last of the Old Breed is a rare, unvarnished look at the Pacific War, in the words of those who were there. These are the stories that could not be told - until now.
Transcribe →Riding The White Bull The Making Of A Navy Seal From He Who Lived It Jack Ratliff
May 1700:13:39Tap to summarizeA retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander, Ratliff served aboard destroyers and with Underwater Demolition Team 11, the elite Cold War–era unit that directly preceded today’s Navy SEAL teams. Jack writes a historical record of how the U.S. Navy prepared young officers and enlisted men for combat in the 1950s and early 1960s. Riding the White Bull documents the training, culture, and mindset that defined American military readiness in the post–World War II period. Ratliff offers detailed, insider descriptions of destroyer service in the “tin can Navy,” the evolution of frogman units, and the brutal physical and psychological conditioning used to identify who could operate under fear, exhaustion, and uncertainty. Training was not abstract or theoretical; it was deliberately uncomfortable, risky, and unsparing, designed to reveal judgment and character before men were ever sent into harm’s way.
Transcribe →The Brand New Novel Passages A Voyage From War To Peace From Author PK Edgewater
Apr 1800:37:03Tap to summarizeBound by chance and the intimacy of therapy, an old warrior and a fledgling psychiatrist test each other’s true north. Miko, the precocious son of a Greek fisherman, has weathered an indecisive path to adulthood in medicine and psychiatry. . . or has he? Dormant in his soul is a muse for writing and a smoldering guilt of abandoning his father. His training trajectory finds him in Tulsa, USA, of all places, where a 2 a.m. hospital admission, the aging, drunk, and potentially violent Vietnam veteran AJ becomes the young physician's patient. A metaphysical quirk awaits them. Unwitting confidants in the quest to understand what each is missing, the two trade insights best borne from meeting the other where he is. AJ is a prisoner of the exhilarating echoes of a confusing war; Miko suppresses his own psychological turmoil while exposing that of others. A chance meeting of their wives leads to a bond kept hidden under norms of confidentiality. Each woman finds something of themselves in the other and the moxie to withstand battles in their own marriages, on their own terms. Why AJ was brought to the hospital by the police that night pits a sense of duty against self-destruction. Why was there but a single round in his Luger that night? In Passages, the author takes aim at our enigmatic humanity. Each of us is the hero in his or her own life, a contrast of magnificence and flaws, navigating the complexity of principles and barriers as best one can.
Transcribe →The First Woman To Command A Space Craft Astronaut Eileen Collins
Apr 500:10:24Tap to summarizeSPACEWOMAN, a doc about Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft, and directed by Hannah Berryman lands in theaters beginning March 20th and will be in select theaters nationwide.Eileen's journey, from her working-class beginnings in Elmira, NY, to breaking glass ceilings at NASA, commanding four space shuttle missions, and navigating the pressures on her family is awe inspiring. The doc includes archival materials and interviews that highlight both the monumental dangers of spaceflight and the incredible achievements of the shuttle program, including her leadership on STS-114, the first mission after the Columbia tragedy.Based on Eileen's book Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars, the film premiered at DOC NYC and is directed by Hannah Berryman and produced by award-winning teams Keith Haviland (Haviland Digital) and Natasha Dack Ojumu (Tigerlily Productions).It is an intimate and authentic account of an astronaut's life and Hannah Berryman's offers a nail-biting film showcasing the emotional drama Eileen's family experienced, and a philosophical question about what level of risk is acceptable in human endeavor.Here's the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnhqHdxNsgk
Transcribe →The Navigators Letter From Author Jan Cress Dondi The Birth Of Zero Altitude Air Raids
Mar 3000:20:39Tap to summarizeThe True Story of Two WWII Airmen, a Doomed Mission, and the Woman Who Bound Them TogetherInterviews Available February 2-7, and Upon Requesthttps://jancressdondi.com/ Beginning early on August 1, 1943, Operation Tidal Wave was a risky mission aimed at destroying high-octane fuel production vital to Nazi Germany. It involved the first-ever zero-altitude air raid just 150 feet above the ground – but chances of success were ranged between 50% and suicide. In missions to destroy fuel-rich Ploesti, Romania, 2,432 US bomber crewmen went missing, became POW’s or were killed in action. Jan Cress Dondi shares the inside story surrounding this historic mission in the new book, THE NAVIGATOR’S LETTER: The True Story of Two WWII Airmen, a Doomed Mission, and the Woman Who Bound Them Together (Union Square & Co., February 10, 2026). The connected war stories of her uncle, John B. White, and her father, Bob Cress, are captured in the letters they both wrote to the same woman, Polley, who became Jan’s mother. Both John B. and Bob became navigators on B-24 Bombers, both flew multiple combat missions in Europe, and both were forced down over the hotly targeted oilfields of Ploesti, Romania.
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