American Moments With Matt Martin

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American Moments With Matt Martin episodes

October 24, 2018 Episode 13, Bourbon
Join us for Episode 13 where we discuss Americas only official spirit, BOURBON!
48 min
August 20, 2018 Episode 12, The Ludlow Massacre
Join us for the most surprisingly unknown labor relations event in American history, the Ludlow Massacre and the resulting Colorado Coalfield War.
55 min
May 28, 2018 Episode 11, Woodstock 1969
As Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young said:
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden
Join us as we discuss the most famous and iconic music festival of all time, Woodstock 1969.
54 min
March 10, 2018 Episode 10, the Black Sox Scandal of 1919
Join us for our 10th episode where we explore the scandal that gave us the "commissioner" era of baseball and entered the phrase "say it ain't so Joe!" into the American Lexicon.
49 min
February 04, 2018 Episode 9, The Microwave Oven Minisode
Join us as we discuss the origins of the appliance that accidentally became a cornerstone in our kitchens!
21 min
November 07, 2017 Episode 8, "the Election of 1800" with Roifield Brown and 10 American Presidents
Roifield Brown honored us by having us on his show, 10 American Presidents to discuss the Election of 1800. The election was the first true test for the United States as to whether the young Republic could peacefully transfer power. Join us as we discuss this tumultuous event, which turned out to be 2 elections in one...
1 hr 18 min
September 05, 2017 Episode 7, the St. Valentines Day Massacre and Prohibition
Join us as we cover the St. Valentines Day Massacre, the nail in the coffin of the Prohibition era in the United States. We cover how Prohibition came to be, and how the 18th Amendment itself created the organized crime we romanticized in our movies... until February 14th, 1929.
1 hr 4 min
June 25, 2017 Episode 6, The Birth of Mainstream Grunge (The Deep Six Album)
Join us as we go back to the late 80's for the birth of mainstream Grunge, the release of the Deep Six Album compilation in 1986. Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and many other bands got their start shaking up music as we knew it when this album was released.
38 min
May 31, 2017 Episode 5, The Johnstown Flood
Today is the 128th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood. We have decided to honor the memory of those that died tragically on May 31, 1889 by inviting the President of the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, Richard Burkert to help walk us through the events of that calamitous day. This was so much more than a flood though, out of that day came the Red Cross as we know it, and a change in legal liability in the United States.
Please visit JAHA at jaha.org!
1 hr 14 min
May 09, 2017 Episode 4, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Join us for our 4th Episode as we discuss the groundbreaking novel published in 1906 by Upton Sinclair, "the Jungle" and its long term affect on organized labor... but mostly on the way dinner makes its way to our table.
53 min