American Timelines

Joe is joined by Artstar, Gruff and Pilot Baboo to discuss June of 1944 and events leading up to D-Day!

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April & May 1944: Lena Baker, Charlie Chaplin & The Castle Warden Fire

Joe is joined by Steve from the Gruff & Loud Show and the Debra Jo Ruppiverse to discuss April and May of 1944. Stories include The first and last woman to ever be executed in the electric chair in Georgia, A haunted castle fire, and Chat GPT hipster styled story about Charlie Chaplin & the Mann Act. Plus some birthdays and other stuff.

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Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Author Roger Newman joins Artstar and Joe to discuss his novel, BOYS.

Imagine a young boy whose family is killed by the Ku Klux Klan during the Great Depression and is raised by the farmer whose farm he hides on, alongside the farmer’s son. The two boys—one Black, one White— come to view themselves as brothers.

When the brothers head off to fight in segregated military units in World War II, they are separated by diverging military careers and escalating racial hostility.

This is the true story of South Carolina author Roger Newman’s North Carolina family, and the inspiration for his fifth novel, BOYS, newly released on January 14 (Koehler Books). Newman was compelled to write the book after learning about his Black uncle who disappeared during World War II.

BOYS, which has been touted by Kirkus as “A powerful and nuanced novel about racial tensions in 20th-century America,” paints a vivid picture of many lesser-known aspects of history, from service in WWII to Vietnam and beyond.

Episode 239. Amy and Joe jump into March 1944. WW2 is going strong, a soldier survives a jump from a plane without a parachute, Bob Hope hosts the Oscars, a Jewish Mobster who invented Murder Inc. dies, a child is executed after being wrongfully convicted of murder, and Amy covers a French serial killer doctor who pretended to be part of the Resistance.

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Joe interviews author Robert B. O’Connor about his World War 2 based book: Jeep Show, as well as some other topics such as soccer, baseball, cigars and weed!

Robert B. O’Connor is the author of the WWII novel Jeep Show – A Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge (https://jeepshowbook.com/)

and the non-fiction Gumptionade – A Booster for Your Self-Improvement Plan. Two radically different books about morale.

Please visit Robert’s charity of choice , Shields and Stripes, and share it and/or donate if you are able. https://shieldsandstripes.org/

Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com.

Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks.

Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Amy is back to tell us all about the tragedy of the lynching of Willie James Howard. Plus: Birthdays galore with Bonnie Franklin, Angela Davis, Joe Frazier and Stockard Channing.

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Addy Kapur episode: Recorded December of 2024.

Addy Kapur is a software developer, a photographer, a father, a husband, a native Delhiite, a comedian and a cook.

Listen as we get to know Addy Kapur who met Joe in 2019 at the Queen City Comedy Experience Festival while photographing the Nate Bargatze show and meet and greet. Follow along as we learn about Addy’s journey from the vastly populated Delhi where he was forced to play basketball because of his height to Silcon Valley in the late 90’s where highways and bars were new to him as he discovered computers, and on to Michigan where he learned about the Michigan/Ohio state rivalry before coming to Charlotte and trying his hand at stand up comedy where he entered Joe’s realm. We discuss the art of stand up comedy, performing in rural North Carolina, learning to cook and more!

Friend Check is a subseries of American Timelines, where a middle aged man scours his Facebook friend list to reconnect with each person and ask….Are we ACTUALLY friends? Why are we Facebook friends? Who actually ARE you? What stories do you have? Should we STAY Facebook Friends?

Episode 235: The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident w/ Artstar and Hunter Brame

Hunter shares the tale of The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident, while John Denver and Ben Kingsley are born. Hunter also gives us some in-depth Hitler knowledge. Artstar is a real man.

he Hopevale Martyrs: November & December 1943 with Artstar and Hunter Brame

The mighty Artstar tells us about the Hopevale Martyrs, while Joe overviews Sam Shepard, Keith Richards, Joni Mitchell and Jim Morrison being born, U.S. Marine Sergeant Herbert J. Thomas, An unusual game involving the Ohio State Buckeyes & Illinois Illini, The U.S.Navy destroyer USS William D. Porter firing a torpedo at the president of the US, Leonard Bernstein breaking a record, Mustard gas accidentally helping fight cancer, Edward R. Murrow being profound, and Randy Newman's high school mascot.

We'll be back next episode with Hunter Brizzle's story.

Adam Cufr episode: 

Recorded September of 2024.   Friendcheck #9, Episode 233.

Adam Cufr is a father, a husband, a drummer, a veteran and a

Retirement Income Certified Professional

Listen as we get to know Adam Cufr, an upstanding gent who

happened to go to high school with Gruff and Joe.  Listen as we discuss Adam’s beginnings as a boy playing with girls, playing drums in bands and in school, getting his first

drumset from Santa, his daughters learning how great he is from band camp, how

he coped with twin to twin transfusion syndrome, how he learned empathy from

tragedy, how he met his wife and almost lost the chance to marry her over a

popsicle, and how he became an author and retirement advistor.

Friend Check is a subseries of American Timelines, where a

middle aged man scours his Facebook friend list to reconnect with each person

and ask….Are we ACTUALLY friends?  Why

are we Facebook friends?  Who actually

ARE you?  What stories do you have?  Should we STAY Facebook Friends?