Imagine a world in which doctors would require the bodies of the recently dead to teach and learn about human anatomy. Some doctors needed bodies so badly they would never question where the bodies came from. Some enterprising young men made it their business to supply these doctors with corpses – and to keep up with demand, they didn’t wait for death to come naturally.

This is the tale of Burke and Hare on the 176th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

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Imagine this, you are watching TV in the evening or late night. Maybe it is a movie starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn or a 1977 episode of Dr. Who, when suddenly something odd interrupts your viewing. Maybe it’s a message for a cable channel or a man in a mask getting spanked.

Today, I have two true stories of broadcast signal intrusion, the Max Headroom and the HBO Captain Midnight Incident, on the 175th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

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Imagine this: You’ve been in a rock and roll band for two years. Days before you are due to record the first record, you are told, without much of an explanation, that you are being replaced. The band goes on to be the biggest sensation in the world and you end up working as a civil servant.

I am speaking, of course, of Pete Best – the good looking drummer of The Beatles whose dismissal from the band is still being questioned today. I have his story on the 174th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

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It sounds like a story from film or television. A man and wife go out west during the gold rush and end up becoming the richest couple in the west. Another, much younger, beauty enters the picture and the rich old man divorces his wife for the pretty young thing. They live an extravagant lifestyle – and then they lose everything.

This is the story of the Tabors who made fortune in silver in the late 1880. I have the story on the 173rd episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

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Imagine a man who defied his parents, turning down the chance to become a doctor. Instead, he followed his dream and became a high wire performer, acrobat, strongman, entertainment promoter, inventor, as well as the first known white man to cross the Kalahari Desert on foot (and live to tell the tale).

This is the tale of a man who had an amazing life; the tale of William Leonard Hunt, better known as The Great Farini – right here on the 172th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

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Imagine you’re a podcaster, ready to record your latest episode. The microphone is hot and the computer is recording. You have pages of note in your hand. Then you hear it, from behind the computer monitor it slowly walks. A small black head peaks around the corner…

It’s a cat named Amanda! You quickly realize that the recording will have to wait – the cat wants attention! You ask yourself, why are cats so strange?

That is the question I ask on the 171st episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

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A couple of friends, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, start a new literary movement and each one wrote a groundbreaking novel. A few years later, something they took so seriously becomes the fashion of the day, a joke to many.

Today I have part two of the Beat Movement and the Beatniks on the 170th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

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Shortly after world war two, three men got together and changed the literary world forever. They were a group of writers and free thinkers who rejected conventional society and the taboo of the day. They believed in writing without censorship. It began with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac.

Today I have part one of the Beat Movement and the Beatniks.

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There are stories in history that everyone knows to be true. Stories that are told over and over again that are assume are fact. But are they?

Today, I look at three food stories and in each case, I thought I new the truth. Join me as I explore the shocking truth of the potato chip, the TV dinner, and the New England Lobster on the 168th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

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Just like the Terminator, but with less mayhem, Gordon is back with more crazy family stories. Who was his granddad at war with at the top of WW1? What was his dad doing in the South Pacific during World War 2 with all that pineapple juice? Tune in and find out!

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