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One of my favorite places to find stories is in old newspapers. While my eyes are drawn to sensational headlines like Men Walk on the Moon or Dewey Defeats Truman, the best stories are in the column inches around them… like the one I found on Page 11 of the November 27, 1906 edition of the Long Beach Telegram. It’s a story that I call, “The Dime.”

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This story picks up where Griddlesode S19-002: The Slow Wheels of Justice left off. It covers the first time that the prosecusion lays out their case in the murder of Dr. John Cheng.

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This story picks up where Griddlesode S17-003: Primary Care left off. It covers the two and a half years of court proceedings for the man accused of killing Dr. John Cheng.

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Ever had a day that starts badly and just spirals downward? The kind where you should’ve stayed in bed and hit the snooze button? Now imagine stringing a few of those days together for a week?

If the story sounds familiar, it’s because this is a Griddlecakes Radio Remix of the story I published on January 16, 2006.

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Navy Lieutenant Hugh Shake knew that he had married a strong-willed woman, but he never could have imagined the lengths by which she’d prove it. She had just accomplished a feat that had never been done before, and in all likelihood, would never happen again. What was this amazing accomplishment? Sit back and listen to a true story called, The Miracle of the Coral Sea.

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Last month, while rummaging through a box of old postcards, I came across three letters from 1908. All were written by an A.O. Potter who was offering Robert Werth a job at the Bausch and Lomb Optical Company.

I had many questions. Why three letters? Why were two of them typed and one of them hand-written? And most importantly, did Robert accept the position? If you’d like to know the answers to these and other questions, sit back and listen to a story that I call, “Did Robert Get the Job?

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Have you ever had an experience where you did the right thing, but were punished for it? Where for some reason, you became the bad guy in the situation? Well, if you wanna hear how Ron became the villain of a story where he should have been the hero, sit back and listen to this Remix of Griddlesode 13: Sometimes Life isn’t Fair.

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If you really want to understand history, you need to pull your nose out of a book. Without doing so, your historical understanding is inhibited by both the limitations and exaggerations of your imagination. Thus, to add real-world context, you need to stand where historical figures stood, see their environment, and try to imagine yourself in their situation. Doing so not only fills blanks that may be missed in the theater of one’s mind, but it also opens possibilities that you never considered. And so, while it took decades to check this bucket-item off my list, I finally got to visit Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas in a story I call, Wait? What? No!

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Have you ever started something enthusiastically, only to realize about halfway through that it might not be a good Idea? Perhaps you challenged someone to a game you weren’t good at, accepted a job that you were unqualified for, or began a task that you way-underestimated? Well, I had such an experience a couple months ago when I started telling a story to Magic Johnson, only to realize that I may have made a mistake. It’s a story that I call, Do you believe in Magic?”

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