Christina Ward is a Wisconsin Master Food Preserver and writer. She is a contributor to Edible Milwaukee, The Wall Street Journal, and The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel. For Serious Eats, she wrote in-depth articles about the science and principles behind food preservation. Christina is the author of "American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O" a deeply researched and entertaining survey of twentieth century American food. Connecting cultural, social, and geopolitical aspects, where she tells the fascinating and often infuriating story of American culinary culture.

Lillian Faderman is an American historian whose books on lesbian history and LGBT history have earned critical praise and awards. The New York Times named three of her books on its "Notable Books of the Year" list. Lillian is the author of "Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death" about Harvey Milk and his life who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor.

Barry Krusch is an instructional designer with over 20 years experience. He has written several books, including Would the Real First Amendment Please Stand Up?, The 21st century Constitution, and his latest book, Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. Krusch's latest book Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald, divided into three volumes. This extensive work, over 1000 pages, demonstrates conclusively that the notion of a "lone assassin" in the Kennedy assassination is a complete myth, in no way justified by the evidence, and that therefore any case against Lee Harvey Oswald based on the notion of a lone assassin must completely fail.

Renee Dufault is an American research scientist. A former Food and Drug Administration researcher and whistleblower, who brought media attention to three separate studies that discovered mercury contained within high fructose corn syrup. Dr. Dufault is recognized as a biomedical expert in the area of heavy metal toxicity. She is considered a leading researcher in the area of epigenetics (gene-environment interactions) and has published a number of articles on autism and ADHD.

Michael Rembis is an expert on disability history, including the history of madness. He is director of the Center for Disability Studies at UB and has worked with colleagues around the world to expand and solidify the fields of disability history and disability studies. Rembis’ research interests include the history of institutionalization, mad people's history, and the history of eugenics. He has also studied and written about contemporary issues concerning mental health and mental illness and mass incarceration.

Michael Rivero is the host of "What Really Happened" dedicated to real news and real talk with real people. Originally a child actor, Michael left film work after High School to follow a career in science, working for NASA on the Viking and Voyager projects, among others. Following the post-Apollo crash of the aerospace industry, Michael went back into film work arriving at the exact time Hollywood was beginning to employ more computers for visual effects; a classic case of being in the right place art the right time, with the right skills. Having paid for college as a professional stage magician, Michael brings an awareness of how an audience perceives what they see to his designs for visual effects.

Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History on the Ford Foundation at Mount Holyoke College, where his teaching focus is on American cultural and political history. Czitrom’s latest book is New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era. It tells the story of how a minister’s moral crusade to clean up New York City in the 1890s morphed into the first sensational political investigation of the modern era and kick-started the Progressive movement. The narrative unfolds within the larger contexts of national politics, police violence, poverty, patronage, vote fraud and vote suppression.

Ryan Clement holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Waterloo where his research focused on the emergence of narrative from game mechanics. He also holds an MA in Communication and Culture from York University and Ryerson University where he completed a graphic novel project comparing the globalization of American comics versus Japanese manga. Ryan also designs games, publishes creative writing and comics, and has experience both in improvised theatre and multimedia storytelling.

Cory Hughes is the host of "Understanding Propaganda" which helps understand the history of propaganda and how it relates today. Cory joins the show to talk about his years of research into the JFK assassination in which he created works such as "The Man On The Grassy Knoll" and "A Warning From History".

Darren Dochuk is the Andrew V. Tackes College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a Faculty Fellow at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. His research and teaching deal primarily with the United States in the long twentieth century, with emphasis on the intersections of religion, politics, energy, and environment. Dochuk has written widely on modern U.S. history. His most recent book is Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America. He is also the author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism.