Jim Butkiewicz is a professor in the Economics department at University of Delaware, who specializes in policy analysis and determinants of economic growth. Jim's historical areas of expertise include monetary theory and history and the economics of the Great Depression. Jim joins me to talk about the hardship and times of the 1920's to mid 30's while also talking about a side project he is involved in that deals with listening to the Nixon tapes.

Mikey Bowser is a documentarian and paranormal investigator for "Bump In The Night Society" where he and his team go to haunted locations like insane asylums and castles that have a dark history. Mikey explains some of the history and footage on the show and his new documentary called "The Awakening Of Greenville Manor" where he picked up some interesting footage and a heck of a story.

Dylan Thomas is the host of a podcast called "In Search Of Reality Podcast" that looks at reality from a variety of different angles;  that include but not limited to scientific, psychological, and paranormal experience. Dylan has tried to understand others experience after having some of his own and realizing that its something more than just science fiction.

Dr. Kaminski is a professor at the University of Delaware in the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, as well as the director of the athletic training program at the university. Dr. Kaminski is a leading expert on issues related to purposeful headers in interscholastic and intercollegiate soccer and whose research interests include concussions, sports-related mild traumatic brain injuries and ankle instability.

Daniel Golden is a senior editor at ProPublica, a non-profit website for investigative reporting. His latest book "Spy Schools": How The CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities, the book reveals that globalization—the influx of foreign students and professors and the outflow of Americans for study, teaching, and conferences abroad—has transformed U.S. higher education into a front line for international spying. The FBI and CIA reciprocate, tapping international students and faculty as informants. Universities ignore or even condone this interference, despite the tension between their professed global values and the nationalistic culture of espionage.

Matt is the creator of "Suburban Phoodie" a food review page based in Philly where he highlights local eats and tries to get them more highlighted in todays corporate marketed world. Matt has been on the show many times and always a interesting range of topics a little on history and a few personal experiences in life, all while enjoying some laughs.

Rob is the host of a podcast called "Smoke And Mirrors" where he and his brothers run through weekly movie, TV and entertainment news. The Brothers review films, give their takes on the news as they work their way through the line up of cinema and TV in a fun and lighthearted chat format - all while vaping up a storm.

Dr Greg Poulgrain is a historian and lecturer on Southeast Asian history and author of JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia. In 1936, an Allen Dulles-established company discovered the world's largest gold deposit in remote Netherlands New Guinea. In 1962, President Kennedy intervened, and Netherlands New Guinea was added to President Sukarno's Indonesia. Neither Sukarno nor JFK was aware of the gold, since Dulles had not informed Kennedy. Using archival records as a basis, Greg Poulgrain adds word-of-mouth evidence from those people who were directly involved--such as Dean Rusk and others who worked with President Kennedy and Allen Dulles at the time; or the person who was with Michael Rockefeller when he mysteriously disappeared in West New Guinea during this whole affair.

Larry Hancock has been involved in the study of cold war history and the assassination of John F. Kennedy for approximately 14 years. He is co-author of November Patriots, a docufiction novel and author of Someone Would Have Talked a factual analysis of both the conspiracy and cover-up, published in November of 2003. Larry has researched and published several collections of CIA, FBI and military documents prior to beginning his writing efforts. His document work led to his becoming a board member of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a major online interactive history archive. With a dozen books in print, his works include an exploration of long term patterns in covert action and deniable warfare.

Stephen Kinzer is an American author, journalist, and academic. A former New York Times correspondent, he has published several books, and writes for several newspapers and news agencies. Stephen discusses his book "Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control" about The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer―the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace―including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders.