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Dr Randy Overbeck Interview — Abigail Trench & the Culper Ring

Dr. Randy Overbeck is back, and this time there's not a single ghost in the book. Abigail Trench is his first historical — a novel about the Culper Ring, George Washington's spy network in occupied New York, and specifically about Agent 355, the one woman in it whose identity nobody has ever establ…

George Washington's Secret Six Audiobook by Don Yaeger

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: George Washington's Secret SixSubtitle: The Spy Ring That Saved AmericaCategories: America, History, Military, United States of AmericaAuthor: Don YaegerNarrator: Brian KilmeadePublisher: Penguin AudioRelease date: 11-05-2013Lang…

3BGPodcast| Meteor Man

Welcome to a very special episode of 3BGPodcast! ShaggyBlack, our best friend, brother and Cinema Villian joins us! 15 years ago we talked about this Robert Townsend classic. Except now we're actually seasoned and vetted film critics, so everything we say is fact! We talk about Black All-Star movie…

The story of the "one life" novice spy Nathan Hale gave for his country

Next week marks 250 years since Connecticut's Nathan Hale was executed by British soldiers. This hour we look back at the life of Nathan Hale, and the local historian who kept his legacy alive. Plus, we'll learn about spying during the Revolutionary War, and discover another Connecticut spy who esc…

AND YOU'RE NOT: The Chevy Chase Show Episode 4 - Kathleen Turner, Charles Kazan, Robert Townsend

Ho boy, this was a tough one. Chevy slouches his way across the finish line for his first week by barely engaging Kathleen Turner, rushing through a surprisingly good Robert Townsend interview to get to a stupid game, and spending the approximate running time of Tarkovsky's Stalker on a bit with a …

Sitcom Dad: Representation

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. There's a TV on in almost every house I ever worked on, and it's not noise. It's the customer wanting me to inspect the issue in real time, and often, over my head, there's a sitcom family on the screen. In 1993, nine years old in my mom's …

Episode 222: Revolutionary Spy David Maltbie with Claire Bellerjeau

The story of Nathan Hale is a foundational myth of the Revolution: an earnest but inexperienced patriot takes on the role of spy and unfortunately ends up a martyr to the cause. But that's not the whole story. Historian Claire Bellerjeau, chronicler of Robert Townsend and the enslaved woman Liss, h…

CWT810: 'B*A*P*S' (1997): From Critical Punching Bag to Cult Favorite

Today we're taking a look at a movie that had one of the biggest reputation turnarounds of the 1990s: BAP*S, the 1997 comedy directed by Robert Townsend and starring Halle Berry and Natalie Desselle-Reid.

S5 Ep3: Moving to profitability

Kampala's street vendors and boda boda drivers own little that ties them to one spot. The fruit seller has a wheelbarrow. Yet a vendor in a parish near the top of the city's profit ladder earns more than three times as much as a similar vendor near the bottom. Two-thirds of them believe they coul…

#97: The Five Heartbeats

Eric, Jeff, Sheek, Jadakiss and special guest Kay Rosewood got together in Yonkers to break down the 1991 musical drama film directed by Robert Townsend and starring Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, John Canada Terrell, Harold Nicholas and Diahann Carroll and de…