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Episode 18 Featuring Ernest Shackleton and The Middle East

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Big Talk: Dad won’t let her run the dryer because it’s too expensive… There are adventures — and then there are ADVENTURES. As Kelsey discovers in Turning Points, the Shackleton expedition to the South Pole on the Endurance was definitely one with capital letters…. Ben Jammin is being defamed on Boom Radio… Tucker Jones is hired by a girl with dandelion-colored hair to uncover who is spreading lies about her… Freddie Finklehammer is back from vacation with another game of Weird Words…. The history of Palestine goes back thousands of years. Lately, it has involved lots of bad blood between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Alicia and the King of Complicated stuff take on the incredible task of sorting it all out… News Update: You can’t refer to your boat as “she” anymore … Weasels don’t exactly have a cute and cuddly reputation. Hayley finds out why in the Natural Wonder.

Episode 05 Featuring Mark Twain and the Iditarod

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Big Talk: So who gets served dinner first in your house?… Samuel Clemens once described a night that was “darker than the inside of a cow.” You have to think pretty hard to come up with a better descriptive phrase than that. But that was the genius of the man known as Mark Twain. Kelsey goes back in time to interview the author of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn… Deep Blue sat on one side of the table, a Russian chess-master sat on the other. What made this chess match so interesting was that Deep Blue was only 6 and it was a computer… Tucker Jones is hired to investigate the carnival basketball hoop… So you like adventures? How about mushing 16 dogs over 1100 miles of frozen terrain. In this episode’s Big Idea, Jessica and the King of Complicated Stuff try to figure out what drives men and women to tackle the ultimate race known as the Iditarod… BookBeat: We interview author Shelly Gill, who was one of the first women to compete in the Iditarod.

Episode 40 Featuring Gertrude Bell and The Last Drops (Water 3)

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:43:16 +0000

Her accomplishments are breathtaking. Yet you ask someone: “Who is Gertrude Bell?” and the reply usually comes back blank. In our Turning Points interview, Natalie goes back to 1921 to speak with the British mountaineer and desert explorer… Boom Radio: Clodagh believes online “security” questions may be a tad too complex… When Schmave goes down to visit relatives in southern Illinois, he ends up on a pie run he will never forget on SCHMAVE’S ELEVATOR… August comes to rescue of an elderly computer user on this month’s Power-up … Our third and final Big Idea segment about water covers everything from bottled water to dams… Toby and Gramps run into a veteran of the Everglades in this segment of their American Journey.

Episode 39 Featuring Admiral Byrd, Politics and The Olympics

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:16:48 +0000

Kelsey climbs into her cold weather gear to visit famed explorer, Admiral Byrd, in the Antarctic … Primary: Elena gives her stump speech as a candidate from the BOOMERANG! party… Boom Radio: Devin the Duff tries to imagine life with secret Service Agents hanging around… When TUCKER stumbles upon participants in a “money club”, he discovers there is no such thing as easy money… Widget and Whack take apart Dad’s camera to see how it works… Hayley considers the political part of the Olympics and interviews a champion archer about her participation in Team Darfur… American Journey: Toby & Gramps discover there are worse things than bears in Yosemite Valley — like a 14 mile hike.