Big Talk: Why does Mom want me to play outside? Turning Points: A lot of people have heard of poet and songwriter, Woody Guthrie, but few know his incredible story. Kelsey goes back in time to 1946 for an interview… Boom Radio: Ben Jammin thinks Hummers are kid stuff …. In News Update, [...]
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Episode 22 Featuring Woody Guthrie and Buy Now! Free!
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Episode 20 Featuring Shakespeare and Time Travel II
Big Talk: Does your Mom ever talk with her hands?… In Turning Points, Kelsey goes back in time to interview William Shakespeare at a time when Puritans and the Plague are making it hard to survive…. Widget and Whack try to explain why something boiling inside your fridge is a GOOD thing… When a local [...]
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Episode 19 Featuring Ted Williams and Time Travel I
Big Talk: Mom pays money at the grocery, but Dad gets all the grub just by flashing a card… All his life, he only wanted one thing. He wanted people to say when he walked by: “There goes the greatest hitter who ever played the game.” The boy may have accomplished exactly [...]
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Episode 15 Featuring Rosa Parks and Big Oil, Little Oil
Money: Who would have thought the economy of a town could be dashed by a trampled rhubarb patch?… Big Talk: Why does Dad get mad when I get hurt?… Turning Points: Our intrepid reporter goes back in time to interview Rosa Parks, an Afro-American woman who decided she was tired of moving to the back [...]
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Episode 03 Featuring Thomas Jefferson and Greed
We take ideas like freedom and liberty for granted. Kelsey goes back in time to speak with one of the people who brought them over to America: Thomas Jefferson… Big Talk: Ever feel like the FBI is monitoring your phone calls?.. Master mechanics Widget and Whack explain the workings of the vacuum cleaner… There [...]
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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 [...]
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