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When was the last time you actually watched one of your "favourite ‘90s TV shows” you love to bring up half-drunk in the pub? Revisiting the Saturday morning fare you watched in your pyjamas, slurping Coco Pops and carefully crafting 10p texts, Ross Drummond and Ali Plumb work out whether Sabrina The Teenage Witch and her brightly-coloured ‘90s brethren still stand up in the cold light of the 21st century. HERE COMES THE COMEDY!!1! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Horror News Radio host Thomas Mariani invites co-hosts on a bi-weekly journey to discuss classic – or not so classic – horror, sci-fi and fantasy genre pieces from the 1990s to the present. Decades of Horror 1990s and Beyond will look at films like The Sixth Sense, Ginger Snaps, Blair Witch Project, Black Swan, Candyman, Saw and many more. Everything from meta slashers to mind splitting sci-fi to twisty ghost stories!
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Randal Wallace Presents : "George H. W. Bush" a four season look back at his extraordinary life, career, and his single term as President of the United States. A term that saw the high point of American Leadership around the world as he steered the world through the fall of the Communist superpower, the former Soviet Union. It also saw the United States lead a worldwide coalition against aggression by the Middle Eastern Dictator Saddam Hussein, and setting the example on how to fight such a ...
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Rob Cesternino and Josh Wigler travel back in time for 30 Years Greater, a podcast about movies from 30 years ago. Every week, Rob and Josh watch and talk about a movie that just turned 30, and determine whether it’s better or worse now than it was thirty years ago. 30 Years Greater is a co-production between Post Show Recaps and Rob Has a Podcast.
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we look back at the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher. We listen in on stories about the relationship she had with United States President Ronald Reagan, complete with a private call between the two after the Grenada Invasion. They were two conservative icons and in both cases they were leaders who turned their co…
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Send us a Text Message. Thanksgiving arrives in Saudi Arabia, as President Bush travels there with Mrs Bush, Senate Leaders George Mitchell and Bob Dole, House Speaker Tom Foley, and several other congressional people. They will speak to the troops and spend the holiday with them. As they get closer to the start of the Gulf War. However this is not…
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Send us a Text Message. Here is one of the press conferences from the month of November. Here the President will talk of his desire for peace as he has the region prepared for War. It is at this point that the United states can say they are prepared for any actions the Iraqi's may take. As we tune in and listen in on this important moment in Novemb…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we take you through the tension building period in late October and Early November of 1990. You will listen in to news reports from ABC News and the News from New Zealand as the Middle East moves closer to War. We will also listen to letters from George H. W. Bush to King Hussein, his staff and to common ever…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is a rare chance to listen in on a speech at the United Nations. The video, and therefore, the audio quality is not the best but the speech is rare and very important to the storyline. In it the President makes his case to the world of just how important it is to stop the Iraqi aggression now, calling up the les…
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Send us a Text Message. In this follow up episode on the reunification of Germany we arrive at the White House for German - American Day about three weeks after the reunification had occurred. At this White House Event, the President will celebrate the contributions to America made by the millions of Germans who immigrated or were direct descendant…
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Send us a Text Message. Here is one of the great stories of the Bush Administration and of World History. After 4 decades of separation the people of Germany would be one country again. Though the Berlin Wall had come crashing down just 11 months before, this was the big moment for the German People, but it did not come without a lot of high level …
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, we look back at the coming together of the Military coalition on the ground and the man who would command it, General Norman Schwarzkopf. It would be a coalition made up of 42 countries, and troops from around the world. They would all come together on the ground in Saudi Arabia to prepare for the possible W…
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Send us a Text Message. In this short episode we will listen in on PBS as Governor Bill Clinton comes to the hall at the Democratic National Convention in 1992 a night early. Clinton will say just a few words of thank you for the Democrats nominating him. The interesting part of the segment is that joining in the commentary from PBS is Senator Joe …
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Send us a Text Message. Senator Joe Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, died unexpectedly in April from complication from a fall. He was 82 years old and his loss from the scene will be incalculable. For Joe Lieberman was one of those rare public figures who was not just respected, but beloved, by both sides of the aisle. He was unafraid to tak…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we will listen in on two addresses by President George H. W. Bush. One is to a joint session of the United States Congress as he reports back to the nation the situation in the Persian Gulf. He will also address the growing issues of division at home on the Federal Budget. We will listen in on the growing siz…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we watch as the Cold War comes quietly to an end. The United States and the Soviet Union actually work together to handle a crisis that involves a client Soviet state, Iraq. We will tune in as the situation in the Gulf continues to move close to war. Then we will travel to Helsinki for the meeting of the two …
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we hear from Saddam Hussein himself in an exclusive interview by ABC News and Diane Sawyer. In it he denies he has ever murdered his opponents, claims he is not an admirer of Josef Stalin, and tries to justify his actions in Kuwait. Then we listen in as he rounds up the British citizens who had been working i…
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Send us a Text Message. As we approach the eve of the August 10, 1990, Arab League Summit; I thought this a good time for us to go back, with the help of the PBS Documentary series "Frontline", to the summer of circumstances that led to the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. So, we will relive the summer months prior to the invasion as we listen to the "F…
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Send us a Text Message. After we put together our tribute episode in memory of Former Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, that had included a short tribute honoring my Step Father, Larry Bulmer, I thought about the World Heritage site I had visited and Larry talked about in the short segment I used in the show. I figured most people probably k…
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Send us a Text Message. Brian Mulroney was a great friend to American Presidents, and one of the big four leaders who helped bring down Communism in the 1980s. He helped George Bush in the Gulf War and was the leader who pushed for the freeing of Nelson Mandela in South Africa. He was a man who played an outsized role in his times as the leader of …
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Send us a Text Message. One of the United States' closest allies is the nation of Canada and during this period it had one of its greatest statesman at the helm of Government, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He stood with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul 2 as they worked to end the scourge of Communism in the late 1980s and contin…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we sit in on the President's press Conference on August 9, 1990. At this point he has been busy assembling the World LEaders that he will need to begin the process of forcing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. This press conference is an interesting look at how the President deals with the press and it shows Preside…
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Send us a Text Message. It is the day after the invasion of Kuwait by the Iraqi Army under the orders of it's dictator Saddam Hussein. We will listen in to the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw as they recount the events of the 24 hours after the initial invasion for the public. We will hear from the Kuwaiti citizens as they recount the events as th…
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Send us a Text Message. In this Special Edition of our show we are adding a third installment to the special series we ran in January looking back at the life and career of Senator Mitch McConnell, the longest serving Republican Leader in the history of the Senate. In our special series in January we profiled the leader and his historic role over t…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, we will examine one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation passed since the 1960s. It was the Americans with Disabilities Act, and it insured for all Americans the basic right to equal access to all of American Life. It is hard to believe that there was actually a day when people with disab…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we close out our podcast coverage of the 2024 South Carolina Presidential Primary. We will listen in to the concession speech of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and the victory address from former President Donald Trump. We will also hear remarks from South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, and our…
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Send us a Text Message. Feedspot released yesterday, February 26, 2024, our ranking at number 1 of the 70 Best American History Podcasts of 2024. https://podcasts.feedspot.com/american_history_podcasts/ Here is the List We are enormously proud to have been listed in that position and we thought we would have a little fun on our victory lap in this …
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Send us a Text Message. In our final show to air before the South Carolina Presidential Primary election, our Host Randal Wallace , will discuss what he believes is the root cause of much of the division our country faces today. It is the criminalization of politics and the weaponization of Justice in America. It is the legacy of the worst and leas…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode , we will let you listen in on the Colorado Ballot Access case against President Donald Trump. This case rests on accusing Former President Donald Trump of being an insurrectionist, a charge of which has not been made in ANY of the 91 indictments so far being charged in the court cases in New York, Georgia, o…
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Send us a Text Message. "Read My Lips , No New Taxes!!" , the most famous words George H. W. Bush ever uttered. He said it at the 1988 Republican National Convention as he struggled to unite his party for the coming race for President against a surging Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts. Dukakis was a whopping 20 points ahead of George Bush…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode , we will let you listen in on the Colorado Ballot Access case against President Donald Trump. This case rests on accusing Former President Donald Trump of being an insurrectionist, a charge of which has not been made in ANY of the 91 indictments so far being charged in the court cases in New York, Georgia, o…
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Send us a Text Message. Join us in this episode for the Donald Trump for President Rally. As the old saying goes poor planning on my part does not constitute an emergency on their part. I did not get there in time to get in because 20,000 plus may have been in attendance. You will get to hear our host as he tries to get in before giving up and head…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we see the South Carolina Primary starting to heat up, which is what this primary is historically well known for doing. We will feature two Donald Trump for President events , one in Columbia centered on Nikki Haley's record on illegal immigration as compared to that of President Donald Trump , and another in…
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Send us a Text Message. It is the season 12 premier episode and with such a long gap since our last Bush episode we thought we would start by looking at the life of George Bush , from his love of Golf and his family connection to the game, to his military time in World War 2, and his time as Vice President, up to the moment in our timeline when Bus…
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Send us a Text Message. Though many in the political world think this race is all but over, it still is not over. I can tell you from my many years of working in South Carolina politics that Former Governor Nikki Haley is no paper tiger and underestimating her is something you will do at your own political peril, just ask any number of leading poli…
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Send us a Text Message. Charles Osgood Wood III , was the given name of a television icon, we all knew simply as Charles Osgood. He was the host of the CBS News "Sunday Morning" broadcast for 22 years but long before that he was the voice for the Osgood File on CBS Radio. It was that voice that made him instantly recognizable to almost everyone in …
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the 2024 South Carolina Hall of Fame Induction ceremony in Myrtle Beach , South Carolina. In this episode , we have included some of the news coverage of the induction ceremony both before the event with an interview with SC Hall of Fame Chairman Randal Wallace (also the host of this podcast) and the coverage afte…
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Send us a Text Message. This is a housekeeping show to let everyone know when the George Bush series will be returning to the podcast. It will also fill you in on what we have been doing and what else we have in store over the next few weeks. We hope you are enjoying the various new things and subjects we have been trying to cover. Please let us kn…
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Send us a Text Message. In one of the true honors of our host Randal Wallace's career has been his appointment as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the South Carolina Hall of Fame. 2024 marks the first time Mr. Wallace would preside over the induction ceremony of honorees inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. He decided that we would ma…
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Send us a Text Message. In our final episode in this special series we will listen in as Mayor Hirsch talks about his wife of many years, Ethel Hirsch. Her many contributions to his successful life, and career, and the raising of 10 children. The real keys to happy life are right here to be learned in this special story. We will also listen , in it…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, in our special series, looking at the career of former Mayor Robert Hirsch, we look back at his arrival in Myrtle Beach and his single term as Mayor. It was a term of extraordinary accomplishment, much of which may not be as well known by the public in general today. Myrtle Beach today is the fastest growing…
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Send us a Text Message. In our third episode of the Grand Strand Politics segment, we witness what we thought was going to be the first of many rallies in the Myrtle Beach area as we got closer to a barnburner of a fight in the South Carolina Presidential Preference Primary on the Republican side this year. Instead, it appears the race was over wit…
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Send us a Text Message. In this special Edition within our special series I thought it was important to introduce you to three of the names you have heard or will hear in our series. As a person in my 50s who has worked in or around politics my entire life these names are familiar to me. That may not be the case for so many of our listeners who are…
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Send us a Text Message. As the War came to its end it brought about the confirmation that up to that point had been known but not confirmed. That the horrific genocide of a people had gone on throughout Europe. The Deathcamps that were discovered , one by one , by the Allied troops as they moved closer to Germany, from all directions, had practiced…
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Send us a Text Message. Operation Market Garden was an enormous effort led by General Montgomery that included 41,268 troops from Allied countries. It was designed to capture several bridges so that the Army could cross over into Germany and , with any luck, end the war by Christmas of 1944. The overall effort failed because the German forces fough…
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Send us a Text Message. Operation Overlord, known to the world as D-Day, was the beginning of the end for the Nazi Regime of Adolf Hitler. It was the start of the Allied march across the European Continent. Bob Hirsch had not yet arrived in England in time to take part in the invasion. However, a decade ago he sat down with Rod Gragg of Coastal Car…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to a very special edition of shows over the next couple of weeks. Over the next seven episodes we will be looking back at the extraordinary life of the former Mayor of my hometown, of Myrtle Beach S.C. His name was Robert J. "Bob" Hirsch and he recently celebrated his 100th birthday. In another milestone, for our com…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we have a brief introduction by our Host Randal Wallace on Mayor Robert J. Hirsch and the circumstances that led to this special series on his life and career. Bob Hirsch was the Mayor of Myrtle Beach S.C. from 1973 to 1977, and then later served as a Myrtle Beach City Councilman from 1990 to 1994. He would a…
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Send us a Text Message. In this new introduction to our podcast documentary series “Nixon and Watergate” we take you through the many exculpatory examples of events that are exposed over the next three seasons that the public was unaware of a half century ago. All of which points to one extraordinary fact, that Richard Nixon did not deserve to be f…
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Send us a Text Message. On January 9, 2024, the City of Myrtle Beach held a swearing in ceremony in Council Chambers to welcome two new members of the Myrtle Beach City Council, Debbie Conner, and Bill McClure, and say farewell to two members John Krajc and Phil Render. This was the end of the election cycle our podcast chronicled in October-Novemb…
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Send us a Text Message. In this second episode looking back at the career of Senator Mitch McConnell we will listen in to two of his most important Senate Addresses. The speech he gave prior to the vote that rejected Robert Bork as a Supreme Court nominee and the speech he gave that helped save the current Filibuster rules when the Democrats attemp…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to this first Grand Strand Politics Segment episode. In this episode, we try and set the stage for the coming South Carolina Presidential Preference Primaries coming to our State. We do so by covering several different political events from both parties that have occured over the past month in order to set the stage …
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Send us a Text Message. In this two part Special Edition Series, we are going to look back at arguably the most effective public servant in Washington D.C. today. He is the senior Senator from the State of Kentucky, the current Republican Leader, and the man who rested away the Federal Court System from Democratic total control, making it a far les…
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Send us a Text Message. This week, as we start our 12th Season of podcasting, we will feature a special two part look at the longest serving Senate Republican Leader in history, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. He can rightfully be given credit for the conservative control of the United States Supreme Court we now see and our series will look b…
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