2 In Episode 48, host Jay Douglas answers the question What happens when two media titans start a brawl over replacing the 78rpm record? Hear the hole story (not a typo).
Yearly Archives: 2017
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The Columbia fight song, "Roar Lion Roar," did not inspire Howard Dietz to create the M-G-M lion. It just a more palatable story than the truth.
Whose Lion Is It Anyway
In Episode 47, host Jay Douglas has the story of Howard Dietz. He created the MGM lion after he was inspired by the Columbia University mascot. But, which one?
Episode 047 — Whose Lion Is It Anyway
4 Ready (almost) to take Broadway by storm, the behind-the-scenes joys and sorrows of that great, deliberative body, the U.S. Senate. As told in story and song.
Body In Motion
In Episode 46, host Jay Douglas tells the story of the invention of the modern-day eye chart and how its inventor, Herman Snellen, blinded us with science.
Episode 046 — It Remains To Be Seen
How does a stack of money disappear from a locked room? And not just any locked room. From the gold standard of locked rooms. All aboard the Money Train.