Host Jay Douglas tells the tale of an invention that shook the motel industry and was a symbol of the freedom of the open road. Until it wasn't.
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Mistakes were made. That's why the ubiquitous heart shape, the one you find on tree trunks and smartphone keyboards, bears no resemblance to the shape of a human heart. In Episode 57, Jay Douglas tells the story of what went wrong.
Episode 057—Have A Heart
In Episode 56, Out Of My Mind podcast host Jay Douglas takes a trip to Tin Pan Alley for the story of how the third-most often sung song in America is so misunderstood that few people singing it even know the words.
Episode 056—Hit Music
Podcast host Jay Douglas tells the story of how Baby Boomers are returning to marijuana, and why getting high in your sixties is not like getting high in the sixties. With guest Patti Gordon.
Episode 055—High Society
Jay Douglas tells the story of Helen Dettweiler, gone and forgotten as radio's the first woman baseball announcer. And the breakfast cereal behind it all.
Episode 054—She’s Not There
The phrase "interactive entertainment" may have sprung from Silicon Valley, but in Ep. 53, the story of how William Castle introduced it 25 years earlier.