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It's holiday time again! In this episode, I tell the tale of Santa's most famous Reindeer. Written as an assignment from his work, Bob May created a story and character that all generations know and love. First a little booklet, then a song, and then the 1964 holiday special.I hope everyone enjoys it, even those that don’t make Christmas part of their winter celebrations. So, to all, no matter what you choose to celebrate, or even those that don’t celebrate anything at all, I hope you have a fantastic December.Show notes and links: Robert L. May - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) FACT CHECK: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (snopes.com) The Original Red-Nosed Manuscript : NPR (npr.org) Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer's Surprisingly Sad Origins (time.com) 12 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' facts for its 50th anniversary (mashable.com) Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search (google.com) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The True Story (youtube.com) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
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Once upon a time, there was an actor. He was in the biggest film franchise in history, but he wasn’t happy. He thought that those who hired him were taking advantage of him. At the same time, one of the stories he was acting might not have been written by the name who man who said he had written it. Together, the real author and the disgruntled actor would team up to make a film to compete with the franchise.Today I have the story of the Thunderball saga and how two James Bond films were released in the same year. All this, an more, in the 190th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: Thunderball (novel) - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Everything Or Nothing - Part 1 (youtube.com) Kevin McClory - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) The Guardian Lectures: Sean Connery Talks to Iain Johnstone about Never Say Never Again 1984 (youtube.com) sean connery tonight show 1983 (youtube.com) Film '83 Never Say Never Again Special Interview Sean Connery (youtube.com)
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Once upon a time there was a scientist who was introduced to a drug that made him feel wondered, made him feel complete, and knew that this drug could help many people all over the world. Soon, however, the government decided that no one should have this drug, not even scientist or doctors. In response the scientist told everyone who wanted to know, how to make it themselves.Today I have the story of a remarkable man named Alexander Shulgin on the 189th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: Dirty Pictures (2010 Documentary, 720p HD) (youtube.com) Alexander Shulgin - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) MDMA Healing I AM REBEL THE LOVE DRUG S01E03 alexander sacha shulgin Documentary (youtube.com) Dr. Ecstasy - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Shulgin was known to many as the “Godfather of ecstasy” | NZ Drug Foundation (drugfoundation.org.nz) Ann and Sasha Shulgin - Pihkal and Tihkal: A Chemical Love Story (youtube.com) My Lunch with Psychedelic Chemist “Sasha” Shulgin (RIP) and His Wonderful Wife (scientificamerican.com)
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Once upon a time, some strange objects were found by a rancher and it was reported that a flying saucer had crashed! Years later, a man claimed to have actual footage of an autopsy of one of the creatures found at the sight.It became a worldwide phenomenon - and then he said he was lying, but also that it wasn’t a hoax.I have the story of the 1995 Alien Autopsy Film on the 188th episode of Coffee With Jeff.Show notes and links: Alien autopsy - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Before Independence Day: The Hoax That Captivated the World (time.com) Roswell Alien Autopsy - 2/4 - Eamonn Investigates (youtube.com) Welcome to Fortean Times Magazine (forteantimes.com) Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? [HQ] (youtube.com) Bull Shit. Regards; Don EckerUFO Magazine (archive.org) The Alien Autopsy - YouTube (youtube.com) Episode 32 - Alien Autopsy Part 1 with Spyros Melaris (conman.com.au) #32 - Alien Autopsy Interview (acast.com) Inside the Outer Limits - Spyros Melaris (youtube.com)
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Once upon a time there was a large poplar tree on the border between North and South Korea. The South Koreans, with the help the United States, wanted it chopped down. The North Koreans wanted it to stay. Not only did this disagreement cost the lives of two American soldiers, but almost started a major war.On this episode I tell a tale tell a tale of the Korean axe murder incident and Operation Paul Bunyan and the 187th episode of Coffee With Jeff.Show notes and links: Axes of Evil — The Atavist Magazine (atavist.com) At Korean summit in DMZ, 'deranged' ax murders still cast a shadow (washingtonpost.com) Korean axe murder incident - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Korean Demilitarized Zone - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) The DMZ 'gardening job' that almost sparked a war (bbc.com) The North Korean Axe Murders That Almost Started a War (theatlantic.com) A Brief History of: The Poplar Tree Incident (youtube.com)
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In the early part of the 20th century, adoption was almost unheard of. However; one woman came in and changed all of that. Her name was Georgia Tann, and she did her best to provide children to those who wanted them, as long as a profit was involved - and she would get the children any way she could, by lying or by kidnapping. She was a bad woman who took babies from the poor, so she could sell them to the rich.Today I have the depressing story of Georgia Tann on the 186th episode of Coffee With Jeff.Show notes and links: A Story of Stolen Babies (nchgs.org) Georgia Tann - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) The Hollywood Baby Snatcher: The sinister story of the woman who stole children and sold them to the stars (dailymail.co.uk) How Georgia Tann Stole And Sold 5,000 Babies In The Black Market (allthatsinteresting.com) The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption by Barbara Bisantz Raymond (goodreads.com)
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In the late 19th, century a new industry began; filmmaking. In the beginning, it was open to anyone - man or woman - who wanted to try. That would change once big money got involved, and some would be pushed aside and forgotten about.Are you ready to hear the story of a remarkable woman named Alice Guy Blaché who helped create the art of film and how Hollywood and history left her behind?Today I repeat the story of Alice Guy Blaché on the 185th episode of Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché (1995) (youtube.com) The Cabbage Fairy (1896) - 1st Female Filmmaker - ALICE GUY BLACHE - La Fee aux Choux (youtube.com) Alice Guy-Blaché - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) "Falling Leaves" (1912) silent film dir by Alice Guy Blaché - piano score by Ben Model (youtube.com) This link has no title (columbia.edu) Home | Alice Guy Blaché (aliceguyblache.com) Fort Lee: The Film Town by Richard Koszarski, Paperback (barnesandnoble.com) Home | Alice Guy Blaché (aliceguyblache.com)
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Imagine a burning home, flames dancing out every window. A man walking by hears a scream for help from a young child coming from inside. Without much of a thought, he runs inside in an attempt to rescue the youngster. Why would he do that? Why - evolutionarily speaking - would anyone risk his or her life or save a stranger.One man thought he figured out why and he didn’t like what he discovered, so he gave up everything to prove himself wrong.Today I have the story of George Price on the 184th episode of Coffee of Jeff.Show notes and links: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (youtube.com) TEDxTalpiot - Oren Harman - The Evolution of Altruism (youtube.com) George Price: The altruistic man who died trying to prove selflessness doesn’t exist (independent.co.uk) The Group: On George Price (thenation.com) (PDF) The Birth of the First Evolutionary Stable Strategy | Oren Harman (academia.edu) The Man Who Gave Himself Away (nautil.us) (PDF) Helical Biography: The Case of Altruism and George Price | Oren Harman (academia.edu) George R. Price - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Why Do Human Beings Do Good Things? The Puzzle of Altruism (psychologytoday.com)
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Imagine a man who was a civil engineer, a sheriff's deputy, an assistant prison warden, a doctor of applied psychology, a hospital orderly, a lawyer, a child-care expert, a Benedictine monk, a Trappist monk, a cancer researcher, a teacher and a military ship doctor and surgeon. He acquired all these positions without ever graduating high school.He was known as the Great Imposter. Today I have the story of Ferdinand Waldo Demara on the 183 episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: FERDINAND WALDO DEMARA, 60, AN IMPOSTOR IN VARIED FIELDS (nytimes.com) Ferdinand Waldo Demara - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) LIFE - Google Books (google.com) The Great Impostor: The Amazing Career of Ferdinand Waldo Demara, who Posed ... - Robert Crichton (google.com) Fred Demara, the Great Imposter (headstuff.org) Brother, doctor, soldier, lies | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)
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In the early 1930s, America was going through a tough time. It was a period called The Great Depression.There were other nations that were going through a similar situation - many of them seemed to solve their problem by installing a fascist government ruled by a dictator. There were some in America who thought a similar action in the United States was called for.Today I tell the story of the Plot to Seize the White House in 1934 on the 182 episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: Business Plot - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) The Fascist Plot to Overthrow FDR (FULL Documentary) (youtube.com) Bonus Army - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) World War Adjusted Compensation Act (wikipedia.org) The Plot To Seize The White House (wanttoknow.info) Major General Smedley Butler - The Warning (youtube.com) Smedley Butler & the "Business Plot," Part I (libertarianism.org) 1934: The Plot Against America (harpers.org) Prescott Bush's 1933 fascist coup attempt in the US - Business Coup stopped by Smedley Butler (youtube.com)
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In the late 1970s, the team of Ilya and Alexander Salkind did an amazing thing, created the first Superhero film, Superman: The Movie. The film was a huge success. The franchise continued for another four films, each film being of worse quality than the last. It was a steady decline until the character was given up on in Hollywood for 17 years.Today I tell the story of the fall of the Superman Franchise in the 181 episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: Superman (1978 film) - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Superman the Movie: The Making of a Classic (youtube.com) Superman II - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Superman III - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (wikipedia.org) Supergirl (1984 film) - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
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Richard Donner had just directed The Omen when he was asked he would direct a Superman movie for one million dollars. He would then spend over two years of his life dealing with problems and frustrations that he couldn’t have imagined.Here is the story of Richard Donner, Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind, and the making of Superman: The Movie.Show notes and links: Superman (1978 film) - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Alexander Salkind - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Superman: The Movie - Making Superman: Filming the Legend (youtube.com) Superman: The Movie - Taking Flight: The Development of Superman (youtube.com) Superman the Movie: The Making of a Classic (youtube.com) 'Superman,' The Inside Story: Director Richard Donner Remembers Meeting Stallone to Play the Lead, Working With Brando, and a Near-Fatal Knife Attack (hollywoodreporter.com) From The Archive: The Making Of Superman, Feature | Movies (empireonline.com)
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One day, a hotel owner in Virginia was given a small locked metal box for safekeeping by a man who has spent the winter at the inn. The man never returned.After several years had gone by, the hotel innkeeper decided it was time to see what was inside. To his surprise, it contained the clues to a treasure of gold, silver, and jewels. Just one problem; it was written in code! After 130 years, no one has been able to figure it out.I have the story of the Beale Papers on the 179th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: History's Mysteries - Buried Treasure (History Channel Documentary) (youtube.com) Beale ciphers - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) The UnMuseum - The Beale Papers (unmuseum.org) The Quest to Break America’s Most Mysterious Code—And Find $60 Million in Buried Treasure (mentalfloss.com) Treasure by numbers | Science (theguardian.com) The Hart Papers (tripod.com) This link has no title (jstor.org) Brad Meltzer's Decoded: Seeling Beale's Treasure | History (youtube.com)
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Imaging a world in which a new technology, a new profession, was sweeping the world. A young child develops a deep desire, a passion for this profession, but he is told, from his earliest years until an adult, that the new profession wasn’t for him. He was not capable handling it for the simple reason, the color of your skin.Today I tell the tale of Charles “Chief” Anderson, who overcame extreme racism to became one of the world most respected aviators on the 178th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: Tuskegee Airmen Documentary - YouTube (youtube.com) Preserving legacy of Lower Merion's 'Chief' Anderson: Father of black aviation | Mainlinetimes (mainlinemedianews.com) Charles Alfred Anderson, Sr. Biography at Black History Now (blackhistorynow.com) C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science - Betty Kaplan Gubert, Miriam Sawyer, Caroline M. Fannin, Caroline Fannin (google.com) Chief Anderson | PEOPLE.com (people.com) Tuskegee's Heroes - Charlie Cooper Ann Cooper (google.com) The Army War College Studies Black Soldiers · HERB: Resources for Teachers (cuny.edu) Wings For This Man - Tuskegee Airmen, African American Airmen, Ronald Reagan 24810 HD (youtube.com)
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Apparently something went wrong last week with the publication of my episode of Burke and Hare. For those that listened to it and heard the wrong episode, I apologize. Here is the correct show. Thank you for your understanding.Imagine a world in which doctors would require the bodies of the recently dead to teach and learn about human anatomy. Some doctors needed bodies so badly they would never question where the bodies came from. Some enterprising young men made it their business to supply these doctors with corpses - and to keep up with demand, they didn’t wait for death to come naturally.This is the tale of Burke and Hare on the 176th ... or 177th! ... episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: Burke and Hare murders - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Burke and Hare, grave robbers and murderers (historic-uk.com) Burke and Hare, The Men Who Murdered For Medical Science (curiosity.com) The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times: A Fragment ... - George Mac Gregor (google.com) The History of Burke and Hare, by George Mac Gregor—A Project Gutenberg eBook (readingroo.ms)
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Imagine a world in which doctors would require the bodies of the recently dead to teach and learn about human anatomy. Some doctors needed bodies so badly they would never question where the bodies came from. Some enterprising young men made it their business to supply these doctors with corpses - and to keep up with demand, they didn’t wait for death to come naturally.This is the tale of Burke and Hare on the 176th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: Burke and Hare murders - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Burke and Hare, grave robbers and murderers (historic-uk.com) The History of Burke and Hare, by George Mac Gregor—A Project Gutenberg eBook (readingroo.ms) The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times: A Fragment ... - George Mac Gregor (google.com) The Worlds of Burke and Hare (burkeandhare.com) Burke and Hare, The Men Who Murdered For Medical Science (curiosity.com)
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Imagine this, you are watching TV in the evening or late night. Maybe it is a movie starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn or a 1977 episode of Dr. Who, when suddenly something odd interrupts your viewing. Maybe it's a message for a cable channel or a man in a mask getting spanked.Today, I have two true stories of broadcast signal intrusion, the Max Headroom and the HBO Captain Midnight Incident, on the 175th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: Captain Midnight: 'No regrets' about jamming HBO back in '86 (networkworld.com) The Story Of Captain Midnight (archive.org) Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion (wikipedia.org) 1986 Captain Midnight HBO Incident - Full Video (youtube.com) Weird Moments in TV History: The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident (mentalfloss.com) Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion (wikipedia.org) WGN Channel 9 - The Nine O'Clock News - "The 1st 'Max Headroom' Incident" (1987) (youtube.com) WTTW Chicago - The Max Headroom Pirating Incident (1987) - Original Upload (youtube.com)
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Imagine this: You’ve been in a rock and roll band for two years. Days before you are due to record the first record, you are told, without much of an explanation, that you are being replaced. The band goes on to be the biggest sensation in the world and you end up working as a civil servant.I am speaking, of course, of Pete Best - the good looking drummer of The Beatles whose dismissal from the band is still being questioned today. I have his story on the 174th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: Pete Best - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) The Casbah Coffee Club - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Pete Best & Mona Best Interview (youtube.com) The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles (goodreads.com) The Beatles: Made on Merseyside (2018) (imdb.com) Pete Best – The Beatles Bible (beatlesbible.com)
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It sounds like a story from film or television. A man and wife go out west during the gold rush and end up becoming the richest couple in the west. Another, much younger, beauty enters the picture and the rich old man divorces his wife for the pretty young thing. They live an extravagant lifestyle - and then they lose everything.This is the story of the Tabors who made fortune in silver in the late 1880. I have the story on the 173rd episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: Colorado Experience: The Tabors - YouTube (youtube.com) Baby DoeTabor - YouTube (youtube.com) Horace Tabor - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Home Page of Baby Doe Tabor & the DoeHEADS (babydoe.org) Rags, Riches & Scandal – The Tabor Triangle – Legends of America (legendsofamerica.com) Baby Doe Tabor - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Augusta Tabor - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past - Laura Van Dusen (google.com) Silver queen, the fabulous story of Baby Doe Tabor - Caroline Bancroft (google.com) History Lesson - The Payphone (youtu.be)
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Imagine a man who defied his parents, turning down the chance to become a doctor. Instead, he followed his dream and became a high wire performer, acrobat, strongman, entertainment promoter, inventor, as well as the first known white man to cross the Kalahari Desert on foot (and live to tell the tale).This is the tale of a man who had an amazing life; the tale of William Leonard Hunt, better known as The Great Farini - right here on the 172th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.Show notes and links: The Canadians: The Great Farini (youtube.com) William Leonard Hunt - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) The Great Farini, Canada's Most Fascinating Man (mentalfloss.com) Charles Blondin - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Rossa Matilda Richter - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Krao Farini - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) KRAO - The Missing Link (thehumanmarvels.com) History of Niagara Falls Daredevils (niagarafallsinfo.com)
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