All posts by Spun Counterguy
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American History Homework II: Articles of Confederation vs US Constitution
Before the United States Constitution, Americans lived under the government of the Articles of Confederation. So why the overhaul? This episode tries to explain the...
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Reformations VI with Dr. Carlos Eire [podcast]
We’re back with another installment of our talk with Reformation scholar Carlos Eire. This time we discuss the joys of historical research and discovery, the...
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Uncle Paul III [podcast]
Uncle Paul is back for a third chapter regarding his interesting life and experiences. This time we talk about climbing into a girl’s dormitory to...
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The Mariel Boatlift with Victor Triay [podcast]
In early 1980, a city bus crashed into the Peruvian embassy in Havana Cuba. Somehow this incident would lead to the mass exodus of over...
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The Dismal Presidency of Franklin Pierce with Dr. David Alvis
Franklin Pierce is not one of the better known presidents in U.S. history but is still worth examining if for anything the lessons that can...
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The 1910’s verses the 1920’s with Dr. David Krugler [podcast]
The 1920’s were a time marked by new and more affordable technology, massive economic growth, a renewed push for civil rights and relative peace, its...
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The Life of Una Mae Carlisle [podcast]
Spun Counterguy sets out to present the most thorough biography to date of jazz singer, songwriter and pianist Una Mae Carlisle, including her adventures in...
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In Search of Una Mae Carlisle [podcast]
The singer and songwriter Una Mae Carlisle is a name tragically lost to modern memory. On this first of two episodes, Spun Counterguy talks about...
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Tanya Bowman’s Hopefull Doors and Plans 4U
Tanya Bowman of Plans 4U Youth Organization talks not only her time working for The Door of Hope crises pregnancy center but how they ended...
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Former Cuban political dissident Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo is now a writer and blogger advocating for his home country’s liberation from the current oppressive regime....
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Reformations V with Dr. Carlos Eire
We’re going back to Europe, specifically France and Switzerland, and five hundred ago on top of that. Serving as our tour guide is once again...
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Seth and Nirva Ready [podcast]
Seth and Nirva Ready not only have their own musical career as a duo and host a theological/cultural podcast called FreeMind but they have also...
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American History Homework I – Pushing the Colonists Toward Revolution [podcast]
America’s separation from Britain is often over simplified by both those with enthusiastic and cynical motivations. But the years leading up to July 4th, 1776...
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The Visions of Howard Finster II [podcast]
Part two of our talk with artist and preacher Howard Finster, this one got him talking about Hank Williams Sr., Elvis Presley, chewing tobacco and...
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Old School Hip-Hop History with Bill Adler [podcast]
Back in the late 1970s a new music genre exploded on the world stage: rap. This episode’s guest Bill Adler was right there near the...
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Slavery and the American Founding with Dr. Dennis Boman [podcast]
Recently there’s been a lot of different tellings about how Americas founding was tied to slavery. American History professor Dr. Dennis Boman comes Back By...
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Text Adventure History with Aaron A. Reed [podcast]
Back in the late 1970’s, computers programs called “Text Adventures” would appear. These were interactive games where players had to read, problem solve and then...
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The Visions of Howard Finster I
Howard Finster was a folk artist preacher whose work reached out all over the globe. On this recording from the 1990s, Mr. Finster talks about...
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The July 11th Prisoners with Vicky Collado [podcast]
On July 11th of last year protests broke out all over Cuba over several issues, ranging from lack of food and medical access to the...
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Adam Again with Todd Zeller [podcast]
Filmmaker Todd Zeller comes Back By The Woodpile to talk about his experiences with Gene Eugene and the band Adam Again while working on his...
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Uncle Paul II [podcast]
Uncle Paul is back a second time by the woodpile to share some more stories and thoughts from his life. This time around we talk...
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Reformations IV with Dr. Carlos Eire [podcast]
Welcome to part four of our conversation with Dr. Carlos Eire, historian, Yale Professor and author of Reformations, a history of the reformation era of...
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Fleeing Castro with Victor Triay [podcast]
It didn’t take long for the people of Cuba to realize after the “revolution” of 1959, they were now under the rule of an even...
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Henry Clay with Dr. Jason Stevens [podcast]
Henry Clay was an American statesman of the 1800’s that was so vital to the survival of the Republic that it was assumed by many...
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Christmas Jollies with Bill Adler
Music journalist and insider Bill Adler comes Back By the Woodpile with a big bag full of musical Christmas goodies, including tunes by Kurtis Blow,...
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Uncle Paul I [podcast]
Uncle Paul Buchanan comes Back By The Woodpile to talk about fire alarm candy, weenie water, misplaced children, a dog called Icky Sticky Stombo for...
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Juana Rosa Pita’s Unfolding Miracle [podcast]
Poet Juana Rosa Pita returns to the Woodpile to talk about and read selections from her new compilation of poems, The Miracle Unfolds. In addition,...
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The July 11th Cuban Protests w/Victor Triay [podcast]
On July 11th of this year, the streets throughout the island of Cuba erupted with chants of “Libertad! Libertad!”. Immediately, both Cuban communist state media...
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Robert Vaughn’s Loves, Wars and Shadows [podcast]
Mike Roe of the 77s and Randy Layton of Alternative Records come Back By the Woodpile to talk about the music and work of Robert...
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Reformations III with Dr. Carlos Eire [podcast]
Dr. Carlos Eire is back at the Woodpile to talk about cooperation between church and state in governing, the government helping the ‘deserving’ poor, Charles...
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