This was a double treat for our eight anniversary show on WRKO. One of my favorite guests has been Eric Maddox, author of Mission: Black List #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein—As Told by the Soldier Who Masterminded His Capture. This book was fantastic and the story of how Staff Sergeant […]
Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match. This week Bruce told us […]
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From today’s Boston Herald in a story by aptly named Laurel Sweet and Chris Cassidy, Parents: Rule’s half-baked: State’s junk food ban could take bite out of school fundraisers State Sen. Susan Fargo (D-Lincoln), chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Public Health, said the problem of overweight children has reached “crisis†proportions. “If we didn’t […]
From the Vault, May 5, 2009 I’m a Deadhead. I love The Grateful Dead and the beautiful music they made for nearly thirty years. In college, Spring Break did not mean Daytona Beach or fun in the sun. It meant one thing. A week on the road with the Grateful Dead on their annual east […]
What a rude host I am sometimes. I invite my friend Sam Bowlby to the WRKO studios for a couple of hours of radio fun and we lasted thirty minutes, bumped by the Red Sox game that would not end. The Celtics playoff pre-game show was starting on WEEI so baseball was headed to WRKO […]
So I saw a headline yesterday that the Twilight guy Robert Pattison has signed on to a movie about the capture of Saddam Hussein. I wondered immediately if this was the movie adaptation of Mission: Black List #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein—As Told by the Soldier Who Masterminded His Capture. […]
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From the archives, September 2009 in fact. I took a trip up to the masonic lodge in Newburyport, MA to see the George Washington inaugural bible. I’d heard stories about it, and thought it was a short trip to take to see such a part of American history. I’m glad I went. I read in […]
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