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American Moments With Matt Martin

13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratings

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Episodes

Episode 13, Bourbon

October 24, 2018 03:22 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MB

Join us for Episode 13 where we discuss Americas only official spirit, BOURBON!

Episode 12, The Ludlow Massacre

August 20, 2018 02:13 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MB

Join us for the most surprisingly unknown labor relations event in American history, the Ludlow Massacre and the resulting Colorado Coalfield War.

Episode 11, Woodstock 1969

May 28, 2018 16:38 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MB

As Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young said: We are stardust, we are golden We are billion year old carbon And we got to get ourselves back to the garden Join us as we discuss the most famous and iconic music festival of all time, Woodstock 1969.

Episode 10, the Black Sox Scandal of 1919

March 10, 2018 23:55 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

Join us for our 10th episode where we explore the scandal that gave us the "commissioner" era of baseball and entered the phrase "say it ain't so Joe!" into the American Lexicon.

Episode 9, The Microwave Oven Minisode

February 04, 2018 18:56 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

Join us as we discuss the origins of the appliance that accidentally became a cornerstone in our kitchens!

Episode 8, "the Election of 1800" with Roifield Brown and 10 American Presidents

November 07, 2017 03:33 - 1 hour - 70.6 MB

Roifield Brown honored us by having us on his show, 10 American Presidents to discuss the Election of 1800. The election was the first true test for the United States as to whether the young Republic could peacefully transfer power. Join us as we discuss this tumultuous event, which turned out to be 2 elections in one...

Episode 7, the St. Valentines Day Massacre and Prohibition

September 05, 2017 00:02 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB

Join us as we cover the St. Valentines Day Massacre, the nail in the coffin of the Prohibition era in the United States. We cover how Prohibition came to be, and how the 18th Amendment itself created the organized crime we romanticized in our movies... until February 14th, 1929.

Episode 6, The Birth of Mainstream Grunge (The Deep Six Album)

June 25, 2017 20:58 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MB

Join us as we go back to the late 80's for the birth of mainstream Grunge, the release of the Deep Six Album compilation in 1986. Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and many other bands got their start shaking up music as we knew it when this album was released.

Episode 5, The Johnstown Flood

May 31, 2017 02:33 - 1 hour - 67.1 MB

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood. We have decided to honor the memory of those that died tragically on May 31, 1889 by inviting the President of the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, Richard Burkert to help walk us through the events of that calamitous day. This was so much more than a flood though, out of that day came the Red Cross as we know it, and a change in legal liability in the United States. Please visit JAHA at jaha.org!

Episode 4, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

May 09, 2017 05:23 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MB

Join us for our 4th Episode as we discuss the groundbreaking novel published in 1906 by Upton Sinclair, "the Jungle" and its long term affect on organized labor... but mostly on the way dinner makes its way to our table.

Episode 3, Survivor

April 03, 2017 22:32 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB

Join us as we discuss the tipping point of TV from the sitcom era to the reality TV era, the release of "Survivor" in 2000.

Episode 2, The Miracle on Ice

March 07, 2017 19:34 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MB

Join us as we re-live the greatest sporting moment in US History, the Miracle on Ice. The Men's hockey team pulled off an unprecedented upset of the Soviet Union... and the world by winning gold.

Episode 1, The Nintendo Entertainment System

February 21, 2017 20:12 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB

The year 1985 can be described as the year of the Japanese invasion of the US.. in an awesome way. Listen to the inaugural episode of American Moments as we go into the impact of the Nintendo Entertainment System on American culture.

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