A True Story of the Cold War. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Shackley Raffetto and Michael Lilly. Shackley Raffetto and Mike Lilly, both Navy veterans, help us understand the historical events portrayed by Bridge of Spies, a 2015 movie about the exchange of U-2 high altitude spy plane Pilot […]
Reviewing Killers of the Flower Moon (Movies We Can Learn From)
A True Story of the Osage Indians. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Stephanie Dalton. Our panel reviews an award winning Martin Scorsese movie about the treatment of the Osage Indians in the 1920’s in Okahoma. The movie features outstanding performances by Leonardo Dicaprio, Robert Deniro, and Lily Gladstone, and […]
What will Happen AFTER the Midterm Elections (American Issues Take Two)
Can we have Orderly Transfers of Power. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Jeff Portnoy. Our panel takes stock of the Trump candidates who support the Big Lie and may not support the orderly transfer of power in federal and state elections. The panel addresses what American […]
The Separation of Church and State in America (History is Here to Help)
How Has it Changed over the past Two Decades. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Peter Hoffenberg. The guest is Kathleen Sands. Our panel helps us understand the founders’ intention in the separation of church and state in the First Amendment; how it has changed in our history, and how has it […]
Prospects of Widespread Violence in America (American Issues Take Two)
What Would Trigger or Stop that Violence. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Cynthia Lee Sinclair, Stephanie Dalton and Chuck Crumpton. Our panel discusses the threats we have seen and heard, the violence in and threatened by the insurrection, the gun control, massacre and militia issues, and the American history […]
Reviewing the Movie Te Ata (The Movie Show)
The Chickasaw Indians in Oklahoma. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Stephanie Dalton. A movie based on the true story of the life of Mary Thompson Fisher, and her inspiring and epic journey from the Chickasaw Indian Nation in Oklahoma to Broadway and then to the White House. The ThinkTech […]
What Can we Do to Break up the Cult (American Issues Take Two)
How Do we Avoid Falling off the Weimar Cliff. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Manfred Henningsen. Our panel, including UH political science professor emeritus Manfred Henningsen, examine the nature and status of Trump’s cult of personality and autocratic propensities, how these compare to […]
Celebration of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (Sister Power)
The First Black Woman to Serve as a Justice. The host for this show is Sharon Thomas Yarbrough. The guests are Sandra A. Simms, Daphne Barbee-Wooten and Leslee Matthews. Sister Power celebrates and congratulates Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for her confirmation as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. This is a historic […]
Reviewing the Gilded Age (The Movie Show)
A Turning Point in American HIstory. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is George Casen. Our panel reviews and discusses a remarkable documentary called The Gilded Age, and what it teaches us about critical choices, developments and mistakes in America toward the close of 19th Century. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for […]
The Reenactments of Myths in American History (History is Here to Help)
The Insurrection was Reenactment of a Myth. The host for this episode is Jay Fidell. The guests for this episode are Peter Hoffenberg and Jean Rosenfeld. Peter Hoffenberg and Jean Rosenfeld help us understand The Reenactments of Myths in American History; The Insurrection was Reenactment of a Myth. We discuss one particular myth, the Fourth […]