What Can we Learn from These Two Enemies. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Shackley Raffetto and Michael Lilly. Our panel, including Shackley Raffetto, retired Marine and Naval Officer and former Chief Judge of the Second Circuit of Hawaii, and Michael LIlly, also a retired Naval Officer and former Attorney […]
Why Do we like Masters of the Air so Much (Movies We Can Learn From)
It’s a Great Air War Series on Apple TV. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Shackley Raffetto. Shackley Raffetto, a Navy reserve captain among other things, helps us understand the lives and experiences of the pilots and crews of the Flying Fortress bombers that operated out of England and bombed […]
Operation Mincemeat (Movies We Can Learn From)
British Intelligence Fools the Nazi Army. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and George Casen. This is the true story of a ruse devised by British naval intelligence officers Ewan Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, whereby the Nazi Army’s top officers would be deceived into believing that the Allied forces would be landing ashore […]
Scott Kikkawa Uses Dante to Uncover Hawai’i (History is Here to Help)
Post WWII Hawai’i History in Kona Winds. The host for this show is Carl R. Ackerman. The guest is Scott Kikkawa. Author Scott Kikkawa, through his novel Kona Winds, takes us back to Post-World War II Hawai’i–that is before statehood–to offer us a glimpse of a time period with fifties cars, architectural wonders, cigarette-smoking cops […]
Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Advertising Guru (History is Here to Help)
The Birth of French Advertising. The hosts for this show are Carl R. Ackerman and Jay Fidell. The guest is Clark Hultquist. Professor Clark Hultquist research specializes in the history of the French advertising profession, media and the rise of consumer cultures. His discussion of Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet examines this extraordinary man overcoming many obstacles to […]
Comparing the Art Dealer and Woman in Gold (Guttman’s Garage)
French and American Treatment of the Same Subject. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Steven Guttman. We discuss the Art Dealer, a French movie dealing with the theft of great art from Jewish families during the War, and Woman in Gold, an American movie dealing with pretty much the same […]
Let’s Learn About the Honor Flight Network (Military In Hawaii)
Honoring and Celebrating America’s Veterans. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Meredith Rosenbeck. Meredith Rosenbeck, CEO of Honor Flight Network in Washington, helps us understand its mission. Of course, we want to be a nation where all our veterans experience the honor, gratitude, and community of support they deserve. The […]
Revelations from Ken Burns’ New Series on PBS (American Issues Take Two)
American Bigotry Right Through the War. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Cynthia Lee Sinclair. Ken Burns new series ‘Yearning to Breathe Free’ on PBS is a stunning examination of bigotry right here at home in the years before, during and after World War II. It’s a […]
Remembering the Incident at West Loch (Community Matters)
It will be Memorialized at Punchbowl in May. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Deloris Guttman and Steven Guttman. Deloris and Steve Guttman will help us understand the explosion that took place at the West Loch Ammunition Depot in 1944, the causes and effects of that disaster and the death […]
From History to Fiction (Books! Books! Books!)
Making a Home in Hawai’i. The host for this show is Rita Forsythe. The guest is Jill Engledow. Jill Engledow, Hawai’i author and historian, shares her books with us and talks about her current project – turning her nonfiction into fiction. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6k3GeYp6ipULIhR-EJtgYJZ Please visit our ThinkTech website […]