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The Backstory with Patty Steele

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  • Love a good, juicy story that goes beyond what we already know? We're talking scandalous presidential family members, a mass murder at a world-famous architect's home, stolen inventions, nude athletes at the first Olympics, compulsive liars, the arrival of the bikini, and so much more. History fanatic Patty Steele tells you the inside backstories you didn’t know you needed to know.
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  • The Backstory: The mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe

    The Backstory: The mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe
    Jun 4 2024

    Politics is a nasty business. But it always has been. And it may have played a role in the death of a literary genius. You know the Edgar Allan Poe story called The Tell-Tale Heart, about the heart of a murder victim that never stops beating? Maybe Poe is still trying to tell us something 175 years after his mysterious death.

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    8 mins
  • The Backstory: The history of jokes

    The Backstory: The history of jokes
    May 31 2024

    We all love to laugh, no matter when, where, or how we’ve lived. Amazingly, there are a handful of topics that have given us the giggles for at least 5,000 years. And a lot of them involve 6th-grade humor.

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    9 mins
  • The Backstory: James Brown: Drugs, toilets, and guns

    The Backstory: James Brown: Drugs, toilets, and guns
    May 28 2024

    James Brown, the godfather of soul, had some anger issues. In fact, he went to prison after threatening agents at an insurance seminar with a gun because he thought they used his private bathroom.

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    8 mins
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