To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, historian Beverly Gage took a road trip around the country to visit over three hundred historic sites. Those travels are documented in her new book, This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History. Gage joins us this hour to reflect on what she learned about the country, and what's ahead on this anniversary year.

GUEST:

• Beverly Gage: The John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History at Yale University. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Her new book is This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History

Music featured (in order):

• Road Song – Wes Montgomery
• This Land Is Your Land – Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
• Birmingham – Randy Newman
• Song About America – Olive Klug
• America – Simon and Garfunkel
• I See America – Joy Oladokun

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We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing.

This hour, the conversation winds around to crushes on Colin and colonoscopies, leaf blowers, Colchester and the Roman Empire, This Is a Gardening Show with Zach Galifianakis, it books and the book It, home ownership … Anything. (Seemingly) everything.

These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we did another one.

Music featured (in order):

• Valeu a Pena – Gileno Santana
• Waiting – Beth Orton
• Hang It On the Shelf – Jalen Ngonda
• Nothing Is Real – Destin Conrad, Terrace Martin
• I Like Pie, I Like Cake (Live) – Catherine Russell Live at Lincoln Center
• Six O’Clock News – Brennan Wedl, Waxahatchee
• No Springtime – Allison Russell

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Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, John Belushi, John Candy, Rick Moranis.

Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Beverly Hills Cop, Caddyshack, The Jerk, Ghost Busters, ¡Three Amigos!, Funny Farm, Spaceballs, Stripes.

We maybe didn’t properly appreciate it at the time, but the 1980s were one of the most fertile periods ever for screen comedies and screen comedians.

This hour, a look at the mavericks who shaped a whole comedy aesthetic and at some of the most popular movie comedies ever made.

GUESTS:

• Nick de Semlyen: Editor of Empire magazine and the author of Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the ’80s Changed Hollywood Forever
• Daniel Kalwhite: A standup comedian based in New Haven
• Carolyn Paine: An actress, comedian, and dancer; she is founder, director, and choreographer of CONNetic Dance

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Colin McEnroe contributed to this show, which originally aired July 11, 2019, in a different form.

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