Episodes

After Lucille Ball died, her daughter Lucie Arnaz found a ribbon-tied bundle of letters between Lucy and Desi Arnaz. She kept them for more than 30 years before sharing them in Lucy & Desi: The Love Letters. In this Facts Verse interview, Lucie explains what their handwriting and unguarded exchanges reveal about the couple audiences knew from I Love Lucy.

Lucie also remembers how her parents stayed close after their divorce, what their marriage taught her, and how she built her own career on He...

Get Kathy's book, "Surviving Cissy", here: https://amzn.to/4y1aDGB

Kathy Garver wanted to wear miniskirts on Family Affair. The producers had a different idea: classic clothes that would keep the show from looking dated. In this Facts Verse interview, the actress who played Cissy recalls that wardrobe decision and explains how the show's sets, stories, and cast helped it endure.

Garver joins Tim Blane to discuss working with Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot, how her parents protected her childh...

Get Dreama's book, "Gilligan's Dreams", here: https://amzn.to/4gSBsW5

Bob Denver asked Dreama to tell their story honestly if she wrote about their life together. But when she wrote Gilligan’s Dreams, she nearly left out his drinking because she worried about changing the way fans saw the man who played Gilligan. In this Facts Verse podcast interview, Dreama explains why she kept it in, what Bob was like away from the screen, and how they faced the demands of raising their son Colin together.

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More than 30 years after Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Shawn Toovey explains where he believes Brian Cooper's life would have taken him—and why he still hopes to return to Colorado Springs in a revival. Drawing on Brian's Boston Globe internship and early work at the Gazette, Toovey imagines him coming home to run the newspaper while keeping his love of adventure alive.

Toovey also opens up about growing up on the six-season hit: the heavy stories he tackled as a child, his bond with Orson Bean, w...

Kris Millegan's book, Fleshing Out Skull & Bones, is available here: https://amzn.to/3UBECGg
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Kris Millegan says his father, a CIA East Asia branch chief who had also served in the OSS and G-2, waited a decade after leaving the agency before telling him the Vietnam War was about drugs and that officials were “playing out a lose scenario.” Millegan explains how that conversation sent him into decades of research on Skull and ...

Get Steve Rosen's new book, The Original Punk: Jeff Beck Stories here: https://amzn.to/45E8Ivh

Jeff Beck was on the original Woodstock poster, but the Jeff Beck Group fell apart just before one of rock’s defining events. Veteran rock journalist Steve Rosen explains why Beck repeatedly walked away from the kind of success that could have made him as big as Led Zeppelin—and why Rosen still considers him the most gifted and innovative guitarist ever.

Drawing on interviews with Beck from 1973 to 1...

Get Victoria's book, The Death Ship, here: https://amzn.to/3TRvJrW

The crew sent to recover Titanic's dead faced a task so overwhelming that one man summed it up: "The first ten are bodies. After that, it's just work." Historian and writer Victoria Brown reveals what happened after the sinking, including how hundreds of victims were recovered, identified, buried, and sometimes committed back to the sea.

Drawing on research from her book The Death Ship: Recovering the Bodies of Titanic's Dead, ...

To support Christopher Martini and the release of "Everybody's Angel: The Stuart Margolin Story", visit the Indiegogo campaign here: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/christopher-martini/everybodys-angel

Stuart Margolin’s stepson, filmmaker Christopher Martini, reveals that footage survives from Pure Escape, an unfinished film Margolin directed in Canada with James Garner and Billy Dee Williams. Martini says the production stopped after roughly a quarter of the movie was shot, apparently af...

Get Dr. David Rasnick's book, The Outsider, here: https://amzn.to/4fOyq5U

Biochemist David Rasnick revisits a century-old debate over what drives cancer. He traces the chromosome-imbalance theory to early researchers David Hansemann and Theodor Boveri, explains aneuploidy in plain language, and argues that modern cancer research focused too heavily on individual gene mutations while overlooking the larger chromosomal picture.

Rasnick also discusses his controversial views on HIV/AIDS, chemothe...

Get Dr. Juliette Engel's book, Sparky, here: https://amzn.to/4fpmHtb

Dr. Juliette Engel discusses the personal account in her memoir, Sparky, saying she was placed in MK-Ultra as a child and escaped in 1966. She describes the recovered memories, family connections she believes tied her to the program, and why she decided to speak publicly.

In the interview, Engel also recounts becoming a physician and later working to protect vulnerable children in the former Soviet Union. She explains how tho...

Get Richard Syrett's new book, Tales from the Rock 'n Roll Twilight Zone, on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4y1MuQK

Richard Syrett joins Tim Blane to examine why some of rock's most famous deaths still leave hard questions behind. The main focus is Kurt Cobain, including the disputed drug-level timeline, the shotgun mechanics, the clean weapon, the final note, and the renewed push from independent researchers who want the case reopened.

Syrett also digs into Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix, connecting b...

Get the book "Deep Cover, Shallow Graves" by Tosh Plumlee & Ralph Pezzullo here: https://amzn.to/4eE9cp6

Robert “Tosh” Plumlee and Ralph Pezzullo, co-authors of Deep Cover Shallow Graves, walk through Plumlee’s alleged life inside Cold War covert operations, from running guns into Castro’s Cuba to training in “illusionary warfare” and flying secret missions tied to CIA-linked front companies. But the interview turns on Dallas: Plumlee says he was sent as a co-pilot on an “abort team” after warn...

Get Steve Rosen's Eddie Van Halen biography, Tonechaser, on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4v0WXtz

His new book on Jeff Beck is available now: https://amzn.to/4vHSM5X

Journalist Steve Rosen spent nearly a decade as one of Eddie Van Halen's closest confidants, and the stories he tells here reveal a side of the guitar god almost no one saw. Eddie personally sanctioned Rosen to write his authorized biography, handing over phone numbers and telling him to carry a microphone and record anything he wanted. But the book collapsed when Eddie kept stalling with the same excuse: "If we sit down now, the next album won't be part of the book." The two had a bitter falling out in 2003, and the project sat dead until 2020, when Rosen rediscovered what he calls the "Twilight Tapes" and began writing again, just six weeks before Eddie passed away.

In this conversation, Rosen shares the intimate moments that defined the real Edward: the night Eddie cried talking about his father's death, the chain-s…

Imogen's book, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, is available to purchase on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4dqnTvi

00:00 Introduction: Imogen Edwards-Jones on The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
4:49 Why Marilyn Monroe Is the Hardest Subject to Write About
8:42 A Woman's Perspective: Marilyn Was Smarter Than Anyone Gave Her Credit For
13:04 The Hidden Dualities of Marilyn — Power Plays, Lateness & the Marilyn Wiggle
18:49 Liz Taylor Rivalry, Joe DiMaggio & the Men Who Shaped Her Life
24:02 From Orphan to ...

Get Gary King's book, The Happiness Experiment, on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4eul26Q

Learn more at https://thehappinessexperiment.com/

Gary King has endured 36 major life traumas including childhood abuse, a home invasion that left him with brain damage, accidentally killing a four-year-old child, and the suicide of his son off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. After a lifetime of complex PTSD, he claims he discovered how to completely reverse it and can teach others to do the same in just three hours...

Brad Meltzer's book, The JFK Conspiracy, is available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/48jnARn

Three years before Lee Harvey Oswald, a postal worker named Richard Pavlik packed his car with seven sticks of dynamite and followed JFK to Florida. All he had to do was flip a switch. In this interview, bestselling author Brad Meltzer reveals the forgotten assassination attempt that was about to go national news until a freak plane crash over New York City buried the story as a footnote.

Meltzer also shar...

In one of the most shocking revelations in Hollywood history, Rosalind Cruz sits down to expose the truth about her own sister: the woman the world knew as Sacheen Littlefeather was not Native American. The iconic 1973 moment when she rejected Marlon Brando's Oscar on behalf of Native Americans was built on a fabricated identity that fooled Brando, the Academy, and the entire world for decades.

Cruz details how her sister invented a false backstory, adopted elements of their father's family his...

Twitch Upon a Star, the definitive Elizabeth Montgomery biography from Herbie J Pilato, is available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4bS4Vx6

Learn more at herbiejpilato.com

ABC didn't cancel Bewitched — Elizabeth Montgomery walked away. In this conversation, author and classic TV historian Herbie J Pilato shares never-before-heard stories from his personal interviews with Elizabeth Montgomery, revealing the real woman behind Samantha Stephens.
Herbie spent years with Elizabeth before her passing in...

Find Mark Shaw's latest book, Abuse of Power, and many of his others on Amazon: https://amzn.to/46H5o3k

In this episode, Mark Shaw, a former criminal defense attorney and investigative reporter, discusses his latest book, 'Abuse of Power,' which connects the assassinations of JFK and RFK with the death of journalist Dorothy Kilgallen and the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe. Shaw explores the flaws of the Warren Commission, the role of the mafia, and the theme of abuse of power throughout the...

In this episode, Eric Ullis, a noted investigator and theorist, discusses his extensive research into unsolved mysteries, particularly the D.B. Cooper case. He shares insights into the rising interest in the case, his analytical approach to solving mysteries, and the establishment of CooperCon, a convention dedicated to discussing theories surrounding D.B. Cooper. Eric elaborates on the evolution of suspects, the significance of scientific evidence, and his ongoing search for the true identity o...

The DB Cooper mystery may have been officially solved after decades of speculation. Join Dan Gryder from Probable Cause as he uncovers groundbreaking evidence in this legendary skyjacking case.

In 1971, a man known as DB Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight, demanded $200,000 in ransom, and vanished after parachuting from the plane—leaving behind one of aviation's greatest unsolved enigmas. For over 50 years, investigators, enthusiasts, and true crime fans have puzzled over his id...

Adam Higginbotham's book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space is available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4bAEXQf

The NASA Challenger crew survived the explosion! Adam Higginbotham reveals new details on the 1986 disaster.

In this video, explore the facts surrounding the NASA space shuttle Challenger explosion and understand the sequence of events that led to the tragedy.

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after launch from Kenn...

Top Amelia Earhart researcher Richard Gillespie reveals what really happened to her plane in this in-depth interview. Uncover the evidence behind one of aviation's greatest mysteries and learn why the official story might be wrong.

Buy Ric Gillespie's book, One More Good Flight, here: https://amzn.to/45lLc6e
Learn more about his research at: https://tighar.org/

Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator, vanished during her 1937 attempt to fly around the world. For decades, her disappearance has f...

Shawn Levy joins the Facts Verse Podcast to discuss his latest book: CLINT: The Man and the Movies. He discusses the Eastwood's life, career, and the complexities that define him.

Find more from Shawn Levy on his website https://shawnlevy.com/ or on social media:
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I. Early Life and Career Beginnings
Clint Eastwood's journey began in the 1930s during the Great Depression, a time that shaped his resilience and work et...