Episodes

Eve Plumb has a blunt warning for anyone chasing fame: once people know you, you can’t go back. The actress who played Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch explains how she lives with that lasting public identity while deciding which parts of her life to keep private. She also discusses her choice to keep her breast cancer treatment out of the public eye and what it meant to share that experience in her memoir, Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond.

In this full Facts Verse interview with Tim Blaine...

Get John’s book, Summer of ’71: https://link.amazon/B0b9svNrV

Richard Nixon had already won the presidency. Why did he still want to blackmail Lyndon B. Johnson? Journalist John A. Jenkins explains Nixon’s fixation on the 1968 election and the Vietnam bombing halt, and how the Pentagon Papers intensified his war with the press. Drawing on archival research and White House recordings, Jenkins explores the gap between Nixon’s public achievements and the paranoia and schemes taking shape before Wa...

Get Michael Seth Starr's Bob Newhart biography, Bob Newhart: The Life and Laughter of an American Treasure: https://link.amazon/B0377giB9

Before The Bob Newhart Show became a sitcom classic, Bob Newhart had another show with the same name, and it lasted only one season. Biographer Michael Seth Starr explains why the 1961 variety series struggled despite winning a Peabody Award, and why sketches were an uncomfortable fit for the comedian whose one-sided phone calls had made him a star.

Starr jo...

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Get the new book from Amelia Earhart's family, Oceans to Cross: https://link.amazon/B0fqXOKf0

What does Amelia Earhart’s own family believe happened to her? Her grandnephew Bram Kleppner lays out the explanation he considers most likely, why he doubts the odds of the island search, and the surprising reason his brother would rather the plane remain lost. Bram would welcome a discovery, but his family does not shar...

Former FBI agent Geoff Kelly believes the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist was a Boston mob operation, with stolen Rembrandts intended as bargaining chips. After 22 years on the case, he explains the informants and leads behind that conclusion, the deaths of suspected robbers, and why identifying who he believes committed the crime has not brought the 13 stolen works home. The paintings remain missing, and the investigation is still open.

In this Facts Verse interview, Kelly joins Tim...

Eric Barrett watched Jimi Hendrix borrow a right-handed guitar in a nightclub, turn it upside down and play without looking. In this Facts Verse podcast interview, Hendrix’s former roadie recalls the moment that would “blow your mind” and the quiet, private man behind the stage legend.

Drawing on his memoir Experienced: On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond, Barrett shares memories of Hendrix discovering Chicago, life with Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, and the realities of touring in the ...

Get Jefferson Morley's book, CIA & JFK, here: https://amzn.to/4rGROWL

Jefferson Morley says the familiar lone-gunman account leaves out how closely the CIA tracked Lee Harvey Oswald before President John F. Kennedy was killed. In this Facts Verse interview, the investigative journalist discusses newly released JFK records, reports he says reached James Angleton before the assassination, and why he believes investigators never received the full picture of CIA activity around Oswald.

Morley also...

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...