Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


Latest Episodes

NEW: Audio Narration of Chapter One from “The American Yawp,” INDIGENOUS AMERICA, Narrated by Dr. Rick Reiman
January 12, 2025

The story of American history, the American Yawp, begins with this chapter, Indigenous America, spanning 10,000 years of history. There is nothing quite like it in history, as you will hear when you

NEW! My Interview with Laura Malvoyante, a YouTube Leader in the Digital Minimalism Movement
January 09, 2025

What a pleasure it was for me to interview Laura Malvoyante about her insights into societys growing need for digital minimalism in the face of the addictiveness of tech. Technology is a voracious fe

NEW! A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story: “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”
December 01, 2024

Move over Charles Dickens! Stand aside, Scrooge! For a nineteenth century English Christmas tale without parallel, you cannot do better than Sherlock Holmess conveying of the Christmas message in h

NEW! Oh, Those Medicare Advantage TV Commercials (from One Not a Fan of Medicare Advantage)!
November 27, 2024

This opinion piece on Medicare Advantage concerns the hard-sell that private insurance companies make this time of year on behalf of Medicare Advantage, the private insurance alternative to Origin

NEW! Stupid, Idiotic Ideas about Medicare: Facebook Complaints About Medicare and their Ignorance
November 13, 2024

In our post-truth world, ignorance about Medicare has reached avalanche proportions. The greatest and most secure health care system in the world is now suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous

NEW! 2024 Repeats the 1963 Calendar: JFK, Oswald and Veterans Day Weekend, From Sunday, November 10 to Tuesday, November 12
November 10, 2024

Today, Sunday, November 10, 2023, I reflect on the events of Veterans Day Weekend 1963, when JFK and Oswald lived out their last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, November 10-12, 1963. We review what we kno

NEW! About the Part D Madness in Medicare this Annual Election Period for 2025
November 09, 2024

In this final episode about my opinions and experience with learning Medicare for retirement, I spread the word that many people are talking about: Medicare Advantage plans and Part D Prescription Dr

Medicare Musings, Part Three: Myths about Medicare Advantage and Part B
November 07, 2024

In this third part of my series on what I have learned, or thought I have learned, about Medicare I talk about some myths I have discovered about Medicare Advantage and Part B. While Medicare Advanta

NEW! My Experience Learning about Medicare’s Part D Prescription Drug Coverage
November 06, 2024

What in the world is Part D? My personal experience learning what I appreciated to find out about Medicare Part D coverage is the subject of this this brief podcast episode. Disclaimer: These are my

NEW! My Experience Learning About Medicare
October 30, 2024

Medicare is confusing what an understatement. Two years out from retirement I decided to try to understand it, suspecting that it might take me that long. I was not wrong! Now that I am retired and