Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
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NEW! Stupid, Idiotic Ideas about Medicare: Facebook Complaints About Medicare and their Ignorance
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
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
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
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
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
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
NEW! The JFK “Single Bullet Theory” Explained in Under Three Minutes
Listen to this audio version of my Youtube video explaining the Single Bullet Theory of the JFK assassination, and WHY IT IS TRUE. Many conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination discredit the
NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 6, “The New Nation,” from “The American Yawp,” a Free OER American History Textbook
In many ways, I regard this as my best recording of a chapter from The American Yawp yet. I have deleted nothing from the text edited by its editors, Joseph Locke and Ben Wright. I have added pass
NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates the Sherlock Holmes Short Story, “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”
Late in his authorial career, in the 1920s to be precise, Arthur Conan Doyle, who was then deeply immersed in beliefs of mysticism and seances, had occasion to pair his rational detective, Sherlock Ho
NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 13, “The Sectional Crisis,” from the Open Source History Textbook, “The American Yawp”
In the course that covers the first half of American History, the chapter on the Sectional Crisis of the Union, also sometimes called The Impending Crisis, leading to the American Civil War, is the