Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


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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

NEW! The JFK “Single Bullet Theory” Explained in Under Three Minutes
October 26, 2024

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
September 24, 2024

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”
September 17, 2024

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”
September 13, 2024

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