Have A Friend For Lunch "Alfred Griner "Alferd" Packer (January 21, 1842 – April 23, 1907) was an American prospector who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874. In 1968, students at the University of Colorado Boulder named their new cafeteria grill the "Alferd G. Packer Memorial Grill" with the slogan "Have a friend […]

The Long John Nebel Collection For your listening pleasure here then is a fella who as far back as the mid 1950s was doing radio in ways that were not surpassed until decades down the road. He was an early pioneer of what we might now call talk radio. In new territory he let all […]

Dizzy Gillespie Runs for US President, 1964. Promises to Make Miles Davis Head of the CIA There comes a point in every national election year when I reach total saturation and have to tune it all out to stay sane—the nonstop streams of vitriol, the spectacles of electoral dysfunction, the ads, the ads, the ads. […]