Radio
is dead?
In 1949, the smartest people in American broadcasting agreed on one thing.
Watch on YouTubeShort sentences, plain words, and the part of the story you never heard.
A person in trouble, an oddity, a failure. One sentence that has to buy the next thirty seconds.
Dates, places and details, told in plain words. You think you know where it's going.
Then the name, in the final line, and the whole story reads differently.
Radio
is dead?
In 1949, the smartest people in American broadcasting agreed on one thing.
Watch on YouTubeThey spat
on him
In the winter of 2001, a thirty-year-old American flew to Moscow to go shopping for a missile.
Watch on YouTubeApple's
enemy
In the summer of 1997, five thousand true believers packed a hall in Boston to see their heroes.
Watch on YouTubeThe like
button
The most-clicked button in human history was born at an office slumber party.
Watch on YouTubeThe $50 million
laugh
In the spring of 2000, two young businessmen flew to Dallas to sell their struggling little company.
Watch on YouTubeThe man
who said no
A screen says five missiles are on the way. A Soviet officer decides to do nothing.
Watch on YouTubeThe third
vote
A submarine under attack. Three men must agree before a war can begin. Two say yes.
Watch on the channelThat's
cute
A young engineer shows his bosses the future of photography. They tell him not to tell anyone.
Watch on the channelSix
minutes
A Senate hearing, a budget about to be cut in half, and a witness with six minutes.
Watch on the channelThe glue that
wouldn't stick
A chemist builds the weakest glue in the world, and nobody knows what to do with it.
Watch on the channelNot one
ruble
He built the most-played game in history in his spare time, and never collected a royalty.
Watch on the channelThe teddy
bear
Twelve hundred dollars hidden in a toddler's teddy bear, and a demotion ten years later.
Watch on the channelSam
McGee
Strange things done in the midnight sun. Robert W. Service's famous Yukon poem, read aloud.
Watch on YouTubeStory Behind the Story tells true stories from history, the way radio used to: short sentences, plain words, and a single fact held back until the end.
Every script is original. Every date, place and name is checked against its sources before it's recorded.
Jim Furst was born in Chicago in 1954 and raised in Alaska. At 17, in 1971, during the Vietnam War, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a combat medic and was honorably discharged. He then lived all over Oregon for more than 40 years, including more than ten years as the morning-show host on a radio station on the Oregon Coast. He learned his IT skills at Furst Computer Services, LLC, founded in 1980.
Produced by Furst Media Live LLC.
New stories, as they're released.
Write to jim@furstmedia.live.