YDS - You Don't Say: Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files

20/12/2024

Now playing on You Don't Say... The Totally True Story of The Orchid of Solza, 3-Ball Bartolomeo Colleoni, Based on Real Facts - https://bit.ly/3-ball - In thinking through which classic to watch this holiday season, I landed on the Mario Puzo - Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece, The Godfather. That got me wondering about Corleone, Sicily and who that city was actually named after. Professor Enzo Tontodonato of St. Bonaventure University took me down a very unexpected path, to the life and times of a 15th century "family" man, named 3 Ball Bartolomeo Colleoni.

In planning to re-watch the Mario Puzo - Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece, The Godfather, I wondered about Corleone, Sicily and who that city was actually named after. Professor Enzo Tontodonato of St. Bonaventure University took me down a very unexpected path, to the life and times of a 15th centur

18/12/2024

Coming this Friday to You Don't Say... The Totally True Story of The Orchid of Solza, 3-Ball Bartolomeo Colleoni

06/12/2024

Now playing at You Don't Say... Totally True Facts #6 - The Totally True Story of the First Successful Parachute Jump… or Push, Based on Real Facts. Listen Now: https://bit.ly/firstparachutejump Who invented the first parachute? When was that, and what were the circumstances – was it a thing of necessity in some horrible moment? And why would anyone ever want to step out of a flying machine or off a cliff using an untested accessory? There are a lot of people who own a piece of designing the first parachute, including Taccola, DaVinci, and a French fella named Andre-Jacques Garnerin. We've got the totally true facts about how it happened.

Who invented the first parachute, when was that, what were the circumstances – was it a thing of necessity in some horrible moment – and why would anyone ever want to step out of a flying machine or off a cliff when it’s hundreds, if not thousands of feet in the air using an untested accessory...

03/12/2024

Coming this Friday, 12/6 to You Don't Say... Totally True Facts: The Totally True Story of the First Successful Parachute Jump… or Push, Based on Real Facts

18/11/2024

Coming this Friday to YDS - You Don't Say: Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files: Totally True Facts #5 - The Invention of the Hamburger and the Founding of McDonalds, Based on Real Facts

08/11/2024

The Totally True Story of How Thanksgiving Came to Be: https://bit.ly/ttf-thanksgiving There's a lot that's been uncovered about the first Thanksgiving. Based on the research of Dr. Louis Pazgassian, a professor of Colonial North American and U.S. History and chair of Georgetown University’s history department, we're sharing the totally true facts of the holiday's origin, including a cast that includes Squanto, Massasoit, William and Mary Brewster, Edward and Susan Winslow, and the unheralded hero of the day, Olaf Dijksgeffen. This stuff really happened... it's totally true.

Based on the research of Dr. Louis Pazgassian, a professor of Colonial North American and U.S. History and chair of Georgetown University’s history department, we're sharing the totally true facts of the First Thanksgiving, including a cast that includes Squanto, Massasoit, William and Mary Brewst...

04/11/2024

Coming this Friday, 11/8 to You Don't Say... Totally True Facts No. 4: The Totally True Story of How Thanksgiving Came to Be, Based on Real Facts

25/10/2024

Now playing on You Don't Say... Totally True Facts: The Totally True Story of the Super Villain, Blofeld, from the James Bond Franchise. Listen Now: https://bit.ly/ttf3-blofeld

Ian Fleming created epic bad guys – Auric Goldfinger, Odd Job, Paco Scaramanga, Mr. Big… but in my mind, the best of them all was that Nehru-jacket wearing, scar-faced, kitty lover, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. I wondered if Fleming drew that character from his past in British Naval Intelligence. What ...

21/10/2024

Coming this Friday, 10/25 to YDS - You Don't Say: Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files : The Totally True Story of the Super Villain, Blofeld, from the James Bond Franchise

11/10/2024

Now playing on You Don't Say...Totally True Facts #2 – The Totally True Story of the Roswell Incident Aliens: https://www.youdontsay.net/episodes/ttf-the-roswell-incident-aliens
Back in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, a flying saucer crash landed in the desert. The Air Force secured the spacecraft as well as a handful of surviving aliens, including a petulant toddler alien, and the government decided to make the event a social experiment. Problem is, it became entangled with Bugsy Siegel, Roy Cohn and a mechanic who is now telling all.

Back in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, a flying saucer crash landed in the desert. The surviving aliens, including a petulant toddler alien, and the government decided to make the event a social experiment. Problem is, it became entangled with Bugsy Siegel, Roy Cohn and a mechanic who is now telling a

04/10/2024

Coming to You Don't Say... Totally True Facts on Friday 10/11

27/09/2024

Alternate facts have caused is a whole lot of unnecessary violence, strife and mischief, and have made the world a very stressful and dangerous place. So I decided to create Totally True Facts. These vignettes will offer a grain of truth about what actually happened either in current times or times gone by. By and large I’m surrounding them with a mess of alternate facts that I hope at the very least will give you a reason to grin, if not have a laugh, and to just get away from the reality of an all too factually messed up world.

So here's episode one based on a true fact shared by one of my life-long friends... Totally True Facts #1: The Totally True Story of the Bubbly Creek and a Guy Named Jeff Chłapowski, Based on Real Facts: https://www.youdontsay.net/episodes/ttf-bubbly-creek-jeff-chlapowski # Chicago

Totally True Facts #1 – The Totally True Story of Chicago's Bubbly Creek and a Guy Named Jeff Chłapowski, Based on Real Facts

06/08/2024

He's baaack... A new episode has dropped! Ep. 61 - Better Terms for All : Term Limits and Aging Out : All we need to do is to turn on the news and we see stories of septuagenarian and octogenarian politicians and judges whose time is well past. It’s like opening a dumpster and catching a good whiff of all the rot inside it. Term limits are long overdue, and in the 2024 presidential cycle, it's never been more clear that age limits also need to be imposed on our office holders. Listen Now: https://www.youdontsay.net/episodes/term-limits-and-aging-out-politicians-and-judges

Term limits are long overdue, and it's never been more clear that age limits also need to be imposed on our office holders. Here are some common sense ideas on how to change things, as well as some startling facts about the paychecks and pension plan for the lifetime appointees that sit as justices