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Offers are subject to change, and certain restrictions may apply. Hey all you Women's Hoops fans, and folks who just don't know yet that they're Women's Hoops fans. We've got a big week over at Good Game with Sarah Spain as we near the end of one of the most exciting women's college basketball seasons ever. The most parody we've seen in years, with games coming down to the wire and everyone wondering which team will be crowned National Champions this weekend in Tampa.
Listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2020, a group of young women found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare. Someone was posting photos. It was just me naked.
Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeartPodcasts, Bloomberg, and Kaleidoscope about the rise of deep-fake pornography and the battle to stop it. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast.
Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up? I'm Laura, host of the podcast Courtside with Laura Carrenti, a masterclass case study of the business of women's sports. I'll be chatting with leaders like tennis icon Alana Kloss. I don't do what I do only for women.
I do it for everyone, and I want the whole market. And innovators like Jenny Nguyen. I would say 50% of the people that come visit the sports bra aren't sports fans. They come to be in community.
They come to be part of this culture. Courtside with Laura Carrenti is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. Listen to Courtside with Laura Carrenti on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? And I go in and she's eating my lunch. Or if hypnotism is real? You will use a suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. But what's inside a black hole? Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe. Well, we have answers for you in the new iHeart original podcast, Science Stuff. Join me, Jorge Cham, as we answer questions about animals, space, our brains, and our bodies.
So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to Science Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Lee Habib, and this is our American Stories. And our next storyteller is from Fort Worth, Texas. He moved us with his story, The Real Santa.
Roger Latham is back, along with his daughter, Candy. Let's take a listen. A number of years ago, as I sat in my office, my father entered and handed me six small notepad-sized pages. I thought you might like to read these, he said. Although I did not know at the time, it might have been a good thing if he had provided a handful of tissues.
I'd need them. The words on the page were written in pencil. I recognized at once my mother's distinctive flowing cursive. I knew it well because she had faithfully written to me for all of my three years defending America from raging Germans.
It was 1967, so it could easily have been Vietnam. These pages held a blank verse poem. I began to read. It was easy to realize it as the musings of a middle-aged woman with a soul deeper than the deepest sea.
When I finished, my cheeks were streaked with saline. I'd never known my mother to have such depth. Then it hit me. I, too, write words in rhyme, retrieved from the deep place fathomed below the surface of self. I smiled to think of the unexpected genetic gift my mother had provided.
Too often, I'd push such thoughts aside. Texas boys don't write poetry and certainly don't cry. The piece was never meant to be published. I imagined my mother wrote it on some sunny spring day with the windows allowing the sweet smell of honeysuckle to kiss her soul. It was never presented to a larger audience until her memorial service in the year 2000. I did the eulogy, no problem. But if I attempted to read the poem, it was an indisputable fact I'd seem a blubbering fool. So my son stepped in and read hands. As this presentation ended, I noticed, amidst the assembled, other folks also in tears. Following, you will hear my daughter read hands.
Her face and persona mimic her grandmother's perfectly. Hands by Gladys Latham. I glanced the other day at my hands.
I was ashamed at what I saw. The nails were worn, short and unpolished. The fingertips were rough, the skin spotted and tanned. Then suddenly they reminded me of a pair of hands out of my past and I smiled. These hands I last remembered as being still and quiet, folded over a quiet breast in eternal stillness and much deserved rest. They had not been the hands of a great artist or world renowned sculptor.
Nor had they set immortal music on paper or penned lovely poetry. But their work had been as beautiful and as immortal as if they belong to such studied and talented mortals. These hands had had the blessed privilege of cuddling tiny downy heads to breast for food. The pleasure of scrubbing pink ears and hands. They had changed mountains of diapers and scrub tons of little clothes by hand.
They had buttoned thousands of buttons that somehow never seemed to stay buttoned. Through long and tedious hours, tucked pleats, gathered ruffles, frills, laces and embroidery had been applied to dainty dresses and suits with infinite love and care. These hands had baked glamorous birthday cakes, each done with special care and importance. Rolls, pies, cakes and cookies these hands make were the tastiest masterpieces ever produced on earth. With unsurpassed devotion and tenderness, these hands had soothed the brows fevered with measles, whooping cough, mumps and flu, and wiped a thousand noses. They had bandaged hundreds of little toes with professional skill and neatness and wiped away the tears of fear and pain. These were the hands that had plucked the peach tree switch to administer discipline, never in anger, always in love. Then, when the terrified screams of nightmares of little ones came in the night, there was always quieting love. These hands had held the family Bible during family prayer and dressed a large portion of the Sunday school enrollment on Sunday morning.
They had known the emptiness of burying a tiny firstborn son. These the hands of a sculpture? Yes, for they had taken five small mounds of red, God-given clay and molded five lovely strong bodies. The hands of an artist? Yes, for with the tenderness of love, sacrifice and devotion, they painted the picture of love and kindness on the hearts and soul.
Then the shame of my work-worn hands vanished, for they had reminded me of the hands of my mother. And a special thanks to Roger Latham and his daughter Candy for sharing that beautiful poem with us, My Mother's Hands. A terrific job also on the production by Greg Hengler on Our American Stories.
Lee Habib here again. Our American Stories tries to tell the stories of America's past and present to Americans. And we want to hear your stories, too.
They're some of our favorites. Send them to us. Go to OurAmericanStories.com and click the Your Stories tab.
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Offers are subject to change and certain restrictions may apply. Hey, all you Women's Hoops fans and folks who just don't know yet that they're Women's Hoops fans. We've got a big week over at Good Game with Sarah Spain as we near the end of one of the most exciting women's college basketball seasons ever. The most parody we've seen in years, with games coming down to the wire and everyone wondering which team will be crowned national champions this weekend in Tampa.
Listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2020, a group of young women found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare. Someone was posting photos. It was just me naked.
Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope about the rise of deep-fake pornography and the battle to stop it. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast.
Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up? I'm Laura, host of the podcast Quartzide with Laura Carrenti, a masterclass case study of the business of women's sports. I'll be chatting with leaders like tennis icon Alana Kloss. I don't do what I do only for women. I do it for everyone.
And I want the whole market. And innovators like Jenny Nguyen. I would say 50 percent of the people that come visit the sports bra aren't sports fans. They come to be in community.
They come to be part of this culture. Quartzide with Laura Carrenti is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. Listen to Quartzide with Laura Carrenti on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? And I go in and she's eating my lunch. Or if hypnotism is real? You will use a suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. But what's inside a black hole? Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe. Well, we have answers for you in the new iHeart original podcast, Science Stuff. Join me, Jorge Cham, as we answer questions about animals, space, our brains and our bodies. Give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to Science Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
