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End of Summer (opens the original)
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The Conner & Smith Show — American Summer Episode 210: “End of Summer” All good things must come to an end—even summer. In Episode 210, Ryan, Matt, and Stephen gather one last time for American Summer to talk about that particular melancholy that arrives as the season begins to fade: the days getting shorter, routines returning, and the unmistakable feeling that fall is waiting just around the corner. We also look back at the summer we spent together—from the Fourth and Fifth of July and summer
SSMT — Our Shenandoah Summers (opens the original)
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🎭 Episode 209: SSMT — Our Shenandoah Summers ☀️ Welcome back to The Conner & Smith Show! This week, Matt, Ryan, and Stephen continue our American Summer series with Episode 209: SSMT — Our Shenandoah Summers. For all three of us, summer and Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre are forever intertwined. Across many years, we each found our way to Winchester, Virginia, and the stage at Shenandoah—performing, working, learning, laughing, and becoming part of a summer theatre tradition that helped shape w
Ice Cream Sunday (opens the original)
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🍦 Episode 208: Ice Cream Sunday 🍦 Welcome back to The Conner & Smith Show! This week, Matt, Ryan, and Stephen continue our American Summer series with Episode 208: Ice Cream Sunday. What would an American summer be without ice cream? From the unmistakable sound of the ice cream truck coming down the street to childhood trips to the ice cream shop, favorite flavors, cones and sundaes, and all the different ice cream phases we’ve gone through over the years, we’re scooping up a lifetime of frozen
American Heroes (opens the original)
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Welcome back to The Conner & Smith Show! This week, Matt, Ryan, and Stephen continue our American Summer series with Episode 207: American Heroes. Who are America’s heroes? The answer goes far beyond superheroes in capes. From Captain America and other comic book icons to military heroes, civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, pioneering NASA legends Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson from Hidden Figures, and countless everyday people whose courage
The Boston Tea Party (opens the original)
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Welcome back to The Conner & Smith Show! This week, Matt and Stephen continue our American Summer series with Episode 206: The Boston Tea Party…or at least our best attempt to remember it after having a drink. Armed with confidence, questionable memories, and absolutely no history books, we set out to recount one of America’s most famous acts of rebellion. Unsurprisingly, we eventually realize we should probably fact-check ourselves, so we hit pause, look up what really happened, and keep the co
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