A former monthly documentary series from KRCC that features stories and investigations that complicate Colorado Springs' reputation as one of America's most conservative cities.
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Wish We Were Here Episode 16: Liberty’s Pitchman — Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School
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In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called The Freedom School.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 15: Acre for Acre — The Fight for Strawberry Fields
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On this weekend’s special episode of Wish We Were Here, we take a close look at all sides of the proposed Broadmoor land swap deal and the way that open […]
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 14: Shorty—The Life and Disappearance of Mike “The Bike” Rust
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UPDATE: On Monday, 4/25/16, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation officially confirmed that the remains found in January in Saguache County were those of Mike Rust.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug Up Dinosaurs
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A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 12: Avalanche on America’s Mountain
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Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 11: Dragonman – Behind the Guns
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With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 10: After the Evangelical Vatican
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For many years in the 1990s and 2000s, Colorado Springs was so synonymous with conservative evangelical Christianity that it earned the nickname “The Evangelical Vatican.” But in late-2006, Pastor Ted […]
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 9: Three Degrees of Lorne Greene
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one another.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 8: CSPD Black — The True Story of COS’ First African American Detective
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 7: Bishop Castle
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PODCAST In 1959, at the age of 15, Jim Bishop bought a plot of land in the Wet Mountains, west of Pueblo, Colorado.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 6: Anchor Dreams — The Passion of Scoop Nemeth
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(Many poems in the slideshow NSFW or young eyes.) In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the story of Colorado Springs native Brian “Scoop” Nemeth, a man with […]
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 5: The Gods Must Be Bewildered
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In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed dozens of other people around the country.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 4: Growing Up With Gay Parents in Colorado Springs
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, Producer Noel Black tells the story of a small community of kids who grew up in Colorado Springs with gay parents.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 3: The Beginning of the End of Homelessness?
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At an old prison in southeastern Colorado, an experimental new program is working to help chronically homeless people from around the state rebuild their lives.
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Wish We Were Here, Episode 2: Ludlow and its Legacy
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This episode of Wish We Were Here was originally broadcast in November of 2014 On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events […]
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Wish We Were Here — Pilot: “I is An Other”
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In this pilot episode of Wish We Were Here, we critically examine the career of one of the 20th century’s most infamous con-artists, Storme Aerison.
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“Wish We Were Here” – Enjoy this introductory teaser for the pilot episode, I is An Other, which unpacks the story of Storme Aerison (aka Charles Daugherty, Storme Ireland, etc.,) the […]
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