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On Thanksgiving Day, 1999,

five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez,

was found off the coast of Florida.

And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba?

Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him.

Or stay with his relatives in Miami.

Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom.

Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, 1974.

George Foreman was champion of the world.

Ali was smart and he was handsome.

The story behind the Rumble in the Jungle is like a Hollywood movie.

But that is only half the story. There's also James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, Miriam

MacIBA, all the biggest black artists on the planet. Together in Africa.

It was a big deal.

Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and The Soul of 74 on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Hey everyone, it's Katie Couric.

Well, the election is in the home stretch right in time for a new season of my podcast. Next

question. I'm bringing in some FOKs, friends of Katie's, to help me out, like Ezra Klein,

Jen Saki, Astead Herndon. But we're also going to have some fun, thanks to some of my friends,

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