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PODCAST

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer

Tom Wilmer’s Lowell Thomas Award-winning travel podcast, "Journeys of Discovery," is a regular segment on the weekly KCBX program "Issues & Ideas." Tom"s interviews are recorded live on location across America and around the world and showcase the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine and spirits, brewpubs, the culinary arts and more. Tom covers nouns and verbs: people, places, things, and action — everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls, and interviewing the "real"

society & culture places & travel

All Episodes

12:00

Ybor City, Tampa’s legendary Cuban-cigar history

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/03/18

Our Associate Producer Jillian Parks shares Austin based writer, Jennifer Simonson’s tales of Ybor City’s Cuban connection

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19:00

Confederate defense of Mobile Bay, Alabama—exploring...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/03/16

A best-of-the best podcast from the Journeys of Discovery archives recorded on-location at Fort Gaines, Alabama.

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23:00

Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium and Country...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/03/06

An exploration of the historic Ryman Auditorium and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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12:23

Memphis Music legend Booker T. Jones shares life...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/02/27

Booker T. Jones visits with correspondent Tom Wilmer at the North Carolina Folk Festival.

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9:00

South Dakota’s Wall Drug--America’s most popular...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/02/23

Ted Hustead, grandson of Wall Drug's founders shares tales of how the tiny town's drugstore became the number one roadside attraction in America.

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5:12

How Bermuda wound up with the world’s most elegant...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/02/16

The Royal British Navy’s North America and West Indies Station on Bermuda was long ago the largest naval base outside of the U.K.—with the Royal Naval Dockyards a key centerpiece.

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41:30

Organics and Regenerative AG rule at Booker Vineyard

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/02/06

Join Correspondent Tom Wilmer for a visit with Hilary Graves, Vineyard Manager and Molly Lonborg, Winemaker with Booker Vineyard located off 46 West in Paso Robles, California.

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14:00

Missouri’s AT Still University—birthplace of...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/02/02

Join Tom Wilmer at the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine at A.T. Still University in Kirksville, Missouri, where he visits with museum director Jason Haxton.

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14:26

Peering through time—1800s portraiture art at the...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/01/24

A most fascinating conversation with Kate Crawford recorded back in 2016 when she was Assistant Curator of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.

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14:10

Beechcraft aircraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma,...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/01/19

Charles Parish, President at the Beechcraft Heritage Museum located at the Tullahoma Regional Airport, shares cool stories about the museum and the iconic Beechcraft airplanes on display in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

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20:23

Prison guard, George DeVincenzi and his stories of...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/01/15

Former Alcatraz prison guard recalls his time on the Rock.

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11:14

A memorable fall interlude at a Finnish lakeside resort

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/01/05

300 kilometers north of Helsinki, Finland, correspondent Tom Wilmer shares the tranquility of punkaharju-valtionhotelli, a lakeside resort and a chance meetup with former WWII Finnish resistance fighters who have come from across Finland for a reunion in the village of Punkaharju.

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31:38

Mike Wolfe’s amazing American Pickers life-journey

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2026/01/01

Mike Wolfe visits with correspondent Tom Wilmer at his home in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee.

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29:12

“Tommy” recollects performing in 1946 film classic...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2025/12/22

Jimmy Hawkins, 6 year-old Tommy in It's A Wonderful Life, talks about working as a cast member and his subsequent Hollywood career

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30:08

WWI hero Alvin York--a conversation with his daughter...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2025/12/15

In honor of Sergeant York’s birthday (born December 13, 1887) we re-share a visit to his family farmstead in Pall Mall, Tennessee for a visit with his daughter, Betsy and granddaughter Deborah.

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51:00

Mahatma Gandhi's century-old philosophy—now more...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2025/12/10

In Gandhi's footsteps, literally and figuratively, author Perry Garfinkel discovers finding Truth and Peace is not an easy path to follow in 21st century society...but well worth the journey.

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41:34

How life in Hawaii dramatically transformed after the...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2025/12/09

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941 Marshall Law was declared in Honolulu, but very few residents of Japanese descent were ever interned.

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14:49

A visit aboard the legendary USS Missouri berthed at...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2025/12/04

Join correspondent Tom Wilmer on Oahu at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii aboard the “Mighty Mo”.

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17:05

When bicycles ruled in Shanghai 35-year ago & a...

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2025/11/25

Join correspondent Tom Wilmer as he revisits a moment in time 35 years ago in Shanghai and a journey to one of China’s most sacred Buddhist temples in the hills above the Yangtze-river port of Ningbo.

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16:00

In Remembrance—JFK’s assassination 62 years ago

Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer ·

2025/11/22

An “evergreen” show recorded at the 6th Floor Museum in Dallas, Texas, correspondent Tom Wilmer interviewed a reporter who covered the JFK assassination while working at a Dallas newspaper on that fateful day, November 22nd 1963.

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