{"podcast":{"title":"TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast","slug":"tcbcast-an-unofficial-elvis-presley-fan-podcast-799354","podcast_index_feed_id":799354,"rss_url":"https://tcbcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://tcbcast.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/4/f/9/54f9e9fc0b344a6e/TCB_Logo_Draft.png","author":"Justin Gausman","episode_count":463,"summary":"\"Elvis is history,\" Carl Perkins once said, \"and anytime anyone or anything becomes history, whether it be Pearl Harbor or Elvis, it will never go away. The world will never tire of his songs.\" TCBCast is an unofficial fan podcast featuring co-hosts Gurdip Ladhar and Justin Gausman, along with regular guest co-hosts Ryan Droste and Bec Wyles, plus an array of Elvis fans and experts setting out to better understand that history, and those songs. Tackling topics from throughout Elvis's lifetime and beyond, TCBCast seeks to offer thoughtful, intelligent, heartfelt and honest discourse on Presley's career, his influences, the people who made his work possible, and the cultural phenomenon surrounding his iconography. TCBCast is not associated with or endorsed by Graceland, Elvis Presley Enterprises, Authentic Brands Group or Sony.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T14:17:48.884741+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tcbcast-an-unofficial-elvis-presley-fan-podcast-799354"},"episode":{"title":"TCBCast 413: Elvis' 1976 Bicentennial Show","slug":"tcbcast-413-elvis-1976-bicentennial-show","published_at":"2026-07-04T14:41:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tcbcast-an-unofficial-elvis-presley-fan-podcast-799354/tcbcast-413-elvis-1976-bicentennial-show","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tcbcast-an-unofficial-elvis-presley-fan-podcast-799354","url":"https://tcbcast.libsyn.com/tcbcast-413-elvis-1976-bicentennial-show","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tcbcast/413_final.mp3?dest-id=643394","summary":"Justin is joined for this episode by Ryan Droste, who, hearing the call of duty as TCBCast's American-history-teacher-in-chief, swung by to discuss Elvis' Independence Day concerts; briefly the 1955 and 1956 performances early in his career, but primarily the July 4, 1976, show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, celebrating America's 200th anniversary. Fifty years later, on America's semi-quincentennial, the guys revisit the soundboard recording, as heard on FTD's 2017 release The Bicentennial Show. Staying on theme, the duo's Songs of the Week highlight America as well: Ryan's pick of \"Hawaiian Sunset\" from the soundtrack of Blue Hawaii pays homage not only to the 50th state, but to an earlier Sammy Kaye song of the same name that songwriters Sid Tepper & Roy Bennett clearly were drawing influence from. Then, finally, Justin looks into the story behind \"America the Beautiful,\" its writer, Katharine Lee Bates, the trip to Peaks Pike, Colorado, that inspired the poem, our readings of its other, less famous verses and, of course, Elvis' performances of the song version in 1975/1976 intended to celebrate the bicentennial.","meta_description":"Justin is joined for this episode by Ryan Droste, who, hearing the call of duty as TCBCast's American-history-teacher-in-chief, swung by to discuss Elvis'…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7469,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tcbcast-an-unofficial-elvis-presley-fan-podcast-799354/episodes/tcbcast-413-elvis-1976-bicentennial-show/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tcbcast-an-unofficial-elvis-presley-fan-podcast-799354/tcbcast-413-elvis-1976-bicentennial-show.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}