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GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

The best collector-car deals aren't under the auction lights

Televised auctions set the market. Estate garages, regional sales and patient private-seller hunting are where you actually beat it.

The Classic Cars Still Cheap Enough to Buy This Year

GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

What a Classic Car Actually Costs You Every Year

GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Restoring a car with your son without ruining it for both of you

Old Spice, Clubman And The Splash That Costs Seven Dollars

GuideMovies & TVDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Westerns Ranked by How They Actually Play on Family Night

The Sitcom Bits That Still Get a Laugh Fifty Years Later

A conveyor belt from 1952 still beats most of what's on streaming, and there are reasons for that you can steal.

GuideBooksSam Ortiz23 Sept 20266 min

Classic Adventure Novels That Survive Being Read Out Loud

Which ones hold a nine-year-old at bedtime, which ones quietly kill the habit, and where you'll want to skip a paragraph.

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GuideMovies & TVDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Watching Every Clint Eastwood Western From Rawhide to Unforgiven

A viewing order, the content concerns said out loud, and why The Outlaw Josey Wales is the one to start your teenagers on.

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Music6 min read

Build a Road Trip Playlist One Decade at a Time

Seventeen songs an hour, six decades deep, and a running order that survives hour nine somewhere outside Amarillo.

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GuideBooksMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Twenty Books Every Man Should Read Before Forty

Twenty books, ten years, one every six months. A list you can actually finish, with the mature-content flags nobody else bothers to give you.

GuideMovies & TVDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Where to Start With Gunsmoke's 635 Episodes

Twenty seasons, one marshal, and no finale. A watch plan that gets you to the great stuff without doing twenty years of homework.

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GuideMusicDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Classic Rock Albums That Hold Up From Track One to the End

Turn off shuffle, give a record forty-five minutes of your actual attention, and find out which ones were built to be heard whole.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideMovies & TVDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Ten John Wayne Films to Watch With Your Son, in Order

Skip The Searchers on night one. Start where an eleven-year-old can get in, and work up to the hard stuff.

StoryMovies & TVDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Happy Days Still Works and the Fonz Is the Reason Why

ABC made Henry Winkler wear a gray windbreaker. Eleven seasons later, the leather jacket was in the Smithsonian.

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GuideMusicDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Start a Vinyl Collection Without Torching Your Budget

The turntable matters more than the records, the thrift bins are better than you think, and the suitcase player is quietly eating your albums.

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StoryMovies & TVNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

Two Shows That Put God on Prime Time Without Apologizing

Michael Landon and Roma Downey ran faith on network television for fourteen combined seasons. What they got right, what they fudged, and where to start.

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StoryMovies & TVDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The Lone Ranger Never Shot to Kill, and That Was the Point

221 episodes, a masked man with silver bullets, and a set of writing rules that would get laughed out of a modern pitch meeting.

GuideMusicSam Ortiz23 Sept 20265 min

Clean Music a Teenager Will Actually Turn Up

The playlist loses the second you call it clean. Here's what to play instead, artist by artist, and how to get it past a fifteen-year-old.

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GuideMovies & TVDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Streaming the Old Westerns and Family Shows Without the Junk

Half the free copies floating around are fuzzy, cut short or colorized. Find the clean prints, and know which episodes to preview before the kids sit down.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.