Send us a text A firefight in a jungle clearing. A river turned to splinters by a Browning Automatic Rifle. A mountain trail threaded through rocks and rigged with explosives. Then months of hospitals, traction, and quiet miracles. That’s the terrain of our time with Mel Borden—101st Airborne veteran, Purple Heart recipient, husband, father, and man of unwavering faith—who finally tells the story he resisted for decades. We trace the path from jump school to an ill-fated ceremonial drop in I...
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Send us a text A firefight in a jungle clearing. A river turned to splinters by a Browning Automatic Rifle. A mountain trail threaded through rocks and rigged with explosives. Then months of hospitals, traction, and quiet miracles. That’s the terrain of our time with Mel Borden—101st Airborne veteran, Purple Heart recipient, husband, father, and man of unwavering faith—who finally tells the story he resisted for decades. We trace the path from jump school to an ill-fated ceremonial drop in I...
EP. 106 RIP ACE FREHLEY....MY TRIBUTE TO THE SPACEMAN!
The Ben Maynard Program
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EP. 106 RIP ACE FREHLEY....MY TRIBUTE TO THE SPACEMAN!
Send us a text The news hit like a power chord: Ace Frehley, the Space Ace who helped launch KISS into legend, is gone at 74. We didn’t plan this show, but some losses demand a pause, a story, and a stack of records. So we pulled the vinyl, opened the gatefolds, and traced how one guitarist turned curiosity into devotion—from hearing KISS Alive for the first time to wearing out Love Gun on a summer wall with a boombox and friends. We walk through Ace’s DNA as a player and writer: the early c...
The Ben Maynard Program
Send us a text A firefight in a jungle clearing. A river turned to splinters by a Browning Automatic Rifle. A mountain trail threaded through rocks and rigged with explosives. Then months of hospitals, traction, and quiet miracles. That’s the terrain of our time with Mel Borden—101st Airborne veteran, Purple Heart recipient, husband, father, and man of unwavering faith—who finally tells the story he resisted for decades. We trace the path from jump school to an ill-fated ceremonial drop in I...
