Unpacking Peanuts

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With Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Author of Good Grief

We welcome the author of the Charles Schulz biography Good Grief, Rheta Grimsley Johnson, to the show. Rheta discusses working on the book, discovering the real Little Red-Haired Girl, and watching Schulz create the strip. Then, the gang analyses Rheta’s favorite Peanuts strips. Plus: She tells the harrowing story of the attempted kidnapping of Jeannie Schulz! Rheta's books are available at the University of Georgia Press - ugapress.orgGood Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz is available on Amazon Transcript available at UnpackingPeanuts.com Unpacking Peanuts is copyright Jimmy Gownley, Michael Cohen, Harold Buchholz, and Liz Sumner. Produced and edited by Liz Sumner. Music by Michael Cohen. Additional voiceover by Aziza Shukralla Clark.  For more from the show follow @unpackpeanuts on Instagram and Threads, and @unpackingpeanuts on Facebook, Blue Sky, and YouTube. For more about Jimmy, Michael, and Harold, visit unpackingpeanuts.com.   Thanks for listening.  

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  1996 Part 1- The Strange Death of Tapioca Pudding

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  1995 Part 3 - The Outer Space Adventures of Woodstock and Spike

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  1995 Part 2 - Woodstock is Emotionally Bankrupt!

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  1995 Part 1 - At Long Last, Charlie Brown is the Hero

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  Special Episode: Slide, Charlie Brown! Slide!

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  With Lynn Johnston, Creator of For Better or For Worse

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  With Judy "Snoopy" Sladky

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  Wrap Up Season 10: Snoopy and Woodstock, and Calvin and Hobbes

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  1994 Part 4 - Good Ol’ Down in the Dirt Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Comics

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  1994 Part 3 - Far and Away One of the Great Tries of All Time

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  1994 Part 2 - Nude Beagle Descending a Staircase

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  1994 Part 1 - The Smaller the King the More the Talk

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  1993 Part 3 - I Never Knew Life Could Be So Beautiful

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  1993 Part 2 - Who Reassures the Reassurer?

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  1993 Part 1 - Nobody Told Me Life Was Going To Be This Hard