Celebrating Aline Kominsky Crumb, Bob McGrath, Bill Russell, Bobby Rydell, Charlie Gracie, Christine McVie, Coolio, Danny Kalb, David McCullough, Dave Chappell, Dwayne Hickman, Eric Cocks, Gilbert Gottfried, Irene Cara, Jerry Lee Lee Lewis, Joe Smith, Judy Tenuda, Judith Durham (The Seekers), Judy Henske, Lamont Dozier, Leslie Jordan, Louise Fletcher, Mark Lanegan, Nichelle Nichols, Olivia Newton-John, Pharaoh Sanders, Queen Elizabeth II, Robbie Coltrane, Roger Angell, Ronnie Hawkins, Ronnie Spector, Sidney Poitier, Steve Post, Thom Bell, Andrew Vachss, Vin Scully, and many more. Featuring Larry David & Salmon Rushdie, Petra Haden, Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, Hurrah for The Riff Raff featuring Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Spinners, Dionne Warwick, The Four Tops, Odesza, Josh Morningstar, Ben Harper, The Blues Project and Death Cab for Cutie. Mixing music, dialogue from soundtracks, press conferences, sound effects and other sources, Shortcuts has presented a wide variety of themes over the past fifty years, including programs on growing up, growing old, going crazy, being afraid, alone, in love; shows on music, space, race and politics from Watergate to The January 6th Insurrection, plus retrospectives featuring the major events of each passing year. This collection begins with a 1967 Montage Intro for Sgt. Pepper 20th 1987, then a 60's mix featuring Timothy Leary, The All Seeing I, Julie Christie from A Shortcut Back To 1967- Continues with The Beatles Instrumental Montage, A Shortcut Back To 1968 with Sly & The Family Stone, Poor Peoples Campaign, then A Shortcut Back To 1969 featuring Apollo 11/JFK/Hair/Richard Nixon/The Who, A Shortcut Through 1982 with Yoda/The Beatles/Luke Skywalker; A Shortcut Through 2000: Al Sharpton/Al Gore/George W.Bush, Amy Goodman with A Shortcut Introduction Democracy; Ken Nordine/Ian McKellen/James Mason on A Shortcut Through 2001 5th Anniversary Remix- PLUS 21st Century Shortcuts The First Decade MLK/Huey P. Long/Joe McCarthy/ The Time Capsule/Middle-East/George W. Bush/James Gandolfini Cold Blooded Killers/A Shortcut Through 2006 Rachel Carson/Albert Einstein/Gandhi Mother Nature's Mixdown Tosca Barack Obama Lawrence Ferlingetti #11 Coney Island Of The Mind Barack Obama/Chris Rock/RFK Barack Obama-The Remix Public Radio Exchange 2008 JFK/LBJ/George Bush/Donald Trump A Shortcut Through 2016 "Worst Year Ever" Joe Biden/Stephen Sondheim/Mike Nesmith/more A Shortcut Through 2021 Final Special For Awhile.