Podcast Episodes

The Sul Ross Desk

In the 1980s, a group of friends on the track team at Sul Ross State University hauled a discarded dorm room desk to the top of a mountain. They left…

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San Juan Sounds (Classic)

San Juan Sounds is an iconic studio where musicians, engineers, and quite possibly a music-loving ghost carry on the island’s musical traditions, whi…

1 year, 4 months ago

Weed Week: The International Church of Cannabis

Travel to Denver Colorado and meet Steve Berke who helped found the first International Church of Cannabis in 2015. 

Learn more about it here.

1 year, 4 months ago

Weed Week: San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club

The San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club was one of the first marijuana dispensaries in the country. Its members were people with AIDS, cancer, and ot…

1 year, 4 months ago

Weed Week: Jirzankal Cemetery

An ancient cemetery in western China may hold the answer to a question asked by many a stoner: where on Earth did humans first smoke weed to get high…

1 year, 4 months ago

Weed Week: Dope Lake

In 1976, an airplane carrying 6,000 pounds of smuggled weed crashed into a remote lake in Yosemite. A group of climbers had a heyday. Read John Long’…

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Weed Week: Get Inside the CannaVan

Cannabis is now legal in more than half of U.S. states, but it remains federally illegal – which makes doing research on the plant extremely difficul…

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Spooky Week: The Gray Man (Classic)

A South Carolina ghost story is a harbinger of hurricanes and a window into history. Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/so…

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Spooky Week: The Story of the Mad Gasser with Colin Dickey

In 1944, a strange spate of “gas attacks” in a small Midwestern town reveals what was really lurking in mid-century America. Read Colin Dickey’s arti…

1 year, 4 months ago

Spooky Week: Places That Give Us the Creeps

Listener stories about places that give off big creepy vibes – from an abandoned ice factory to a haunted university music building.

If you want to he…

1 year, 4 months ago