Podcast Episodes

Ruins of Le Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale (Classic)

This garden park in Paris, France contains the ruins of a colonial exhibition from 1907.

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2 years ago

Controlled Cold with Nicky Twilley

We get a crash course in the fascinating temperature-controlled ecosystem we’ve created to keep our food fresh – and available – all year round. Our …

2 years ago

Welcome To Wall Drug

In the South Dakota badlands, a small pharmacy employed an ingenious marketing gimmick, and boomed into a business that draws millions of visitors ev…

2 years ago

Traveling With Kids: Please Send Help

We’ve got a fun collaboration with podcasters SuChin Pak and Kulap Vilaysack, hosts of Add to Cart. Hear them chat with Dylan about traveling with ki…

2 years ago

Blue Spring State Park

We head to Florida, the wintertime refuge for many, for a glimpse of a rehabilitation effort aimed at some very distinct creatures known for being ge…

2 years ago

The Last Sears in New York City (Classic)

Producer Johanna Mayer takes a trip to the last Sears in New York City, and a Brooklyn landmark, with two people whose lives were shaped by the depar…

2 years ago

Looking Toward the Sky with Summer Ash

Telescope tourist, rocket scientist and STEAM educator Summer Ash gives us the nitty gritty on the V.L.A. - a 22-mile telescope in New Mexico whose f…

2 years ago

Canada Obscura: The Giant Orange Sphere

CANADALAND host Jesse Brown introduces Dylan to a strange and decaying Quebecois fast food institution… housed inside a giant orange sphere. Today, t…

2 years, 1 month ago

Canada Obscura: The Feral Horses of Sable Island

Host Dylan Thuras brings us to a remote island off the coast of Nova Scotia. On Sable Island, we learn how – against all odds – a group of beloved fe…

2 years, 1 month ago

Canada Obscura: The Real Life Winnie-The-Pooh

CANADALAND host Jesse Brown tells Dylan the story of a Canadian man who adopted a black bear in the woods of Winnipeg – and how that bear became the …

2 years, 1 month ago