Podcast Episodes

Venturing Into the Twilight Zone with Susan Casey

Journalist Susan Casey takes us to the deep deep ocean, where she explores the relationship between humans and this mysterious underworld.

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Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame

A basketball fan goes to the hall of fame – and no, it’s not the big one in Massachusetts that you may be thinking about. Hear the story behind a Mid…

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Science that Doesn’t Stop (Classic)

Host Dylan Thuras riffs on a subject that has long fascinated him: The world’s longest-running science experiments.

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The Wishing Tree

There’s a special tree in Portland that’s full of a city’s hopes, dreams, and wishes.

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The Golem

We peek into the life and work of the oft-understood artist Niki de Saint Phalle, who was behind a strange and wildly popular playground sculpture in…

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Robot Saints

We meet the robot saints – sculptures made of wood and wire, of cams and pulleys during medieval times – that might just help us understand this new …

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Nasothek Noses

We get up close and nosey about a peculiar exhibit in Copenhagen that reveals a lot about what artists and society considered beautiful throughout th…

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The Plotz Plot (Classic)

Josh Foer, the co-founder of Atlas Obscura, takes us to a remote patch of land in the Arizona desert, where he built (and later rebuilt) a museum in …

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The Stanley Hotel

We go inside a place that some paranormal investigators call the most active haunted location in the world. Before it was known as the inspiration fo…

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Our Travel Expectations

Travel is sometimes like a box of chocolates – never know what you’re going to get. In this episode, we share stories of places that blew us away, an…

2 years, 10 months ago