Podcast Episodes

In the Great Green Room

Episode 105

Everything you didn’t know about Goodnight Moon, the book that’s put children to bed for generations — and the woman who wrote it. "She could write very well for young children because she remembered…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Beaver in the Christmas Aisle, Pig in the Pumpkins, Camel on the Run

Episode 104

Stories we love about animals really going for it.

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Published on 10 months ago

The King of Fruit

Episode 103

One night in 2018, Ahmed Ali Akbar rented a car and drove two hours to the Detroit airport. He was picking up a package for his cousin – over a dozen boxes of a very special fruit.

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Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

The Manuscript

Episode 102

“After more than a hundred years of hard work from some of the greatest cryptological and linguistic minds on the planet, we still don’t quite know what this object is. There’s really nothing like it…

Published on 11 months ago

What Happens Next

Episode 101

Recently, Phoebe told a personal story about her mother, who died this year. In this episode, she talks to journalist Sebastian Junger, who was rushed to the hospital one day after feeling sick – and…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Valentine

Episode 100

For our 100th episode, a story from Phoebe about her mother, Valentine, who died this spring.

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Published on 1 year ago

Prairie Warbler

Episode 99

When Drew Lanham was growing up in South Carolina, he used to lie down in a field and play dead, just so he could get a glimpse of vultures flying over him. He made binoculars out of toilet paper rol…

Published on 1 year ago

At the End of Sight

Episode 98

Writer Andrew Leland talks with Phoebe about slowly losing his eyesight. He was diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease Retinitis pigmentosa when he was in high school. "It was like, 'I'm going o…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Octavia and Miguel

Episode 97

When Miguel Esteban was 14 years old, he got an idea to make his own science fiction magazine. He wanted Octavia Butler to write a piece for it. So he picked up the phone to ask her.

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Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Hula with Teeth

Episode 96

One Saturday night in the 90s, Patrick Makuakāne and about 15 other hula dancers showed up to a club in San Francisco they called Old Dreamland. "It didn’t feel like taking risks. Because no one was …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago