Episodes 263
Avg. Duration 1h 6m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.5 (21,846)
Since May 2018
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.

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Crying in Baseball with Julie Kliegman

Jun 09, 2026 1h 25m

Could there be a little crying in baseball as a treat? Sports correspondent Julie Kliegman is here to tell Sarah about the history of women’s baseball and softball and to finally teach her the rules…

Rainbows with Lulu Miller

May 26, 2026 1h 12m

Why are there so many songs about rainbows (and what’s on the other side)? A bridge between worlds, a map to a pot of gold, the centerpiece of a Lisa Frank trapper-keeper, and of course, an…

What to Carry, What to Burn with Blair Braverman

May 12, 2026 1h 4m

Ada Blackjack wants one thing: To make enough money to bring her son home from an orphanage. But good work is hard to find in 1920s Nome, Alaska, so when four strangers come to town, looking to hire…

Desperation Pie with Sarah Archer

Apr 29, 2026 1h 14m

What would you do for a desperation pie? Kitchen correspondent Sarah Archer is here to talk with Sarah about the American food trends that marked the 20th century and how they related to the…

Desperation Pie with Sarah Archer

Apr 28, 2026 1h 14m

What would you do for a desperation pie? Kitchen correspondent Sarah Archer is here to talk with Sarah about the American food trends that marked the 20th century and how they related to the…

The Great American Spelling Bee with Gabe Henry

Apr 14, 2026 1h 26m

Can you use the word in a sentence? For this episode, Spelling Correspondent Gabe Henry takes Sarah through the surprisingly rampageous (r-a-m-p-a-g-e-o-u-s) history of the Spelling Bee, a uniquely…

Crop Circles with Chelsey Weber-Smith

Apr 01, 2026 1h 14m Transcript

What do men really get up to at the pub? For this April Fools' Day episode, Sarah tells urban legend correspondent Chelsey Weber-Smith of American Hysteria the history and the mystery behind crop…

How to Deprogram a Guy in 10 Days with Endless Thread

Mar 17, 2026 1h 24m Transcript

Free yourself. What does it take to get someone to leave a cult? What happens if the cult is all around us? In this episode, Ben Brock Johnson & Amory Sivertson of NPR’s Endless Thread podcast…

The Worst Movie Ever Made? with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson

Mar 13, 2026 1h 33m Transcript

From the bonus vault!What actually makes a movie “bad”? In this bonus episode, Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson of the film podcast Unspooled tell Sarah the story of what many consider to be the worst…

The Bluebelle with Blair Braverman

Mar 04, 2026 1h 16m

Do we ever finish surviving? Sarah tells Survival Correspondent Blair Braverman the incredible story of 11-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault, who was lost at sea for several days on a flimsy cork dinghy.…

Keiko Part 3 with Brianna Bowman

Feb 17, 2026 1h 18m Transcript

Would you ride on the back of a random orca at the beach? For the final part of this series on Free Willy star Keiko, deep sea correspondent Brianna Bowman tells Sarah about his rewilding and return…

Keiko Part 2 with Brianna Bowman

Feb 10, 2026 1h 45m Transcript

The movies freed Willy, but what about Keiko? For the second part of our trilogy on the biggest aquatic star of the 90s, deep sea correspondent Brianna Bowman takes Sarah through Keiko’s journey to…

Keiko Part 1 with Brianna Bowman

Jan 27, 2026 2h 2m Transcript

Can a killer whale really jump that high? For kids of the 90s, the adventure movie Free Willy introduced us to magic of the orca through its charismatic megafauna star, Keiko. In part one of our…

Where I Live: The Listener Holiday Special

Dec 23, 2025 1h 30m

“We’ve always been inventing and reinventing new worlds for taking care of each other. We just have to notice.”We asked our subscribers to send us audio postcards to encapsulate where they live, what…

Cold War Santa with Sarah Archer

Nov 25, 2025 1h 39m Transcript

What happens when Santa trades his sleigh for a rocket ship? Christmas correspondent Sarah Archer tells Sarah about how the Cold War era affected the image of old Kris Kringle through the rampant…

The Dictionary Wars! with Gabe Henry

Nov 11, 2025 1h 12m Transcript

Remember being a teen and coming up with “cool” ways of spelling common words? Well, just like the teenager it was, the United States in the 18th century was annoying their mom, England, with the hip…

Introducing: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall

Oct 28, 2025 41m Transcript

Listen now to the first episode of Sarah's new 8-part series with CBC Podcasts, The Devil You Know.In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing…

Midnight Ghost Shows with Chelsey Weber-Smith

Oct 14, 2025 1h 43m

What do you get when you combine a horror movie audience, a spiritualist séance, and a haunted house attraction? Beginning in the 1930s and lasting into the 1960s, midnight ghost shows were…

The Auralyn with Blair Braverman

Sep 30, 2025 1h 11m Transcript

Are you a survival pessimist or a survival optimist? Blair Braverman surprises Sarah with a harrowing, heartening, and sometimes hilarious tale of love and endurance in the face of certain death, but…

Samantha Smith vs. the Cold War with Maris Kreizman

Sep 16, 2025 1h 18m Transcript

Who really ended the Cold War, Ronald Reagan or a ten-year-old girl? Eighties correspondent Maris Kreizman joins us for a heartfelt conversation about America’s Youngest Ambassador, Samantha Smith, a…

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