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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The JFK Assassination Part 2 with Mackenzie Joy Brennan
Jun 30, 2026
But seriously, who really killed JFK? For part two of the JFK Assassination series, law correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes Sarah through the conspiracy theories that have surrounded the…
The JFK Assassination Part 1 with Mackenzie Joy Brennan
Jun 23, 2026
Where is Dana Scully when you need her? For the first installment of this two-part episode, legal correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan tells Sarah about what happened before, during, and after the…
Crying in Baseball with Julie Kliegman
Jun 09, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 join…
The Worst Movie Ever Made? with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson
Mar 13, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
“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…
Cold War Santa with Sarah Archer
Nov 25, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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…
The Insanity Defense with Mackenzie Joy Brennan
Aug 19, 2025
What do John Hinckley Jr. and a jazz age tuberculosis patient have in common? Legal correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes Sarah through some of the strange cases that helped make—and break—the…
Corn Mazes with Chelsey Weber-Smith
Jul 31, 2025
Can you find your way out of the maize? The corn maze has become an enduring attraction of the American autumnal experience, seen at touristy family farms next to pumpkin patches and haunted houses…
Pee-wee Herman Part 2 with Jamie Loftus
Jul 16, 2025
In the second part of our series, pop culture historian Jamie Loftus takes us through the meteoric rise of Pee-wee Herman and the withering of Paul Reubens' world as dubious allegations surface that…
Pee-wee Herman Part 1 with Jamie Loftus
Jun 30, 2025
What’s today’s secret word? Paul Reubens spent years bringing to life one of America’s most beloved characters, Pee-wee Herman, an icon of joy for weirdos of all ages. In the first of this two part…
The Hitler Diaries with Adrian Daub
Jun 11, 2025
What happens when you’re just a little too good at forging the diaries of Adolf Hitler? And why did so many people want to read them? In 1983, the West German news magazine Stern bought sixty volumes…
Coyotes! with Lulu Miller
May 24, 2025
Who is out there behind the howling midnight parties in the distance? For generations we have coexisted in varying degrees of rivalry, conflict, and admiration with the North American canine known as…
Inventing the Teenager with Harmony Colangelo
May 07, 2025
Where did all these teens come from? Harmony Colangelo, co-host of This Ends at Prom, is here to explain how, before Americans got to worry about what teenagers were up to, we first had to decide…
Is Your House Too Clean? with Sarah Archer
Apr 15, 2025
Have you scrubbed down the top of your fridge lately? Home & garden correspondent Sarah Archer is here to tell us how and when we got so obsessed with the antiseptically clean house as a status…
Hoax Memoir Spectacular!
Apr 01, 2025
This week, flim flam correspondent and certified April Fool Chelsey Weber-Smith is here to talk about a fistful of fake memoirs, featuring girls raised by wolves; the chicken pox of James Frey; what…
