Episode #142
2026-07-15 05:00:39
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When Daniella Santoro and her husband started clearing their backyard in New Orleans, they found a strange stone under a satsuma tree. The stone had letters carved into it – like a gravestone. “We thought – maybe someone’s buried in our backyard.”
Episode #141
2026-07-01 05:00:08
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In the early ’90s, a comet smashed into Jupiter with the force of 300 million atomic bombs. No one had seen anything like it before, and astronomers quickly realized that we should be monitoring asteroids and comets near Earth. Today, that’s David Rankin’s job.
Episode #140
2026-06-17 05:00:54
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In 1977, Ann Druyan was asked to help create a message from Earth that would leave our solar system and last for more than a billion years.
Episode #139
2026-06-03 05:00:24
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Bob Brigham always knew he was adopted. When he was seven, a social worker came to visit his family, and Bob heard her whisper something to his mother – something about the Vietnam War. “Within a nanosecond, I created a story in my head.”
Episode #138
2026-05-20 05:00:07
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Mark Kuhn grew up in Iowa in a family of corn farmers. When he was 10 years old, he heard a BBC broadcast of the Wimbledon finals. He couldn’t stop thinking about it — he would daydream about tennis while doing his chores. And one day, he got an idea. “I’m looking at this cattle feedlot when I realized, ‘This is just about the right size for a tennis court.’”
Episode #137
2026-05-06 05:00:37
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Brandon and Gina hadn’t known each other long when they found themselves lost 8,500 feet high on a mountain. “We started yelling and nobody yelled back.”
Episode #136
2026-04-15 05:00:26
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One morning, Cathy found a takeout bag on her porch. It had the name “Rodolphe” on it, and contained one half-eaten order of french fries. The next morning, she found another bag. And then another. That’s when her neighbor Harley got involved: “We need to take this to the next level.”
Episode #135
2026-04-01 05:00:43
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One night, a stranger came up to comedian Dan Perlman and told him he looked just like the singer Michael Bublé. She asked Dan if he would impersonate him for one night. He had six days to get ready.
Episode #134
2026-03-18 05:00:44
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Delia Ephron has worked on some of the most famous romantic comedies of all time – like You’ve Got Mail. In You’ve Got Mail, two people fall in love over email. Decades after writing that screenplay, Delia Ephron found herself in the middle of a very similar story.
Episode #133
2026-03-04 05:00:48
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A dog went missing in a park in Brooklyn. A local Facebook group decided to help.
Episode #132
2026-02-18 05:00:13
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“It felt like a magical experience. It felt like some sort of spell. I was living a childhood fairytale, of the comings and goings of this extraordinary animal that didn't need me, but seemed to be comfortable and willing to rest alongside me.”
Episode #131
2026-02-04 05:00:12
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In 2010, a man named Forrest Fenn took a bronze box filled with treasure into the Rocky Mountains and hid it. He told one treasure hunter, “You just need to put the clues together and go get it.”
Episode #130
2026-01-21 05:00:30
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The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the inside.
Episode #129
2026-01-07 05:00:03
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Heather Lende has written nearly 500 obituaries for people in her small town in Alaska. She’s known just about everyone she has written about.
Episode #128
2025-12-17 05:00:40
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When Emma Gatewood was 67, she told her children she was going on a walk. “The next they would hear from her would be via postcard… And it said, ‘By ‘walk’ I mean I'm thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.’”
Episode #127
2025-12-03 05:00:58
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When Minh Nguyen was in school, he didn’t ask anyone to sign his yearbooks — he says he was too uncomfortable. But twenty years later, he started reaching out to all his former classmates. He asks everyone the same questions.