Episode summary: In “A Tale of Two Laredos,” Gravy producer Evan Stern visits Laredo, Texas, which shares history, culture, and memory with its sister city across the border, Nuevo Laredo. For decades, Mexican border towns were renowned for refined, white…

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Episode summary: Listen to the music of decomposing mushrooms, look through a photographer’s lens at a surprising streak of streaking in the 1970s, and explore the world of a Danish hospital clown who opens up a pocket of a different reality. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventu...

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Episode summary: After the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank sent jitters through the financial system, Duncan Weldon explains how it’s just the latest in the long history of bank runs. He talks to financial analyst and former banking regulator Dan Davies - author of ‘Lying for Money’ - to understand...

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Episode summary: Dylan chats with Rowan Jacobsen, a food journalist and host of the podcast called OBSESSION: Wild Chocolate. And he takes us on a journey that follows his multiyear quest into the Amazon rainforest to learn more about a mythical chocolate that has a dark history and the potential to...

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Episode summary: In the 1980s, the discount electronics chain store Crazy Eddie was so famous, its commercials were parodied on “Saturday Night Live.” So when the family business began selling its company shares on Wall Street — making millions — nobody questioned its success. Gary Weiss’ book is Re...

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Episode summary: A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the President’s Men remains our most authoritative account of Watergate. The film is also re...

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Episode summary: A shared experience of sonic joy crosses over the boundary of a prison wall, a conversation across generations explores being alive to the present moment, and an audio artwork from the archives plunges a listener into the sensation of time speeding up. Josie Long presents short docu...

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Episode summary: Careful when saying “I’m hot” in Italian! Why? Find out how to avoid embarrassing mistakes by learning these expressions with AVERE (have) in Italian. Get the bonus materials for this episode: http://joyoflanguages.com/avere-in-italian/ Join our Italian club and get a free mini It...

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Episode summary: What does the Constitution say about lies, punishing lies, and punishing someone who lies to get elected?

Episode summary: The smash hit TV show and video game ‘The Last of Us’ has spawned lots of curiosity about how worried we should be about the relatively unknown world of fungi. A figure in a recent BBC online article stated that fungal infections kill around 1.7 million people a year, about three ti...

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