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**Retropod**

Retropod is a show for history-lovers, featuring stories about the past, rediscovered. Host Mike Rosenwald introduces you to history’s most colorful characters – forgotten heroes, overlooked villains, dreamers, explorers, world changers.

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The unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement Jun 13, 2019

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The Boy Scout movement began 110 years ago on a tiny island just off the southern coast of England.

Eartha Kitt confronted the first lady and it nearly ruined her career Jun 12, 2019

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At a White House luncheon, actress Eartha Kitt would not let the president or the first lady avoid the issue of the Vietnam War. She paid a heavy price for her boldness.

The 'temporary insanity' legal defense started with an affair Jun 11, 2019

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If you love gossip, drama and D.C. politics -- this story is the gift that keeps on giving.

Eisenhower’s famous speech to U.S. troops the day before D-Day Jun 10, 2019

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On the day before D-Day, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a speech to the troops that totally masked how nervous he actually was.

The painter who became the CIA’s master of disguise Jun 07, 2019

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The spy business is all about masking the truth. One CIA agent’s deceptions and sham identities were so enterprising that he earned the nickname “Master of Disguise."

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The ax that killed Leon Trotsky Jun 06, 2019

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Joseph Stalin wanted his political rival dead. When bullets didn’t do the job, his intelligence service tried something even more gruesome.

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That time the CIA stole a Russian submarine Jun 05, 2019

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When a Russian sub sank at the height of the Cold War, the CIA got help from Howard Hughes and created a fictitious mining operation to snag the vessel at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

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The pistols that almost fell from the sky Jun 04, 2019

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During World War II, U.S. intelligence operatives devised a plan to airdrop one-shot handguns, nicknamed the Liberator pistol, to allies in Europe in hopes of ending the war quickly.

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The rat that helped win the Cold War Jun 03, 2019

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In the first of a weeklong series of episodes about spies, subterfuge and intelligence, a look at how the CIA used dead rats to send secret messages in the former Soviet Union.

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The test that changed childbirth May 31, 2019

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In the 1950s, Dr. Virginia Apgar created a quick test that nurses have since performed on millions of babies just after birth. She is considered one of the most important figures in modern medicine — a world that almost pushed her away.

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