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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 summer men rebelled against their shirts Jan 09, 2019

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It doesn't seem like a big deal today, but 1930s America lived in fear of the male nipple.

The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet Jan 08, 2019

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John Calhoun’s rodent experiments revolutionized the way we think about social behavior and the impact of growing populations.

One of the greatest astronomers of her generation Jan 07, 2019

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Nancy Grace Roman was one of NASA’s first female astronomers and was a key figure in the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.

How one World War II veteran lived to be a centenarian Jan 04, 2019

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At 112-years-old, Richard Overton was the oldest living World War II veteran.

A wooden mallet with a colorful history of being shattered Jan 03, 2019

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Throughout American history, speakers of the House have pounded their gavels so hard in search of order that they wind up smashing the gavel itself into smithereens.

The rabble rouser who inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg Jan 02, 2019

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Dorothy Kenyon was an early leader in the legal fight for women's rights.

Mourning Bobby Kennedy Jan 01, 2019

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We're taking a little break over the holidays to look back on some of the best Retropod episodes from 2018. Today, we look back on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

The story of the real Charlotte of ‘Charlotte's Web’ Dec 31, 2018

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We're taking a little break over the holidays to look back on some of the best Retropod episodes from 2018. Today, an episode co-hosted by Madeline Daly, who won our Retropod trivia contest at the 2018 National Book Festival.

The day Martin Luther King Jr. died Dec 28, 2018

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We're taking a little break over the holidays to look back on some of the best Retropod episodes from 2018. Today, our episode marking the date Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, 50 years ago this April.

Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods Dec 27, 2018

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We're taking a little break over the holidays to look back on some of the best Retropod episodes from 2018. Today, doughnuts. They aren’t just delicious. They also helped America win a war.

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