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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.

Latest Episodes:

The trials and tribulations of being a cat Nov 28, 2018

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Cats have endured some really mean stuff throughout history. Dogs should be thankful.

Then they came for me Nov 27, 2018

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Martin Niemoller's simple and haunting words are often quoted in moments of intolerance. The story behind them is much more complicated.

A brief history of presidents visiting troops in combat Nov 26, 2018

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Presidents throughout history have visited battlefields to better grasp conditions, reverse public doubt and signal that the country took war efforts seriously.

Benjamin Franklin’s complicated relationship with turkeys Nov 21, 2018

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Benjamin Franklin, the most colorful of America's Founding Fathers, had a misunderstood, electrical and ultimately homicidal relationship with turkeys.

The Green Book Nov 20, 2018

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In the 1930s, traveling the nation's highways while black was fraught with peril. One postal worker, Victor Green, wrote a guidebook for African Americans after he faced discrimination on a road trip.

The origins of the Unknown Soldier Nov 19, 2018

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The story of how the anonymous soldier came to rest inside the famous tomb is almost as unknown as his identity.

Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter Nov 16, 2018

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Mark Twain first laid eyes on a “newfangled typing machine,” as he called it, sometime in the early 1870s.

Food stamps were born out of a surplus of food Nov 15, 2018

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The idea of food stamps was born out of a complicated paradox.

William Rehnquist's proposal to Sandra Day O'Connor Nov 14, 2018

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Rehnquist proposed. O'Connor said no.