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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 first pride parade Jun 25, 2018

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The very first pride parade was held in 1964 and was a bit … calmer … than what we think of today.

The oldest surviving banjo recording Jun 22, 2018

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Charles Asbury’s newly digitized songs serve as a time capsule to the music of the 19th century.

The worst presidents Jun 21, 2018

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Besides President Trump, whom do scholars scorn the most?

Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods Jun 20, 2018

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Doughnuts aren’t just delicious. They also helped America win a war.

The first shark attacks Jun 19, 2018

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For most of American history, no one was scared of sharks. One week - and one shark - changed that.

Between Lincoln and Washington, only one was a great poet Jun 18, 2018

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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, two great presidents, had a lot in common: Both lost a parent as a child, both had a serious demeanor, and both dabbled with writing poetry. But only one was any good at poetry.

This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him Jun 15, 2018

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The man who called the police on the Watergate burglars never received the credit he deserved.

Thomas Jefferson’s iftar dinner and the long history of Ramadan at the White House Jun 14, 2018

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In December 1805, a handful of prominent politicians receive invitations to join President Thomas Jefferson for a White House dinner. The occasion was the arrival of a Tunisian envoy to the U.S., Sidi Soliman Mellimelli, who was observing Ramadan.

The biscuit tin Jun 13, 2018

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It’s World War II, and you’re King George VI of England. You fear a Nazi invasion of England could come at any moment. How do you protect the crown jewels? Not even Queen Elizabeth II knew how her dad did it - until recently.

Before Loving, another interracial couple fought to marry Jun 12, 2018

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The Kinneys married in Washington, D.C. in 1874. Then, they were arrested back home in Virginia for violating the state’s laws. They fought the ruling in higher and higher courts, but never won the right to stay married in their home state.

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