Episodes

  • The Lost History of Yellowstone

    The Lost History of Yellowstone
    Jan 26 2021
    2,147 words

    After 14 summers excavating in Yellowstone National Park, Doug MacDonald has a simple rule of thumb. “Pretty much anywhere you’d want to pitch a tent, there are artifacts,” he says, holding up a 3,000-year-old obsidian projectile point that his team has just dug out of the ground.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lost-history-yellowstone-180976518/
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    32 mins
  • The Rise and Fall of the Bank Robbery Capital of the World

    The Rise and Fall of the Bank Robbery Capital of the World
    Jan 15 2021
    1,983 words

    At 1:30 p.m. on Friday, November 29, 1983, a man the FBI called the Yankee Bandit walked into the lobby of a Bank of America in the Melrose district of Los Angeles and stood in line.

    https://crimereads.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-bank-robbery-capital-of-the-world/
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    29 mins
  • The Plague Year

    The Plague Year
    Jan 4 2021
    31,457 words

    There are three moments in the yearlong catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic when events might have turned out differently.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year
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    3 hrs and 4 mins
  • The Ballad of Ron and Dorinda

    The Ballad of Ron and Dorinda
    Dec 22 2020
    2,531 words

    Around the nursing home where she lives, in Phoenix, Dorinda Lopez, seventy-one, mostly keeps to herself. People can tell she’s from somewhere else, on account of her southern accent. When she gets angry, as she sometimes does when she talks about the past, it gets thick.

    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34773551/prison-break-lovebirds/
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    37 mins
  • The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt

    The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt
    Nov 23 2020
    9,091 words

    This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Growing up in Arizona in the 1990s, Justin Posey wanted to be Indiana Jones.

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/the-great-hunt-for-forrest-fenns-hidden-treasure.html
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    57 mins
  • The Haunting of a Dream House

    The Haunting of a Dream House
    Nov 18 2020
    2,661 words

    A New Jersey family bought their ideal home. But according to the creepy letters they started to get, they weren’t the only ones interested in it.

    https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/the-haunting-of-657-boulevard-in-westfield-new-jersey.html
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    49 mins
  • The Rare Authority of Alex Trebek

    The Rare Authority of Alex Trebek
    Nov 16 2020
    1,504 words

    Of course he had impressed Lucille Ball. In the late seventies, the actress, a regular on the game-show circuit, had been a fan of the flashy daytime competition “High Rollers”—in large part because of its dignified host, a young mustachioed Canadian named Alex Trebek.

    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-rare-authority-of-alex-trebek
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    9 mins
  • The Caviar Con

    The Caviar Con
    Nov 6 2020
    3,726 words

    Not long ago, Mike Reynolds was working at Cody’s Bait and Tackle when two men entered the shop with a jingle. He identified them right away by their accents as Russians. The two men began rifling through fishing poles that didn’t yet have price tags. Reynolds asked them to stop.

    https://longreads.com/2019/02/12/the-caviar-con/
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    23 mins