Episode 49: Under Your Feet

Australia has some amazing animals - and some big fences. Some fo these were necessary thanks to some "acclimatizers" of the 1800s who introduced non-native species to the island. Today a fence on the eastern side is the longest in the world! Kickstarter Link: https://www.kicksta ...  Show more

George Shannon was the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and his inexperience showed itself a time or two. He did get lost once for 16 days, the longest span of time anyone was separated from the expedition party. In the 1920s, a woman named Rattlesnake Kate capt ...  Show more

With each step, you slide 400,000 years back in time. Where are you? Behind a hardware store in New Jersey -- which also happens to be a massive prehistoric graveyard. The only thing that can save it from turning into an apartment complex is geologist Ken Lacovara and a community ...  Show more

We hear from a Latino city councilman who was there when it all went down, a Korean-American who worked at her family's gas station in Compton and a prominent black pastor who gave a memorable sermon to his South LA congregation. Oh, and we tag in our play cousins Mandalit Del Ba ...  Show more

Family names bind one generation to the next. But what if that name is lost? In this episode, a grieving family learns their legacy is being kept alive by a stranger from far away.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship an ...  Show more