Othemts Podcast Repository

I like podcasts. I created this sideblog for @o-the-mts as a place to save my favorite episodes and share them with others.

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100 Objects #11: Brannock Device - 99% Invisible

In 1925, the world saw the birth of what just might be the greatest gadget in American History: the Brannock Device. The metal contraption t

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The Origin of American Authoritarianism | Episode 6 - First America

We’ve all been told our founders created a democracy. Rebecca talks with Maggie Blackhawk (Ojibwe) about why that's only half the story. Bec

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The Finnish Baby Box - 99% Invisible

When reporter Olivia Humphreys had her first baby in London, the hospital sent her home with an underwhelming package: a small drawstring ba

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100 Objects #6: "Sharpened Screwdriver" - 99% Invisible

In this episode, Roman and historians Heather Ann Thompson and Elliot Williams tell the story of the sharpened screwdriver: the object at th

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(via Music and the Story of Haiti- From Vodou to Compas to Racine to Rara and Beyond | Afropop Worldwide)

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As much as I know the greed, corruption, and graft of the Trump regime, the details of their scams are still horrifying.

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Paper Trail

Reporter David Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer and soon learned that one of his drugs would cost almost $1,000 per pill. He set

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Karaoke Videos - 99% Invisible

Before YouTube, before streaming, before anyone thought too hard about what to put on a screen while a drunk person sang “Benny and the Jets,” a small army of scrappy filmmakers was quietly getting paid to make weird little movies. Nobody was really watching them. Nobody was asking for them. And yet, for about a

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100 Objects #3: The Pension Files - 99% Invisible

A stack of dusty paperwork, teeming with unheard voices. What do Civil War pension files reveal about one of the most successful slave rebellions in American history? In this episode, Roman and historian Edda Fields-Black trace a story of fire, flight, and freedom. It begins on a South Carolina rice plantation in 1863, as an

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John Williams: A Composer’s Life — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

John Williams has written some of the most famous film scores ever, from Star Wars to Indiana Jones to Jurassic Park . But before the b

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Today we examine what separates successful revolutions from failed ones, ask why so many revolutions of the 2010s fell short, understand how revolutionary energy gets neutralized, and explore the strategic case for nonviolent resistance.

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Health Care for All - Incorruptible Mass

Please donate to the show!This week, Incorruptible Mass takes on what state politicians in Boston keep promising but failing to deliver on:

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No Pulp: The Killing of the Florida Orange | Decoder Ring

The state’s once mighty citrus industry has collapsed. We investigate the culprits.

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Genesis Owusu on his latest album, 'Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge' : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast

The Australian musician's third studio album reflects on the social and political turbulence of modern times.

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Co-op City - 99% Invisible

Driving into New York City from the north, an unavoidable cluster of thirty-five identical brick high-rises dominates the horizon just past the Bronx border. All of them over twenty stories tall, all with the same brick facades. They’re easily mistaken for a public housing project. But the complex is Co-op City, the largest housing cooperative

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Who Was Lonelygirl15? | Decoder Ring

20 years ago, a teenage girl talking to her camera took the internet by storm. She was not who she seemed.

I somehow never heard of this before. I’m fascinated by how sophisticated and farsighted it was.