Matt Kielty

Stories of first ones, last ones, and a whole bunch in between. 

To ease the claustrophobia of our locked-down lives, we put out the call to listeners to take us to their secret escape spots. What rolled in was a mesmerizing journey around the planet.

Today, paranoia sets in: we head to The Ceremony, the top-secret, three-day launch of a new currency, wizards and math included. Halfway through, something strange happens. 

A deep-sea Cold War mystery with subs and bombs and science. 

A terrible Christmas special befitting a terrible year.  

Who are the soccer moms of the 2020 election? We set out to find them.

A look at what happens when the police don’t do the one thing you expect them to.

What can flashing lights and an eerie reverberating sound do for the brain of someone suffering from Alzheimer’s? We update one of our favorite episodes.

Horseshoe crabs harbor a half-billion-year-old secret: a superpower that helped them outlive the dinosaurs. But it hasn’t just been saving their butts, it’s been saving ours too.

Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.

How a diabetic, a cop, and a bottle of orange juice changed the way we police, forever.

 What’s the one thing you’d pass on if we all disappeared tomorrow?

Walter Murch (aka, the Godfather of The Godfather), joined by a team of scientists, leads us on what felt like the magical mystery tour of super cool science.

An award show you’ve never heard of before.

An exploration into our very beginnings, of the first strides we took to become us. 

In 1822 a stork that got speared like a kabob helped baffled scientists answer a thousand-year-old question. Of course, that led to another question, then another, then another ...

Can you fit the identity of a whole nation into a dance? Of course not. But we tried anyway.

We scour the Atlantic Ocean for an answer to one of life’s slipperiest mysteries. 

A journey to one of the darkest sides of humanity’s attempts to measure the human mind and put people in boxes.