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 unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement 2019-06-13
Eartha Kitt confronted the first lady and it nearly ruined her career 2019-06-12
The 'temporary insanity' legal defense started with an affair 2019-06-11
Eisenhower’s famous speech to U.S. troops the day before D-Day 2019-06-10
The painter who became the CIA’s master of disguise 2019-06-07
The ax that killed Leon Trotsky 2019-06-06
That time the CIA stole a Russian submarine 2019-06-05
The pistols that almost fell from the sky 2019-06-04
The rat that helped win the Cold War 2019-06-03
The test that changed childbirth 2019-05-31
Amid rising tension between the U.S. and Cuba, Hemingway's widow went on a literary rescue mission 2019-05-30
Frank Lloyd Wright tried to create a perfect house for an imperfect world 2019-05-29
Rising from ruin: The many rebuilds of Notre Dame 2019-05-28
A debate that went into extra innings: Can baseballs curve? 2019-05-24
How food found its way into the freezer 2019-05-23
The man who helped create the first measles vaccine didn’t vaccinate his own son 2019-05-22
Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims 2019-05-21
Why Naval Academy students climb a greased up obelisk every year 2019-05-20
The forgotten pioneers of the first American utopia 2019-05-17
The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame 2019-05-16
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