pplpod

Every time you write, type, or speak, you're using an invention so ancient and so foundational that you've likely never stopped to consider it. pplpod takes a microscopic look at the letter L to revea...

4 Mar 18min

pplpod celebrates the extraordinary resilience of Little Jimmy Scott, whose stolen voice became one of jazz's most uniquely influential contributions despite decades of exploitation and invisibility. ...

4 Mar 19min

From Big Bird's television companion to maximum-security prisoner to Eisner-nominated comic book writer—pplpod unravels the mind-bending trajectory of Percy Carey, known to the world as MF Grimm, the ...

4 Mar 18min

In an era of streaming chaos and algorithm-driven content, pplpod examines the improbable survival of Live with Kelly and Mark, the daytime television juggernaut that has dominated American living roo...

4 Mar 18min

pplpod takes a fascinating deep dive into a microscopic slice of scientific history that reveals tremendous implications about how humanity understands the world. This episode examines Leptura longipe...

4 Mar 17min

From farm boy to California's largest taxpayer, pplpod traces the astonishing economic genius of Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin, whose unconventional strategy during the 1853 Gold Rush created an empir...

4 Mar 20min

Most universities observe society from a safe distance. But pplpod investigates UCA El Salvador, an institution that chose to participate in its nation's violent transformation. The José Simeón Cañez ...

4 Mar 19min

pplpod pulls back the curtain on one of music's greatest illusions: the 1965 Live at the London Palladium album featuring Judy Garland and an eighteen-year-old Liza Minnelli. The cover promises a perf...

4 Mar 16min