The Atlas Obscura Podcast

By: Stitcher Studios & Atlas Obscura
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  • An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.
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  • Roger Williams Root (Classic)

    Roger Williams Root (Classic)
    Sep 13 2024

    The hunt to memorialize Rhode Island’s founder created one of the state’s strangest and most enduring myths. Learn more about Roger Williams relationship to local indigenous tribes here.
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    13 mins
  • A Pasta Tour of Italy with Dan Pashman

    A Pasta Tour of Italy with Dan Pashman
    Sep 12 2024

    Cookbook author and Sporkful host Dan Pashman sets out on a research trip across Italy in search of highly regional pasta dishes that he can’t find anywhere else. Along the way, he learns a shocking truth about Italy and pasta, and ponders innovation and authenticity in one of the world’s most popular cuisines. Check out Dan’s new cookbook, Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People.

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    23 mins
  • The Day the Tractors Stood Still

    The Day the Tractors Stood Still
    Sep 11 2024

    In May 2024, tractors across the American Midwest stalled. But that was only the first piece of a much larger story. Journalist Jason Koebler takes us to Nebraska and Illinois to find out what is going on with American tractors – and what Ukrainian hackers have to do with it. Read more of Jason’s reporting on John Deere and the Right to Repair movement.
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    18 mins
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Vocal Fry!

Great content. The narrator’s vocal fry was distracting. Production was top notch in my opinion.

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Amazing

Literally the only thing I listen to other than audiobooks so inspiring and fun glad I discovered it!

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