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Music
We hear Valentine My Funny by Nils Frahm and F.S. Blumm from the album Tag Eins Tag Zwei.Notes
This idea came to me a long time ago while researching an old episode. I read an extraordinary article from the 1890s that hung with me, particularly the notion of folks writing in to try to become sideshow attractions.Episode 118 (On the Shores of Assawompset)
Episode 117 (Elizabeth)
Episode 116 (Hoover)
Episode 115 (A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station)
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Orbes Cintilantes - A special summer episode
"Relics": A Special Bonus Episode
A Scavenger Hunt (The Met Residency Episode 7)
Episode 113 (Elmer McCurdy Rides Again and Again)
Episode 112 (The Taking of Tom Sawyer's Island)
A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
Episode 111 (Cipher, or Greenhow Girls)
If You Have to be a Floor (The Met Residency Episode 6)
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Episode 109 (The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs)
Notes on a Plaque, Still Imagined
Episode 108, Met Residency #5: Temple
Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds)
Episode 106 (A Washington Monument)
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