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The Panama Canal – Part 3: Make The Dirt Fly!

In the third and final installment of the series, President Theodore Roosevelt mobilizes the full industrial might of United States to “make the dirt fly” in Panama and succeed where the French Syndicate failed. But many perils await them in “The Zone”. From disease-bearing mosquitos and intractabl…

The Panama Canal – Part 2: I Took The Isthmus

After the French project to build a canal through Panama collapses in 1889 amidst disease and financial scandal, US President Teddy Roosevelt resolves to pick up where they left off. However, powerful interests in Washington are aggressively lobbying for a different route – not through Panama, but …

The Panama Canal – Part 1: Le Piège Mortel

In August of 1914, the United States of America completed a man-made waterway through the Panamanian isthmus, linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the first time in history. But that engineering triumph was the culmination of decades of toil, conflict and death. In this first episode of a mu…

Help Me Understand: Not Their Money, Their Power, with Marshall Herskovitz

"I don't believe we're coming to take their money. We're coming to take their power." The week of the midterms, Marshall Herskovitz wants the people who won to understand the difference. Help Me Understand with Dr. Rod Berger. Recorded while both of them are still worn out from election night, Emm…

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HONORING OUR VETERANS -  My Co-Host is Valerie Sudduth, Ret. Navy Chief.  Served 24 years.  She is still serving, Valerie was named 2026 Veteran of the Year in Advocacy for work connecting veterans, active-duty service members, military families, and first responders to quality behavioral health ca…

How college football's deadliest year built the NCAA

A listener emailed the Throughline team with a stunning factoid: Teddy Roosevelt helped create the NCAA to make college football safer. But is it true? What we find is weirder, grislier, and pettier than we expected.Guests:Denis Crawford, historian and exhibit designer at the College Football Hall …

Ep33. Entrepreneuring with AuDHD with Giarne Ashby

Content warning: This episode has some swearing, and talks about shame, internalised ableism and online trolls. Have you ever done all the things an entrepreneur does without feeling allowed to call yourself one? Same, friend. Same. This week I’m joined by the wonderful Giarne Ashby. She’s an AuDHD…

320: The Dolphin House

BUCKLE IN because Morgan's story today is absolutely something...we haven't quite found the words for it yet. This is the story of the Dolphin House and the experiments that took place there. It's gross and disgusting and hard to hear, but we do wrap things up with quite the tangent... and Teddy …

Theodore Roosevelt, "Winning the West, Vol. 3," 1894

Rob and Marie discuss Teddy Roosevelt's Winning the West Vol. 3, which, legend has it, he researched and wrote while fighting bears. Rob calls this book something that Quentin Tarantino might have written, had he been alive in the 1890s. This is likely to be the only episode in which Marie and Rob …

05 | Evan Baehr - Why Successful People Are So Lonely (And How to Fix It)

What if the drive that built your success is the same thing keeping you lonely? Evan Baehr has the resume founders chase: Princeton, Yale, Harvard, a $1.4 billion fund, companies backed by Peter Thiel. But he came on to talk about what never makes the bio, the quiet loneliness that trails high achi…