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The Big Ponder — 96 episodes

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Title
1

Ball Bearings

2

The Typewriter

3

Beer

4

Traffic

5

The Farm

6

Grief

7

Cartoons

8

Street Names

9

The Street

10

Hidden History

11

Sounds of Nature

12

Housing

13

Firsts

14

Winterreise

15

The Zoo

16

Humor

17

The Mom-and-Pop Store

18

Immersion

19

Krampus

20

The Night

21

Happiness

22

Airlines

23

Candy

24

Community

25

Adventure

26

Encounters

27

Road Trip

28

Listening

29

Wonder

30

Record Booth

31

Sacred Self

32

The Diary

33

Hunting

34

Home

35

The Diner

36

In Friendship

37

My Pen Pal

38

How Buildings Mean

39

The Flag

40

Little America Revisited

41

Anatomy of an Apology

42

Radio Wanderlust

43

The Garden

44

I Love You, I Hate You

45

Puppeteering from Darmstadt to DC

46

The Right to Housing

47

Showing Our Colors

48

US-American Soccer and the World

49

Legacies of the Berlin Wall

50

How to Walk in the City

51

Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke

52

The Passion of Chris Strachwitz

53

Germans in New Orleans

54

Under the Skin – Tattoo Artists

55

Heart in Space – German Scientists and NASA

56

Enjoy the Ride – About Bicycling

57

Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles

58

Quietude – In Search of Radio Silence

59

Seeing in the Dark – Volkmar Wentzel’s Photography

60

100 Years of the Bauhaus

61

Luftbrücke – 70 Years of Memories

62

The Library and the Book

63

Finding My Parents

64

Texas German - Auf Wiedersehen to a Dialect

65

Getting to Know the Gateau

66

The Berlin Ringbahn

67

Milwaukee’s German Heritage

68

Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride

69

Exploding Rents in San Francisco and in Berlin

70

Welcome to Motherland

71

No Restraint - Berger Cookies and the City of Baltimore

72

US-American Students in German Universities

73

Being Muslim in the Midwest

74

Sorting Out Recycling

75

The Story of the Brezn

76

What’s a Sister City Really?

77

Hessian Barracks in Maryland

78

German Bread - A Nourishing Craft

79

German-Texan Heritage Societies

80

The Detroit-Berlin-Connection

81

Culture of Coffee

82

American Sports in Germany

83

St. Hildegard of Bingen

84

German-style Wines in the US

85

A House for Reconciliation

86

Germans on Harleys

87

Faith, and a Side of Sour Beef

88

A Singer’s Life

89

German-style Apprenticeships in the US

90

Klinsmann in California

91

Suds an Stories

92

Thomas Buergenthal - A Lucky Child

93

The Colossi of Buffalo

94

Revitalizing Downtown Atlanta with German Investors

95

A Day With John Lennon

96

The Things We Brought