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All Episodes

The Broadside — 141 episodes

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1

The original Siamese Twins

2

The shortsighted politics of forever chemicals

3

Sacred soil: Saving Native American mounds

4

How purple and teal became the colors of the 90s

5

Opposition to data centers is catching fire

6

ICE's building boom and the communities fighting back

7

Why it's so hard to find a good couch

8

A Nation Unraveled: Clothing in the Civil War

9

The Secret Game

10

The uncertain future of disaster relief

11

The Dare Stones and America’s oldest mystery

12

The academic freedom fight has entered the classroom

13

The forgotten heroes of Pea Island

14

Was the first rapper from North Carolina?

15

Southern snowboarders are changing the sport

16

Our hidden Space Race history

17

Southern Culture on the Fizz

18

The Battle of Hayes Pond

19

The hype behind the world’s largest gas station

20

Tony Hawk and the skateboard rabbit hole

21

Our Common Nature: Mountains and Forgotten Family with Yo-Yo Ma

22

100th Episode Special: There are no small stories

23

How mini golf spread from one man’s lawn to the world

24

Exploring our supermarket in the woods

25

Due South: Teaching the teachers about Native American history

26

The curious case of George Masa

27

Where have all the Black farmers gone?

28

The mushy guts and glory of giant pumpkins

29

Why our energy crisis runs through a gas pipeline

30

How the synthesizer became Southern

31

Southern hockey is thriving against all odds

32

The Latino South

33

Cherokee footpaths of the Appalachian Trail

34

A healthcare storm is coming

35

The rock that runs the world

36

Bonus episode: Who gets to play country music in America?

37

Who gets to play the banjo in America?

38

The Belichick effect and the money-sucking machine of college football

39

Pride, Prejudice and North Carolina

40

The innocence experiment

41

The race to save the Cherokee language

42

The Southern town that sparked a BMX revival

43

How beach music taught Southerners to 'dance sexy'

44

Where the Devil is in the dirt

45

Changing the narrative on Native nations

46

The mill and the man who changed the world

47

The other Declaration of Independence

48

Appalachia’s crypto boom and bust

49

A return to Midway Plantation

50

America's favorite bloodthirsty plant

51

The hunt for a million dollar fish

52

Can we save the red wolf (again)?

53

Pokémon is more than just a card game

54

The fight for free speech at public universities

55

The mystery of the Big Hole

56

The Kingdom of the Happy Land

57

What exactly is a Southern home?

58

Why cola became king (Revisited)

59

The wild world of Civil War reenactment

60

Everyone hates the DMV

61

The modern Graveyard of the Atlantic

62

Quarterback of the rising sun

63

Public schools’ big enrollment problem

64

The fight over fluoride

65

The road to rebuilding after Helene

66

Hell froze over: Southern hockey is thriving

67

The hunt for a long-lost musical masterpiece (Revisited)

68

Who gets to be Native in America

69

Election season is over… right?

70

How North Carolina became Japan's favorite state

71

Segregation academies and a forgotten migration

72

The gambling gold rush is here

73

That time we almost destroyed the world

74

The ballad and the flood

75

Deck your halls with Rauch balls

76

Tony Hawk and the skateboard rabbit hole

77

Can we save Christmas (trees)?

78

The mystery of the Brown Mountain lights

79

Storytelling's surprising digital age revival

80

The world's biggest video game is from North Carolina

81

A Day in the Life: The artist

82

The weirdest and wildest political stories

83

Why it's so hard to find a good couch

84

Bonus episode: Let's go to the fair!

85

Is it becoming too hot to work?

86

Hurricanes, helicopters and how we help

87

The art and alarming science of political ads

88

The gravestone grudge that changed cemetery law

89

The Latino South

90

How y'all conquered the world (Revisited)

91

Is this the death of DEI?

92

The new Southern Hollywood

93

How the Greensboro Six changed golf forever

94

What happens after a hate crime

95

Pro wrestling climbs back to the top rope

96

Love found while ‘chasing the light’

97

How beach music taught Southerners to 'dance sexy'

98

Bigfoot is from North Carolina

99

Can we bring red wolves back from the brink (again)?

100

The other Declaration of Independence

101

The surprising cricket capital of the South

102

The science behind saving an island

103

Craft beer’s emerging Southern flavor (Revisited)

104

Charlotte the stingray's tangled web

105

The hunt for a long-lost musical masterpiece

106

Billy Graham’s statue and the legacy of ‘America’s Pastor’

107

NASCAR's racing simulator revolution (Revisited)

108

Our trash lives next to this community

109

How many dollar stores are too many? (Revisited)

110

Zombie deer and our looming conservation crisis

111

Can we save the banana from extinction?

112

Breaking Southern baseball's color barrier

113

The toxic spill that left a legacy of change

114

Teachers challenge the nation's toughest union ban

115

Women's basketball is having its moment

116

Tornado Alley is moving to the South

117

Why cola became king

118

Robert F. Williams' bold history lesson

119

Purple, teal and the rise of basketball fashion

120

More power poles, more problems

121

Craft beer’s emerging Southern flavor

122

How one business built Black Wall Street

123

NASCAR's racing simulator revolution

124

Place, Erased: Environmental ghost towns

125

EVs are reshaping the South one small town at a time

126

The remarkable story of daredevil Tiny Broadwick

127

Featuring: Embodied - How fandoms build community

128

The kids are alright: NPR Student Podcast Challenge finalist

129

Recovering from long Covid could be a long journey

130

Millions across the South can’t trust their tap water

131

One state could be a test case for tackling the opioid crisis

132

Featuring: North Carolina pottery from clay to kiln

133

The process to return Native American remains is broken

134

My next-door neighbor is a weapon of mass destruction

135

The takeover of The Robesonian

136

How many dollar stores are too many?

137

What it takes to make music in prison

138

Asian American Studies has arrived

139

A look inside America’s climate data bunker

140

How y'all conquered the world

141

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