Best Signal Hill Studios Podcasts (2025)

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On [The Divided Dial]: Fishing In The Night 38:51

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Have you heard On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial? It’s awesome and you should, and now you will. In this episode they tell the story of shortwave radio: the way-less-listened to but way-farther-reaching cousin of AM and FM radio. The medium was once heralded as a utopian, international, and instantaneous mass communication tool…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - June 30, 2025 56:07

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Sex, Ducks and the Founding Feud 25:08

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Jilted lovers and disrupted duck hunts provide a very odd look into the soul of the US Constitution. What does a betrayed lover’s revenge have to do with an international chemical weapons treaty? More than you’d think. From poison and duck hunts to our feuding fathers, we step into a very odd tug of war between local and federal law. When Carol Ann…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - June 23, 2025 55:18

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Baby Shark 28:12

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This is episode five of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Today, the strange, squirmy magic behind how sharks make more sharks. Drills. Drama. Death. Even a coliseum of baby sharks duking it out inside mom’s womb. And a man on a small island in the Mediterranean trying, against all odds, to give baby sharks a chance in a little plas…

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Iredell Statesville Schools: June 20,2025 42:40

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Mystery Bay 21:01

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This is episode four of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Alison Kock was working at a car wash in Cape Town when she made a discovery that completely changed the course of her life. Inside a customer’s trunk, she found photographs of white sharks flying so high above the water they looked like airplanes. She followed those photogra…

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The Shark Inside You 28:53

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This is episode three of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Today, we take a trip across the world, from the south coast of Australia to … Wisconsin. Here, scientists are scouring shark blood to find one of nature’s hidden keys, a molecular superhero that might unlock our ability to cure cancer: shark antibodies. They’re small. They’…

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The Cage 18:22

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This is episode two of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Jaws spawned a thousand imitators: sharks in tornados, sharks in avalanches, sharks that battle giant octopuses. Hollywood has officially turned sharks into monsters of every shape and size. And yet, somehow, there will always be more. But drop below the surface, into the cold…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - June 16,2025 55:03

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Takin Care of NC with Rep. Jeff McNeely! My guest this morning is Congressman JD Hayworth, talking about Making America Healthy Again.Thank you, Representative Jeff McNeelyBy Signal Hill Studios

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Making a Monster 26:38

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Episode one of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Rodney Fox went into the ocean one summer day in 1963. He came out barely alive, his body torn apart by a great white shark. At the time, it was one of the worst shark attacks ever survived. After he recovered, he was pulled back into the shadowy world he feared most. Again and again …

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Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks 2:23

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In the summer of 1975, Jaws scared an entire generation out of the water. The film burned an idea into our cultural memory: they are mindless, man-eating monsters. We set out to tell a different story about sharks. Five stories over five days. We tear down deep-seated myths about sharks, plunge into the water with them, and find sharks that explode…

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Double-Blasted 20:54

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We first aired this episode in 2012, but at the show we’ve been thinking a lot about resilience and repair so we wanted to play it for you again today. It’s about a man who experienced maybe one of the most chilling traumas… twice. But then, it leads us to a story of generational repair. On the morning of August 6th, 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in …

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Iredell Statesville Schools: June 13, 2025 39:59

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Representative Jeff McNeely - June 9, 2025 56:43

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The Elixir of Life 50:59

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Doctor and special correspondent, Avir Mitra takes Lulu on an epic journey live on stage at a little basement club called Caveat, here in New York. Starting with an ingredient in breastmilk that babies can’t digest, a global hunt that takes us from Bangladesh to the Mennonite communities here in the US, we discover an ancient symbiotic relationship…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - June 2, 2025 54:40

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Iredell Statesville Schools: May 30, 2025 16:16

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A Flock of Two 19:43

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Animals rescue people all the time, but not like this. In this episode, first aired more than a decade ago, Jim Eggers is a 44-year-old man who suffers from a problem that not only puts his life at risk—it jeopardizes the safety of everybody around him. But with the help of Sadie, his pet African Grey Parrot, Jim found an unlikely way to manage his…

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Iredell Statesville Schools May 23, 2025 40:46

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Dr. James welcomes Ella Troutman and Carson Ball from South Iredell high school.By Signal Hill Studios

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The Echo in the Machine 32:42

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Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. Youtube does it for all our videos. Our phones will do it in real time. It’s frictionless. And yet, if it weren’t for an unlikely crew of protesters and office workers, it might still be impossible. This week, the story of our attempts to make the spoken visible. The magicians who tri…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - May 19, 2025 55:59

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How to Cure What Ails You 25:01

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Now that we have the ability to see inside the brain without opening anyone's skull, we'll be able to map and define brain activity and peg it to behavior and feelings. Right? Well, maybe not, or maybe not just yet. It seems the workings of our brains are rather too complex and diverse across individuals to really say for certain what a brain scan …

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Iredell Statesville Schools: May 16, 2025 30:45

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Representative Jeff McNeely - May 12,2025 54:26

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The First Known Earthly Voice 38:07

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What happens when a voice emerges? What happens when one is lost? Is something gained? A couple months ago, Lulu guest edited an issue of the nature magazine Orion. She called the issue “Queer Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity,” and it was a wide-ranging celebration of queerness in nature. It featured work by amazing writers like Ocean Vuong, K…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - May 5,2025 1:06:33

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Terrestrials: The Snow Beast 31:23

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Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the North Pole, spending her afternoons scavenging for ancient treasures on the ground. One day, she found something the size of a potato chip. Turns out, it was a three and half million year old chunk of bon…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - April 28, 2025 56:59

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The Age of Aquaticus 43:00

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For years, scientists thought nothing could live above 73℃/163℉. At that temperature, everything boiled to death. But scientists Tom Brock and Hudson Freeze weren’t convinced. What began as their simple quest to trawl for life in some of the hottest natural springs on Earth would, decades later, change the trajectory of biological science forever, …

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Ghosts in the Green Machine 33:19

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In honor of our Earth, on her day, we have two stories about the overlooked, ignored, and neglected parts of nature. In the first half, we learn about an epic battle that is raging across the globe every day, every moment. It's happening in the ocean, and your very life depends on it. In the second half, we make an earnest, possibly foolhardy, atte…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - April 14, 2025 54:48

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Iredell Statesville Schools: April 11, 2025 35:03

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Signal Hill: Caterpillar Roadshow 50:34

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A couple years ago, an entomologist named Martha Weiss got a letter from a little boy in Japan saying he wanted to replicate a famous study of hers. We covered that original study on Radiolab more than a decade ago in an episode called Goo and You – check it out here – and in addition to revealing some fascinating secrets of insect life, it also ra…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - April 7, 2025 57:47

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Iredell Statesville Schools: April 4, 2025 31:05

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Killer Empathy 25:52

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In an episode first aired in 2012, Lulu Miller introduces us to Jeff Lockwood, a professor at the University of Wyoming, who spent a part of his career studying a particularly ferocious set of insects: Gryllacrididae. Or, as Jeff describes them, "crickets on steroids." They have crushingly strong, serrated jaws, and they launch all-out attacks on a…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - March 31, 2025 54:24

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Iredell Statesville Schools: March 28, 2025 49:11

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Malthusian Swerve 38:58

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Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we? In this episode, we partnered with the team at Planet Money to take stock of the essential raw materials that enable us to live as we do here on Earth—everything from sand to copper to oil— and tally up how much we have left. Are we living with reckless abandon? And if so, is there e…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - March 24, 2025 55:42

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Iredell Statesville Schools: March 21, 2025 43:08

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Everybody's Got One 28:12

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We all think we know the story of pregnancy. Sperm meets egg, followed by nine months of nurturing, nesting, and quiet incubation. this story isn’t the nursery rhyme we think it is. In a way, it’s a struggle, almost like a tiny war. And right on the front lines of that battle is another major player on the stage of pregnancy that not a single perso…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - March 17, 2025 1:00:23

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Growth 58:52

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It’s easy to take growth for granted, for it to seem expected, inevitable even. Every person starts out as a baby and grows up. Plants grow from seeds into food. The economy grows. That stack of mail on your table grows. But why does anything grow the way that it does? In this hour, we go from the Alaska State Fair, to a kitchen in Berkeley, to the…

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Representative Jeff McNeely - March 10, 2025 54:39

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Iredell Statesville Schools: March 7, 2025 39:56

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More Perfect: Sex Appeal 1:05:21

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In 2017 our sister show, More Perfect aired an episode all about RBG, In September of 2020, we lost Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the annals of history. She was 87. Given the atmosphere around reproductive rights, gender and law, we decided to re-air this More Perfect episode dedicated to one of her cases. Because it offers a unique …