Recent Episodes
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The Backstory: Millions gazed at Lincoln's decomposing face
Apr 8, 2025 – 09:17 -
The Backstory: The Superfreak Behind Superfreak
Apr 4, 2025 – 08:43 -
The Backstory: Abraham Lincoln dreams of his own murder
Apr 1, 2025 – 08:02 -
The Backstory: Robert Downey Jr. reinvents himself
Mar 28, 2025 – 07:17 -
The Backstory: Tiny kidnap victims survive the Titanic disaster
Mar 25, 2025 – 07:28 -
The Backstory: How come there were no women’s running shoes until 1978?
Mar 21, 2025 – 08:18 -
The Backstory: Charles, Camilla, and Diana: Proving your virginity
Mar 18, 2025 – 08:02 -
The Backstory: Yasuke: The only black samurai
Mar 14, 2025 – 05:43 -
The Backstory: Losing your head over royalty
Mar 11, 2025 – 06:27 -
The Backstory: Graffiti was Pompeii’s Instagram
Mar 7, 2025 – 06:55 -
The Backstory: The guy that connected us all
Mar 4, 2025 – 06:37 -
The Backstory: Kate Chase: From the belle of Washington to egg lady
Feb 28, 2025 – 08:02 -
The Backstory: Stealing Frank Sinatra Jr.
Feb 25, 2025 – 11:02 -
The Backstory: Stealing George Washington’s head
Feb 21, 2025 – 07:43 -
The Backstory: Lucky Luciano: From mob boss to war hero
Feb 18, 2025 – 09:25 -
The Backstory: My bloody valentine!
Feb 14, 2025 – 11:24 -
The Backstory: Did Shakespeare steal the Romeo and Juliet story?
Feb 11, 2025 – 07:06 -
The Backstory: The real American psycho
Feb 7, 2025 – 08:48 -
The Backstory: How one woman helped ignite the Civil War
Feb 4, 2025 – 07:10 -
The Backstory: Nxivm: A Hollywood sex cult
Jan 31, 2025 – 08:27 -
The Backstory (Replay): A middle-class kid rises to the top of the ad world
Jan 28, 2025 – 08:55 -
The Backstory: The Mariana Trench: A hundred horrible ways to die
Jan 24, 2025 – 07:52 -
The Backstory: Beyond the Hamilton duel: Aaron Burr’s rise and fall
Jan 21, 2025 – 07:51 -
The Backstory: Why did these two presidents have 2 nonconsecutive terms?
Jan 17, 2025 – 06:40 -
The Backstory: The fire was master
Jan 14, 2025 – 11:49 -
The Backstory: Our world on fire
Jan 10, 2025 – 07:29 -
The Backstory: Barbie dolls: boobs, Mickey Mouse club, and fraud
Jan 7, 2025 – 10:48 -
The Backstory (Replay): A hero emerges from a 19th century insane asylum
Jan 3, 2025 – 08:03 -
The Backstory: Looking good at any price
Dec 31, 2024 – 09:10 -
The Backstory: Making a statement with A Christmas Carol
Dec 27, 2024 – 07:05 -
The Backstory (Replay): How did Christmas turn into trees and egg nog?
Dec 24, 2024 – 08:30 -
The Backstory: The charming spy who got away with it all
Dec 20, 2024 – 11:22 -
(Replay) The Backstory: The 9-year-old Union soldier
Dec 17, 2024 – 06:38 -
(Replay) The Backstory: Where did all the dinosaurs go?
Dec 13, 2024 – 06:50 -
The Backstory: The big movies their stars hate
Dec 10, 2024 – 08:39 -
The Backstory: Drinking the Kool-Aid – the Jonestown massacre
Dec 6, 2024 – 08:12 -
The Backstory: The American fashion model in Hitler's bathtub
Dec 3, 2024 – 07:54 -
The Backstory: Thanksgiving from another point of view
Nov 29, 2024 – 06:51 -
The Backstory: Unpacking Thanksgiving
Nov 26, 2024 – 08:50 -
The Backstory: The Human Zoo
Nov 22, 2024 – 08:10 -
The Backstory: Did Leonardo da Vinci invent robots and the helicopter??
Nov 19, 2024 – 07:02 -
The Backstory: Date raped by a superstar in classic Hollywood
Nov 15, 2024 – 09:27 -
The Backstory: Surviving a grizzly attack
Nov 12, 2024 – 08:14 -
The Backstory: From prostitute to queen of the pirates
Nov 8, 2024 – 09:37 -
The Backstory: Politics meets The Purge
Nov 5, 2024 – 06:54 -
The Backstory: Searching for the killer called the Axeman
Nov 1, 2024 – 07:35 -
The Backstory: Back from the dead to take the gold
Oct 29, 2024 – 07:44 -
The Backstory: Demons to moon landings – the story that inspired The Exorcist
Oct 25, 2024 – 10:56 -
(Replay) The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier
Oct 22, 2024 – 10:02 -
The Backstory: All the money in the world…and a torturous upbringing
Oct 18, 2024 – 07:31
Recent Reviews
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AHL8400000000Trump watchThis podcast has a gross commercial for Trump watches. Don’t like that they are promoting a criminal’s merchandise on this podcast.
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coolkkkidLoveWish the it was longer.
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Sinclair1995Wonderful infoI love your podcast. I do wish ads were a lot shorter, but the overall delivery and content provided is great. Keep doing a wonderful job.
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911 grailIdea for a new showThis show is great informative and quick. Patti could you please do a show about Jack Keroack the great American writer
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Global PodcastsFantastic Show!Outstanding effort by Patti post Morning Radio Show
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Nee 2020Good listen!I wish it was longer !! Love the fun facts my kids do too 💕
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sarah12345678899543More length, less adsI started listening to this podcast after hearing Patty talk about it on the Elvis Duran Morning Show, as I really enjoyed the concept and was intrigued to learn more. While the narration is great and the stories are interesting, I really wish the topics were a bit more broad. Sometimes I feel they are a bit too narrowed and the episodes are too short. If the topics were slightly more general, I think they could easily span 20 minutes. This brings me to my next point: the ads. Four minutes of ads is pretty normal for most podcasts that are 20 - 30 minutes in length. These episodes however are 8 - 10 minutes, meaning almost half the episode is filled with ads. This is far too much, and I’ve found myself disappointed that the actual contact was no more than 5 minutes long. TLDR: make the episodes slightly more general to lengthen them, which will make the amount of ads more bearable.
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rickdossBills gotta get paid butAlmost half of the podcast is ads.
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Kboyd14Learned About Honda SalesI tried so hard to enjoy the content, which was super short and so quickly delivered. I learned more about what ads iHeart has to sell than anything else. Kinda ridiculous.
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Daceface187Ad to episode ratio is impossibleFor such short episodes, the amount of ad time for this show is utterly ridiculous.
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Buddydog1141Great showThe topics are varied, so I’m always intrigued. The narration is great, too.
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DevonM16Captivating but too shortI love how entertaining this podcast is, I just wish the episodes were longer.
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xtina621Love it! Need it to be longer.Intriguing podcast but I with it was so much longer!
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Bone621Where are the episodes?I really enjoy this podcast, much different than the true crime podcast I usually listen to. I’m confused as to where are all the episodes. I thought the host said there were episodes twice a week but I only had 4-5 episodes. I’m I missing something? Want more 😊😊
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CHJ27Like it but…The background music is distracting and too loud.
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Clint.LoranceShort and powerfulRefreshingly educational, yet not so long as to lose your attention or disrupt your day.
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Dancehallgirl\Great Premise, Little SubstanceI heard an ad for this show and and was excited to check it out. The stories/themes presented so far are interesting, but the episodes leave much to be desired at only 6 minutes long. You can basically read the episode overview and learn everything you’ll hear in the show. The FLW episode was especially disappointing. If you have a short attention span, maybe this is for you.
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dene113Interesting, but the delivery…Steele speaks with an unsettling amount of relish about horrible things. It comes across as sensationalism. Perhaps this could be adjusted?☮️
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legos at 60Abraham LincolnI heard you on Elvis Duran show this morning talking briefly about Abraham Lincoln’s shooting. You are a wonderful story teller and great voice for story telling. I look forward to listening to more episodes.
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NanmarchHistoryI love history and interesting facts Thanks to Elvis in the morning radio show I tuned in to back story I’m glad I did
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mcotrelWhat a Treat!This taste of history in a podcast is quite tasty! It is interesting and fun, and easy to fit into your listening schedule. Bravo!
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marilynm62Great!Short, informative and very interesting.
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