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Not Past It

by Gimlet

Ever wonder why the world is the way it is? Like, 1000s of years of humanity and this is the version of the world we came up with. This one? Same. Each Wednesday on Not Past It host Simone Polanen will pick a moment from that very same week in history -- and tell you how it shaped our lives today.

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1
The Great Big Butter Battle
27:22 Mar 26, 2025
2
The Price of Blood
30:53 Mar 19, 2025
3
‘Come On Barbie, Let’s Go Party’
30:48 Mar 12, 2025
4
A Notorious Life After Death
34:02 Mar 5, 2025
5
Korea’s Olympic Dream
29:24 Feb 26, 2025
6
The Nazi Hunter
33:42 Feb 19, 2025
7
F*** Your Slave Laws
28:15 Feb 12, 2025
8
TV’s Hail Mary Pass
37:26 Feb 5, 2025
9
The Last Queen of Hawaii
31:47 Jan 29, 2025
10
A New Sheriff in Town
34:08 Jan 22, 2025
11
The Sweet, but Deadly, Disaster
24:44 Jan 15, 2025
12
The Kings of Drag
31:40 Jan 8, 2025
13
Undercover at the Debutante Ball
32:05 Dec 18, 2024
14
Santa Snafu
33:39 Dec 11, 2024
15
World’s Most Famous Virgins
36:52 Dec 4, 2024
16
How To Invent A Holiday
25:59 Nov 27, 2024
17
Sabotaging Thanksgiving
28:22 Nov 20, 2024
18
Murder in Ogoniland
34:03 Nov 13, 2024
19
King Tut Died for Tourism
31:05 Nov 6, 2024
20
Election Trivia Smackdown
40:19 Oct 30, 2024
21
Houdini: The OG Ghostbuster
41:01 Oct 23, 2024
22
What’s Haunting The Lake?
40:15 Oct 16, 2024
23
Hooked on Black Horror
36:26 Oct 9, 2024
24
The Witch of Delray
36:06 Oct 2, 2024
25
How The Green M&M Got Sexy
37:54 Sep 25, 2024
26
Remember TGIF?
31:29 Sep 18, 2024
27
9/11 Makes Me Uncomfortable
31:49 Sep 11, 2024
28
Zsa Zsa Slaps a Cop
29:24 Sep 4, 2024
29
Colonists, Criminals, and Nic Cage
37:00 Aug 28, 2024
30
Tricky Dick Saves the Beach
32:59 Aug 21, 2024
31
On Wednesdays We Buy Companies
34:12 Aug 14, 2024
32
Every Little Thing: Behind the Pom Poms
27:14 Aug 7, 2024
33
The Olympic GOAT Gets Snubbed
34:20 Jul 31, 2024
34
The Notorious Ma Barker
29:32 Jul 24, 2024
35
Operation Ice Pick
27:39 Jul 17, 2024
36
Small Town Secession
31:03 Jul 10, 2024
37
United States of Illuminati
27:47 Jul 3, 2024
38
'You Are Killing Women'
39:00 Jun 26, 2024
39
The Paris Hilton Sex Tape
24:56 Jun 19, 2024
40
The Gay History of Camels
34:17 Jun 12, 2024
41
The Vax That Got Axed
32:07 Jun 5, 2024
42
A Race for a Better Breakfast
28:53 May 29, 2024
43
The Scopes 'Monkey Trial'
29:50 May 22, 2024
44
Guillotines to Hollywood Dreams
33:05 May 15, 2024
45
Where the Child Stars Are
37:05 May 8, 2024
46
No More Cinco de Drinko
30:19 May 1, 2024
47
The "Crying Indian" Ad
29:54 Apr 24, 2024
48
Japanese Americans Report Behind Barbed Wire
31:43 Apr 17, 2024
49
The Secret Abortion Conference
35:40 Apr 10, 2024
50
How The Joker Came To Be
32:27 Apr 3, 2024
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