The Atlas Obscura Podcast

By: Stitcher Studios & Atlas Obscura
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  • Summary

  • An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.
    2024 Midroll Media
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  • Weed Week: The International Church of Cannabis

    Weed Week: The International Church of Cannabis
    Nov 8 2024

    Travel to Denver Colorado and meet Steve Berke who helped found the first International Church of Cannabis in 2015.

    Learn more about it here.
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    10 mins
  • Weed Week: San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club

    Weed Week: San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club
    Nov 7 2024

    The San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club was one of the first marijuana dispensaries in the country. Its members were people with AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses, and inside the club had stages, TV lounges, puzzles, and other things that would bring people together. Today, we meet the unexpected mix of gay rights organizers and cannabis advocates behind the club, and we hear about their unorthodox route to opening it – including why they tried to get busted by the police.
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    21 mins
  • Weed Week: Jirzankal Cemetery

    Weed Week: Jirzankal Cemetery
    Nov 6 2024

    An ancient cemetery in western China may hold the answer to a question asked by many a stoner: where on Earth did humans first smoke weed to get high?

    Learn more about the cemetery in this 2019 paper in Science Advances.

    Keep up with Rob Spengler’s archaeobotany lab here.
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    13 mins

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Vocal Fry!

Great content. The narrator’s vocal fry was distracting. Production was top notch in my opinion.

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Amazing

Literally the only thing I listen to other than audiobooks so inspiring and fun glad I discovered it!

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