Tracing The Path Podcast
1) Episode 71: The Amana Utopia and Patriot Missile
Can you imagine a group running on perfect communism, flourishing in the capitalist market and then eventually spawning the Patriot Missile - to fight actual Communists. And it happened twice. In this...Show More
2) Episode 70: Who Knows The Truth? Does A.I.?
Somewhere along the way, we lost the truth. The questions we ask about the truth haven't been the same since Orson Welles' War of the World's Broadcast in 1938, but that doesn't mean we haven't stoppe...Show More
3) Episode 69: Status Symbol for Rent
Coming soon!
4) Episode 68: Hello Darkness My New Friend - The Story of The Family Who Created Sonar and Braille
In this episode we explore Simon & Garfunkel, Louis Braille, Charles Barbier, Valentin Haüy and René-Jus Haüy, Marvel Comics, Popular Science Magazine, Plato and even George Washington. How the world ...Show More
5) Episode 67: How a Coffee Shop Changed the World
This is the story of Edward Lloyd and his London Coffee Shop . . . and how they were able to change the world. Amazingly this story touches on the New York Stock Exchange, Bruce Springsteen, George Lu...Show More
6) Episode 66: The America of Tarzan and Buck vs Bell
The 1890 closing of the Frontier by the US Census Bureau is a major milestone in the history of the United States. The outcome of that change affected the mindset of the Americans. . . and from that c...Show More
7) Episode 65: When Osama Bin Laden Wrinkled FDR's Plans
This is the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henrietta Lacks, Jonas Salk, the March of Dimes, the Tuskegee Institute and their collective effort to eradicate polio from the earth. But the story als...Show More
8) Episode 64: Civil War Sutler's to Bob Hope's USO
In today's episode we look at all the people and plans it took to create the United Service Organization (USO). While there was enormous planning and smart people, it wouldn't be what it is without a ...Show More
9) Episode 63: Classified: How the Library Built the FBI
It all started in the 1500s with Sir Francis Bacon, and then in the 1700s with Carl Linnaeus. And along the way we run into Thomas Jefferson, President McKinley, Melvil Dewey, Elihu Root, Napoleon Bon...Show More
10) Episode 62: The Cheesy Results of WW II
One of the greatest products of World War II was "cheesy". And it's all Wisconsin's fault. In fact it's possible that without WW2 three of the greatest things in your daily life just wouldn't be...Show More