Recent Episodes
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America’s Biggest False Alarm Causes Mass Hysteria in L.A.
Jun 13, 2025 – 08:15 -
Did Barbed Wire End the Wild West?
Jun 10, 2025 – 09:17 -
The Backstory: The Adventure of a Lifetime Ends in Murder
Jun 6, 2025 – 09:51 -
The Backstory: Versace: When Envy Leads to Obsession . . And Then to Murder
Jun 3, 2025 – 09:29 -
The Backstory: Titanic’s Boss: Bad Guy . . Or Victim of Bad Press
May 30, 2025 – 08:55 -
The Backstory: Reincarnation Stories From the Famous and Not So Famous
May 27, 2025 – 07:36 -
The Backstory: From 30 Pounds of Wool to the Thong . . In One Century
May 23, 2025 – 09:02 -
The Backstory: Party Like a Pope!
May 20, 2025 – 07:15 -
The Backstory: Did a Missing Heiress Vanish Into a New Life?
May 16, 2025 – 10:34 -
The Backstory: Dead Pope’s Body . . On Trial
May 13, 2025 – 09:23 -
The Backstory: The Tragedy That Inspired Will Ferrell’s Anchorman Flicks
May 9, 2025 – 09:25 -
The Backstory: Jack Kerouac: On the Road With a Brilliant Disaster
May 6, 2025 – 10:12 -
The Backstory: How Do You Kidnap a Race Horse?
May 2, 2025 – 07:18 -
The Backstory: The Great Gatsby Was a Total Failure!
Apr 29, 2025 – 08:27 -
The Backstory: Why Do We Love Dog Movie Stars?
Apr 25, 2025 – 06:51 -
The Backstory: Blueprint For a Serial Killer
Apr 22, 2025 – 10:12 -
The Backstory: The Glamorous Ghost of Mar-a-Lago
Apr 18, 2025 – 07:04 -
The Backstory: Murder in the golden age of Hollywood
Apr 15, 2025 – 09:43 -
The Backstory: Test tube holds Thomas Edison’s dying breath
Apr 11, 2025 – 07:41 -
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
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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