Narratively Out Loud

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August 22, 2019 The Curse of Playing the Wicked Witch of the West
After nearly dying while filming “The Wizard of Oz,” Margaret Hamilton spent the rest of her career trying to escape her character’s evil shadow.

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12 min
August 19, 2019 Confessions of a Professional White A*****e
How I built a lucrative career (and gradually sold my soul) playing caricatures of awful white dudes on black TV shows.

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31 min
August 15, 2019 The Secret Order of Swiss Medical Saviors
In a country known for being modern and precise, an ancient healing practice passed down from the heavens has surprising staying power.

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13 min
August 12, 2019 Confessions of a Misfit on the Dog Show Circuit
Being a young, tattooed queer person in this hoity-toity world hasn’t always been easy. But I’ve found a way to follow my passion while letting my freak flag fly.

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15 min
August 08, 2019 Meet the Paranormal Moms Society
These suburban mothers are deadly serious about chasing ghosts.

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16 min
August 05, 2019 How Theme Parks Kept My Globetrotting Family Grounded
Through diplomatic placements that sent us all over the world and a scandal that changed everything, we always returned to Disney World.

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20 min
August 01, 2019 The Pregnant Scientist Who Raced Against Death to Transform Physics
In 1749, Emilie du Châtelet feared bearing a child at 42 would be the last thing she did. In her final year, she worked furiously on a magnum opus that would change the world.

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22 min
July 29, 2019 Risking Life and Limb to Catalog the World’s Plants
“Plant collection” may not sound perilous, but while scaling boulders and dodging snakes, I learned just how much these intrepid explorers risk to help understand our world.

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24 min
July 25, 2019 Secret Life of a Leftist Doomsday Prepper
When it comes to preparing for the end of civilization, gun-loving red-staters aren't the only ones taking matters into their own hands.

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17 min
July 22, 2019 The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket
My dad was one of the only people on Earth with a good-for-life, go-anywhere-you-choose pass from American Airlines. Then they took it away. This is the true story of having—and losing—a superpower.

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59 min