Sidedoor

By Smithsonian Institution

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Subscribers: 3198
Reviews: 10
Episodes: 210

Wasan Forsyth
 Sep 19, 2024
A big shout out to Liz Peabody and co. Really interesting podcast- you never know what is coming up next. Very well produced and highly entertaining.


 Aug 2, 2023

2bepainted
 Jan 5, 2023
Informative and fun.


 Feb 6, 2022

Steve
 Sep 3, 2020
Seems like every episode is becoming social justice propaganda lately. Used to be one of my favorites.

Description

More than 154 million treasures fill the Smithsonian’s vaults. But where the public’s view ends, Sidedoor begins. With the help of biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers and astrophysicists, host Lizzie Peabody sneaks listeners through the Smithsonian’s side door, telling stories that can’t be heard anywhere else. Check out si.edu/sidedoor and follow @SidedoorPod for more info. 


Episode Date
The Whole Truth
Dec 11, 2024
Finding Cleopatra
Nov 27, 2024
Bitcoin Bank Heist
Nov 13, 2024
The Wide Awakes
Oct 30, 2024
The Devil’s Composer
Oct 16, 2024
Bankers in the Boudoir
Oct 02, 2024
Jim the Penman
Sep 18, 2024
It's Season 11
Sep 11, 2024
Are Robots About to Level Up?
Aug 28, 2024
Social Media and the Subway
Aug 14, 2024
Archiving the Underground
Jul 31, 2024
Rocket Man
Jul 17, 2024
A Giant Listening Project
Jul 03, 2024
The Lost Woolly Dog
Jun 19, 2024
Cosmic Journey II: Voyage into the Abyss
Jun 05, 2024
Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"
May 22, 2024
Cicadapalooza
May 08, 2024
The Birds and the Beans
Apr 24, 2024
Dude, Where’s my Carbon?
Apr 10, 2024
Monkeyin' Around on the Devil's Island
Mar 27, 2024
Face Value
Mar 13, 2024
Jeepers Leapers!
Feb 28, 2024
Til Death Do Us Part?
Feb 14, 2024
To Sidedoor, With Love
Jan 31, 2024
Tails of Bravery
Jan 17, 2024
The Milkmaid Spy
Jan 03, 2024
Auld Lang What?
Dec 20, 2023
Welcome Back, Otter
Dec 06, 2023
Wrinkled Radicals
Nov 22, 2023
Farewell Giant Pandas
Nov 08, 2023
Resurrected: Spooked at the Smithsonian
Oct 25, 2023
CSI: Southern Pacific
Oct 11, 2023
Cellphones Rock
Sep 27, 2023
The 'Gentle Anarchy' of the Muppets
Sep 13, 2023
It's Season 10!
Sep 06, 2023
A Wild Ride on the Pony Express
Aug 30, 2023
The Hungerford Deed
Aug 17, 2023
Tyrannosaurus FX
Aug 02, 2023
Special: People Eating People
Jul 19, 2023
The Toxic Book of Faces
Jul 05, 2023
Building a Movement
Jun 21, 2023
Recording the World
Jun 07, 2023
The Funk List
May 24, 2023
Get Off My Lawn
May 10, 2023
Bill Nye the Sidedoor Guy
Apr 26, 2023
Space Marathon
Apr 12, 2023
Monsoon Mood
Mar 29, 2023
Lights Out
Mar 15, 2023
The Phantom Violins
Mar 01, 2023
It’s Season Nine!
Feb 22, 2023
Love Letters
Feb 09, 2023
The Cabbage Patch Kids Riots
Jan 25, 2023
King's Speech
Jan 11, 2023
The Monumental Imagination of Augusta Savage
Dec 28, 2022
A Very Merry Sidedoor
Dec 14, 2022
Lucy Hicks Anderson
Nov 30, 2022
Reservation Math: Navigating Love in Native America
Nov 16, 2022
Wronging the Wrights
Nov 02, 2022
Who Built the White House?
Oct 19, 2022
Spooked at the Smithsonian
Oct 05, 2022
Did Meat Make Us Human?
Sep 21, 2022
Love in the Time of Emoji
Sep 07, 2022
Dynamo Dot
Aug 24, 2022
Sumo Wrestlers vs. Firefighters
Aug 10, 2022
Culture in Crisis
Jul 27, 2022
Hubble Trouble
Jul 13, 2022
A Star-Spangled Bonus Episode
Jul 04, 2022
Get Off My Lawn
Jun 29, 2022
The Sex Lives of Giant Pandas
Jun 15, 2022
It’s Season Eight!
Jun 08, 2022
Bonus: Yes She Did!
Jun 01, 2022
Bonus: Black Feminism Re-rooted
May 18, 2022
Bonus: Moonshine
May 04, 2022
The Hungerford Deed
Apr 20, 2022
The Many Inventions of Beatrice Kenner
Apr 06, 2022
Broad Stripes, Bright Stars and White Lies
Mar 23, 2022
Take Who Out to the Ball Game?
Mar 09, 2022
Raven and the Box of Daylight
Feb 23, 2022
King's Speech
Feb 09, 2022
The Robot in the Mirror
Jan 26, 2022
The Fugitive Brewer
Jan 12, 2022
Edison’s Demon Dolls
Dec 29, 2021
Chiura Obata’s Glorious Struggle
Dec 15, 2021
Love in the Time of Emoji
Dec 01, 2021
Light of Freedom
Nov 17, 2021
King of the Herbs
Nov 03, 2021
Bloodsuckers!
Oct 20, 2021
Make Way for Elephants
Oct 06, 2021
It’s Season Seven!
Sep 29, 2021
Bonus: Patsy Mink
Sep 22, 2021
Bonus: Happy Birthday to Us
Aug 18, 2021
Olympic Bonus: Shredding Skateboarding’s Glass Ceiling
Jul 23, 2021
The Battle of Blair Mountain
Jul 14, 2021
Ode to Cicadas
Jun 30, 2021
The Goddess of Broadway
Jun 16, 2021
The Artist Critics Love to Hate
Jun 02, 2021
BONUS: Confronting the Past
May 26, 2021
Best of the Rest III
May 19, 2021
On The Money
May 05, 2021
BONUS: The 1957 Pandemic That Wasn’t
Apr 28, 2021
Holding out for a Herring
Apr 21, 2021
Hot Bird Summer
Apr 07, 2021
America's Unknown Celebrity Chef
Mar 24, 2021
A Very Cold Case
Mar 10, 2021
Life is Hard, Let's Meditate!
Feb 24, 2021
Reservation Math: Navigating Love in Native America
Feb 10, 2021
Sing a Song of Protest
Jan 27, 2021
How Wonder Woman Got Her Groove Back
Jan 13, 2021
Edison’s Demon Dolls
Dec 16, 2020
Bonus Episode: Tempest in a Teacup
Dec 02, 2020
Bonus Episode: That Time the FBI Called
Nov 18, 2020
The Gorilla Epidemic
Oct 14, 2020
Dress Coded
Sep 30, 2020
Appalachia Goes Beijing
Sep 16, 2020
The People's Insect
Sep 02, 2020
Bonus Ep: Cult of True Womanhood
Aug 26, 2020
The Riverkeeper
Aug 19, 2020
Votes for Hawaiians
Aug 05, 2020
Apollo 12's Really Close Call
Jul 22, 2020
Take Who Out to the Ball Game?
Jul 08, 2020
Shredding Skateboarding’s Glass Ceiling
Jun 24, 2020
America’s Unknown Celebrity Chef
Jun 10, 2020
Young Harriet
May 27, 2020
The People's Insect
May 13, 2020
Best of the Rest II
Apr 29, 2020
Birds, Birds, Birds!
Apr 15, 2020
The Milkmaid Spy
Apr 01, 2020
The Last Man To Know It All
Mar 18, 2020
Outer Space & Underwear
Mar 04, 2020
We're Back!
Feb 26, 2020
Cars, Stars, and Rock 'n' Roll
Jan 22, 2020
Ponzi's Scheme
Jan 08, 2020
The Worst Video Game Ever?
Dec 25, 2019
Finding Cleopatra
Dec 11, 2019
Adam Rippon's Olympic Mesh-capades
Nov 27, 2019
Apollo 12's Really Close Call
Nov 13, 2019
Dynamite!
Oct 30, 2019
This Episode Smells
Oct 16, 2019
The Dinosaur War
Oct 02, 2019
The Woman in the Frame
Sep 18, 2019
Field Trip!
Sep 04, 2019
Memory, Myth & Miniatures
Aug 21, 2019
The Wild Orchid Mystery
Aug 07, 2019
Things You'd Never Tell Your Parents
Jul 24, 2019
Space Jocks & Moon Rocks
Jul 10, 2019
The Worst Video Game Ever?
Jun 26, 2019
The Dinosaur War
Jun 12, 2019
Update: Meet the New Voice of Season Four!
Jun 05, 2019
Aloha, Y’all
Apr 24, 2019
Good as Gold
Apr 10, 2019
Abraham Lincoln: Prankster-in-Chief
Apr 01, 2019
The Feather Detective
Mar 27, 2019
Singing the Gender-Bending Blues
Mar 13, 2019
The Silence of the Frogs
Feb 27, 2019
Cheech Marin Gets Artsy
Feb 13, 2019
50 Shades of Gray Whales
Jan 30, 2019
Amelia Earhart's Revolutionary Flight Club
Dec 26, 2018
Inventor, Photographer...Murderer
Dec 12, 2018
This Color Is Who I Am
Nov 28, 2018
That Brunch in the Forest
Nov 14, 2018
Seriously Seeking Sasquatch
Oct 31, 2018
Slavery, Freedom & Grandma’s House
Oct 17, 2018
50 Shades of Gray Whales
Oct 03, 2018
Update: Passing the Mic!
Oct 01, 2018
A Right to the City
Sep 19, 2018
The World's Deadliest Animal
Sep 05, 2018
The Mystery Bones of Witch Hill
Aug 22, 2018
The Curse of the Hope Diamond
Aug 08, 2018
Season Three Update!
Aug 02, 2018
Red, White and Brew
Jul 04, 2018
Discovering the World’s Oldest Winery
Jun 27, 2018
Best of the Rest
Jun 06, 2018
Don't Call Me Extinct
May 23, 2018
Cherokee Story Slam
May 09, 2018
Painting Michelle Obama
Apr 25, 2018
Murder Is Her Hobby
Apr 11, 2018
A Crane with a Crush
Mar 28, 2018
Discovering the World’s Oldest Winery
Mar 14, 2018
America's First Food Spy
Feb 28, 2018
Killer Viruses and One Man's Mission to Stop Them
Feb 14, 2018
Enslaved and Muslim in Early America
Jan 31, 2018
Sidedoor Presents: AirSpace
Jan 17, 2018
If These Bones Could Talk
Jan 03, 2018
The Many Lives of Owney the Dog
Dec 20, 2017
This One's for Dilla
Dec 06, 2017
LIVE! Cookin' Up Stories
Nov 22, 2017
The Hungry Hungry Hippo Baby
Nov 08, 2017
Murder Is Her Hobby
Oct 25, 2017
Confronting the Past
Oct 11, 2017
Grandma Turned Me into a Ghost
Sep 27, 2017
The Man Who Defied Gravity
Sep 13, 2017
Artist in Dissidence
Aug 30, 2017
LIVE! Unintended Consequences
Aug 16, 2017
The Mean, Green, Water-Cleaning Machine
Aug 02, 2017
The Art of War
Jul 19, 2017
Bonus: Ale to the Chief
Jul 12, 2017
Red, White and Brew
Jul 05, 2017
If These Bones Could Talk
Jun 21, 2017
Guess Who's Back
Jun 07, 2017
Leave a Message at the Beep
Feb 01, 2017
Shake It Up
Jan 18, 2017
You Do You
Jan 04, 2017
Gaming the System
Dec 21, 2016
Butting Heads
Dec 07, 2016
Mid Season Update
Nov 30, 2016
Masters of Disguise
Nov 23, 2016
Confronting the Past
Nov 09, 2016
Special Delivery
Oct 26, 2016
Tech Yourself
Oct 26, 2016
Season 1 Tease
Oct 25, 2016