Things That Go Boom

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 Sep 2, 2021

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Stories about the ins, outs, and whathaveyous of what keeps us safe. Hosted by Laicie Heeley. 

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Episode Date
Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): The Reason Why Soldiers’ Christmas Care Packages Wind Up in the Trash
Dec 23, 2024
Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): One Step From Nuclear War, and I Didn’t Even Know It
Dec 16, 2024
Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): What Poetry Taught Me About Moving Past War
Dec 09, 2024
Bringing it Home
Jun 24, 2024
Where Are the Women, Really?
Jun 10, 2024
Is Anybody Listening?
May 27, 2024
The End of the World as We Know It
May 13, 2024
Inside Poland’s Abortion Crossroads
Apr 29, 2024
The War at Home
Apr 15, 2024
Fika and Feminism: Part 2
Apr 01, 2024
Fika and Feminism: Part 1
Mar 18, 2024
Season 9: The F-Word
Mar 04, 2024
Things That Go Boom Introduces: Click Here
Dec 04, 2023
Well, What Do You Know?
Oct 30, 2023
Least Cost Paths
Oct 16, 2023
Tobacco, Trust, and the Artist Formerly Known as Twitter
Oct 02, 2023
Will the Internet Suck Us Dry?
Sep 18, 2023
Who Gets To Shut It All Down?
Sep 04, 2023
How to Break a Fish
Aug 21, 2023
Lost in Translation
Aug 07, 2023
Can You Hack a Nuke?
Jul 24, 2023
The Internet Is at the Bottom of the Sea
Jul 10, 2023
Coming Soon: Troubleshooting
Jun 26, 2023
How a US Reporter Was Imprisoned in Putin’s Russia
Jun 09, 2023
Getting L-A-O-D
Mar 20, 2023
Mr. Fonio
Mar 06, 2023
What’s Next for Brazil After Bolsonaro?
Feb 20, 2023
Can Cluster Bombs Show Us How To Stop a Nuclear War?
Feb 06, 2023
How Xi Jinping Plans to Fill China’s ‘Rice Bowl’
Jan 23, 2023
Reissue: Navigating the Strait
Jan 09, 2023
Reissue: Take This Job and Shove It
Dec 26, 2022
Are Military Families Really Going Hungry?
Dec 12, 2022
Samin Nosrat on War, Appropriation, and the Power of Food
Nov 28, 2022
What Our Nuclear History Means for Indigenous Food
Nov 14, 2022
Food, War, and the Conspiracy Supply Chain
Oct 31, 2022
Season 7: Food Fight
Oct 17, 2022
Cold Front: Tromsø
Aug 08, 2022
Cold Front: Beijing
Jul 25, 2022
Cold Front: Yellowknife
Jul 11, 2022
Move Slow and Fix Things
May 16, 2022
This Really Happened
May 02, 2022
To Appropriations and Beyond!
Apr 18, 2022
Of Militias and Mercedes-Benzes
Apr 04, 2022
You Get a Sanction, and You, and You
Mar 21, 2022
'Praying to Black Jesus' in Kyiv
Mar 05, 2022
Border-aucracy
Feb 21, 2022
Why Buy the Cow?
Feb 07, 2022
S6 Trailer
Jan 31, 2022
Downwind
Jan 17, 2022
What’s Next for Progressive Foreign Policy?
Dec 20, 2021
S5 Bonus - And You Thought Thanksgiving Dinner Was Intense?
Sep 20, 2021
S5 E7 - Navigating the Strait
Sep 13, 2021
S5 E6 - Take This Job and Shove It
Aug 30, 2021
S5 E5 - You Say Gatorade, I Say Bacon
Aug 16, 2021
S5 E4 - Amtrak and the End of the Free World
Aug 02, 2021
S5 E3 - Alright Dom, What's Next?
Jul 19, 2021
S5 E2 - Out From Under the Leaking Roof and Into the Rain
Jul 05, 2021
S5 E1 - Cheers to the American Middle Class
Jun 21, 2021
S5 Trailer
Jun 14, 2021
S4 Bonus - A Very Hokey 100 Days
May 03, 2021
S4 E9 - Baby Nukes: When a Little Boom Is All You Need
Mar 01, 2021
S4 E8 - Aliens Among Us
Feb 15, 2021
S4 E7 - Why One Congresswoman Wore Tennis Shoes on Jan. 6
Feb 01, 2021
S4 E6 - Saving the World With 50-Year-Old IT
Jan 18, 2021
S4 E5 - Duluth, Not as Cold as You Think!
Jan 04, 2021
Reissue: The Slog
Dec 21, 2020
S4 E3 - A Forward-Looking Foreign Policy
Dec 07, 2020
S4 E2 - The Blob
Nov 23, 2020
S4 E1 - Fee-fi-fo-fear
Nov 09, 2020
S4 Trailer
Oct 26, 2020
S3 E8 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - After the Apocalypse
Aug 24, 2020
S3 E7 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - Future Wars
Aug 10, 2020
S3 E6 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - Inner Decay
Jul 27, 2020
S3 E5 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - Democracy! (Yawn)
Jul 13, 2020
S3 E4 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - This Is Not a Drill
Jun 29, 2020
S3 E3 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - So You Want Your Own Army?
Jun 15, 2020
S3 E2 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - While We Were Sleeping
Jun 01, 2020
S3 E1 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - World War C
May 18, 2020
S3 Trailer (The Wrong Apocalypse)
May 04, 2020
S2 Bonus - Our Closet Bunker Broadcast on Iran
Jan 08, 2020
S2 Bonus - Amb. William Burns
Jul 08, 2019
S2 E7 (Fallout) - Collateral Damage
Jun 24, 2019
S2 E6 (Fallout) - No Cheese, Extra Pickles
Jun 17, 2019
S2 E5 (Fallout) - I Want Money
Jun 10, 2019
S2 E4 (Fallout) - Bad Blood
Jun 03, 2019
S2 E3 (Fallout) - The Slog
May 27, 2019
S2 E2 (Fallout) - The Worst Deal Ever
May 20, 2019
S2 E1 (Fallout) - Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
May 13, 2019
S2 Trailer (Fallout)
May 06, 2019
S1 E4 - What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About PTSD
Feb 12, 2018
S1 E3 - What Happens When the Military Thinks Outside the Box?
Feb 05, 2018
S1 E2 - Home Security
Jan 29, 2018
S1 E1 - The Bear
Jan 22, 2018
S1 Trailer
Dec 11, 2017