Points North podcast

#Society #Travel #News #Interlochen Public Radio #Daniel Wanschura #Morgan Springer

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Host Francesca Amiker sits down with directors Joe and Anthony Russo, producer Angela Russo-Otstot, stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, and more to uncover how family was the key to building the emotional core of The Electric State . From the Russos’ own experiences growing up in a large Italian family to the film’s central relationship between Michelle and her robot brother Kid Cosmo, family relationships both on and off of the set were the key to bringing The Electric State to life. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts . State Secrets: Inside the Making of The Electric State is produced by Netflix and Treefort Media.…

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Points North is an award-winning podcast about the land, water, and inhabitants of the Great Lakes. Through narrative, sound-rich journalism that is deeply rooted in a sense of place, each episode entertains, informs, and surprises listeners everywhere.

86 episodes

Points North

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86 episodes

#Society #Travel #News #Interlochen Public Radio #Daniel Wanschura #Morgan Springer

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Some Things Never Change 27:18

13 days ago27:18

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Inside rustic cabins and yurts at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park there are log books. For more than 70 years, visitors have written in them. We went into this time capsule to see if people’s experiences here had changed much over the changing decades.

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Bear Trouble 18:02

27 days ago18:02

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When a black bear in Minnesota woke up from hibernation in the middle of winter and attacked three people and a dog, researchers were left with one question: Why?

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Presenting REAP/SOW: Buzzkill 28:58

6 weeks ago28:58

28:58

Americans stepped up to do something about dying bees. Beekeeping is all the rage right now. But what if all those backyard colonies are making the problem worse?

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Back to the Boundary Waters 23:06

8 weeks ago23:06

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Erik Grams has been taking trips to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota for over 30 years. It’s his favorite place in the world. But last year, during a fishing trip, there was a fatal accident that left Erik wrestling with his feelings about the place he loved.

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A Sticky Solution for Microplastics 19:37

10 weeks ago19:37

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Microplastics are everywhere. But after accidentally combining materials in a lab, scientists at the University of Michigan are on the cusp of discovering a new method to capture and remove microplastics from water. Researching it takes time, money, and repeated set backs.

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Big Abe’s Net 22:19

12 weeks ago22:19

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One calm September day, Big Abe LeBlanc set his fishing net in Lake Superior. Then he called law enforcement and turned himself in. What happened next changed fishing in the Great Lakes forever.

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The Squeaky Sand Phenomenon 13:37

14 weeks ago13:37

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On April 8, 2024, Meghan Hetfield and her partner Roni Pillischer witnessed a total solar eclipse over Lake Ontario. But in the middle of this intense and beautiful experience, something else kept grabbing their attention: the mystery of the squeaky sand all around them.

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Complete With His Language 14:22

16 weeks ago14:22

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Kenny Pheasant first became a teacher of Anishinaabemowin at 14 years-old, teaching customers from behind the meat counter at a grocery store. Now, it's his life mission to get more people speaking the Great Lakes’ original and endangered language.

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The Iceman Giveth, The Iceman Taketh 18:48

18 weeks ago18:48

18:48

This is a tale of two cyclists, one legendary race, and an unlikely rivalry.

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Saving David 22:24

20 weeks ago22:24

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One minute David Holtfreter was kayaking on Lake Michigan; the next he was in the water, fighting for his life. A fisherman saw David struggling from the shore and swam out about 200 yards to rescue him. But in the rescue commotion that followed, David wasn’t able to give the stranger a proper “thank you.”…

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Presenting Atlas Obscura: The Mysterious Sinkholes of Mount Baldy 12:29

22 weeks ago12:29

12:29

One family’s visit to a famous Indiana sand dune turns into a wild tale of a missing boy and mysterious tunnels.

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The Biggest Buck That Maybe Never Was 17:45

24 weeks ago17:45

17:45

In 1998, a hunter named Mitch Rompola claimed he’d shot the biggest whitetail in North America. It was all over the news, and people waited in anticipation for it to be entered in the record books. But then Mitch just went silent. And instead of becoming a famous hunter, he became an infamous one.

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A New Hope for Anishinaabemowin 15:21

26 weeks ago15:21

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Last December, Theresa Eischen was watching the news when a story caught her attention. The original Star Wars film was being translated into Anishinaabemowin, an endangered language. Theresa had zero voice acting experience, but she loves Star Wars and is fluent in Anishinaabemowin. So she auditioned to voice Princess Leia. It was a long shot.…

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The Last to Leave 14:37

28 weeks ago14:37

14:37

A researcher in Ohio was surrounded by hundreds of dead ash trees. They had been wiped out by this beetle called the emerald ash borer. But then, in that same forest, she found a lone tree thriving. Could this tree be the key to saving ash from extinction?

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Labor of Mixed Emotions 16:52

30 weeks ago16:52