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Forever ago is back with a brand new episode all about the Native Youth Olympics! Join Joy and cohost Ali to learn all about how a group of students in Alaska started a sporting event that today has hundreds of participants!

Joy is assembling a delicious buffet meal, but wants to organize it in historically accurate order! Obviously. Where will she put the JELL-O? Does it go next to the ice cream, or over by the Oreo cookies?? Only a game of First Things First will help her decide.

Millions of people around the world love to watch the magical, musical, dance-filled films from India. The industry is nicknamed Bollywood. Join Joy and co-host Senna as they explore the life of pioneering filmmaker Dadasaheb Phalke, while excavating an ancient video rental store.

Host Joy Dolo loves the listeners of Forever Ago – but does she love them enough to do an episode about her nemesis MAYONNAISE??? Yes, yes she does.

Hey Forever Ago friends! Happy April Fools Day! We’re so excited to be back in your ears with brand new episodes next week, on April 9th!

Join Joy and Aron for a terrifically terrible take on First Things First– Worst Things Worst  Aron presents Joy with three historical flops, and she has to put them in order of which came first, second, and most recently in history.  

It’s Presidents Day! Join Joy Dolo as she solves a bunch of Presidential Puzzles with her boss, the President (of American Public Media)!

Can you tell me how to get…to Brains On Headquarters for a special Sesame Street Showdown? Sanden has been hard at work reading up on the beloved children’s show for an episode of Forever Ago. Now that his brain is full of marvelous muppet trivia, he wants to share it with his best buds, Marc and Molly. Join these three amigos as they play a game of Sesame Street So-and-so’s! 

Forever Ago and Brains On have each recently released episodes about whale communication. Join the hosts of both shows, Joy Dolo and Molly Bloom, as they get stuck in Elevator. The only way out: to play a whale of a game!

We have a real whale of a story for you this week! It’s a FIN-tastic classic. Joy and cohost Mina meet up with Hugh the humpback whale to hear how scientist Roger Payne changed the course of history for whales by releasing a record of their songs.

Rap music is one of the most popular genres of music in the world today. But where did it all begin? Join hosts Joy and Savion as they go back to the 1970s to hear two stories about how rap music started.

As times change, so do jobs, and careers that once were common can go extinct! Join Joy and co-host Amirah as they head to the world famous “This Used to be a Career Fair.”

You probably know Sesame Street as a fun, fast-paced show full of talking puppets, like Elmo and Big Bird. But it actually started as a huge experiment to see if TV could change kids’ lives for the better! Join Joy and co-host Truman as tell the tale of how Sesame Street came to be.

It’s the holiday season, which for Forever Ago host Joy Dolo means one thing: DEALS!  Help Joy check off her holiday shopping list with a game of First Things First, where she and co-host Petra guess the order three classic toys were invented in.

Black Friday is a huge shopping holiday in the U.S. that happens the day after Thanksgiving. There are tons of sales and sometimes people even wait for hours outside of stores to get the best deals! But where did this mega shopping day even come from? And what’s in it for the stores? Forever Ago and Million Bazillion have teamed up to investigate!

Gladiators were professional fighters who lived thousands of years ago in ancient Rome. But they weren't just fighters, they were also influencers who helped sell products and were hugely popular with fans. Join Joy and co-host Juliette as they explore the history of these athletes – and learn how some of them tried to escape their lives of constant battle.

Tune in for a super special election day episode from our friends at The Ten News!

Happy April Fool’s Day! Just kidding, we know it’s October. But that doesn’t stop Joy from celebrating April Fool’s Day all year round — especially with lots of banana peels and whoopee cushions!