The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families
by Mick Sullivan
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Estimated from 17 chart positions in 17 markets.
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- 🇺🇸US · Kids & Family#6730K to 100K
- 🇦🇺AU · Kids & Family#1195K to 30K
- 🇨🇦CA · Kids & Family#1465K to 30K
- 🇪🇸ES · Kids & Family#3030K to 100K
- 🇧🇷BR · Kids & Family#1521K to 10K
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Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
62K to 229K🎙 ~2x weekly·143 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
124K to 458K🇺🇸22%🇪🇸22%🇦🇪22%+14 more - Active Followers
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50K to 183K
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Emily the Cow, Geronimo The Beaver, and the Rostocker Pfeilstorch
Jun 17, 2026
18m 01s
Lost Woods and Found Amendments
May 31, 2026
32m 58s
Animals Vol 3: Signalman Jack, Cacareco, and Pickles!
May 18, 2026
17m 07s
Past Scent (and Other Senses)
Apr 30, 2026
34m 14s
Animals: Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, Vic the Cat, and Mungo the Squirrel
Apr 16, 2026
16m 48s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/17/26 |  Emily the Cow, Geronimo The Beaver, and the Rostocker Pfeilstorch | An escaping cow, Operation Beaver Drop, and a migration mystery solved by a bird with a spear - all on this episode of Important Animals From History - Volume 4! | 18m 01s | ||||||
| 5/31/26 |  Lost Woods and Found Amendments✨ | old growth forestsurveying error+4 | — | 27th Amendment | Minnesota | Lost 40Minnesota+5 | — | 32m 58s | |
| 5/18/26 |  Animals Vol 3: Signalman Jack, Cacareco, and Pickles!✨ | animalshistory+3 | — | — | South AfricaBrazil | Signalman JackCacareco+4 | — | 17m 07s | |
| 4/30/26 | Past Scent (and Other Senses)✨ | extinct flowersscent recreation+4 | — | Past Scent | — | extinct flowerscent+6 | — | 34m 14s | |
| 4/16/26 |  Animals: Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, Vic the Cat, and Mungo the Squirrel✨ | animalshistory+3 | — | Important Animals From History | — | animalshistory+5 | — | 16m 48s | |
| 3/31/26 |  Hidden and Lost✨ | arthistory+3 | — | The Amber Room | — | Amber RoomEnigma Machine+3 | — | 34m 20s | |
| 3/16/26 |  Important Animals in History Vol. 1✨ | animals in historyhistorical figures+3 | — | Clara the RhinoMozart's Starling+1 | — | historyanimals+3 | — | 16m 23s | |
| 2/28/26 |  Life Savers✨ | medical historylife saving+3 | — | — | — | rubber glovesoperating room+3 | — | 33m 06s | |
| 1/28/26 |  Peanut Butter and Jelly✨ | history of sandwichespeanut butter+3 | — | Tumble PodcastPeanut Butter and Jelly | — | peanut butterjelly+3 | — | 35m 43s | |
| 12/29/25 |  Misers✨ | misersCharles Dickens+5 | — | — | Krakow, Poland | misersCharles Dickens+5 | — | 30m 44s | |
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| 11/30/25 |  Art Spies and Underwater Toilets✨ | World War IIart preservation+4 | — | German Army | Nazi-occupied ParisU-boat U-1206 | World War IIRose Valland+4 | — | 31m 50s | |
| 10/31/25 |  Moving Water✨ | engineering featssanitation+3 | — | — | Erie CanalChicago River | Erie CanalChicago River+5 | — | 33m 42s | |
| 10/27/25 |  Kids Listen Big Emotions✨ | emotionslove+4 | — | Kids ListenBut Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids+1 | — | big emotionskids podcast+5 | — | 22m 26s | |
| 10/15/25 |  Halloween Special: Twain's Ouija Novel✨ | HalloweenOuija Board+3 | Nate DuFort | Unspookable | — | HalloweenMark Twain+5 | — | 22m 32s | |
| 9/30/25 |  Very Hairy | Episode 110! Peter the Great, The Hairy Eagle and more! Did I decide on an episode about Peter the Great just so I could say 6-7 a few times to be cringe and make kids laugh? Yes, yes I did. But it's a really fun story about when the Tsar of All Russia travelled "incognito" through Europe. And as a bonus, we're talking hair sales, hair wreaths, and even the not-so-famous "Hairy Eagle!" | 36m 24s | ||||||
| 8/29/25 |  Handwritten | Episode 109 tells the story of Lincoln's the speech Lincoln lost before his inauguration in 1861. Also included is the story of Ely S. Parker, an indigenous Seneca man who made an impact in the Civil War - and who had really nice handwriting. | 33m 22s | ||||||
| 7/30/25 |  Lost Bones | Composer Joseph Haydn is buried with two skulls. You'll never believe why (hint: it has to do with phrenology). Meanwhile Thomas Paine's bones went missing thanks to an overly enthusiastic fan. | 32m 28s | ||||||
| 6/30/25 |  Mountains To Climb | Henriette D'angeville was the first woman to climb Mount Blanc in the Alps, despite everyone advising her not to try it. Decades later, Julia Archibald Holmes (a friend of John Brown's) became the first woman to summit Pike's Peak, a feat that Pike himself never did. | 31m 25s | ||||||
| 5/30/25 |  Electric Kids | Philo Farnsworth loved electricity so much he came up with a way to invent television - as a 14 year old! Centuries beforehand Stephen Gray, a British scientist, learned more about electricity than anyone before him - and he used children to show how it worked! | 34m 00s | ||||||
| 4/29/25 |  Good Things to Eat | This episode will make you hungry! Rufus Estes and Chin Foin both left a big mark on food, both lived in Chicago at the same time, and both had their food featured in important cookbooks in 1911. | 34m 39s | ||||||
| 3/29/25 |  One Year, Two Hoaxes | The year 1917 gave us both the birth of the Cottingly Fairies and the silly fake history known as the Bathtub Hoax. | 34m 21s | ||||||
| 2/27/25 |  Moving Stuff Around - Hi Jolly and Elisha Otis | A man named Hadji Ali, but known as Hi Jolly, was an important figure with the US Army's short lived Camel Corps, and his legend lives on today. Around the same time a man named Elisha Otis changed the world with the elevator brake. It was safe and carried people higher and higher! | 31m 31s | ||||||
| 1/29/25 |  Banneker's Clock and Pearse's Plane | Two guys who grew up on farms. Both were tinkerers. Benjamin Banneker, a free Black American created the first striking clock built in America. Richard Pearse, from New Zealand, was a pioneer in flight. Was he a first? we don't know for sure. But he was pretty interesting! | 33m 29s | ||||||
| 12/29/24 | Oceans to Cross with Tori Murden-McClure | Episode 101 tells the story of Tori Murden-McClure's solo row across the Atlantic Ocean. In addition to her story, hear her speak with Mick on the 25th anniversary of her successful solo crossing. Learn more about Tori in her book, "A Pearl in the Storm," or from the Audible recording of Dawn Landes's musical, Row: https://www.amazon.com/Row/dp/B091QB7SMS Or hear Dawn's album of the same name, based on Tori's story here: https://dawnlandesofficial.bandcamp.com/album/row | 52m 27s | ||||||
| 11/30/24 |  Animal Surprises | Episode 100, y'all! Beautiful Jim Key was born sickly and weak, but became world famous and is remembered as the smartest horse in the world. His training and care came from a former enslaved man named Doctor William Key, and together, they made a profound impact on the world. Likewise, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was a museum curator in South Africa who discovered a fish believed to be extinct in 1938. The discovery made a tremendous impact on science and natural understanding. Plus, she was very cool. | 45m 35s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
17 placements across 17 markets.
Chart Positions
17 placements across 17 markets.