I'm Penelope Spheras, on the host of a new podcast about the life and death of Peter Ivers.

Peter was the host of a TV show featuring prominent LA punk bands until he was murdered in 1983.

Forty years later, we dive into that music scene and the mystery of his passing.

Listen to Peter and the Acid King on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.

Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student-teacher relationship on our favorite show.

We're Suzy Bannockerim and Jessica Bennett, posts of the new podcast in retrospect.

Where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from the past that shaped us, and probably you,

to try to understand what it taught us about the world and our place in it.

You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.

Listen to In retrospect on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your favorite shows.

The last archive is a show about the history of truth in America.

Each episode, we tell a story about people coming up with some new way of understanding the world,

histories of science, technology, democracy.

This season, we've got stories on everything from mid-century songwriting machines to social network theory,

and plenty of mad inventors.

Of course I go, oh my god.

Well it's Dr. Frankenstein's monster isn't it?

Listen to the last archive on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

We're supposed to learn from our own mistakes that other people's errors can be instructive too,

from efforts to control the weather that went disastrously awry to the untimely death of the Segway Boss.

History is a treasure trove, mishaps and meltdowns that can teach us all.

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