The Big Dig Returns
The Big Dig
GBH News
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
NEW name. NEW art. NEW season. NEW events. NEW mailing list. Listen for all the updates and a preview of what's to come.
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Sign up for our mailing list at: wgbh.org/thebigdig
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*LIVE EVENT* in Seattle, WA: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-dig-and-booming-podcasts-where-our-roads-go-next-tickets-1665207834459
*LIVE EVENT* in Portland, OR: https://literary-arts.org/event/opb-the-big-dig/
Transcript
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| 0:29.0 | slash go. |
| 0:33.8 | Hey listeners. I am, I'm really excited. I'm excited to be back in the feed to announce some big news and some big changes, some of which you might have noticed already, and some of which you can't have to listen along and you hear about. |
| 0:51.2 | So, first off, the most obvious one, the name. You may have noticed |
| 0:57.5 | if you open up this podcast feed, the name of the feed has changed, the artwork has changed. |
| 1:02.8 | So when we launched this feed two years ago now, I thought it would be just this one story |
| 1:09.1 | about this really complicated but weirdly emotional infrastructure project called The Big Dig. |
| 1:16.4 | Amazingly, and I feel truly so fortunate to say this, the team and I have gotten the chance to do a second season about how scratch tickets change the world of gambling. |
| 1:28.2 | It's called Scratch and Win. Check it out. And we are now working on a third season and a fourth season. So instead |
| 1:34.8 | of renaming the feed every time we drop something new, from here on, the show will be the big |
| 1:41.7 | dig. That does not mean everything will be about digging or tunnels or |
| 1:47.0 | infrastructure. It just means I love that phrase and we're sticking with it. Okay, it works. Don't, |
| 1:52.7 | don't overthink it. But here's what I really want to say about the name. For me, the point of having |
| 1:59.8 | this constant name for the show is that I think of all these seasons as connected. |
| 2:06.5 | In nerdy terms, I think of this kind of like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but for Boston politics in the 80s and 90s. |
| 2:16.2 | Characters will start to pop up again and again. Storylines will |
| 2:21.1 | cross over. And my hope is that the more you listen and the more stories we tell, the more the dots |
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