Edge of the Story
True stories of overlooked witnesses at pivotal moments in history and the events they quietly observed.
Episodes
35 episodes
Flocked? Season 2 Episode 11
Everyone already knows what Flock Safety cameras are for — right? A hundred and twenty thousand of them are watching roads across the country, and the loudest voices on Facebook have already decided what that means. This week, Darrell and Julia...
S2E10 - The Intelligence Isn't Artificial - It's Assisted
In 1948, two Air Force meteorologists broke a federal policy against forecasting tornadoes — and were right, eighteen times in a row. This week, Edge of the Story asks what happens when that same instinct shows up again: AI cameras catching wil...
The Seven, Part Five: The Conclusion
This is the final episode of The Seven and 5 part audiobook.
The Question That Changes the Meeting
In 1955, two brothers running a nine-year-old bookkeeping firm in Kansas City get asked one plain question by a stranger who has nothing to lose by asking it, and by the next morning their storefront can't hold the crowd it built. That's the wh...
The Seven, Part 4: The Wait
In part 4 of The Seven, the ballot campaign has become something no one can control. As Cincinnati closes in on the nineteen fifty-seven All-Star vote, Red Edwards finds himself caught between the truth he has always defended and the c...
S1E2 - Not Possible
A man puts a working machine on a conference table. An executive looks straight at it and tells him it is not possible. Everybody in that room already knows why, and not one of them will say it out loud. Fourteen years later he puts his own nam...
The Seven, Part Three: The Cost of Momentum
In Part Three of The Seven, Cincinnati’s quiet All-Star ballot campaign begins to outgrow the bars and back rooms where it started. Sportswriter Red Edwards is pressured to shape the story of his city, while the people behind the schem...
Four Me, Four Handoffs - Observation One - S1E1
Edge of the Story, Season 1, Episode 1: "Four Men, Four Handoffs" (Quiet Witnesses, Observation One)In July 2009, a man died in San Diego at eighty-four, and every obituary got the story wrong — not his name, but the name...
The Seven Part 2 - The Conspiracy Takes Shape
The Seven - Part 2Winter finally loosens its grip on Cincinnati, but what started as bar talk at Norm's has stopped being a joke. Chapters 5–8 pull sportswriter Red Edwards across the river to the Beverly Hills Supper Club, where three m...
Season2 Final - The Alert
Four squad cars. A parking lot. A weapon drawn, and the words "Get out of the car" — and then we leave it there, because what happens next isn't the point yet. This week, Darrell and Julia close out Season Two by walking through an entirely ord...
The Seven - Part 1
The Seven | Part 1: Every Scandal Has a BeginningBefore seven Cincinnati Reds players appeared on the 1957 National League All-Star ballot, there was a story no one saw unfolding.The Seven is a work of historical f...
The Gap - Bonus Episode
A discussion of the book, The Gap. A conversation between Julia and Darrell talking about the book, an introduction to Gap2 and The Seven which comes out on Audio in August.
The Gap — Part 4: The Reckoning
Part 4 of 4 — the finale.Four live debates nobody's settled: who pays for the power lines a data center needs, whether cooling standards should be mandatory, what a landowner is owed when infrastructure crosses their fence, and whether a...
S2-E9 Playing the Gap
The Piper Alpha oil platform disaster of 1988 killed 167 men in the North Sea. What Lord Cullen's two-year public inquiry found was that no single decision caused the disaster. Every decision, taken alone, was defensible. The cluster killed the...
The Gap — Part 3: The Machinery
Part 3 of 4. Parts One and Two showed you what the buildings cost. Part Three shows you who's paying to shape how you hear about it.Inside this one: the Sierra Club's own $40 million funding crisis, and the pivot that followed it. A cons...
Trust, Were You Told Before You Had To Decide
There's a park in Seattle where the rust is the point. When a century-old gas plant shut down on the shores of Lake Union, the city could have buried the past under sod and called it clean. Instead, landscape architect Richard Haag fought for s...
The Gap — Part 2: The Things We Haven't Measured
Part 2 of 4. This is where the story comes home. In Part One the costs were numbers — here they're a fence line, a well, a riverbed.We walk the ground right next to the buildings: the Hill Country ranchland Brian Crawford watches from hi...
S2 E7- When Twenty One Elephants Walk Into A Data Center
S2E7: "Who Crosses First"In 1883, New Yorkers watched the Brooklyn Bridge open under a cloud of doubt — until twelve people died in a panic on a staircase, killed not by the bridge but by the fear that it couldn't hold. A year lat...
S2 E6 - Built on the Relapse
Season 2 has walked through four rooms where the guardrails came off. Episode 6 opens the second half of the season in behavioral health — the addiction and mental-health treatment industry that pays for "evidence-based" care without ever requi...
S2 E5 - When The Guardrails Come Off
On June 2, 2026, the Administrator of Medicare and Medicaid stood at a White House podium. He was answering a question about fraudulent Affordable Care Act enrollments — five to six million people, some of whom did not know they had been enroll...
Season 2, Episode 4 — The Word That Covered the Spread
A hospital system in Indianapolis paid the federal government $345 million last year to settle systematic kickback allegations. The day after the settlement, that hospital continued to buy pharmaceuticals at 25 to 50 percent below wholesale thr...
Season 2, Episode 3 — The Missing Doorknob
An investigator walked down a hallway in an office building in Columbus, Ohio. She was looking for a Medicaid-billing home health agency that had submitted seven figures in claims to the state. She found the suite number on the directory. She w...