14 episodes

WDET's original podcast featuring stories about when, how and why things end, told by the people who have to live with what happens next.

The Beginning of the End WDET

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WDET's original podcast featuring stories about when, how and why things end, told by the people who have to live with what happens next.

    Short: The End of the World's Largest Stove

    Short: The End of the World's Largest Stove

    Before Detroit was known for cars, it was known for stoves. And The World's Largest Stove was birthed in the late 19th century at the peak of the country's stove fever. Beginning of the End producer Laura Herberg explores its bizarre life and death.

    • 21 min
    10. The End of Obsession

    10. The End of Obsession

    [21:43] A man that worked for two decades to preserve the legacy of the Motown musicians known as the Funk Brothers.

    • 21 min
    The End of 'The Beginning of the End'

    The End of 'The Beginning of the End'

    [2:20] Alex has a short message for our listeners on how you can keep our show kicking it into the future.

    • 2 min
    08. The End of Pride

    08. The End of Pride

    [28:04] Meet Satori. A famed storyteller facing the end of her breast and finds the grace to rewrite her own story.

    • 28 min
    09. The End of Utopia

    09. The End of Utopia

    [27:01] Meet Emil Baur. After becoming fascinated with utopian societies and transcendentalism, Baur decided to lead a group of German Methodists into a swampy region of Michigan to start a new utopian society from scratch.

    • 26 min
    07. The End of Dominance

    07. The End of Dominance

    [21:22] We explore the story of how two larger-than-life musical movements came to their demise.

    • 21 min