12 episodes

“I Was There When” shares eyewitness’ stories about big events – from the historical to the deeply personal – in their own words. Each week, journalist Maria Baer interviews one guest, from victims to perpetrators to bystanders. Not all stories are terrible and not all are wonderful – but they’re all captivating.

I Was There When Podcast Journalist Maria Baer

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.9 • 39 Ratings

“I Was There When” shares eyewitness’ stories about big events – from the historical to the deeply personal – in their own words. Each week, journalist Maria Baer interviews one guest, from victims to perpetrators to bystanders. Not all stories are terrible and not all are wonderful – but they’re all captivating.

    EP 10 - 9/11 In Gander

    EP 10 - 9/11 In Gander

    Maria talks with Shirley Brooks-Jones, a passenger on one of the 38 planes headed for the U.S. on 9/11/01 that was re-routed to a tiny, unprepared town in Newfoundland, Canada - where they waited for six days.

    • 47 min
    EP 09 -The Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

    EP 09 -The Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

    On August 1, 2007, the I35W Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour, sending dozens of cars plummeting downward. Lindsay Walz was in one of those cars and tells Maria her story in this chilling but uplifting new episode.

    • 46 min
    EP 08 - The Egyptian Revolution In Tahrir Square

    EP 08 - The Egyptian Revolution In Tahrir Square

    Award-winning journalist Graeme Wood of The Atlantic talks with Maria about his experience in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Revolution in 2011.

    • 54 min
    EP 07 - The Steve Bartman Incident

    EP 07 - The Steve Bartman Incident

    Maria talks with Pat Looney, the man who *almost* became the most hated man in Chicago.

    • 47 min
    Intermission and Sneak Peak

    Intermission and Sneak Peak

    We're halfway through Season 1 of the I Was There When Podcast. We're taking a brief intermission, but here's a sneak peak of our next 6 episodes!

    • 4 min
    EP 06 - A (Liquid) Lunch With Vladimir Putin

    EP 06 - A (Liquid) Lunch With Vladimir Putin

    An American Economics professor shares with Maria about the time he met, drank, and joked with a mysterious, brand new Russian President named... Vladimir Putin.

    • 47 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
39 Ratings

39 Ratings

Elgato4u ,

Informative and well done!!!

I was listening to BreakPoint one day and this podcast was mentioned and it gave it a listen. WOW!!!!!! Very informative, entertaining and extremely well done. I enjoyed your insight from a believer perspective. Please come back wit more episodes.

Tim_Morrison ,

Great podcast!

I listen to Maria on the Breakpoint podcast where she does an outstanding job with John Stonestreet. She recently shared this podcast as a recommendation so I thought I’d give it a try. I listened to 4 episodes last night and one today at lunch. Excellently done, interesting, thought provoking, and educational! I highly recommend it!👍🏻

Havey3000 ,

Didn’t expect it to be this good!

I stumbled on this podcast by chance and thought it sounded neat. Not only is it neat, it’s totally addicting and very well done! I binged several episodes in a row after discovering it and only stopped to go to sleep that night. I’m excited to listen to more episodes and even to relisten to episodes I listened to previously.

My only suggestion for improvement would be to not have music underscoring when someone is talking or to have that music be much quieter. I am hard of hearing and have trouble processing speech. If there’s no music under the talking, I can understand it just fine. But when there is dramatic music underscoring the speech, I cannot understand a word. I know most Hearing people aren’t aware that this would cause issues or that HoH and Deaf people would even listen to podcasts (Deaf isn’t just “I can’t hear at all”, there are many degrees of Deafness and Deaf people do listen to podcasts). So I’m still giving this podcast a 5 star review because it is otherwise super well done and very fascinating! I absolutely love it and highly recommend it!

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