The Probe

THE PROBE is a satirical take on popular magazine-style news podcasts, focused on telling a single story over the course of a season.

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Episodes

Episode 8

Season One In an effort to uncover where corruption in American politics starts, The Probe goes deep inside an average high school student body presidential election. Listen as hosts Lisa Burton and Mary Beth Smith meet the candidates and their families, speculate on their motives for running, and unmask all the nasty aspects of running for office at any level. Episode 8 Next Fall. After some shocking news in July, The Probe team felt it was essential to get back into the thick of things at FDRH...

Nov 16, 2016•28 min

Episode 7

THE PROBE Season One In an effort to uncover where corruption in American politics starts, The Probe goes deep inside an average high school student body presidential election. Listen as hosts Lisa Burton and Mary Beth Smith meet the candidates and their families, speculate on their motives for running, and unmask all the nasty aspects of running for office at any level. Episode 7 Election Day. The culmination of a long month of campaigning and a tireless amount of journalistic coverage ends wit...

Nov 09, 2016•27 min

Episode 6

THE PROBE Season One In an effort to uncover where corruption in American politics starts, The Probe goes deep inside an average high school student body presidential election. Listen as hosts Lisa Burton and Mary Beth Smith meet the candidates and their families, speculate on their motives for running, and unmask all the nasty aspects of running for office at any level. Episode 6 The Debate: A time-honored tradition that the 2016 US presidential election has taken a massive dump upon. This epis...

Nov 02, 2016•42 min

Episode 5

THE PROBE Season One In an effort to uncover where corruption in American politics starts, The Probe goes deep inside an average high school student body presidential election. Listen as hosts Lisa Burton and Mary Beth Smith meet the candidates and their families, speculate on their motives for running, and unmask all the nasty aspects of running for office at any level. Episode 5 With only one week left before the debate, The Probe takes on the biggest buffoon in the room, Thomas Buffington, Jr...

Oct 26, 2016•39 min

Episode 4

THE PROBE Season One: In an effort to uncover where corruption in American politics starts, The Probe goes deep inside an average high school student body presidential election. Listen as hosts Lisa Burton and Mary Beth Smith meet the candidates and their families, speculate on their motives for running, and unmask all the nasty aspects of running for office at any level. Episode 4 Two weeks out from the big debate, SCANDAL rocks the FDRHS presidential election. One candidate bungled so badly th...

Oct 19, 2016•29 min

Episode 3

THE PROBE Season One: In an effort to uncover where corruption in American politics starts, The Probe goes deep inside an average high school student body presidential election. Listen as hosts Lisa Burton and Mary Beth Smith meet the candidates and their families, speculate on their motives for running, and unmask all the nasty aspects of running for office at any level. Episode 3: During week two of what feels like a never-ending election cycle, The Probe team does more work in the field learn...

Oct 12, 2016•23 min

Episode 2

THE PROBE Season One: In an effort to uncover where corruption in American politics starts, The Probe goes deep inside an average high school student body presidential election. Listen as hosts Lisa Burton and Mary Beth Smith meet the candidates and their families, speculate on their motives for running, and unmask all the nasty aspects of running for office at any level. Episode Two: As the four candidates in the FDRHS presidential election gear up for week one of their campaigns, The Probe tea...

Oct 05, 2016•31 min

Episode 1

THE PROBE Season One: In an effort to uncover where corruption in American politics starts, The Probe goes deep inside an average high school student body presidential election. Listen as hosts Lisa Burton and Mary Beth Smith meet the candidates and their families, speculate on their motives for running, and unmask all the nasty aspects of running for office at any level. Episode One: In episode one, our hosts reveal why Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School was chosen as a subject, who appear t...

Sep 26, 2016•15 min

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