Latest Metros Podcast Episodes

Asia......Minor

Ekiben Podcast - May 02, 2022 02:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Jared talks about his favourite line of his favourite urban rail system in his favourite country. Cara talks about the old junk that makes subways very expensive. Cara's sources: https://www.grunge.com/103340/artifacts-found-building-subway-systems/?utm_campaign=clip https://www.discoverm...

Like a Matrioshka Doll, but with Rabbit Holes

Ekiben Podcast - October 25, 2020 16:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
#onafuturepodcast Episode 1 — our first mini MINI train snack! While fact checking some of the more dubious claims made in Episode 5, Cara goes down several rolling stock rabbit holes (the best kind). We only want the best, most up-to-date information on rolling stock that was retired decades ag...

The Chassis of a Great Dane

Ekiben Podcast - October 18, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Cara introduces us to some four-legged and feathered train riders and stationmasters. Jared takes us for a ride on Toronto's Red Rocket. Cara's cats act like jerks. Cara's sources: https://hatchingcatnyc.com/category/dog-mascots/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko http://travel.cnn.c...

Anarchic Sporing

Ekiben Podcast - October 11, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Jared talks about spores (and other flora and fungi of our underground networks). Cara geeks out on the complicated transportation options in Cold War Berlin. And we both talk about the food at Ikea WAY more than one would expect for a podcast about trains. Cara's sources: https://en.wikipe...

Fish-flavoured Cheese

Ekiben Podcast - October 04, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Even though YOU have known what our podcast is named for some weeks now, we just figured it out! Also, Cara talks a LOT about airports, considering that this is a train podcast. And Jared tells us about 大回り乗車 (that’s oomawari jousha), AKA Around Japan for 140 Yen. Cara's sources: https://www...

fyoo·ni·kyuh·lr v. fuh·ni·kyuh·luh

Ekiben Podcast - September 27, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Cara actually lets Jared tell a story this time! In our second episode, Jared gushes about a veritable buffet of transit experiences in Hakone, Japan. Cara lovingly recounts the ups and downs (and backs and forths) of the world’s oldest suspension railway, Germany’s Wuppertaler Schwebebahn. Ja...

History of the London Underground

Ekiben Podcast - September 20, 2020 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Cara and Jared stumble their way through their first (unnamed) podcast about trains.

Ekiben Podcast Intro

Ekiben Podcast - September 13, 2020 16:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
The Ekiben Podcast is a cute, compact, lovingly curated lunchbox of nerdy train goodness. Hosts Cara Gerard and Jared Peterson love everything to do with trains and rail travel, and in each episode they regale one another with enthusiastic, shakily-sourced stories about trains, stations, routes, ...