Pull Over

About Pull Over

Pull Over is a short-form audio series about American small towns you've been driving past your whole life. Each episode runs about three minutes. One narrator, one town, one specific fact or story that earns your attention. No characters, no plot, no cliffhanger. Just a place that's been waiting for someone to stop. Every episode ends the same way. Pull over.

Publisher

Richard L Burr

Category

history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Jun 2026

Latest episode

2 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

78 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Sept 2026

   Episode 79 - Tupelo, MS

   In 1946, an eleven-year-old boy walked into a Tupelo, Mississippi hardware store hoping for a rifle for his birthday. His mother said no — and a store clerk handed him a guitar instead. That boy was Elvis Presley. He'd already spent his whole life in Tupelo by then, born there in a two-room house his father built, raised through real hardship, thirteen years before the family ever left for Memphis. The exact spot on the hardware store floor where he picked out that first guitar is still marked today.

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   31 Aug 2026

   Episode 76 - Casey, IA

   div]:bg-bg-000/50 [&_pre>div]:border-0.5 [&_pre>div]:border-border-400 [&_.ignore-pre-bg>div]:bg-transparent [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-[var(--msg-text-inset,0.5rem)] [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-[var(--msg-text-inset,0.5rem)] [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8"> _*]:min-w-0 gap-3 [&_>_*:last-child]:mb-0 print:block print:[&_>_:where(:not(:first-child))]:mt-3 standard-markdown"> In 2011, Jim Bolin opened a small tea shop in Casey, Illinois, a town Interstate 70 had been quietly draining traffic from for decades. To pull drivers off the highway, he built the world's largest wind chime — then didn't stop, adding the world's largest rocking chair, mailbox, pitchfork, and more. Not accidents, one at a time, but a deliberate, coordinated plan to give a dying downtown a reason for people to stop.

3. 

   31 Aug 2026

   Episode 77 - Huffman Prairie, OH

   After the first flight at Kitty Hawk covered just 120 feet, barely under control, the Wright brothers needed somewhere closer to home to actually learn to fly. A Dayton banker let them use his cow pasture for free. Over 1904 and 1905, on that field, they turned a wobbly hop into a genuinely controllable airplane — many historians consider this, not Kitty Hawk, the real birth of practical flight. Their actual workshop ended up two hundred miles away in a Michigan museum. The field is still there.

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