Episodios

  • The Story Behind ‘Peanuts’, Starbucks and Increasing Kindness and Appreciation
    Mar 25 2025

    After years of planning, "Project Cashew" is finally revealed — not as a plan for world domination but as a plan to increase kindness and appreciation. We learn about a new partnership with Starbucks, lovely Peanuts mugs and, if you live in France, where you can get a "Charlie Brownie." Intrigued yet?

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    35 m
  • Snoopy In Space! The Long History Between Peanuts and NASA
    Mar 4 2025

    Which spacecraft were named "Charlie Brown" and "Snoopy"? How many Snoopy dolls have flown in space? What is the NASA "Silver Snoopy" award? We talk to Silver Snoopy recipient and former NASA Flight Controller (and Snoopy super-fan) Ginger Kerrick about the long history between NASA and Peanuts.

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    33 m
  • Snoopy in Style: From Comics to Catwalk
    Feb 25 2025

    We explore the influence of the Peanuts comic strip on the world of fashion with Lynn Downey, former Levi’s archivist and author. Why did Charlie Brown have that zigzag pattern on his shirt, and how did Lucy's outfits change in the 1970s? Downey takes us behind the scenes of the upcoming “Snoopy in Style” exhibition in Paris, celebrating 75 years of Peanuts' lasting impact on the fashion industry.

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    40 m
  • Apple TV+ Showrunner on Making Snoopy Laugh and other TV Secrets
    Feb 18 2025

    We talk with Rob "Boots" Boutilier about how he started in animation, his trip to NASA on behalf of Peanuts, his work on The Snoopy Show and Camp Snoopy on AppleTV+ and how they managed to get Snoopy's "voice" recorded for shows. We also talk about his experiences at the Schulz Museum and the one thing you'll never see.

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    39 m
  • How Snoopy is Making Hospitals a Happier Place - With Art!
    Feb 11 2025

    Since 1984, The Foundation for Hospital Art has been dedicated to softening the hospital environment with colorful paintings, wall murals and ceiling tiles. Over 1,000,000 volunteers and patients have united to create over 53,000 paintings for over 8,500 hospitals in 195 countries. Peanuts Worldwide has teamed up with the foundation to bring Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown and the whole Peanuts gang to hospitals around the world - including Antarctica!

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    36 m
  • Jeannie Schulz: The Woman Behind the Man Behind Peanuts
    Feb 4 2025

    Did Charles Schulz tell lots of jokes? Did he enjoy a good prank? What kind of humor made him LOL? Hear the behind-the-scenes stories about his sense of humor when we talk with Charles' wife, Jeannie Schulz. Jeannie shares some of her late husband's favorite jokes and how something as serious as War and Peace impacted the Peanuts comics. Jeannie also talks about how Sparky was a master at the pace of the four-panel strip, included serious topics in his daily strips while still making them funny, and why he hated the name Peanuts for his comic strip.

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    35 m
  • The Secret History (and Superfandom) Behind Charles Schulz’s Long Relationship with Hallmark
    Dec 17 2024

    Hallmark and Peanuts have sold over one billion Peanuts greeting cards worldwide since their introduction in 1960. This partnership also helped produce the popular Snoopy plush dolls and the iconic Snoopy for President campaign. Peanuts podcast hosts Melissa Menta and David Templeton talk to Hallmark archivist and historian Samantha Bradbeer Stephens about the longstanding friendship between Hallmark founder and Peanuts superfan Arnold Shapiro and Charles Schulz.

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    38 m
  • How Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the Other Peanuts Characters Transformed Public Art Worldwide
    Dec 10 2024

    The Peanuts Global Artist Collective is an unprecedented global initiative in which the beloved Peanuts characters have been brought to life in new and exciting ways for the public to experience. The project was first launched in the spring of 2018 with seven murals in New York City and then expanded to numerous cities worldwide. Podcast hosts Melissa Menta and David Templeton talk to Brazilian artist Eli Sudbrack, one of the artists who participated in the initiative.

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    35 m
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