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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Big Dig HOV Lane will gather in person (The Big Shindig?) next Saturday, Oct 17th. It'll be on the site of the Big Dig, and I'll bring my personal collection of state construction plans...plus, our first ever Big Dig merch. Sign up this week to join us: thebigdig.supportingcast.fm

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The Big Dig | The Big Dig

Get early access to new podcast episodes and more from the award-winning team at GBH News' The Big Dig.

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every wonder why MA of all places was the laboratory for national health reform...? The answer involves a $385 million check and 3 foot tall stuffed badger. That story is out today in part 3 of "Mitt & Ted". Also...this is when it becomes a buddy cop story!

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Mitt & Ted | 3. Save The Money

Podcast Episode · The Big Dig Season 4: Mitt & Ted, a healthcare story · S4 E3 · 52m

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Join the Big Dig HOV Lane right now for... 🚧 Early access to Season 4 🚧 An invite to our first-ever in-person member meet-up 🚧 Access to our first-ever Big Dig merch So if you've ever thought: that show seems like something I'd want to support, then c'mon in the HOV Lane and enjoy the perks!

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The Big Dig | The Big Dig

Get early access to new podcast episodes and more from the award-winning team at GBH News' The Big Dig.

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Debbie Schildkraut @debbiejsr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On the drive up I got to listen to the first two episodes of Mitt & Ted, the new podcast from @iancoss.bsky.social about RomneyCare. It’s as good as I hoped and expected. bsky.app/profile/ianc...

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Podcast Delivery @podcastdelivery.com · 24/09/2026

Season 4 of The Big Dig dives into the unexpected alliance between Mitt Romney and Ted Kennedy. Discover how they briefly united to pass Romneycare, transforming American healthcare politics, before ultimately returning to opposing sides.

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Haha yes! Had the painting right on the wall of the office. That was the most convenient interview I’ve ever done — a short walk from my house.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Whatever you to next Ian please reach out. I’ve assigned all four of these podcasts to my state & local politics class.

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Debbie Schildkraut @debbiejsr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The podcasts from @iancoss.bsky.social are perfect for all kinds of ps courses

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amazing, that makes me so happy to hear. Well if you've got any story ideas w some classic MA political drama, let me know!

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The next wave of healthcare reform is building. This season on The Big Dig, we tell the story of the last wave, and the odd couple alliance that helped set it all in motion. Remember Romneycare? That story. Episodes 1 & 2 are out now. Buckle up, it's a wonky one. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Big Dig Season 4: Mitt & Ted, a healthcare story

History Podcast · Series · “This is a town where there are three pastimes: politics, sports and revenge.” The town is Boston. Seemingly dry topics become gripping political dramas in this Peabody Awar...

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you listened to this interview and thought: I’d love an 8-part podcast all about what happened the LAST time this country tried to do healthcare reform…then I’ve got a podcast for you!

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In Season Four of The Big Dig, we bring you a wonky yet intimate tale about the law that changed American healthcare forever: Romneycare. Episode 1 drops September 30th.

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Introducing Season Four: Mitt & Ted, a healthcare story

Podcast Episode · The Big Dig Season 4: Mitt & Ted, a healthcare story · S4 Trailer · 5m

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This week on The Big Dig -- an inside look at the airport where the 9/11 attacks began, and how that day changed the entire experience of flying. This one will go out as a GBH broadcast special on Fri, but you can listen in the feed now:

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Two Planes Are Off The Radar

Podcast Episode · The Big Dig · S3, E11 Bonus · 46m

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Can a slickly produced Mamdani video finally break the decades-long deadlock on the BQE!? The BQE paint can is a nice touch...

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yah I saw that this weekend. The lottery was built to compete, so it's competing...

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

That’s in episode 1! That road was supposed to loop through Cambridge until Anstis Benfield, Fred Salvucci and co got involved…

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Captain Yesterday @cptyesterday.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Truly nuts. They bring in nearly twice as much lotto money per capita as the state that’s second. @iancoss.bsky.social did a great podcast series about it. Come for the political maneuvering, stay for the accents. www.wgbh.org/podcasts/scr...

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Scratch & Win

“Scratch & Win” follows the unlikely rise of America’s most successful lottery. We begin in 1970s Boston, with state bureaucrats going toe to toe with mafia bookmakers, and each other, as they struggl...

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Visiting the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is an eerie experience. Today on the Highway Teardown Tour we take the trip and find out why the bridge’s future is so contentious. Out in the Big Dig feed today.

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Eclectic Zeal @eclecticzeal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Big Dig podcast has a Highway Teardown Tour. I love stories about infrastructure. This is an interesting podcast about cities figuring out solutions for crumbling old highways. #infrastructure share.google/GkVGfo59MMPe...

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Highway Teardown Tour | Enter Here

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The New Bedford Light @newbedfordlight.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Voices from GBH News' "Catching the Codfather" podcast joined fishing experts and more than 100 attendees at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Monday night to examine the rise and fall of New Bedford's most notorious and polarizing seafood magnate. 📝 Grace Ferguson 📸+🎥 Eleonora Bianchi

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Esoteric Neolib @esotericneolib.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We are ready for the BIG Dig This will still be done before there is a North Station-South Station rail connection

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 13/06/2026

Q&A with Ian Coss, host of GBH's Big Dig podcast, on his multi-city live event tour in partnership with local NPR stations, the use of GBH archives, and more (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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farce majeure @hongpong.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/the-... big dig podcast. infrastructure podcasts and public radio a winning combo from ticketed live events. about removing over built highways and so on.

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The Big Dig podcast goes nationwide with the “Highway Teardown Tour”

"Ultimately bureaucracy is just people trying to accomplish something, and there's good stories in there."

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Gestalt-ing Raspberry @clothwhole.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Seriously - Any East Coast New Englander not following @iancoss.bsky.social for the Cod Father. Shame, Shame 😂 - but more delightful to share with family & friends of that time. The Cod Father. (& of course the Big Dig.) Such fun. The historical views - 👨‍🍳 on @wgbh.org

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Every American city has a divisive old highway, every American city is trying to figure out what to do with it…

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Several voices from the podcast, but unedited and in direct conversation with each other. Should be interesting! LIVE in New Bedford next week!

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Marty Walz @martywalz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

@iancoss.bsky.social As a Rochester native now living in Boston, I thoroughly enjoyed your podcast about the Inner Loop. Quite a trip down memory lane, and it gave me hope for Rochester’s downtown, its adjacent neighborhoods, and the people who live there. May they be a model for the country.

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Idea/request — can you attempt to resequence Tusk and post it as a playlist? I adore this record so my first thought was hell no don’t change a thing. But after the conversation I’m open to the possibility that it could be even more awesome in a different order…

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Gestalt-ing Raspberry @clothwhole.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"That highway is now gone, replaced by lovely walking paths and a bike lane. Predictions of Carmaggedon circulated by Chicago drivers have not materialized." Reminds me of this podcast series happening now bsky.app/profile/ianc...

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Today on the Highway Teardown Tour: Rochester NY! Home of the 'garbage plate' (pictured). I assure you the story of the city's highways is equally layered and spicy. It's out in the Big Dig feed today.

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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 29/05/2026

A good Highway Teardown Tour episode: the I-81 viaduct through Syracuse. The fights over just 5 minutes of driving time are crazy (and 481 has plenty of capacity for the extra traffic). via @iancoss.bsky.social

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Highway Teardown Tour | 2. Syracuse, NY

Is it possible to re-write the Interstate map and send highways around cities instead of through them? Syracuse, NY is doing just that. Guests: Marie Therese Dominguez, Lanessa Owens-Chaplin, Joe Dris...

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Very excited about the Syracuse ep of our tour. It is the smallest city we visited by far, but don’t let that fool you. Big things are happening right now in Syracuse, and other cities can learn from it.

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Will be curious to hear your thoughts once the whole series is out, but I suspect (and hope) there are strong parallels between Atlanta and some of the cities we visited — Austin in particular comes to mind. And if we do another run of this tour I’d LOVE to come to ATL.

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The Highway Teardown Tour has arrived in the feed. 10 cities over the next 10 weeks, followed by a return to Boston and the final untold chapter of The Big Dig itself... But we start, where else but New York City and the BQE. In the feed TODAY.

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Highway Teardown Tour | Enter Here

Podcast Episode · The Big Dig · S1 E10 · 7m

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Dylan Giles @dylancgiles.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Here at the @globeri.bsky.social Big Dig “Highway Teardown Tour” with @fitzprov.bsky.social @iancoss.bsky.social sitting in a venue precisely where a highway used to be!

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

No that is the best reason to listen.

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Big Dig Highway Teardown Tour is wrapping up this week -- but you can still catch us... - TOMORROW in Providence, RI: events.bostonglobe.com/2026/BigDig ... and -SATURDAY in Austin, TX: cvent.utexas.edu/event/kutfes...

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I want to take that class!

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This post brought to you by @wgbh.org's Big Dig Podcast Highway Teardown tour with @ingasaffron.bsky.social @dpearsonphl.bsky.social and Leslie Richards www.wgbh.org/podcasts/big...

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Ian Coss @iancoss.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A niche topic you’ve never thought about — that’s our specialty!

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