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The Duffel Blog satire news website is known as The Onion of the armed services, fearlessly pilloring military culture, saying truths to power with...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:08
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Allison Gill is a musician, stand-up comedian, and host of the Webby Award-winning podcast, Mueller She Wrote. Her art has led to her to tackle top...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:09
Caption: Author Matt Young
Author Matt Young discusses his active duty in the Marine Corps and his transition to home life, as well as his new book Eat The Apple.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
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Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:23
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An interview with John Barbour, former host of "Real People" and author of "Your Mother's Not a Virgin!: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian D...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 35:47

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:02:13
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Marc Brackett, Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, has written a wonderful book about feelings. I worked with Marc when he was ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 51:18
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Liz loves the Darkroom. She'd never disrespect it...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A story about doing things a little differently.

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Jun 13, 2019
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Homo instagrammus - Who on earth would pay 29 euros to take photos in front of blindingly pink backdrops? Instagrammer...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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In this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco interviewed Jason Williford, a professional business speaker and executive consultant focused ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 38:58
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Segment 1: Terry Orbuch/relationship expert Segment 2 and 3:John Schwartz/gay son Segment 4: Dave Wasserman/elections Segment 5: Bob Vetere/pamper...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
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Segment 1 Dr. Cassel/physicals Segment 2 and 3: Cat and Julie Parsons/singers Segmnet 4 Johan Boos/Viking Cruise Captain Segment 5: Al Boyce/PedalPub

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jan 24, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This is Distillations’s 200th episode, and we’re celebrating! We pored through hundreds of shows and pieced together some of the funniest, grossest...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 37:10
Caption: Ben Gross' personal video discs and player. , Credit: Photograph by Mariel Carr.
Some technologies flash in the pan so quickly they hardly leave a trace (Google Glass anyone?); while others seem to stick around long past their u...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 38:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: BarRoom Heroes, Credit: Bobby Pickles
Boston punk prodigies - BarRoom Heroes - stop by Bobby’s mother’s basement, to discuss Irish-ness, Boston-ness and the novelty of youth. While thes...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 42:02
Caption: Illustration of a nose., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
If you asked people which of their senses they most feared losing, they'd probably say sight or hearing. But what about the ability to smell? We ex...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 43:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Matthew Piazza is a hilarious scumbag from Boston, Mass. Drugs used to fuel him, pot still does, as Matt admits, "If it weren't for pot, I'd still ...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:25:09
Caption: An Alchemist in his Studio, Thomas Wijck. , Credit: CHF Collections
This episode explores the colorful (and sometimes risk-filled) history of pigments and painters, and the conservators who save paintings from the r...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joe Palca tracks a story at NPR, Credit: Photo courtesy of Joe Palca
Joe Palca is one of the best science storytellers out there. As an NPR science correspondent he’s covered all sorts of obscure topics, from soccer-...

Bought by WTJU, Radio Newark, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 09:03
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Crisco and chicken nuggets, Credit: CHF collections and Evan Amos, Wikimedia Commons.
Have you ever wondered how chicken nuggets are made? Or what propylene glycol monostearate, monocalcium phosphate, or other listed ingredients are ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WTJU, RadioFreePalmer, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 4
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Join: Olivia, Alyse Eady @alyseeady , and Craig for a Challenge of medical proportions on That! Medical Quiz Show. Listen on Content Depot, Soundcl...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 30:02
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Carlos Morales (right), Credit: Commodore Bert
Bobby and maties Cap’n Coletti, Tobia Spinelli and “Bert”, podcast while boating along the gulf and intracoastal waterways of Pinellas County, Flor...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:18:12
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Episode 10 is dedicated to Andy's favorite film festival in San Francisco, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. You’ll hear his conversations wi...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 45:42
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Dave Reynard (right), Credit: Ben Coletti
Bobby and Coletti podcast from a boat docked in Madeira Beach, Florida, with Dave Reynard, the “glass dildo king” - original inventor of the cellul...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:43:59