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Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 05:38
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Affliction by Russell Banks.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:42
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about fateful explorers in the Arctic.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
I read a column in which the author tried to express what I’m guessing is her moral outrage. I am all for expressing moral outrage. At least it pu...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:38
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
Caption: An old clutch replaced might work better..., Credit: Susan Cook
In politics, arrogance can be hired, purchased or -in volunteer organizations- a gratuity that comes with volunteer labor.- or elected. In Maine ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 05:14
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How girlie do you have to be to secure your spot in the girl club? And what happens when your own mother questions your girl credentials? Marlo Ma...

Bought by WCPN and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Not too long ago, Adam Granger and the late Lyle Lofgren guested on the show, talking about bluegrass disaster songs. As you know, many bluegrass s...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 08:38
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What's wrong with this list?

  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
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Gunshot Sonata

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
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In this poem, Daniela wishes that her relationship with her sister was closer.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 2
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Julisa, a young poet, gives her views on marriage which are pessimistic to say the least.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 03:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Partha Mitra offers background and insight into the BRAIN initiative.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 35:13
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
To understand what civility is these days in times of tweets, smart phones, blogs and Facebook, we first have to look at "uncivil" and how "uncivil...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
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Mandated term limits for Congressional members gets batted around now and then as a possible solution for gridlock which some say is driven by the...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:46
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Early on the show, listen to some funny bluegrass parodies. Then, on the Gem of Bluegrass, we consider old recordings before the “wall of sound” wa...

Bought by KSJD, WOUB, WRGY, KKRN, KUCB and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
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Censorship never works for long. People power prevails, eventually. No matter how much dictators, or religions, try to control the spread of inform...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Awareness is the first step to freedom. You won't leave a relationship, confront an abuser or change a habit until you become aware of the problem....

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Let us anticipate what we lose if we hand over the democracy ground game. , Credit: Susan Cook
The Mayor of New York held a big fundraiser in New York recently to support candidates who want consensus in Washington. As we listen to Mr. Bloomb...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:52
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
There are a lot of bluegrass songs where the people in the songs wind up in jail. There are circumstances where people find themselves in emotional...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:12
Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Nostalgia is big in bluegrass. The show opens with two nostalgia songs. In the first by the Bankesters, the singer expresses that she longs to be n...

Bought by WRGY, KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, KUCB and more


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Who is it- really?, Credit: Susan Cook
Thank Former Congressman Weiner for reminding us of what civilization loses when we pretend to be someone that we are not- online or in life.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:36
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The Prop. 8 comment by Keith Olberman,how corporations screw us and don't really care about humans, a Terran rant and call for initiation, plus a g...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:44
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This weeks camp experience features both a former CIA Senior Officer and an Investment Company CEO reviewing the new movie Zeitgeist Adendum. Plus...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:42
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What would Terran have done if McCain won? Find out. Plus, a Jon Stewart interview with author Eugene Jerechi ("The American Way of War") and a t...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:07