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After the success of the massive two-part crime film Dr. Mabuse in 1922, Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea von Harbou, now husband and wife, embarke...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:52
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Before he would ever know it, Matt Gallagher was at the forefront of new veteran voices fighting the Global War on Terror. Literally. He unknowingl...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:09
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In this episode of Incoming, we’re speaking with playwright Delia Knight, whose relationship with her best friend and Marine brother suffered – and...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:08
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Army linguist and intelligence specialist Kayla Williams has authored two books that unveil not only her own service, but offer a fearlessly unapol...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:09
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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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This episode is split between two conversations–both about many things–but sharing the theme of protecting others and how that relates to one’s ide...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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On this episode of Incoming we talk with Doug Bradley, Army veteran and author of We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War....

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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On today’s show we’re talking with two enlisted veterans who rose to the top of their respective fields in civilian life: Navy veteran Chef Geoff C...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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We have two of the most entertaining, self-made, grunt-ass Marines I know on today’s show for you, and they really couldn’t be more different from ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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We’re spending this hour with our friend, writer, performer, and veteran Navy officer, James Seddon. James is one of the founding members of So Say...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:02
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“Everything Is A War,” focuses on stories about how serving in a war zone can stick to a person, so deeply that traces of it will magically appear ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 56:23
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Today’s show is titled, with our tongues lodged firmly in our cheeks, “The Undesirables,” because it features two wonderful veteran voices who spea...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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Today’s episode takes its name after a quote by Lewis Carrol, “All That Is Really Worth Doing is Worth the Doing is What We do for Others,” and we ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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Navigating the present, alongside past and future. Today’s show, “Unstuck in Time,” is titled after the opening line in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slau...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. – ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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On today’s show we’re talking about, “Aftershocks,” both literal and figurative, related to events that came back to shake us after their initial d...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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“I was much further out than you thought, And not waving but drowning.” –Stevie Smith. Today’s episode is titled “Lost At Sea,” for two reasons: f...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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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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he past doesn’t go anywhere. Time is a river, and you are standing in it. – Utah Phillips Today’s show is split into three parts and three differe...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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What happens overseas comes home with you, and can find a way to reappear back into your life when you least expect it. Today’s episode is titled,...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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Less than one percent of the entire country serves in the military at any given time nowadays, which is perfectly fine from a national security per...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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I'm eighteen and for some reason I can't be on time.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:22
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College girl goes wild and learns important lesson along the way.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 11:16
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Magic: The Gathering, the international, collectible card has over 20 million players. So when Clinton's friend and "magic buddy," Brent, moves awa...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Hot Rize has been astounding the bluegrass world with their fresh, contemporary approach to traditional music ever since their formation in 1978. T...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 10