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I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the hairs.” And...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:05
What would you do if your life took a turn and you were suddenly given more time to be alive?
In this SUPERHUMAN story, Dr. David Fajgenbaum faces...
- Added: Aug 09, 2021
- Length: 46:29
What would it look like for you to live your life with grace?
This SUPERHUMANS story shows us how to experience loss with Grace. Kristi opens up a...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 36:40
Has there ever been something you thought defined you, but maybe doesn’t have to?
This SUPERHUMANS story demonstrates that living with a disease d...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 18:27
If you staged your own funeral, what would your friends and family say about you?
This SUPERHUMANS story will tickle your soul by exploring what i...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 35:49
If you could meet up with one person in the afterworld, who would it be?
This SUPERHUMANS story takes us into the mind of a NASA astronomer as she...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 34:24
If given a do-over in life, what would you do with it?
This SUPERHUMANS story takes us on a beautifully raw journey that displays the courage and ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 26:36
How did the mythic western cowboy learn to yodel?
The unlikely history of voice breaking in American music, and what it says about us.
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 31:31
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
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
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
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
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
Our guest on Episode 18 is Marine Corps veteran, professor of political science, and former California State Assembly Speaker Nathan Fletcher. Nath...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
