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Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda has recently begun her senior year at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she'll be checking in with essays reflecting on ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Love your child by being deliberately obtuse.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2010
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 04:11
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Is there a correlation between income and intelligence?

  • Added: Jun 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:43
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Putting a blind man's tooth in his eye enables him to see.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Don't spend the next 10 years paying off your college loans.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:26
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
It doesn't need to be true if you believe it

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:16
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you have never replaced the wax seal beneath your toilet, I suggest that you do.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: :29
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Last night there was a football game on television instead of the evening news.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2010
  • Length: :52
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
John’s girlfriend tells him that he will have a headache if he drinks any more white wine. So John cries out, “Waiter, a bottle of red wine."

  • Added: Dec 23, 2009
  • Length: 01:32
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Every discipline has its own problems

  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One of my friends saw Chase Whiteside’s Youtube piece called Sarah Palin Book Signing as “[e]vidence that our educational system has tanked.”

  • Added: Dec 12, 2009
  • Length: :33
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There are people who scrape together and repackage scraps of tired old worn out wisdom, but when it’s encapsulated they call it an aphorism, becaus...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 10, 2009
  • Length: :41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can lose weight

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A young man seeking enlightenment once travelled far away to a distant land and climbed a tall mountain where a wise old man was known to dispense ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2009
  • Length: :46
Caption: Villa La Pietra, Credit: Walter Murch
It is time for an Old Girls reunion at St. Catherine's School before heading to Villa La Pietra and New York University, Abroad

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 10:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Can a man of 29 fall in love with a girl of 14?

  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 01:52
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There are people who are distressed at the thought of gay marriage.

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 02:41
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You might think your daughter is doing well if she is dating a grad student on a full fellowship.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
I could not sleep last night, knowing that I wouldn't know a counterfeit Rolex watch if I saw one

Bought by KMXT and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jan 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:16
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A man was uncomfortable because he was the only person in his office who didn't have a degree from a rich-kid school

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Dec 28, 2008
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
the values of certain pairs of conjugate variables cannot both be known with arbitrary precision

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Dec 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Most of the women in the TV ads need to gain 30 pounds.

  • Added: Dec 25, 2008
  • Length: :23