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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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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’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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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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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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What's it like to experience total memory loss? Oyevind Aamot experienced the unimaginable. After traveling the world for years, he awoke from a fa...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 32:40
  • Purchases: 1
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We hear from Amer Zahr, a comedian, writer, and activist who resides in Dearborn Michigan in this episode of Palestinians Podcast. Amer shares chil...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 40:27
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Andy Holliden's interest in Frank Zappa first manifested itself while he was in high school. Beyond listening to the music and poring over linear n...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 17:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Great Cissy Houston
Gospel Artist Great, Cissy Houston talks about her career, her children which included her daughter, the late great recording Artist Whitney Housto...

  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:36
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This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
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Bobby McFerrin has spent four decades breaking ground in jazz vocals – and his music always feels fresh. Hear how Miles Davis changed his life.

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:32
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Caption: Dianne Reeves
"I don't ever want you to open for me again" said Sarah Vaughan. The diva was paying her a compliment, but the modest Dianne Reeves didn't' know that.

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 8
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On this edition of Don't Cha Know we introduce Dr. Rich MacDonald. We will get to learn about what inspired him to be a musician, hear stories of w...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:41