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"Ratatouille Too" takes us to hilarious loft dinner party in New York City. After days of preparation, Gregg and his girlfriend are ready to ente...
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 11:06
Emergency medicine and helicopter flight physician Mike Abernethy recounts an unexpected run-in at his local Walmart that made him feel as if he’d ...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 46:55
“Wow. What a beautiful shirt.“ - Greg Barris
- Added: Mar 16, 2023
- Length: 05:52
- Added: Jan 08, 2023
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 04:01
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 13, 2022
- Length: 11:50
- Purchases: 1
One of my very first pieces ever: A chronicle of my adventures doing sound for an Elvis Tribute Artist and a large ish gospel Church in Madison WI....
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 14, 2022
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 1
Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the Dusty Chaps in 1...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:17
There are 2 species of walnuts here in the borderlands of southern Arizona; the Arizona walnut (Juglans major) that I talked about and a species ca...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:34
A woman moves into her new student digs and hears something coming from the basement...
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 10:36
Rain on the ground, a chill in the air, ghosts on the prowl. We're back from the Midwest with strange tales from the desert to the cornfields. Host...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
We're back from the road with a new episode to celebrate the most glorious time of year: October, Autumn, Harvest, Fall, whatever you all it. With ...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over.
It'...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Sep 17, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils ou...
- Added: Jul 04, 2021
- Length: 28:00
Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 28:00
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
95-year-old Richard and his daughter Margaret struggle with the technical details of their recording project.
- Added: Sep 05, 2020
- Length: 06:41
At my age I should probably being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I tell our daughters that some day they can hav...
- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 05:17
Well here we are, still alive, July in the American Desert. Good enough, we guess. When the Mojave is cooking that's when we start figuring out a w...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
What a decade-long fight taught Laura about relationships, laughter, and the grace we need to keep giving each other.
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 15:32
A humorous essay: Interviews with the dogs I meet on my morning walk, most, I'm sure, with better stories than those of their owners. Some really t...
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 03:41
In this episode we will see examples of some of the influential people and stories from one’s life, and how these stories continue to influence gen...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 56:34
- Purchases: 1
An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 21:47
Zombies. I hate them the way Indiana Jones hates snakes. As part of my series Imaginary Worlds, I confront my biggest phobia with the help of a zom...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 3
The holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: May 26, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
