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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
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
Becca doesn't have very good luck with hiking. This is the story of her two near-death experiences with hiking, set ten years apart.
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 04:16
Since I was 12-years-old, I always thought I would die by the age of 30. Here's the story of how I didn't, and how I spent my 'last few days' prepa...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 09:59
- Added: May 28, 2014
- Length: 05:48
When activist/educator Erin Wilson loses track of a borrowed computer, she's worried she'll be ridiculed by her fellow organizers for her chronic a...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 06:00
Michael Goldberg offers his take on tasks this winter with his version of "Winter Projects." Goldberg offers up a somewhat candid look at his frust...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 04:32
WNPR producer Chion ("khy-own") Wolf visited Solair Family Nudist Resort in Woodstock, Connecticut to fully experience, for the first time, life as...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 2
Every waking moment of his life Carl Kozlowski is in a struggle just to stay awake. He's fighting narcolepsy, that chronic disorder rendering the s...
Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
An introduction to some of my illustrious colleagues from my days as a bellhop/valet/part-time restaurant host at the Hilton.
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 15:12
A third-degree sunburn, a friendly travel agent, and a walk on the not-so wild side.
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 03:39
In the twelfth installment of The Taxi Tapes (http://thetaxitapes.com), Sam encounters a fellow cab driver who is fearful of the past.
Bought by KSLU
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
Starting off on my quest to generate a new piece based on the Moth's weekly storytelling themes. This week's theme is vacation, so here is a tale ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 11:12
One drunken afternoon at an Irish Pub in lower Manhattan, a fellow bellhop co-worker of mine informed me that he could see the future. This is an ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 17:54
A group of drunken Brits guides Sam directly into the path of an oncoming MTA bus, with unexpected results. This episode is an excerpt from the li...
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 06:34
One time, Sam almost killed Jon Stewart with his cab. An excerpt from the live version of "The Taxi Tapes," performed at The PIT (www.thepit-nyc.co...
- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 07:18
After more than 30 years together, my beloved British sports car and I have parted. We've become too old to continue our exciting adventures together.
- Added: Nov 20, 2011
- Length: 05:47
Sam is blindsided with an unfortunate realization on the Grand Central Parkway.
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 09:15
Sam makes a not-so-triumphant return to the Hilton, where an old nemesis rears its ugly head.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 08:49
An orange naugahyde sofa. A pay-phone. A river of chicken blood.
- Added: Sep 16, 2011
- Length: 07:32
Just as Sam is starting to feel like he's getting the hang of this whole cab driving thing, he becomes ensnared in the nefarious clutches of 31st S...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 08:35
