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Caption: Host Martha Burk
Okaay, April Fools Day is upon us, so let's have a little fun and nominate some of your national leaders for the biggest fool prize, and of course...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 02:59
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Written by Savannah Spatafora Produced by Emma Lehman

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 03:03
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This is a 2-way interview with Sophia A. McClennen, a scholar of satire and politics and author of Trump Was a Joke, How Satire Made Sense of a Pr...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 20:53
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Let’s stop the abortion debate right now. We already know how. Eliminate the need for abortion. If all babies were planned and could be cared for, ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:53
Caption: Reporter Matthew Schneeman poses in front of the runestone at the Kensington Runestone Museum, Credit: Mattew Scheeman
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 25:48
Caption: John Bailey with a cart full of TaB, Credit: John Bailey
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
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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
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On this week’s episode, Wajahat Ali sits down with Ray Suarez to discuss his new book, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommenda...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Chill Beefs
Howard complains about receiving "Your item has shipped" emails when it hasn't

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 03:26
Caption: Chill Beefs
Kate complains about her sister and other people who are not prepared to do the one thing they have to do when they get to the head of a line.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 03:29
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Might be a nutty new year on the national news, but here in the desert we are just trying to get along and not got crushed. With guest Brendan Maze...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Myq Kaplan
Ok, Comedians, make America laugh with surprising, original jokes that offend absolutely no one and work equally well in our very blue, very red an...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 21:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Who hasn’t inadvertently pocket dialed someone? Smartphones are ubiquitous, and so are the phone foibles of the digital age. Jocelyn Robinson tells...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 17:42
  • Purchases: 1
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When lyrics have no meaning, singing becomes pure emotion.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 04:40
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Too many people don't "get" Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is a big deal. It's also frivolous. And that's the best way to understand it.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 03:29
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If your client calls a centimeter a "sontimeter," I'll assume they're medical and you've got a leader. This is Episode 82 of Engineering Word Of T...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:10
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Who's replaced him? The Gen X Female. She's the boss. The's pulling the strings.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:42
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It's another dateless Valentine's Day. I decided to make a diary of it.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, PRX Remix, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
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A group of tough men sung my father Happy Birthday well before dawn at the Bradford Store at the crossroads of Dickenson, Alabama.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:40
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We make up phrases to disguise the fact that what we're really doing is having fun.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 03:35

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
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We can talk about intimate, personal, and private things. But we can't talk politics.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 03:39

  • Added: Nov 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:30
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My wife and I had to figure out how to get rid of him. He had stopped being fun.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Football season is upon us and many friends wish they could be back on the field just one more time. Me? Not so much.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 03:43