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Caption: Coke's zero-g soda can., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Our last episode of the Space Oddities Podcast is a hodgepodge of stories dealing with space related marketing ideas, a couple of which you may rem...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 13:11
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KBFT 89.9 FM and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund present MN Artist Profiles a series highlighting artists and musicians of Minnesota....

  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 07:09
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In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as planned. The house became the center of a case th...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:05
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In the conclusion of his four-part interview with Tony Arata, Ty Hager talks with the hit songwriter ("The Dance") about the craft of songwriting a...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 08:44
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The third in a four-part series of interviews with songwriter Tony Arata ("The Dance"). Hosted by Ty Hager, recorded in Nashville.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 09:26
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In the second of a four-part interview, songwriter, humorist and broadcaster Ty Hager talks with his old friend Tony Arata about writing "The Dance."

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 10:49
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The first of songwriter and humorist Ty Hager's interview with Steve Dean, writer of hits for Alabama, Joe Nichols, and the number one smash "Watch...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 10:08
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NEA Jazz Master and owner of the NEW Keystone Korner in Baltimore, Todd Barkan talks about starting Dizzy's Club Coca Cola at JALC, his latin jazz ...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 8
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Dimitri Hegemann, the mastermind behind the Berlin nightclub Tresor, has been nurturing an artistic connection between Berlin and Detroit since the...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 24:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Pickles and Pizza podcast from the SweatShop with fellow Palm Beacher, Edward Lynch (Entrepreneur, Politician, Athlete). Ed is a Managing Partner a...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:54:33
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Laughter is the key to everything. You can give yourself an orgasm, but you can’t tickle yourself.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
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My great grandfather started the business in 1917. He came from China. This was the built-in childcare/daycare for me. My parents would come to w...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
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In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 68
Caption: Lyn's giant metal cactus towers over his plant nursery., Credit: Mark Bramhill, Houston, 2016.
Meet Lyn Rathburn: folk artist and cactus mogul.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 28, 2017
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Vidalia Onion Museum in Vidalia, Georgia. , Credit: Photo by Tyler Pratt.
If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, a...

Bought by WMMT, KVLU, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 3
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Michael Kearney is a genius — he holds the Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to graduate from college, at age 10. Now he's 32, an...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Marfa Public Radio, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 17:44
  • Purchases: 4
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Marco Tempest is not your average magician. He uses robots to do magic tricks on stage -- but the real trick is in how easily he can get an audienc...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 16:56
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A business designed to exploit amateur songwriters winds up making lots of them really happy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 08:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Oral historian Blanche Girouard talks to Lady Henrietta Rouss about her close friend, the iconic British fashion designer Ossie Clark

  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:48
Caption: A genuine PDX carpet foot selfie, Credit: Julie Sabatier
The first official episode of Rendered (formerly Destination DIY) documents the unprecedented love Portlanders have for their airport carpet.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Everyone's familiar with local laws that don't seem to make sense. In Tennessee, it’s illegal for grocery stores to sell wine, but legal to ride in...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 15:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Comedian Carlos Mencia is notorious for stealing other comics’ jokes. But he’s never been sued—in fact, there are almost no lawsuits in comedy. On ...

Bought by KVSC and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 18:43
  • Purchases: 2
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The recycling economy of southern Maine

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:07
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Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lost Weekend Storefront on Valencia Street., Credit: Audrey Dilling
A couple on an evening stroll down Valencia Street comes to a stop outside Lost Weekend Video. They’re peering in through the big front window...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:33