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John Wilson, Head Berry and Founder of the Razzie Awards, talks dodging bullets, buying a sense of humor, and ruining a perfectly bad movie.
- Added: Mar 09, 2024
- Length: 20:00
Magical witchcrafted brews and tunes that hit the voodoo jukeboxes 1957-1971. The Witches Brewpub, where it is always midnight and always happy hour.
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 59:00
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
When you think of comedy, you might think of LA, Chicago, or New York. Once a year, the small town of Telluride, Colorado hosts some of comedies bi...
- Added: Feb 23, 2019
- Length: 04:34
John Wilson talks insulting Sherlock Holmes, Oscar™-winners gone wrong, and becoming a category on Jeopardy.
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 22:15
Producer Taylor Quimby has been defending Vibram FiveFingers™ shoes to naysayers for years. When people see him wearing them while he’s on the trai...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 24:42
In this episode of "Street Economy," radio producers Kelley Crawford and Sarah Holtz go to the streets in search of poetry -- literal poetry, not a...
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:21
Hunter S. Thompson had his first run-in with federal agents as a young boy during the Louisville summer of 1946
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Robert Campos and Donna LoCicero talk social intelligence, casting nets, and what goes on before a stand-up takes the stage.
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 18:58
A little history, a lot of fun. Visit Atomic Boys - a Seattle shop specializing in nostalgic candy.
Bought by WMMT and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 2
Pumpkins are baked into pies, turned into soup, and carved into jack-o-lanterns. But there's another use for these autumnal gourds - they're the ke...
- Added: Apr 30, 2014
- Length: 05:10
Golf carts are the primary vehicles for residents in Avalon, CA. This is about the guys that make them go.
Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 2
Beep, beep, beep. Welcome Valued Customer. A college student profiles late-night grocery shopping in a college town, and what she finds is unexpected.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 03:05
An intrepid producer braves several stings to tell a story about beekeeping and a beekeeper who has traveled the world to teach his craft.
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFIU, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 29, 2012
- Length: 03:25
- Purchases: 5
A vox pop of people hanging out in a state fair beer tent. They share their dating tips, advice for people watching and explain what they'd be doin...
- Added: Aug 23, 2011
- Length: 04:14
That's a real job? Yup. A forensic architect finds out what's wrong with old buildings by understanding their history...and using a garden hose.
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 05:00
Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Becky Palmstrom follows a day in a life of a singing telegram and asks – who uses singing telegrams in the 21st century? This segment profiles Gran...
Bought by KUT and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 04:16
- Purchases: 2
Interview and commentary with Mark Benson, who's been playing John Lennon in the Beatles tribute band 1964 for nearly three decades.
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 05:51
- Purchases: 2
Citizens should be on the look-out. Shrubbery wearing striped stockings have been seen... well, STALKING citizens. For ten years now, from Rhode I...
Bought by WILL
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 1
What's Donald Duck got to do with a Swedish Christmas?
Bought by KMXT, KRZA, KUER, KCMJ Community Radio, KZYX and more
- Added: May 05, 2010
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 14
This week the Global Guru risks life and limb to learn how to track Tasmanian devils in the wild.
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 3
Geocaching is a high tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices.
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:06
- Purchases: 3
The kabocha squash looks like a small green pumpkin. And with its warty texture, the kabocha isn't terribly inviting to the uninitiated. But food w...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 16, 2009
- Length: 12:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 21, 2008
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
