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Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 25:28
Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:56
Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:30
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 26:21
Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 52:04
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in Florida. When he told an insurance investigator he wa...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 41:57
Collective Fireside is a progressive bluegrass band .Jesse Iaquinto of the band discusses the band and share some music from the new CD Elements
- Added: May 24, 2020
- Length: 57:11
Derek Smalls formerly of the band formerly known as Spinal Tap discusses new CD Smalls Change (meditations on ageing) Lukewarm Water tour in 2019 o...
- Added: Sep 16, 2019
- Length: 32:26
The Jay Leno Comedy Challenge launched many wannabe comedians into their comedy careers, and Jan is one of them. It was a nationwide search to put ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:46
Folklore, myths, and magic -- what can we learn from alternative truths? The professionals weight in.
- Added: Aug 17, 2018
- Length: 10:10
On this episode of The Live Feed, we visit with Ryan Khal and Earl Elliot, two comedians from the Twin Cities. They share with us how they create a...
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Jul 07, 2017
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 1
To close out 2016, we’re bringing you two lighter stories of people exhibiting everyday genius under. . . unusual circumstances. Comedian Dave Holm...
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 18:44
- Purchases: 1
If the Partridge Family was from the 1950's Bronx, played oldies like the Four Seasons and Dion, and rocked it big time - you would have one of the...
- Added: Aug 12, 2016
- Length: 54:10
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
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 04:47
Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:59
McLean recorded his first album, Tapestry, in 1969 in Berkeley, California, during the student riots. After being rejected 72 times by labels, the ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 11
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 11:19
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 07:26
Shara Morris went to the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford, Maine to see if she could cut it…or maybe saw it as a lumberjill.
Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
On the road from The Grand Theater in downtown Wausau, WI. Featuring Frank Montano, Charlie Parr, Michael Perry, the Blue Canvas Orchestra and spe...
Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio, WRNC-LP, WNMU-FM, WDSE, KMXT and more
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 6
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
Episode 12 - Andy interviews Manny Roth, who ran the famous Cafe Wha? in New York City, presenting up-and-coming entertainers like Bob Dylan, Bill ...
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 51:58
