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In August 2014, we lost a man who inspired laughter in the Bay Area and all around the world – Robin Williams. Robin Williams was a local, and actu...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Studs Terkel
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 10
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, WORT, and GraceRadio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 3
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A helpful guide to how 28 = 8, 8 = 92, and Fox News = all other media outlets combined.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:18
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Jeff Nunokawa is a professor of Victorian Literature at Princeton University. Nunokawa is known for his unique literary essays on his Facebook page...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 27:58
Caption: Five-time Emmy Award winner Fran Brill, the first woman hired by Jim Henson for Sesame Street (seen here with Zoe) is retiring after 42 years , Credit: Jim Henson Legacy
Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe is a sound rich special that includes original interviews, clips, music, and new skits with many of the orig...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 55:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Composer and founder of Avant Media Randy Gibson discusses the current season of the Avant Music Festival.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 38:16
Caption: Chloe (a little younger than 4) and her father Matt, Credit: Katy Sewall
Chloe loves watching horror movies. The catch: She's only four years old. How does her father feel about that? Very, very proud. Does that make h...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Trish Witkowski, Chief Folding Officer, Credit: Louisa Jonas
Every single Thursday for the last five years Trish Witkowski has uploaded a video just meant for the few thousand people in the world that design ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 22:59
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Director John Waters wanted nothing more than to be a part of the New York City Underground. 45 years later he's the subject of a retrospective at ...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 12:47
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Think Obama is a despotic foreigner who besmirches our international reputation? Fox News has the perfect solution: Putin for President!

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
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Like Fox News, but wish it was more reactionary, racist, and condescending? Then check out Rupert Murdoch’s newest network: Redd Foxx News.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:20
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Makalah talks about her experience at ACL last year. She spoke with Tim from Tim and The Space Cadets with Mother Falcon, Shake from veteran busine...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2014
  • Length: 04:35
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The world’s last plucky newspaper reporter chases a whale of a story (that nobody will read because it’s not on a smartphone).

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:09
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Unload your drivetrain all over the world’s face with the Fordodgevy Hump Truck.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
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Amy O'Leary, a former producer for This American Life, is our reader here, contributing author of the book, Should I Go To Grad School: 41 Answers ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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When you meet the man who speaks in Upworthy headlines, you will believe what happens next—your own suicide.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:42
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A helpful list of questions that will get you thrown off a balcony by Rep. Michael Grimm.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:26
Caption: Maybe the gorilla taught the person to sign.., Credit: Susan Cook
I watched a program the other night about a 500 pound gorilla, or maybe it was a monkey whose owner taught him sign language. Whatever. I am begin...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:11
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Don’t sweat climate change—everything is as right as torrential, apocalyptic rain.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
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Fox News doesn’t need “evidence” to know what “marriage equality” really means: gay child slavery for your kids.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:14
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Buy Amazon’s new “print books”—if Gary Busey says they’re innovative, then it must be true . . .

  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 01:21
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Like avoiding real life with viral videos? Then you’ll love the guy who fakes them.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 03:03
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In this episode, Bo interviews David Silverman, President of American Atheists. David Silverman is President of American Atheists and was the crea...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:51