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Is Wokeness Killing Comedy?
From: Open to Debate
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What jokes would George Carlin have deemed offensive today? What makes us laugh has come under scrutiny. Old jokes or skits are deemed offensive in...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUNM, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Big Ag, Hungry People, Meanies in Congress and $6.41
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Congress is wrangling over the Farm Bill, which includes over $3 billion for giant agriculture corporations and multimillionaire "farmers" who don'...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:57
Stop Saving the Planet - An Environmentalist Manifesto
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Jenny Price is an ardent advocate for increasing public environmental access, activism, and effectiveness in solving the myriad of challenges we fa...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Bill Browder on Exposing Russia’s Web of Corruption, and Surviving Putin’s Wrath
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In a gripping interview with Ray Suarez, Browder recounts a hunt for missing money that led him to discover a corruption and conspiracy plot involv...

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


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Trump the Swamp:  It’s All in the Cards
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with father and son duo, Allen and Sid Cooperrider, creators of the Drain the Swamp deck of playing cards, which also outline ...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Freedom's Just Another Word For Absurdity: Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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What do acting, literature and philosophy have in common with branding, fascism and incarceration? How can the humanities confront the problem of t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 58:22
Another Year of Republican Fools?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Halloween is behind us, but I’ve still got some scary news. We’ve started the one-year countdown to election day. We’ve already been bombarded fo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Episode PV29: The New, Independent Loch Ness Monster
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes
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Hear al Qaeda’s IPO, the ironic response to ironic racism, Mr. Scott’s new job on Star Trek, and selections from the National Lampoon’s off-Broadwa...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 49:49
Episode PV28: Give Me That Pole!
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes
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Hear closeted terrorists, unclad Scottish loins, and Joan Rivers roasting her own funeral in this week’s Final Edition Radio Hour.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 50:44
It's Time We Cut Welfare
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on paying for restoring unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed by cutting corporate welfare.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Paying Your (Un)Fair Share on Tax Day
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on tax inequality between working people and wall streeters. Contains vocal by Merle Haggard.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Taxes are for Suckers
From: Making Contact
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Imagine paying almost nothing in taxes.. Sounds great doesn’t it? Some of America’s biggest companies are doing just that and making millions...or...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Sasha Abramsky: Inside Obama's Brain + Irreverent Holiday Music!
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Inside Obama's Brain by Sasha Abramsky, Credit: Sasha Abramsky
Award winning journalist Sasha Abramsky returns to Active Voice Radio to discuss his newest book Inside Obama's Brain. Also, irreverent holiday mus...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
Ethical Spies (#153)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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What makes some spying ethical, and other spying not.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
A bribe is a bribe (es#148)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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When is a bribe not a bribe?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KDNK


  • Added: Jan 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Talking Bumper Stickers (#137)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Should license plates have messages?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Speak Up. Get Fired. (#116)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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In most states you lawfully can be fired for your political beliefs.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
My Bi-(Partisan) Boyfriend**
From: Sharon Glassman
Series: Radio Essays On Demand
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Can you help me? Because my beau may be "you know," politically.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2004
  • Length: 03:48