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667-ET's Cigar(419)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist's concept of interstellar object1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua) as it passed through the solar system after its discovery in October 2017. The aspect ratio of up to 10:1 is unlike that of any object seen in our own solar system., Credit: European Southern Observatory / M. Kornmesser
The first alien object to observed visiting our solar system arrives from truly deep space and leaves us with the mystery of what it is and how it ...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
658-Fireball II(418)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Phoenix CityCam caught the flash of light around 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2017, Credit: City of Phoenix
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space ...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Two): Hail the Independent & Designated Survivor
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 12: Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Two)
Imagine creating a television series premised on a U.S. Capitol building attack, then watching a less-lethal yet all too real version of that event...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 21:40
651-Spotting Meteors(397)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Falling from Space, Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford
Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of ti...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question by f...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 27:48
642-Vesta Fragment
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Asteroid Vesta, Credit: NASA
An impacting object hit the asteroid Vesta making a 10 mile diameter crater and in the process blasted loose fragments which have been orbiting th...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
639-Earth Approachers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters discovered 29 space rocks as they passed closer to us than the Moon. These small asteroids averaged...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
638-Methane
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s conception of early Earth after several large asteroid impacts, moving magma on to the surface. , Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI
How ET could know there is life on Earth.

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
637-Martian Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Zodiacal Light and Mars , Credit: Joshua Rhoades
After sunset in the spring and before sunrise in the fall, at a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctu...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
GN_6.32_ Air To H2O
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Harvesting water from thin air... yes, really.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
GN_6.34_ Tree Army
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In an effort to combat their high levels of air pollution and reduce their carbon footprint, the People’s Liberation Army has deployed over 60,000 ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
America's Sonnet
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets" by Susan Cook, Credit: Shermans.com, GulfofMaineBooks@gmail.com
From America's Sonnet, "This sonnet's yours America, but you will not take all my loves, turn my Black, brown, blue."

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: :57
631-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Survey Teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object wit...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
GN_5.09_BraveBeautifulVoices
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Beauty pageant contestants use their platform to call out violence against women.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_5.05_CaliforniaWinWin
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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The ‘California Air Resources’ board in the summer of 2018, conclusively showed that California had met its 2020 emissions goal four years earlier ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_5.04_RadioDodo
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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A woman creates a radio broadcast of bedtime stories for children in war zones.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Lights, Camera, Author! - Ira Rosen
From: Jim Junot
Series: Lights, Camera, Author!
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An interview with Ira Rosen, former "60 Minutes" producer and author of "Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 26:53
  • Purchases: 1
629-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Canes Venatici with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, ...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Lights, Camera, Author! - Chris Korman
From: Jim Junot
Series: Lights, Camera, Author!
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An interview with Chris Korman, son of funnyman Harvey Korman and author of "OMG! It's Harvey Korman's Son!"

  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 25:18
Lights, Camera, Author! - Rupert Alistair
From: Jim Junot
Series: Lights, Camera, Author!
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An interview with Rupert Alistair, author of the series "The Name Below the Title."

  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 18:35
Lights, Camera, Author! - Olivia Newton-John
From: Jim Junot
Series: Lights, Camera, Author!
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An interview with singer/actress Olivia Newton-John who talks about her new duet with her daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, "Window in the Wall" as we...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
Lights, Camera, Author! - Melanie Chartoff
From: Jim Junot
Series: Lights, Camera, Author!
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An interview with actress Melanie Chartoff, author of "Odd Woman Out"

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 31:07
Coyote
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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An ode to the coyote. Dan Flores and his book Coyote America, dueling press releases, and The Wind Inaugural Coyote Calling Contest.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 47:41
627-Toughest Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Eros, Credit: NASA
In 2020, my team the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 14 extremely tough asteroids which regularly travel closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury. ...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Lights, Camera, Author! - Sandra Niemi
From: Jim Junot
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An interview with Sandra Niemi, author of "Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi." Niemi is Nurmi's niece and she ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:08

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