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The Pee-Wee Herman Radio Hour
From: KCRW
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Pee-Wee Herman got to live out his dream of being a disc jockey in 2021 with his own show on KCRW. The man who brought Pee-Wee to life for decades,...

Bought by Raven Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUT, WORT, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 21
601: Episode 601: Susanna Hoffs, Atsuko Okatsuka, Kevin Wilson, 5/5/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: BETA
Caption: Atsuko Okatsuka, Credit: Courtesy HBO
Bangles co-founder, Susanna Hoffs, joins us to talk about writing her debut novel and recording a new album. Also, comedian Atsuko Okatsuka intrude...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Alcohol is Still Not a Solution
From: KICI Iowa City
Series: Iowa City Police Log
Caption: Alcohol is Still Not a Solution
Entries from the Iowa City Police Daily activity log about people seeking answers to life's questions through alcohol.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:05
The Christmas Interface
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish features songs about the Jewish interface with Christmas... plus a sampling of new Hanukkah releases too good to leave for next year.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Twentynine Palms, Twelve Dollars & Change
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we come to you from Theatre29 in sweltering Twentynine Palms, California. Flash floods, heat domes, weird animals, RedBlueBlackSilver, what...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
176: Math Pain
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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If you're like Trace, the thought of math makes you want to run and hide; that anxiety, that tightness in your chest, the weird shooting pains (wai...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
158: Spider Pulley
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Arachnophobes BEWARE! Imagine a spider that uses special silk to lift something that's 50 times bigger than itself. There is a video! You must wat...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 04:59
156: Smell This
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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What is that weird smell? It's called trimethylamine (TMA) and for most of us it stinks like rotten fish. For a small percentage of people it smell...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:04
Mark My Words Sports Show (01-24-21)
From: KRDP
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This week we talk about the NFC and AFC Championship games, the NFL coaching hires and more.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 57:59
Mark My Words Sports Show (01-10-21)
From: KRDP
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This week we analyze the NFL playoff games, and pick the winners. We also have a new video game edition of "The Name Game".

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
120: Play Doh
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1930, the Kutol company came up with a putty to clean coal dust off of walls. Impending bankruptcy forced them to shift gears to find new ways o...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
Comedy Writing Class Fiasco
From: Jan McInnis
Series: Comedian Stories: Tales From the Road in Under 5 Minutes
Caption: Tales From the Road in Under 5 Minutes
Comedian Jan McInnis took a comedy writing class when she first got into comedy, and merely getting to the class gave her some comedy gold!

  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:14
Valentine's Day Diary
From: Hans Anderson
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It's another dateless Valentine's Day. I decided to make a diary of it.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, PRX Remix, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
84: FDC Willard, Physicist
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Trend setting science from 1975. We can't tell you anything else, it would spoil the surprise!

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
76: Weird World of Pets
From: Trace Kerr
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A half-marathon running dog, Japan's pet cafes, cats might be able to recognizing their names, but we're not completely sure (because cats am I rig...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 16:00
  • Purchases: 1
Down at the Old Schoolhouse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Due to the government-shutdown emergency, your host was compelled to entertain an audience at the Old Schoolhouse Museum in 29 Palms.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Mojave Solstice
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Winter holidays in the High Desert, and problems with the 29 Palms Christmas Pageant. Guest: Brendan Maze.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Early Eyes
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed we take you to downtown Winona, MN to talk to indie rock band Early Eyes. Willard Huyck talked to the band about t...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2018
  • Length: 20:50
142: I'm No Princess
From: The Mortified Podcast
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The pitfalls of teenagers and tiaras.  This week, Mortified explores the obsession kids have with becoming a princess. The Mortified Podcast is a p...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2018
  • Length: 27:45
Donut Diablo
From: T. G. LaFredo
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This short comedy sketch is an advertisement for a fictitious culinary concoction.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:14
Airport Safety
From: T. G. LaFredo
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"Airport Safety" is a short, humorous satire of TSA regulations—and popular culture. This is a sound-rich protest piece, perfect for a comedy progr...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 02:19
I Don't Know by James McLindon
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jay O. Sanders
In James McLindon’s I Don’t Know, an old school drill sergeant is faulted by his new recruits and desperately, hysterically longs for the time when...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
The Mandela Effect by Max Baker
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Geraldine Hughes
In The Mandela Effect, written and directed by Max Baker, an actress is convinced that the present is no longer in sync with the past and she has a...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:15
  • Purchases: 1
WSU Theatre Presents: A Dog's House
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we talk to the cast of A Dogs House, presented by the the Dept of Theatre and Dance at Winona State University. A Dog’...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 18:20
The Comedy of Ryan Khal and Earl Elliot
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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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