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Longtime Boundary Waters adventurer and Nashville songwriter Jerry Vandiver has a new EP with fiddler Caitlin Evanson called Special Limited Editio...

  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 18:14
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On this Encore episode of YBYG Mike preps your for Winter plant pruning. Plus your fabulous phone calls!!

  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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On this Halloween episode of YBYG, Mike teaches you to beware of pokey creepy crawly caterpillars in the Question of the Week! Plus your spooky ph...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 55:00
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On this Encore Episode of YBYG Mike McGrath slides in GREAT advice on how to tame Snails and Slugs!! Plus your Sliding Phone Calls!!

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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On this Fresh Look at a Question of the Week from last season; Mike McGrath digs up "Why you should never improve the soil in the planting hole whe...

  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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On this week's episode, host Mike McGrath reveals the best way to turn sand into garden soil as he answers a listener's question from Australia.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
Caption: Katie Carter & Helen Abramson
Helen Abramson grew up in the Meadowlands area. She has fond memories of celebrations at the Bohemian National Hall and is a treasure trove of loc...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 14:32
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Mike takes a "fresh look" at an episode from January 2019 and in the Question of the Week tells you how to tackle running bamboo!! And your fabulo...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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The holidays are fast approaching! Are you ready? Today on YBYG, host Mike McGrath reveals the safest ways to take cuttings from your evergreens an...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 54:58
Caption: The Ultrasounds, Credit: Bill Stoneberg
On this episode of The Live Feed we take you back to the 2018 Midwest Music Fest for the Winona Minnesota band The Ultrasounds. The Ultrasounds are...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 32:34
Caption: McNasty Brass Band, Credit: Willard Huyck
On this episode of The Live Feed we take you back to the 2018 Midwest Music Fest for the McNasty Brass Band from Minneapolis. The bands high energy...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 34:47
Caption: Jaybone Bell and The Restless Light, Credit: Logan Erickson
On this episode of The Live Feed we take you back to the 2018 Midwest Music Fest for Jaybone Bell and The Restless Light. The Winona, MN band has d...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 33:06
Caption: Skippy White and Marc Siegel
Physical record stores have made a comeback in recent years, but there's one in Boston that never went away. At Skippy White's CDs & Records, owner...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 21:17
Caption: The Louvre in Paris
Join us as we explore Tall Trees of Paris and modern China, learn the art of family travel and jump the queue at popular attractions. We’ll also v...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:55
Caption:  Cellist Matt Haimovitz, Credit: Stephanie Mackinnon
Catch a group of great string releases: Overtures to Bach by Matt Haimovitz; Ginastera 100 with Yolanda Kondonassis; Words Fail by Yevgeny Kutik; I...

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, WETS, KMUN, KVNO and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: The Swamp Kings, Credit: Nancy Harkness
People from all over are attracted to Louisiana Culture. As far as Louisiana music, the Swamp Kings have been mainstays in Minnesota for over a Dec...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg is both playwright and actor in this satirical short play about an anxious young hipster absurdly co-opting the tragedy of Septembe...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 16:49
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Enrolling in college at 40 to study art, Sharon Long had no idea an anthropology class would put her on a path to a career as a forensic artist.

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Hayley Quinn, with Olly Mann
Dating. In this age of Tinder, Grindr, no-strings sex and fourth-wave feminism, it's all got rather complicated. How do you find someone you want ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 18:26
Caption: Captain Gravitone CD Cover, Credit: Al Fack
The group’s leader plays the banjo but this is no bluegrass band. It’s part acoustic group, part theatrical troupe and 100% fun. And it’s available...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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This is Distillations’s 200th episode, and we’re celebrating! We pored through hundreds of shows and pieced together some of the funniest, grossest...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 37:10
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After 13 years of being backed by The Nocturnals, Grace Potter has taken 2015 to strike out on her own. Her debut solo disc, Midnight, is full of ...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 3
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WTIP's Bob Carter chatted with Marc Abrahams, editor of "Annals of Improbable Research, " about the 2014 Ig Nobel prizes recently awarded at Harvar...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 21:18
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Putting a spotlight on Willie Egan and the girl's "perfect song lyric" plus plenty of collector's music ("that you've never heard by musicians you'...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 08:50:42
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From the "Millionaire Matchmaker" and "The Shah's of Sunset"...here's Comic David Golshan on the subject of High School and alot more...

  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:32