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Greg seemed to everyone like a mild mannered software developer. No one could predict that his invention could either save democracy, or lock the c...
- Added: Aug 15, 2020
- Length: 29:03
“The Sounds of Lunch,” by Ken Cormier
- Added: Jan 28, 2019
- Length: 03:04
“Eulogy,” by Ken Cormier
Background music: “Earresponsibility,” by David Salowich (from The Blister Pack)
- Added: Jan 28, 2019
- Length: 03:39
Rob MacClanahan reads chapters 3 & 4 of H G Well's 1895 classic, "The Time Machine"
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 01:25:52
Calling out a large number of listener's names on this broadcast from a New Orleans music club.
- Added: May 11, 2018
- Length: 03:00:13
The 14-year-old in all of us believes that song lyrics uncover the hidden mysteries of life so that's where my limited investigative reporting budg...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 35:50
This week's episode is a bit of nonsense verse set to music: "Well, it was nine o'clock at midnight in the early afternoon / And I was picking all...
- Added: Dec 07, 2016
- Length: 01:21
I was hanging around down by the waterfront the other day ... keeping an eye on the harbor seals. Sometimes they leak, you know ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 06:55
It started out as a biscuits and gravy kind of a morning down at Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 06:38
This week's episode is an ever so slightly spooky song about an old growth forest, a crooked beak, and a pair of yellow eyes ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 01:25
My friend Jimy Fingerbutton once invented a new kind of dishwarsher. At least, I thought it was a dishwarsher. It looked just like an old-fashone...
- Added: Nov 02, 2016
- Length: 05:12
Here's a little ditty about how we make the seasons, and why sometimes they get just a tiny bit mixed up ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 01:31
You know the seasons are turning when you wake up with frost in your beard ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 03:36
Every day I find something new out here on Wild Side. Something I've never seen before. Something that makes me say to myself, “slow down! Stop ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 04:33
I was poking around out on Wild Side the other day, keeping an eye out for blue shade trees ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2016
- Length: 06:00
This may be my best poem yet: "Far away, out beyond the Great Desert of Proom, Where the wind sweeps across the sharp sand like a broom ..."
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 05:51
I once met an old-timer who lives out beyond the Wandering Hills, out there in the shadow of Gusty Ridge. The old-timer's name is Dale Hill. Dale...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 04:48
Here's a little ditty in honor of county fair season ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 01:30
This morning I was in the second-hand store, looking at all the second hands ... when a lady said to me, she said “beautiful day, isn't it?” I sai...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 05:22
Good morning everybody, this is Bill Melater, coming to you live from the beautiful city of Upper Case – Capitol of the Kingdom of Wonderstan and t...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 03:09
My friend Bill O'Sale just opened a new retail store down at the corner of High Street and Low Road. I asked him what he's selling this time. He ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 05:35
What kind of bee keeps buzzing all year long? A May bee!
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 01:52
The other day down at Elmer's Cafe, a bunch of us regulars were bragging about our most dangerous escapades and feats of derring-do ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 06:00
It was summer vacation, and Jessica wanted to be in two places at once ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 06:20
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a perpetual motion machine. I was the first person he showed it to. I guess he figured I had the right qual...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 11:38
