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Lost Oldies of the '80s & '90s, New Indie Music!
From: The Goober Hour
Series: The Goober Hour
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It's a wacky selection of tunes from decades past – Todd Rundgren just wants to bang on the drum all day, the California Raisins are sweet and deli...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Lost Oldies of the '60s & '70s, New Indie Music!
From: The Goober Hour
Series: The Goober Hour
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We've got some forgotten musical gems today from the likes of The Pointer Sisters, Wings, Tom Jones, The Mills Brothers, Sparks... plus new tunes b...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
New Music March!
From: The Goober Hour
Series: The Goober Hour
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Entirely NEW tunes today - from the likes of The Lemon Twigs, The Liverbirds, The Last Dinner Party and more. Plus, a hilarious "on-air call" from ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Jokes On You
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
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Sounds Jewish anticipates April Fool's Day.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jewish Tango!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Don’t you love an intimate tango? Jewish singers, instrumentalists and songwriters have brought us tangos in Yiddish and Hebrew for more than a cen...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Music, Music, Music!
From: The Goober Hour
Series: The Goober Hour
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A wide variety of tunes today - including a Pixar jazz standard, a Chipmunks Broadway cover, a McCartney nursery rhyme, and new indie gems by The L...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Get To Work!
From: Spud Davenport
Series: Satire Rock City Radio Show
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #110

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:52
212: Peanut Butter Diamonds
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
209: Detachable Tails
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bottoms Up
From: Spud Davenport
Series: Satire Rock City Radio Show
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #108

  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:51
Satire By The Numbers, Vol II
From: Spud Davenport
Series: Satire Rock City Radio Show
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #98

  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:52
201: Rabbit War
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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What happens when you are the Emperor of France and your hunting party plans go completely wrong? You get attacked by rabbits. This isn't a Monty P...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 2
Children's Authors Lemony Snicket & Kate DiCamillo
From: New Letters on the Air
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Both Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler) and Kate DiCamillo are authors of children's literature whose work has multigenerational appea...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
187: Animal Buddy Cops
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
2121: On Creating "Barry" & "The Outpost", 5/27/2021
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll hear from Bill Hader and Alec Berg, the creators of HBO’s hit crime show, Barry. And later we’ll hear from the filmmake...

  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
172: Dancing Plague
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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During the 1300-1500s there were several accounts of people being afflicted with spontaneous dancing. One group of 400 people were struck with the ...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
165: Silently Screaming Tomato
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In a pitched battle against voracious tomato fruit worms, (aka. corn earworms or cotton bollworm) tomato plants have one sneaky defense...a wasp. I...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 2
Parody Bands
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week was inspired by the Spinal Tap debut back in 1984. Once I started doing the research, there was simply a large group of bands that are b...

Bought by KSRQ, KWIT, Harford Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
It Came from R&D!
From: San Francisco Mime Troupe
Series: Tales of the Resistance
Caption: Cover art, Credit: Lawton Lovely
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
Nostalgia Night
From: H. William Stine
Series: TURNTABLE FOR ONE
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I thought about the good old days this week, when I was smart and my phone was dumb, when a blue state was me having a bad day, and when Harvey was...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
S03 Ep52: Humorous Music, 8/24/2019
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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Who says classical music needs to be stuffy? This week, music with a sense of humor.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
70: Galloping Crocodiles
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 2
62: Troxler Effect
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 03:24
61: Science Ferrets
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
59: Flatworms
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1