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Regretsy
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Regretsy describes itself as ""where DIY meets WTF." The silliest, grossest and most overpriced items listed on the online store Etsy are featured ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 4/27/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THE WORLD IS HELD ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Fifty Shades Caper
From: Sean Rasmussen
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True (and humorous) story about Mark and Eric who find a stack of brand-new copies of Fifty Shades of Grey, just sitting on the sidewalk.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:48
Frac Dust
From: David O'Sullivan
Series: KOEH 108.3FM, Dipperville, Minnesota
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Frac Dust is worrying the residents of Dipperville

  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 05:42
Inventing and Gouging The Sick
From: David O'Sullivan
Series: KOEH 108.3FM, Dipperville, Minnesota
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Big Pharma and Medical Insurance and their influence on the sick (and not so sick).

  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 05:48
Tales from the South 095: Tin Roof Project with Tobi Fairley
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Summer Season
Caption: Designer Tobi Faireley
This week it's our monthly Tin Roof Project, featuring award-winning designer Tobi Fairley. True stories told by the Southerners who lived them.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Paddling
From: ayme frye
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Story of how paddling is still alive and well in the South. Ouch! Behave!

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 02:41
Elementary Education
From: Lauren Peterson
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For some, education is a global debate involving scholarly theories and reform strategies; for others, it's something a little more...elementary. O...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:46
Riddles from the Border Regions, 2/12/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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NEARLY WEIGHTLESS...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
How to Ace a Job Interview
From: Mariel Fiedler
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A comedic piece giving advice on how to follow up after your first interview.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 07:59
The Maine Event
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Several times a month, art dealer Rob Elowitch becomes Robbie Ellis, "America's Sexiest Sexagenarian Superstud," a legend in Maine's independent wr...

Bought by WMPG and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
Hip Replacement by Kerry Gildea Beck
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
Series: Theatre from the Land of Enchantment
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A short comedy about aging rock stars.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WCBE, KUNM, KUPR low power FM, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 15:27
  • Purchases: 6
Not Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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The tale of a Dunkin Donuts, an armed robbery, and a high school girl I wanted to throw sugar packets at. The author almost loses his jelly.

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KUT, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 4
I Think You Should Shut Up
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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A grumpy & annoyed person person speaks into a microphone for one minute and fifty seconds.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 2
My Side of the Story: The YMCA
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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I am offended by the foul odor which emanates from this stinking sweat-factory!

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Glass and Metal
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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A fiction piece about being stuck in traffic in Boston, recorded in a read-along record style for no apparent reason.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
The Mikie Show #1 Rob
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Our inauspicious beginning. We introduce Señor Glow and The Hi There’s. A guest interview with dance music artist and dj Rob Rives. We discuss the ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 11, 2009
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Happy ChallaDAY!
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
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Happy ChallaDAY! An original musical comedy for Hanukkah. Book, music and lyrics by Charles Moster.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUNM, KWIT, KCMJ Community Radio, KUNM and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 53:39
  • Purchases: 11
Mushroom Fever
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The tireless search for edible mushrooms.

Bought by The Nature Podcast and CKMO


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 2
"The Voices In My Head" read by author Jack Handey
From: Amy Wallen
Series: DimeStories
Caption: DimeStories 3-minute stories read by the author
The narrator contemplates the conundrum of those voices in his head telling him what to do.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, KUOW, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 5
"Clowns" read by author Emil Wilson
From: Amy Wallen
Series: DimeStories
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A clown commercial reeks havoc on an advertising executive.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 21, 2009
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Not a Good Combo: Beer and Monkeys in the Phillipines
From: Brad Horn
Series: The 90-second vox pop
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A good example of why you should stay away from chained-up monkeys in the Third World.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:50
Hitchhiking with a bag full of cocaine in Texas
From: Brad Horn
Series: The 90-second vox pop
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A trip to Texas for a weekend wedding gets weird.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 02:09
Sly Crooner One Hour Christmas Special
From: Geoffrey Tozer
Series: Sly Crooner
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A Damon Runyon Christmas story set to music.

Bought by KRCB 104.9, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KRPS, WNMU-FM, WDCV and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Google Cooking, Griefer and other Neologisms - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Google Cooking is a new phrase - a neologism - born on the Internet. Listen to this short ThoughtCast program for a definition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1