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Necco Wafers and Jelly Beans were candies citizens were urged to "send to the troops" during the Civil War. Easy to transport and not likely to mel...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of YBYG Mike McGrath digs into Spring Saviors like Forsythia & Spring Bulbs! And of course your fabulous phone calls!
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 54:58
If you're thinking, wait, I thought it was tenderhooks, you're not alone. Amy explains this early 18th century idiom that describes having a sense ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
Welcome to our funniest episode yet. Scientists avert international tension between Sweden and Russia, learn something we didn't know about herring...
- Added: Jan 13, 2020
- Length: 04:37
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
Would you pay eight-thousand dollars to impress your friends with a pineapple? No? Well, the Victorians did.
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 08:19
When the US and Canadian governments decided the border between our two countries, a few places got left on the "wrong" side of the line. Those pla...
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 08:03
Medical science on the fly. Turns out you only need to pull a few G's to loosen that stubborn kidney stone.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
Mike McGrath warns against handling plants when wet in the Question of the Week!! And as always, your warning Phone Calls!!
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 54:59
Mike McGrath warns against "Improving the Soil" in the hole while Planting Trees and Shrubs in the Question of the week!! And as always, your "impr...
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 54:59
Cougars are beautiful and stealthy solitary hunters. Until they want to mate. Then they sound like a person being run through a garbage compactor. ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 2
Where we talk about Dr. Nathalie Stroeymeyt and her foraging, black garden ants. Infected ants seem to stay away from other ants. Find out why.
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 02:49
During the last 8 years, this program has gone where no other radio program has gone before - probably because they know better. I've tackled the t...
- Added: Sep 11, 2018
- Length: 59:00
A faux live broadcast from your prom. As you can imagine, it didn't go well for me.
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 03:49:54
Well, I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more to this true story, but here are a few ringtail facts that are fun. Okay, fun for nature geeks like y...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:10
The regular listeners to Saturday night radio meet at a New Orleans music club for the music, drinks, food and each other in this live broadcast.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: May 28, 2018
- Length: 02:56:14
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of The Live Feed we talk with Minnesota based comedian Maggie Ferris. She tells us what its like to be a female comedian, a dog wal...
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 40:20
Plenty of New Orleans music and songs about yo yos. Then I had "these urges" that turned into unrehearsed stunts.
- Added: Dec 25, 2017
- Length: 03:07:17
Music that incorporates mechanical noises into the rhythm, gunslinger songs (including a psychological analysis of a gunslinger) and my Jerry Samue...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 02:24:40
I feel like breaking some rules this week...but which ones? Never ending a sentence with a preposition? Hey - some rules are still sacrosanct, okay...
- Added: Sep 30, 2017
- Length: 59:00
You know me. I'm never afraid to jump into the middle of a controversial confrontation. (And if that's what you think, you don't really know me, do...
- Added: Aug 16, 2017
- Length: 59:00
They say laughter is the best medicine - although how effective is it really against, say, a broken leg, snake bite, or poison ivy? But if you're l...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The Haves and the Have Nots, a very serious subject, a very sensitive subject. But, of course, I don't plan to be either, not for a second. Instead...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This week I'm going on my favorite kind of trip - an Ego Trip. And look who's coming along: Sinatra, Shirley Horn, George Evans, Johnny Hartman, an...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jun 20, 2017
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Tired of all the arguments, all the fights and futile feuding? Uh-Oh. You should have told me sooner because this week I'm presenting the Battle of...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
