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May 2023 – FINAL EDITION -- The ridiculousness of “Straight Pride”
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: "Straight Pride", Credit: OutCasting Media
Addressing the aggrieved people who lament the lack of a "Straight Pride" celebration.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
TV Themes that Became Hits
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Here's the game. Name a TV theme song that then became a hit on the pop chart. You cannot choose a song that was first a hit and then used for a ...

Bought by WKPW, KSRQ, KTRL, KHNS, KWIT and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Faked Their Death
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Elvis. Michael Jackson. Tupac. Many believe these people are still alive but faked their death. What is better is that of all the musicians we ...

Bought by WNYO, KSRQ, KWIT, WOUB, KTRL and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Full Moon Hacksaw #1775 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02-04-2021
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Many personal favorites from past broadcasts have been re-assembled, narrowed down to less than an hour, to serve as a “best of” or “greatest hits”...

Bought by KRZA, WMOT, KJZX-Austin, WOUB, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 8
Full Moon Hacksaw #1730 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03-26-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Long-time sponsor Gifts Anon (two words on Facebook) felt it wise to keep our annual remote broadcast scheduled from Scottsdale Arizona, despite th...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KHNS, WYAP, WEJP-LP 107.1, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 12
The Ultimate Dunk
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Women in the Austin Music Scene
Caption: Kana Harris (right) interviewed in the Texas Folklife archive room
Punk Musician & Creator of Community Record Store, Kana Harris merges all. This story was produced by Mary Hollyman, Tony Plata, and Cynthia Luna w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
upskill
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Upskill your team without killing the mood. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
brogrammer
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Is being a brogrammer a good thing?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Final Interrogation of Ceausescu’s Dog by Warren Leight
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Ed Asner
Starring Ed Asner and Jesse Eisenberg, in The Final Interrogation of Ceausescu’s Dog, a deposed dictator’s beloved pet answers to the disenfranchis...

Bought by KZYX and KZYX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 10:25
  • Purchases: 2
#25 MIW Amanda Harrinauth - Holy Names Undergraduate Student
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Amanda Harrinauth on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your show host on this episode of Making It Work, we will chat with undergraduate student, Amanda Harrinauth, about her exper...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 19:36
Liliana & Jacob's "Why Hunt?"
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
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Cousins Juliana & Jacob explore hunting in this piece. Hunting seems to be a family tradition-stemming from their granddad who killed goats on his ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 07:52
Cynic Pride
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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Living with Negative Optimism

  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 08:07
Twitter Fatigue
From: Stephen Provizer
Series: Cultural Curmudgeon
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Twitter is hemorrhaging self-aggrandizement and hucksterism.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
The Beat: Dallas Crow - "On Pumpkins"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Dallas Crow's work has appeared in Tar River Poetry and Poet Lore. His book, "Small, Imperfect Paradise," is due out from Parallel Press this year....

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
Net Pets
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Fractional ownership of your very own travel companion.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:02
The Knights Are Darkest Before The Dawn?
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Baltimorons
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Not only does today’s episode contain the very first official review of “The Dark Knight Rises” to be posted on the Internet (NB: little to no rese...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 40:05
Pre-K Jewelers
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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If you want to show your baby that you truly love them show it with diamonds

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: :52
Dingmantics: A Rage Letter To Utah
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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A tale of holiday cheer in which I administer a thoroughly-justified dressing-down to an unscrupulous Internet racketeer.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 14:41
Duck and Cover
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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The Culture War Fetal Position

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 05:47
The Movie Sets of Frank Lloyd Wright
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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American Idol Architect

  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:44
Tear Down This Statue
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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A Thanksgiving Prayer Regarding the Fall of Ronald Reagan

  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:14
The New Superstitions
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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A Guide for Those of Little Brain

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Needle Drop: 04-23-11
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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New music from tUnE-yArDs, Metronomy, and more.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KISU, KPVL, KSJD, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 57:09
  • Purchases: 7
The Black Swan of Cairo - Mark Blyth
From: Open Source
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Open Source "Shorties" are 7-8 minute cuts of our best evergreen material. Today: Mark Blyth on the political economy of uncertainty in Japan, Egyp...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Needle Drop: 09-18-10
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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New music from Chromeo and the Walkmen.

Bought by WTIP, KPVL, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, KISU and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2010
  • Length: 57:08
  • Purchases: 6