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My friend Stretch likes to think of himself as a role model. I said "why, because you get stale after a while?" ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:02
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A bunch of us were sitting around Elmer's Cafe the other day, telling ghost stories ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:57
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My friend Archie Meade was telling me about all the latest developments in the exciting and ever-changing world of mathematics. I don't mind sayin...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 03:29
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Here's a little Halloween song for the kids ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:54
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This week we explore several of the routines and ceremonies that our favorite artists obsessively perform before taking the stage.

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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My friend Buford Colic is hosting a barn dance this weekend. I'm afraid to go, for obvious reasons. I mean, have you ever seen a barn doing the h...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 02:37
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Some guy asked me about the size of my carbon footprint. I told him it's exactly the same size as my regular footprint ...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:32
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Something happened to create such a fertile ground for Americana music in post WWII era of the 1950-70s of this show's focus. However whatever ser...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:49:20
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My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented an Automatic Attic(™). Just plug it in, turn it on, and it fills any room with a musty odor ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
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My friend Miles Walker and I were headed for Glory. It wasn't the first time we'd set out in that direction. For some reason, Glory always seems ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 03:20
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Victor never thought it would be easy. After all, full-grown dragons are as big as a windmill, and tougher than a stone wall ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
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I was three blocks away from Elmer's Cafe when I caught the first waft of spice in the air ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:28
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I know a guy who can tell you whether it's summer or fall just by looking at a calendar. That never worked for me ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2015
  • Length: 03:05
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That was the Year of the Whist - or, as some folks called it, the Great Dream Shortage ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:58
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My friend Flora Caprifolia is Junior Vice President of Marketing Ploys at a company that sells abstracts ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:48
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This episode lumps together four short poems and a song fragment. As if Russell the Rooster needed a warmup act ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 01:58
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My friend Albie Durned is a private investigator. You may have heard of some of his more famous cases ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 03:07
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I was visiting my friend Buddy the other day. Buddy is the kind of host who hates to see a guest empty-handed, so he kept on constantly running in...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:52
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Vern Acular and I were wandering through the Wandering Hills the other day. We were looking for square inch worms ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 03:06
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I tried to catch my friend Stretch in a lie the other day ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:49
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Another song for the kids ...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:11
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I'm going to a party later today. Parties aren't really my thing, but this one is a special one ...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:32
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My friend Olive Branch is a conflict resolution specialist. When a client schedules two meetings at the same time, it's Olive's job to evaluate th...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:40
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The line in front of Bill O'Sale's latest retail establishment stretched around the block ...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:50
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So there I was ... NINE days away from the nearest road ... TWELVE days away from the nearest crossroads ... EIGHTEEN days from the nearest town, a...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:49