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We look at some names of famous people that, when you pronounce them correctly, can let people know you're an expert... or a snob.
- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
We run through a few of the many, many English words that contain silent letters. And we'll hear some of the baffling reasons we pronounce those wo...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on Audacious: Dumpster Diving! A pro takes host Chion Wolf into the depths of a dumpster, plus a TikTok star talks about how she got hook...
- Added: Feb 15, 2024
- Length: 50:01
Here is our second Halloween show. Many musicians and celebrities have been buried with some rather interesting items. We have a rather long list...
Bought by KHNS, The Bear 91.3, KUCA-FM, KSRQ, WOUB, KWIT and more
- Added: Oct 29, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
It is said there is Taylor Swift Effect. Her entering the business made a ton of girls buy guitars and play. The Baker Street Effect made the sa...
- Added: Apr 30, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
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 ...
- Added: Sep 19, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
You have heard of the KISS Army, right? That what KISS fans call themselves. But did you know that other bands and musicians also have nicknames ...
Bought by WYAP, KSRQ, WNYO, KWIT, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Aug 22, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
The Kids Crew gets puzzled with the world's most syndicated puzzle maker, David L. Hoyt, author of the Jumble puzzle found in more than 600 newspap...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSTK, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Aug 16, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 10
Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the importance and the origin of Pi: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078...
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 12:11
Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez converse on the topic of Mars and the factors that are unique to the planet.
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 12:38
Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the quirkier sides of science.
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 11:40
In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT--he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is t...
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 05:00
In these episodes, Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the many purposes and origins of Fire.
Bought by Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Jul 11, 2020
- Length: 12:45
- Purchases: 1
Why do we want to crush-hug cute things like babies and young animals? It may have something to do with adorableness overload and how our brains co...
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 03:50
Weekly two hour rock and roll radio program
- Added: Mar 11, 2019
- Length: 54:40
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 1
Robert Scherrell, the nation’s first college graduate awarded a degree in Stand Up Comedy is guest and teacher for aspiring comedy hosts Clarence B...
- Added: Jan 12, 2018
- Length: 58:21
Is there a program called Matt Daemon that secretly translates everything you say around your computer into a Boston accent?
Bought by WETD
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 02:52
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
Choosing the Perfect Date Movie
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 02:00
Actors may be on TV or perform with a local theater group, but what about the actors in the medical field?
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 08:35
Some early sailors, visiting remote Pacific islands, surely feared that the ungodly wailing on shore meant they had been tricked to the gates of He...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, and WKCC
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 3
