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The smelly food with a loyal following. Explore the origins of sauerkraut in the Texas Hill Country, its present makers, and sauerkraut’s ability ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 19:09
Amy pulled out all the stops for this shenanigan filled episode. Don't be an April's Fool like Trace.
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
There are over 70 examples of knights fighting snails in illuminated manuscripts from the 1300s. But why? First meme? A silly inside joke? A weird ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 04:47
Ramesses II (Also known as Ramses or Rameses) became Pharaoh at the age of 14, had more children than any other Egyptian ruler, and reigned during ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
Will Rogers was a proud member of the Cherokee Nation
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 01:01
Will Rogers loved to travel, but he also loved to poke fun at his fellow tourists
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 01:01
In 1532 the Spanish found out what everyone in South America already knew--potatoes are amazing. But when they brought them back to Europe the rece...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 10, 2020
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 1
In this time of COVID19 and staying at home (if you happen to be at home with more than just yourself) you might be finding family harmony is getti...
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 04:49
Trace follows a trail from shoving boulders downhill to the 18th century sport of hoop rolling.
P.S. Trace mentions in the beginning of the episode...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
Mistranslation? Awkward. Surprisingly, it was a classic mistranslation after the Franco-Prussion War that prompted the acceptance of biosafety. Now...
- Added: May 07, 2020
- Length: 03:00
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
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
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
Minneapolis and St. Paul are known as the Twin Cities, but relationships weren’t always so sisterly. During the summer of the 1890 census, both cit...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:38
Kay Johnston Massar tells her husband, Cy Massar, about being the first girl to play Little League baseball.
- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
In the 1950s poodles were all the rage – one tabloid even reported that when a girl “makes the big time she traditionally acquires 3 things — minks...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 25:15
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 20:52
- Purchases: 1
A teenage misfit tries to empower himself by taking on the persona of a medieval Scottish King.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 21:44
- Purchases: 1
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman and producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, New Orleans...
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 11:01
Ferrato's Later On Decatur and a round of "before they were."
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 02:38:09
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 19:17
This week the Global Guru travels to Holland to learn how to insult someone... in Dutch. A surprising look at a secular society.
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 02:18
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 16, 2007
- Length: 02:37
Jason Sheehan believes barbecue unites us, comforts us and is the only thing he can?t get enough of.
Bought by WEZU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, and KJZZ
- Added: Oct 06, 2006
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 4
