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MS 23-36: Folk Music with a Sense of Humor, 9/14/2023
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The Midnight Special
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
Party Like It's 5784
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
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Happy Birthday World. Let's renew ourselves and Party Like It's 5784

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
MS 23-34: Folk Music with a Sense of Humor, 8/31/2023
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The Midnight Special
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
MS 23-33: Folk Music with a Sense of Humor, 8/24/2023
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The Midnight Special
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
MS 23-30: Folk Music with a Sense of Humor, 8/3/2023
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The Midnight Special
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
MS 23-29: Folk Music with a Sense of Humor, 7/27/2023
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The Midnight Special
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
Music To Nosh By
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
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Listen to food related recordings from across the Jewish world while America celebrates national pickle month.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Strike Up The Bands
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish marks Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day with Jewish renditions of patriotic songs plus tunes about North American Jewish life.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Jewish #Jazzuary
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
“Sounds Jewish” celebrates #Jazzuary – yes, that’s a monthlong thing – with a down-home hour of Jewish jazz.

Bought by WVTF and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Grave Robbers
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Elvis was not always buried on the Graceland property. After an attempted grave robbing, he was moved there. In fact, many musicians' graves have...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHNS, KWIT, Harford Community Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Alien Satire
From: Spud Davenport
Series: Satire Rock City Radio Show
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #111

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:51
Get To Work!
From: Spud Davenport
Series: Satire Rock City Radio Show
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #110

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:52
212: Peanut Butter Diamonds
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
2214: Refeed: Writing Comedy with Ali LeRoi + Writing the Young Adult, 4/7/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll hear from comedy veteran Ali LeRoi who’s longtime collaboration with comedian Chris Rock resulted in Everybody Hates Ch...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
209: Detachable Tails
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bottoms Up
From: Spud Davenport
Series: Satire Rock City Radio Show
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #108

  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:51
Satire By The Numbers, Vol II
From: Spud Davenport
Series: Satire Rock City Radio Show
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #98

  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:52
206 part two: Skeet Shooting Fish
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Sure, Archerfish can use a squirt of water to knock prey into the water to be eaten. But researchers wanted to know, could they count?

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 04:53
  • 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
205: Vatican Women's Rifle Team
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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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
202: Honeypot Ants
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine you're an ant living in an arid climate. There's no grocery stores! How do you keep enough food on hand for when things are scarce? You won...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
201: Rabbit War
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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What happens when you are the Emperor of France and your hunting party plans go completely wrong? You get attacked by rabbits. This isn't a Monty P...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 2
197: Singing Gorillas
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Give a captive gorilla tasty food, they often vocalize in ways that sound a lot like singing. It's so charming! But scientists thought this "singin...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 1
194: Iris Sphincters
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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You might think you're special because you can flex your nostrils or flap your ears--but it turns out that there's a person out there who can volun...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 11:34
  • Purchases: 1
Children's Authors Lemony Snicket & Kate DiCamillo
From: New Letters on the Air
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Both Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler) and Kate DiCamillo are authors of children's literature whose work has multigenerational appea...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00