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From: New Letters on the Air
Get a humorous account of the holiday season with Kansas blogger Jen Mann's book SPENDING THE HOLIDAYS WITH PEOPLE I WANT TO PUNCH IN THE THROAT. S...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Dec 21, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting the narrative. In a radio musical, a narrative springs up interrupting the music. Okay, s...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 43:56
- Purchases: 1
This week's episode is a bit of nonsense verse set to music: "Well, it was nine o'clock at midnight in the early afternoon / And I was picking all...
- Added: Dec 07, 2016
- Length: 01:21
Our Millennial Wine Panel members discuss female millennial-centered wine marketing efforts. We also get into the Mailbag & Wine News. A jovial &...
- Added: Dec 07, 2016
- Length: 01:00:00
I was hanging around down by the waterfront the other day ... keeping an eye on the harbor seals. Sometimes they leak, you know ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 06:55
On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with an ax at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Can a century-old brutal murder save t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 08:10
- Purchases: 1
It started out as a biscuits and gravy kind of a morning down at Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 06:38
Sophie May grew up in Alaska, spending lots of time outside. But when it came time to explore the wilderness as an adult, she found out she had mor...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 4
Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou gets real about losing his father and how he managed to stay motivated as a musician. Ryan Kattner of Man Man discusses...
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
This week's episode is an ever so slightly spooky song about an old growth forest, a crooked beak, and a pair of yellow eyes ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 01:25
My friend Jimy Fingerbutton once invented a new kind of dishwarsher. At least, I thought it was a dishwarsher. It looked just like an old-fashone...
- Added: Nov 02, 2016
- Length: 05:12
Fed up with the election? Threatening to move to Canada? A new book, "How to Move to Canada: A Discontented American's Guide to Canadia Relocation,...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 14:50
It's all about jobs this week. Sort of. Jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington discusses the difference between being an amateur musician and a profess...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 56:59
- Purchases: 2
Here's a little ditty about how we make the seasons, and why sometimes they get just a tiny bit mixed up ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 01:31
You know the seasons are turning when you wake up with frost in your beard ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 03:36
When a bear is not a bear, a dead ermine is not a dead ermine, and a motivational speaker is not really a motivational speaker.
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
This week on The Guestlist, we're looking back at our first year of existence and revisiting some memorable moments from Ethan Hawke, Bob Odenkirk,...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Oct 14, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The IgNobels are awarded every year at Harvard University for research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. WTIP's Mike Reeves cha...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 13:54
Every day I find something new out here on Wild Side. Something I've never seen before. Something that makes me say to myself, “slow down! Stop ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 04:33
I was poking around out on Wild Side the other day, keeping an eye out for blue shade trees ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 02:58:16
This may be my best poem yet: "Far away, out beyond the Great Desert of Proom, Where the wind sweeps across the sharp sand like a broom ..."
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 05:51
I once met an old-timer who lives out beyond the Wandering Hills, out there in the shadow of Gusty Ridge. The old-timer's name is Dale Hill. Dale...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 04:48
Here's a little ditty in honor of county fair season ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 01:30
This morning I was in the second-hand store, looking at all the second hands ... when a lady said to me, she said “beautiful day, isn't it?” I sai...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 05:22
