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Nice Girls, Mean Bags
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: The owners of "Maybe You Should Die," surrounded by their creations., Credit: Todd Melby
"This is what happens when Minnesota nice goes wrong." That's how Meghan McDonald-Heisserer describes the company she started with Christina Nguyen...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
How to Ace a Job Interview
From: Mariel Fiedler
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A comedic piece giving advice on how to follow up after your first interview.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 07:59
Episode 3 - Missing Persons Report
From: Frederick Greenhalgh
Series: The Troll of Stony Brook - Radio Drama
Caption: The Troll of Stony Brook, Credit: Artwork: Simon Adams
Boy meets troll. Troll eats boy. And then things get strange.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 09:49
Sinner's Crossroads Episode 7
From: WFMU
Series: Sinner's Crossroads
Caption: Sinner's Crossroads
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Almost all of the records on this episode are taken from 45 RPM singles. Kevin Nutt is the host and ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WHCP-LP Cambridge, Radio Catskill, 'The Sea', Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Sinner's Crossroads Episode 5
From: WFMU
Series: Sinner's Crossroads
Caption: Sinner's Crossroads
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of this show. See playlist below.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WHCP-LP Cambridge, Radio Catskill, 'The Sea', Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Sinner's Crossroads Episode 2
From: WFMU
Series: Sinner's Crossroads
Caption: Sinner's Crossroads
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. See playlist below.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WHCP-LP Cambridge, Radio Catskill, 'The Sea', Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On glass chips! On swallowed tinsel! On limbs that need fixin’!
From: Patricia Raymond MD
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Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Sep 10, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
How Do Superheroes Stay So Fit?
From: Patricia Raymond MD
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Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
Can You Melt Away Those Pounds with the CELEBRITY POPCORN DIET?
From: Patricia Raymond MD
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Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Can Drinking Dog-Juice Really Help Your Heart?
From: Patricia Raymond MD
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Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

  • Added: Sep 07, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Have You Heard About The “Italian Pasta Diet”?
From: Patricia Raymond MD
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Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Is Grilling Dangerous For Your Health?
From: Patricia Raymond MD
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Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Ladies, Can Lack Of Sleep Hurt Your Heart?
From: Patricia Raymond MD
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Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

  • Added: Sep 01, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Is One Kidney More Than Enough?
From: Patricia Raymond MD
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Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Cranberry Juice & Urinary Tract Infections: Is more better? You bet!
From: Patricia Raymond MD
Caption: YourHealthChoice Radio
Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Why 'The Devil Came Down To Georgia' Is a Stupid Song
From: William Hrdina
Series: Simple Journeys to Odd Destinations
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In which the author contemplates the many things about the classic Charlie Daniel's song that make no sense whatsoever.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:10
Glass and Metal
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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A fiction piece about being stuck in traffic in Boston, recorded in a read-along record style for no apparent reason.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
The Cult of Luck
From: Ayana Contreras
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Ayana Contreras explores the motivation behind "playing the numbers", or the lottery.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 09:46
The Mikie Show #6 Skylar
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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A very interesting discussion with Skylar Kahn, certified master grapho-analyst and forensic document examiner. In other words, a handwriting analy...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:13
  • Purchases: 1
Considering Some Things - Jim Fairness and "The 14-Second Work Year"
From: Merlin Mann
Series: QPR - Quotidian Public Radio
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Considering Some Things talks with a popular self-help author.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2009
  • Length: 04:12
A Look at Every7th.com
From: WTMD
Caption: Roman Kuebler, Credit: Every7th.com
A look at Roman Kuebler's online "song of the month club."

  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:37
OTL: The Obama Mobile
From: OTL HQ
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President-elect Barack Obama's old Dodge Neon

  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: 05:47
My Body Is (Part 2)
From: Ross Chambless
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Defining our own bodies - a Vox pop project.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2008
  • Length: 06:08
Dreaming
From: Aaron Neathery
Series: Electromatic Radio
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When Grey can no longer keep himself awake after 52 hours on the air, Matt hooks him up to a "Neurographic Interface Module" that will allow him to...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2008
  • Length: 28:30
Disorientation
From: Aaron Neathery
Series: Electromatic Radio
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Welcome to Electromatic Radio, the world's first fully-atomic and nearly entirely hands-free comedy and music half-hour! It's Grey Grimwald's firs...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 29:00

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