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Do you have a charger that doesn't charge anymore? Vacuum clogged somewhere you can’t reach? Instead of tossing it out, you could bring it to a fix...
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 07:04
There’s a little popcorn shop in the Nokomis neighborhood of south Minneapolis where you can get popcorn, banter, and half off double the normal pr...
- Added: May 30, 2023
- Length: 07:10
In a city of 8 million people, you’d think finding someone to date would be easy. There are dating apps, dating events, you can even hire a profess...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 05:13
There’s a tiny town just north of Minneapolis that is entirely surrounded by Columbia Heights. It's called Hilltop. In a way, Hilltop was forced in...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 07:56
Sisters Suzi and Donna Wong remember growing up in the back of their parents’ laundry business in Hollywood, CA.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Mar 29, 2022
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Dimensional Energy is at a crossroads with the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE: can they afford to stay in? Their situation raises larger questions about t...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 49:50
Cooper can't wait any longer to see carbon capture utilization technology, so he makes a slightly abnormal reporting trip… across the country. He w...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 52:42
In 2015, Brian Bahouth visited Cheryl and David Fanelli, owner/operators of Club Ned, a cannabis consumption lounge in Nederland, Colorado.
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 20:11
It's the summer of 2019. Two more coal companies have filed for bankruptcy, and hundreds of workers are left in the lurch. Meanwhile, Jason Salfi i...
- Added: May 11, 2021
- Length: 45:50
Joe Bianco speaks with his son Peter Bianco about working together and carrying on the family business of tool sharpening in Brooklyn, NY.
- Added: Oct 08, 2020
- Length: 03:04
Rain - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, Creative Direction Constru...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 02:22
I bought silverware and a few plates at the El Rancho flea market when I first moved to Reno. I’ve been back innumerable times but not to buy anyth...
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- Added: Nov 28, 2019
- Length: 13:26
- Purchases: 1
One of Nevada's most remote regions has long been an economic development sore spot, but there are some encouraging sings for remote McDermitt.
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 21:46
Bob Kustra talks with novelist Gary Shteyngart about "Lake Success"
- Added: Sep 27, 2019
- Length: 30:00
If you missed the 2019 edition of the South by Southwest Education (SXSW Edu) conference in Austin, Texas, we rehash some highlights that you may h...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 26:46
Bud and Jackie Jones are career taxidermists who helped bring a completely different kind of New Year’s Eve celebration to their small town of Tall...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 02:37
SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to our first episode about Sheila, Episode 88: Cold Case, before you listen to this one. This episode contains descr...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 27:44
After Burnsville bumped an antique store from town, Hot Sam's reinvented itself as lovable, rusty tourist attraction for locals. KFAI's Mike Moen r...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 15, 2018
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 1
Have you heard our GNU software engineering word of the day?
This is Episode 55 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fasci...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 05:55
- 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
Grow, make, and eat your own dogfood -- I mean products. Episode 47 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Nov 28, 2017
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
We invited Brooklyn-based restaurateur Andrew Tarlow in to chat with Chicago-based entrepreneur Ed Marszewski. Alex Kime edited this piece.
- Added: Nov 20, 2017
- Length: 17:31
Upskill your team without killing the mood. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.
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- Added: Nov 13, 2017
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
It's customer-centered design versus blue sky design. Who will win?
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- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1