PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque

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Caption: Still have to visit the grocery store..., Credit: Susan Cook
Citizens are being reminded these days of everything they don't have control over. Any nutritionist will tell you that the one thing you always ha...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 04:02
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The characters who assembled every Monday night for the Open Mic at Earl’s Pub. This is the same Earl who owned the famous “Earl of Old Town Club,...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 20:17
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A story about a place some people think of as "home."

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 13:22
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Many six year olds believe that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The President of the NRA, is of the same mind...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 04:13
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In celebrating Hanukkah Jews tell the story of sanctified oil that miraculously burned for eight days. In this humorous piece I retell the story of...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2012
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1
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The oldest and most revered piece of hardware in professional sports has arrived in Los Angeles for the first time. So, how will the Los Angeles Ki...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 08:02
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Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 11:53
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An introduction to some of my illustrious colleagues from my days as a bellhop/valet/part-time restaurant host at the Hilton.

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 15:12
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In our third episode, we look up, way up, to the North Coast of Turtle Island.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KZYX


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 21:16
  • Purchases: 2
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This week’s Moth theme is “silver lining,” so here is a piece about the one bright spot in the worst summer of my life.

  • Added: May 01, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
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From Archie Bunker to Murphy Brown, TV characters have been getting trapped in elevators, freezers and all other manner of small spaces for decades...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Once upon a time, Sam and Gerrit were flipping through a booklet of incoming college freshmen when they happened upon an unlikely superhero named C...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 18:51
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The pair of crawler-transporters at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida have been delivering shuttles to their launch pad since the Apollo missions...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Three seniors talk about there feelings and expectations of being at the end of the high school journey.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:36
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Sam meets the mysterious Man in the White Van, who rents him a beat-up cab, which he uses for his first fare, which nearly destroys him.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 09:51

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Interesting angles on the seemingly average.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:42
Caption: Keep your hands off my character, Credit: Susan Cook
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
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3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race

  • Added: Feb 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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This true gothic story was told by author Randy Osborne in which he recounts life with his eccentric grandmother, her 35 cats, and a retribution th...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 10:24
Caption: Mary Marmastone (featured in the piece) plays with her dog Titan on a beach near her home in Seattle., Credit: Lillian Mongeau
This fun piece launches from the ideas broached in the New York Times article, "What is it about 20-somethings?" I ask my friends, all at the tail-...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:54
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Jennifer Bosworth had to go crazy in L.A. before she could discover that the man she was looking for was in her home town all along.

Bought by XRAY.fm, WRNC-LP, WJCT, KUT, and WNIN


  • Added: Nov 21, 2010
  • Length: 15:56
  • Purchases: 5
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An unlikely dinner exchange between two not so different people...after all.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2010
  • Length: 08:04
Caption: Sarah Haskins at The Paper Machete, Ricochet's Tavern, Chicago, 8/14/2010, Credit: Kurt Heintz
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 09:16
  • Purchases: 1