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Donald Trump hosted the Celebrity Apprentice six times and then Arnold took over for a season. Believe it or not, musicians played a big part in t...
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
Less than 3 percent of people 18 to 40 watched the Grammys. Furthermore, according to Spotify, the top 200 new songs playlist is responsible for l...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
While baby Egyptian fruit bats start life getting carried around, once they get too heavy, their mothers leave them in a cave while they forage. It...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
Gene Simmons of KISS has doubled down on his statement that rock music is dead. Some agree. Some do not and some have written songs about it. Is...
- Added: May 08, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
There has much interest in the use of frequencies for health, healing and general feeling better. The most famous are the Solfeggio Frequencies. ...
- Added: Apr 24, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
This week will contain April 20. That's 4.20. It means smoking pot. But why? We will take an hour and discuss all the nicknames for pot and pl...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KTRL, KNCT FM, KSRQ, KHNS and more
- Added: Apr 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
What was the first song taken off of Mtv because of content? The first one censored. It wasn't the first one I thought of, or the second. I know...
- Added: Apr 10, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
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
The Golden Raspberry Award. It used to have a Worst Song catagory. Not anymore. But we will revist those that once made the cut in this award s...
- Added: Apr 03, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
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
It wasn't just fame and glory that inspired Lewis and Clark's expedition across this great land. It took a "medication" so powerful that people wou...
- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 04:58
Anything that scatters when you turn on the light...does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or timid world ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
There is a small group of songs that have charted twice. Not a remake or a remix but the exact same song. It charted twice often years apart. To...
- Added: Mar 27, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
Here's an interesting trivia question. Name a song that does not have a chorus. We have a few. We will also discuss the idea of a refrain, which...
- Added: Mar 13, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
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
You've heard of an ROV, a remotely operated vehicle. But did you ever think you'd see an FOV, a fish operated vehicle? Israeli scientists have atte...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
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 ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
This week we have an interview with author Marc Wasserman about his new book Skaboom. An American Ska and Reggae Oral History. It is a history of ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
The Oscars are this month. How about a show discussing musicians who have been nominated for an Oscar? Some have even won.
- Added: Feb 20, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
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
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
This is a music podcast/radio show. The biggest music story right now is Joe Rogan and Neil Young. We have to talk about it.
- Added: Feb 13, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
It happens now and again that a song will have its title changed after it is released and starts to become popular. The reasons why vary but colle...
- Added: Feb 06, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
My wife and cohost has joked many times that she listens to so much radio and audio book during her job that they should be paying her. Well, now ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
