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Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for a global playlist of love songs plus topical comedy.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Harriet lived from around 1835 to 2006! She is believed to be one of the Earth's longest lived creatures ever recorded.
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 04:59
- 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
It's fall now, but we recorded this episode during the dog days of August. The sky wore a blanket of wildfire smoke and daytime lows were in the mi...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack delves into a rather seedy aspect of the Minnesota Sta...
- Added: Sep 02, 2021
- Length: 29:23
It's the Civil War and you're in the medical tent. It's dark and the man next to you has wounds glowing an eerie blue. Turns out, the men who had t...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Jun 14, 2021
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 2
Comedy is very differently understood by each generation. My guests from the older, middle and younger generations compare their perspectives.
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 24:24
Will Rogers thought about peace often, but didn't always trust it
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: :59
Some of Will's greatest jokes about Congress
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: :59
The President is an obvious subject for Will's humor. He spoke about the office, and the men in that position, often.
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: :59
Will Rogers was a cowboy until the day he died. He visited ranches around the world to see that the cowboy way of life was still alive.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00
Will Rogers proposed we could look at political change like we look at Groundhog Day.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:17
Even though he wasn't a great student, Will Rogers knew the value of a good education.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00
For as much as he poked fun at those who ran the nation, it was clear that Will loved America.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00
Col. William H Jackson had a favorite tree. So, somewhere around 1832, Colonel Jackson gave the white oak tree to itself (and the city of Athens, G...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 1
Will owed much of his success to the fact that he stayed a country boy, even after becoming famous.
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 01:01
Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 29:23
Help us lean into the New Year with the many Scottish traditions surrounding Hogmanay! There are wee drams of whiskey and balls of fire and cleanin...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
Will Rogers was a proud member of the Cherokee Nation
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 01:01
Will Rogers loved to travel, but he also loved to poke fun at his fellow tourists
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 01:01
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 1
Will had a radical idea on how we could reduce the amount of time off work due to holidays
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 24, 2020
- Length: 01:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 01:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 10, 2020
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Will Rogers shares his humor about Presidents and the elections that get to that position.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 03, 2020
- Length: 01:01
- Purchases: 1
