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What jokes would George Carlin have deemed offensive today? What makes us laugh has come under scrutiny. Old jokes or skits are deemed offensive in...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUNM, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The history of women has existed as long as humans have, but it was not until the last half of the 20th Century that women’s history received recog...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Roland Martin
In this year's celebration of Black History Month and the 50th Anniversary of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, author and journali...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 50:32
Caption: Rian Johnson, San Francisco, CA 11/11/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rian Johnson talks being human, toying with an audience, and how the late, great Ricky Jay makes a cameo.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2019
  • Length: 13:18
Caption: Michel Hazanavicius, San Francisco, CA 4/14/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Michel Hazanavicius talks art, politics, and the comedic possibilities of extremism.

  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 19:44
Caption: Jamie Lee & Pete Holmes, San Francisco, CA 1/17/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee talk emotional foreplay, alchemizing experience, and what’s offensive about Pascal’s Wager.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:21
Caption: Sara Weksler & Dr. Bassem Youssef, San Francisco, CA 10/13/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dr. Bassem Yousseff and Sara Taksler talk shooting from a moving car, the power of satire, and being airport certified.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 25:03
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about Communism as a quasi-religious faith that might ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
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Veteran overseas journalists look at America as it enters the Age of Donald Trump

  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 49:16
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Lee Grant talks boundaries, fairness, and the roots of chutzpah.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 21:41
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on paying for restoring unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed by cutting corporate welfare.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
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President Obama told us about the state of the union... now it's time to hear about the state of the states. Political Junkie host Ken Rudin talks...

Bought by WXXI Rochester and WRKF


  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Continuing where he left off in 2013, Chris Christie remains the most talked about Republican in the country ... only this time he may not like wha...

Bought by WRKF and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
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2014 is an election year, with control of the House and Senate at stake. Host Ken Rudin talks to political analyst Stu Rothenberg about what to wa...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
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Republicans in Congress were prepared to agree to a fairly innocuous budget deal with the Democrats with little fuss. But many conservatives were n...

Bought by WRKF and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Nelson Mandela's passing brought this week's Political Junkie show back to the mid-1980s, when Washington was split over how to deal with the South...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We know for certain that President Obama pardoned a turkey this Thanksgiving. But is Healthcare.gov a turkey as well? Host Ken Rudin speaks with W...

Bought by WRKF and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The word of the week is “nuclear,” and the latest Political Junkie show is all over it. First, Political Junkie host Ken Rudin talks with Cameron ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WRKF


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Political Junkie Ken Rudin talks with Wall Street Journal congressional correspondent Siobhan Hughes about the changing fortunes on Capitol Hill. D...

Bought by WRKF and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Host Ken Rudin welcomes back his old friend from NPR's Talk of the Nation, Neal Conan, to the Political Junkie. They talk about the emergence of Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WRKF


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The 2013 Elections are over, and though the winners aren't a surprise, some of the insights are. Political Junkie Ken Rudin talks to NPR's Mara Lia...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
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With less than a week to go before the 2013 elections, Political Junkie Ken Rudin speaks to Stu Rothenberg, the editor and publisher of the Rothenb...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: FoodShare Toronto's Mobile Good Food Market, Credit: foodshare.net
Using the buzzwords "food desert" and "food insecure" might have positive and negative impacts on the places and people they describe.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2013
  • Length: 09:14
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Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost talk political dialectics, the definition of improvement, and alcohol as a magic time machine.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 11:58