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Political Junkie 12-17-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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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
Political Junkie 12-10-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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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
The Ballad of Healthcare.gov
From: The Good Fight
Caption: Your new favorite podcast.
Does the Obamacare website make you want to sing? Don't answer. Just listen. Pull up a campfire and a pair of ears and let The Good Fight's host Be...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
Political Junkie 12-3-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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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
Political Junkie 11-26-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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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
Political Junkie 11-19-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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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
Political Junkie 11-12-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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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
Political Junkie 11-6-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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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
Hitchhiking a Tech Shuttle
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: On board the Facebook bus, Credit: Kristina Loring
Real talk: I’m not the biggest fan of San Francisco public transportation. So when I first heard of the alternative transportation network of priva...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
Political Junkie 10-29-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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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
Political Junkie 10-22-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Our long national nightmare is over! Political Junkie Ken Rudin and NPR's Senior Political Editor Ron Elving team up this week to tackle the world ...

Bought by KCRW


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
The long journey to recognize California’s State song
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Can you name California’s State Song? Are you even aware that California has a State Song? Well, it does, and it used to be sung widely at special ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:47
Nudists continue to cause controversy despite citywide ban
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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The Jane Warner Plaza, on the corner of Castro and Market streets in San Francisco, is better known, locally, as the Buff Stop. That’s because of t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 1
What's in a Word? Defining Toronto's Food Deserts
From: Kelly Jones
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
THE WORLD'S END -- Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg & Nick Frost Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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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
The Many Benefits of Godzilla Power
From: William Hrdina
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A satirical look at nuclear power through the lens of a tour of the Godzilla Electrical Factory.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:02
The Poison Squad: A Chemist’s Quest for Pure Food
From: Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Caption: The Poison Squad dining room in the basement of the Bureau of Chemistry, Credit: FDA
Meet Harvey Washington Wiley, the mastermind behind this experiment where young government employees were fed poison-laced foods months on end. He...

Bought by WHYY, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 8
Elderly Respect in India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: LK Advani, Credit: lkadvani.in
Recently, the BJP Party had an "All About Eve" moment.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday 4th of July edition 2013
From: Capitol Steps
Caption: The Capitol Steps, Credit: Capitol Steps
This just in: The Gang of 8 has announced that in order to be a citizen of the United States, you have to listen to The Capitol Steps 4th of July ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and WUNC


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
NSA Customer Service
From: Whitney Jones
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Exploring the benefits of an extensive NSA surveillance program.

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 2
Taxes are for Suckers
From: Making Contact
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Imagine paying almost nothing in taxes.. Sounds great doesn’t it? Some of America’s biggest companies are doing just that and making millions...or...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
When Elvis Met Nixon
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
Caption: Richard Nixon, Sonny West, Jerry Schilling and Elvis Presley, Credit: Photo courtesy of Jerry Schilling
The story of Elvis Presley's visit to the Nixon White House in 1970, told by a man who was there, Elvis' confidante Jerry Schilling.

Bought by PRX Remix, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:15
  • Purchases: 4
Welcome to "Me Radio": A Citizen's Guide to Why We Need A Solid Political Party Structure
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A solid political party structure broadens the focus of campaigns from the "me' to the "we", the electorate. Me Radio is an example of how that mig...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:37
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown - " The Iron Range, Where Politics is a Legitimate Spectator Sport"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 03:32
Episode 8: Dina Rae/Halo of the Damned - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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Bobby speaks with Dina Rae, a loving wife and mother who resides in the Chicago suburbs and writes novels of fiction about what we both agree to be...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 39:48

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