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The very word vacation has its roots in vacare or to be unoccupied. But in reality vacations are anything but unoccupied. Sandip recounts the woes ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 06:00
True story, it happened to me in Goa, while living in a fisher's hut in Calangute. A micro narration in a minute or so.
- Added: Mar 26, 2022
- Length: 01:00
Well it finally happened, just like every year. All the sudden, it’s hot again. A week ago, it was pleasant out. Now, we cry in the frying pan. Or ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 28:00
Seasons change in the desert, but it's always Rat Time. Kangaroo rats, wood rats, deer mice full of hantavirus, it's just a feast for the rats all ...
- Added: May 21, 2021
- Length: 28:00
Roy Clark was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 t...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Apr 15, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Some people like it, some people don't. We are talking about the desert. And this week—challenged by a listener to stop romanticizing the desert so...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Mar 05, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
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 Rogers loved to travel, but he also loved to poke fun at his fellow tourists
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 01:01
Muyambi loved biking, so when his friends asked him to plan a cycling trip across his home country of Uganda he was thrilled. But challenges arose ...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 13:01
- Purchases: 2
Well here we are, still alive, July in the American Desert. Good enough, we guess. When the Mojave is cooking that's when we start figuring out a w...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
We’ve about had it with the cabin fever and now we’ve got the ramblin’ fever. So let’s pour a couple of drinks and enjoy some saloon time on this f...
- Added: May 02, 2020
- Length: 28:00
A tarnished brass key, a small locked box, a sequence of magical numbers, a charmless old block building in the desert. It is here that we visit in...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
After over three million airline travel miles I have thoughts on readying yourself for holiday travel.
- Added: Nov 11, 2019
- Length: 03:33
Each city's tallest building reflects the character of that city, or so an old college professor once said.
Bought by KXCR
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
Celebrate summertime with tales of teenagers who are roughing it in the great outdoors. Experience the glory that is mother nature with the kids wh...
- Added: Aug 18, 2019
- Length: 23:57
Marty Edwards wanted to go on a fun trip with his girlfriend. But Mother Nature had other plans.
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 32:00
"Airport Safety" is a short, humorous satire of TSA regulations—and popular culture. This is a sound-rich protest piece, perfect for a comedy progr...
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 02:19
Stories of men battling white water rapids and floods in Alaska.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Tales of teenagers who try to shed their awkwardness while on vacation -- thinking it would lead to the fling of a lifetime. The Mortified Podcast ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2017
- Length: 28:05
Host Bob Kustra talks with Jonathan Evison about his novel.
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 11, 2017
- Length: 30:32
- Purchases: 1
I was hanging around down by the waterfront the other day ... keeping an eye on the harbor seals. Sometimes they leak, you know ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 06:55
This installment features the works of Bob Newhart; Jerry Lewis; Nipsey Russell; Phyllis Diller; Weird Al Yankovic; Ellen DeGeneres; Pat McCormick;...
- Added: Sep 30, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Marco always dreamed about traveling to faraway places. All his life, he had never been anywhere – unless you counted his grandmother's house, whi...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 04:42
It was supposed to be a leisurely float down the Snake River. But when they lost their guide, a group of tourists got more than they bargained for.
Bought by KUER
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 16:22
- Purchases: 1
Host Bob Kustra talks with Evison about "The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving," soon to be a major motion picture.
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 30:01