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Caption: Jenny Bovey at her store in Chatham, MA, Credit: Kara Janeczko
Jenny Bovey's fish don't stink. She's one of the few full time practitioners of a 2,000-year-old Japanese art form called "Gyotaku." She and her h...

Bought by WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Sarah Vowell signing books after a lecture at Lamar Univ. in Beaumont, Texas
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, and other musings.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 04:27
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Lynn Waddell is a freelance journalist and author of Fringe Florida: Travels Among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of U...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 23:13
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Everyone has a birthday, but the day's meaning changes over time. In this episode, we look at life from 21st and 94th birthdays.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 10:53
Caption: Ben Coletti (left); Colonel Nipples (right), Credit: Bobby Pickles
Bobby, Wacky and Coletti podcast from “Tesla’s Revenge” (which is the name of Coletti’s boat) docked in Treasure Island, Florida, with Tiffany, a f...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:34:52
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Deborah Sharp was a reporter for USA Today for nearly two decades. Given all the stories she wrote about killer sharks, rampaging alligators, and h...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 24:10
Caption: Catherine Breese, Credit: Bryan Ward
Writer Catherine Breese shares her experience with a virtual online job interview for a job she frankly does not want. She describes the painful in...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Among the many thousands of mommies in the blog-o-sphere writing about parenting-its troubles and its triumphs, how do you stand out from the rest?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:03
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Paul tries to pick up Susan again, this time using Jazz as the medium.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 11:08
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Paul and Susan meet at a small town coffee shop the day before the end of the world. Dr. Shtup happens to be the Barista that day.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 10:33
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After not seeing each other for a long time, Paul and Susan happen to meet at the local coffee shop where Paul brings up some intimate possibilities.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 08:27
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Susan and Paul meet at another Cafe Buzz, this time in Manhattan, near Carnegie Hall. Susan finds herself in a circular dilemma.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 10:38
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Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Hal and Marc help you to navigate the world as a single over 50.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 51:15
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I was hired in 1974 to help Ginger Rogers learn her lines for the opening of “Forty Carats,” at the Drury Lane East Theatre in Chicago. And that’s...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:55
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My life as a purveyor of “Business Theatre” for big corporations in Chicago.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 09:32
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The tale of disgusting littering run amuck when I lived in the Old Irving Park area of Chicago.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
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The story of dying my hair red on a whim and the way people reacted to me as a redhead.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 09:11
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The imaginary travails of myself reacting to rude patrons making noise with candy wrappers, cell phones, and other rude behavior in public movie th...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:48
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The characters who assembled every Monday night for the Open Mic at Earl’s Pub. This is the same Earl who owned the famous “Earl of Old Town Club,...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 20:17
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For our sixty-fourth episode we feature a group of guests: the Black Cherry Burlesque troupe from Tucson, AZ. A great group of gals who dance, act ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 28:01
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Gail describes her recent visit to an Irish bar in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 15:20
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We all have too much stuff, right? It overflows from our houses, our garages, and our cars, and is the reason the storage locker business is the g...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 03:51
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Gail describes her adventures shopping for clothes. It starts out fun, and then...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 13:58
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The heartbreaking account of losing my black lab, named Samba, to Cancer and how my yellow lab, Maggie May, changed our lives.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:07