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Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:33
Martin McDonagh returns to Ireland for this tale of contagious madness between two friends falling out.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:32
It’s that time of the year again when dictionaries around the world try to sum up the year in a word or two.
- Added: Jan 03, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Winter Solstice is coming and the Luddites are celebrating on their flip-phones. That's all we've got to say about it. Listen on your radio in Josh...
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- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 28:00
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I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 04:18
There are 2 species of walnuts here in the borderlands of southern Arizona; the Arizona walnut (Juglans major) that I talked about and a species ca...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:34
The New York Times “Spelling Bee” word game really took off during the pandemic lockdown. But Sandip finds the Bee to be a bit exiguous.
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 06:00
The waltz figures prominently in these pieces about the human experience.
- Added: Jan 30, 2021
- Length: 54:04
From a skeletal homesteader cabin on a cold Mojave night, it's the annual Desert Oracle Christmas Special. New Mexico writer Anna Merlin joins us t...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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What is this weird creature that turned up dead in Yucca Valley, in the Mojave High Desert? Wildlife biologists are baffled, and so are we.
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- Added: Jul 10, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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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...
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- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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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...
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- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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On this episode of YBYG Mike McGrath digs into Spring Saviors like Forsythia & Spring Bulbs! And of course your fabulous phone calls!
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 54:58
I am a samosa and I was meant to play a small but key role in India US diplomacy. This is my sad sad story.
- Added: Mar 02, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Mike McGrath warns against handling plants when wet in the Question of the Week!! And as always, your warning Phone Calls!!
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 54:59
The holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap.
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- Added: May 26, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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Mike McGrath warns against "Improving the Soil" in the hole while Planting Trees and Shrubs in the Question of the week!! And as always, your "impr...
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 54:59
Winter holidays in the High Desert, and problems with the 29 Palms Christmas Pageant. Guest: Brendan Maze.
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- Added: Dec 25, 2018
- Length: 28:00
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Sandip Roy addresses a major calamity in Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 04, 2018
- Length: 06:00
I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more about jojoba (Simmondsia chinesis) other than what you hear in this show, except that it is now in its own ...
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:20
70 years after Independence it sometimes feels as if Indians are still to develop a funny bone. Especially when it comes to politicians.
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Though Sonoran Desert millipedes are nocturnal, this is the time of year when you see them out and about on muggy overcast days.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 04:56
It was admittedly a moment of sheer American holiday nostalgia. Cooking a turkey in India. I thought it could be a fun adventure. I just didn’t rea...
- Added: Jan 09, 2017
- Length: 06:00
From: New Letters on the Air
Get a humorous account of the holiday season with Kansas blogger Jen Mann's book SPENDING THE HOLIDAYS WITH PEOPLE I WANT TO PUNCH IN THE THROAT. S...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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We enjoy many rights and privileges as citizens of a free and democratic society, and we we're asked to do is vote. Easy, right?
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 06:00
