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1. Embrace Failure: Don’t fear failure; instead, see it as a stepping stone towards growth. Understand that setbacks aren’t roadblocks but opportun...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:18
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On this episode, we talked about the book "This is What It Sounds Like" by Dr. Susan Rogers, who has combined her backgrounds as an award-winning r...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about our songwriting/composing club, an upcoming songwriting workshop about "four chor...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2023
  • Length: 27:29
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Brendan Fraser plays a morbidly obese teacher who is facing imminent death while trying to reconcile with his angry teenage daughter.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:21
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It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
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Joanna Hogg continues her semi-autobiographical portrait of the artist, a young woman filmmaker in 1980s England exploring grief.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
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The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
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A postcard about the first day of Major League Baseball, and in my book, the first day of spring.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode of YBYG Mike warns of LAWN CLIPPINGS that may contain remaining chemicals that can hurt your Compost piles and your Plants!! Plus y...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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"What CAN you do with a Greenhouse during the Summer?" Mike McGrath finds out the answer on The Question of the Week!! And finds answers to your ...

  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
Caption: Boring!, Credit: Quinn Dombrowski
Like cigarettes or leaded petrol, it seems boredom is gradually being phased out. The mobile phones we carry everywhere allow for an infinite varie...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks "What's the Difference Between Politicians Who Refuse to Consider What Politicians in the Other Party say a...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 01:02
Caption: Prince Charming Arrives with the 108th Button, Credit: Edward L. Ott 1896 sketch, with Illustrator Overlay
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 12:24
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Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer from the podcast Criminal stop by to talk about the linguistic challenges of crime reporting. They also share their...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 23:05
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Why do we all sound like idiots when we talk to babies?

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 11:37
  • Purchases: 2
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This episode speaks to those of you who are just starting your journey of months, if not years, of practice and frustration in achieving the painfu...

Bought by WMOT


  • Added: Apr 25, 2015
  • Length: 12:17
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode is all about the etiquette of avoiding being that universally unpopular member of the audience known as the Jazz Bore.

Bought by WMOT


  • Added: Apr 18, 2015
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Competing essayists Jennifer Nelson and Jason Steck debate the question "Love or Fear: Which Motivates Us More?" at the 2014 "Great American Think ...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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This episode (part II) is all about the etiquette of properly administrating and participating in a jazz gig.

Bought by WMOT


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 17:46
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode (part I) is all about the etiquette of properly administrating and participating in a jazz gig.

Bought by WMOT


  • Added: Mar 28, 2015
  • Length: 13:56
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode (part II) is all about the etiquette of attending and appreciating a jazz gig.

Bought by WMOT


  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 12:16
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode (part I) is all about the etiquette of attending and appreciating a jazz gig.

Bought by WMOT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2015
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode (part II) is all about the etiquette when soloing during a jazz gig.

Bought by WMOT


  • Added: Mar 07, 2015
  • Length: 09:05
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode (part I) is all about the etiquette when soloing during a jazz gig.

Bought by WMOT


  • Added: Feb 22, 2015
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode is all about the etiquette in dressing for a jazz gig.

Bought by WMOT


  • Added: Feb 15, 2015
  • Length: 14:22
  • Purchases: 1