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- Added: Feb 21, 2024
- Length: 03:03
We hear a familiar phrase, “2021 was not a good year for me,” and it’s true. 2021 was not a good year for Haley.
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 07:58
An episode that discusses the “neverendingness” of it all - a phrase spell-check does not recognize, but one you may have experienced if you ever f...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:06
Entertainers do these routinely, and a one-nighter sounds sexy, but it’s not what you think. See what we mean by one-nighter. You might want to che...
- Added: Jan 05, 2019
- Length: 04:15
Does the mere wearing of cologne overpower a fine wine tasting? The Wine Fellers is an upbeat, good chemistry driven show created for anyone who h...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
A meditation on relationships as DIY projects: The great thing — and the scary thing — about relationships is that you get to make it all up as you...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 23, 2014
- Length: 19:34
- Purchases: 1
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
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
My life as a purveyor of “Business Theatre” for big corporations in Chicago.
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 09:32
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
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
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
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
Gail describes her recent visit to an Irish bar in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood.
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 15:20
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
Gail describes her adventures shopping for clothes. It starts out fun, and then...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 13:58
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
Actor Ned Averill-Snell reflects on sweaty teenage rehearsals for musical theatre, and forbidden glimpses of a more glamorous world.
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Mary Finch on women in sports.
- Added: Sep 05, 2012
- Length: 02:40
Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 11:53
A never-married guy comes clean.
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 04:42
Storyteller Jennifer Munro shares a childhood memory about her father and an overzealous neighbor.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 1
Essayist Tracy Wu explains why we need an Emily Post for the digital age ...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTIP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 4
A high school valedictorian owes the class on '97 a retraction: Don't follow your dreams. Seriously, it's a terrible idea.
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 09:58
