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Adult Entertainment
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
American adults demand quality entertaiment on television

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: :41
Scared
From: John Biewen
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A (very) short story of love and anxiety. A child grows to age 13 in three minutes while a father muses on parental fears.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 16
How the West was Won
From: Lacy Roberts
Caption: Grampa appreciating, Credit: Probably my Grandmother
A girl who is really, really proud to be from Montana

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, YouthCast, KUOW, KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2009
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 6
Dry Skin
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Thanks to Al Peel who invented dry skin, women now spend billions every year for moist skin.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2009
  • Length: 02:05
Mutual Suffering
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Mutual Suffering is the basis for most of the successful marriages in Knox County today

  • Added: Feb 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:42
How Crap Becomes Real (Or, How I Got Started On Ebay)
From: Susan Barrett Price
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We learned from the Velveteen Rabbit how toys become real. But all things become real and emerge daily from the secret source at the back of my clo...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:00
Active Voice Radio Essay: The Racial Bias of Marijuana Prohibition Enforcement
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Is Marijuana Prohibition Enforcement Institutionalized Racism? 85% of all the possession arrests in New York City and Philadelphia are mirrors to G...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:50
Active Voice Radio Essay: The American Marijuana Market
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: PRX default Piece image
22-60 Million pounds of marijuana grown domestically in 2007, worth from $50-$230 Billion, serving 25-80 million consumers. This massive market rem...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 1
America Receding
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: There is no mud, Credit: Muriel Murch
The global economy and global warming both bring changes to Northern California

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 09:01
  • Purchases: 1
Snuggies
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Some people have to be told to come in out of the cold

  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
Inside the Glore
From: Michael Paul Mason
Caption: A Tranquilizer Chair inside the Glore
An otherworldly visit to one of America's most bizarre museums, the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, MO.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, Remix Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 13:48
  • Purchases: 6
What You Leave Behind
From: Robin Amer
Series: You Spell That R-E Double D
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Stephen imparts some words of wisdom about what you take with you, and what you leave behind. (Short answer, kids.)

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Brian Eno
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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English musician Brian Eno believes group singing is good for the mind, body, spirit and community.

Bought by WEZU, Marfa Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 8
The Wimpy Football Player
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A football player for the Boston Redskins made the Guineas Book of Records by playing 12 months without having broken knees or cartilage repaired b...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: :41
Converting to the Metric System
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A woman unable to understand the metric system was crushed up against the wall by an oven overflowing with fudge brownie mix.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: :59
Evolution is Fairly Rapid Nowadays
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Before 500 million years ago, species appeared and stayed. Since then, however, evolution has been fairly rapid. Most species now last no more th...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: :47
The Six Pack
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When many men hear talk about a six pack of firm abs, they reach down and lovingly pat one firm ab caused by too many six packs.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: :28
Superbowl
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
How does one acclimate a populace to an inordinate amount of security?

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: :59
It
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
IT is very much like THEY

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: :34
The Peanut Plant
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
I've seen a rubber band, I've seen a peanut stand, I've seen a needle wink its eye

  • Added: Jan 31, 2009
  • Length: :53
Eight Year Old Mechanic
From: World Vision Report
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The International Labor Organization estimates nearly a quarter of a billion children around the world work in some form of full-time employment. ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
RadioHodgePodge Show 01 - Intentions
From: Andy Sewell
Series: RadioHodgePodge
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Stories of setting out to do something.

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Jan 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:16
  • Purchases: 1
City to Debate Animals
From: The humble Farmer
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The headline said "City to Debate Animals."

  • Added: Jan 30, 2009
  • Length: :21
Latchkey Children Raised by Pets
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Ten million American children now come home from school to lonely empty houses. With both parents working, care of the child is now left up to the ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Why Gay Guys Are A Girl's Best Friend
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Gay guys are everybody's best friend

  • Added: Jan 28, 2009
  • Length: :48

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