Stay Human

Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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This program consists of guest essays from local writers and essayists, read by the writer.

Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

Stay Human is a mix of music, conversation and spoken word to give us all a little encouragement. The program consists of guest essays from local writers and essayists, read by the writer.

Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.


304 Pieces

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The Comics
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week, we’re reading the comics. Our Professor of Pop Culture tells the Glorious Youth and Sad Old Age of the Funnies. Terry O’Brien confesse...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:47
Dance Class
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week on Stay Human, push the chairs out of the way and get ready to cut up the rug. We’re going to dance class, and looking for romance, with...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:36
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New Tech/ Old Tech
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week, we join John Beltman of the Forest History Center to look for draft horses on an Amish farm. We’ll visit with the Tech Hub, a free tech...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:08
  • Purchases: 1
Author! Author!
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week on Stay Human, we're featuring conversations and readings with some of the local authors - Stay Human contributors - who have recently pu...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:33
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Man Up!
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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On Father’s Day, Stay Human is exploring what it takes to be a real man. John Downing reflects on his years working in domestic violence programs,...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:42
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Outdoor Music Season
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week, we’re celebrating the outdoor concert season on Stay Human, with reports from Bemidji, Park Rapids and Aitkin. We’ll also hear from som...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 59:30
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Memorial
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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For Memorial Day weekend, Stay Human contributors think about how we remember the people we’ve lost – at wakes, in eulogies, by lighting candles, a...

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  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:09
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Welcome to Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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For Fishing Opener, Stay Human starts the tourist season by setting out the welcome mat. Tales of hospitality, and of bedazzled visitors, snowbird...

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  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:33
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Northern Voices on Stage
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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Tune in to Stay Human for stories from Bemidji storytellers – floods and grizzly bears, secrets and unlikely alliances, from some of the storytelle...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:40
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Totality
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week Stay Human features stories of totality, and of total awe. We’ll have a visit with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, and hear from friends and ...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:26
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Fine Vinyl
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week on Stay Human, Steve Downing and Carol Hepokoski tell stories of their favorite records, we’ll tune in to The Voyager space probe’s golde...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:12
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Good Dog!
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week, Stay Human is going to the dogs, with stories from friends and neighbors about hunting dogs, herding dogs, tracking dogs and loving dogs...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:49
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Lucky You
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week on Stay Human, it may seem like all hope is lost – stories of a kidnapping, a crime spree on the Illinois Tollway, an impossible car acci...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:52
The Look
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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Today on Stay Human, UMD senior Aristotle Taylor talks about performing in drag, octogenarian Jane Gilbert goes shopping for a bra, Dan Hegstad exp...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:11
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Daylight Savings Time
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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Why is Daylight Savings Time still a thing? We won’t find out this week on Stay Human, but tune in for words and music exploring the mysteries of...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:40
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The Mom & Pop Waltz
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week on Stay Human, stories from friends and neighbors about the music of their parents. On the hi-fi stereo cabinet in Michael Goldberg’s ch...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Dress for Success
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week Stay Human is dressing for success. Terry O’Brien goes to Charm School, Katie Carter’s grandparents dress up as drunken leprechauns, Aar...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:32
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Distant Shores
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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Stories of adventure and exotic journeys this week on Stay Human – Jim Gallagher takes us to the Island of Bones, Ann Marie Newman on the wonders o...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:42
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The Spirit of the Game
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week it's team spirit on Stay Human. We’ll visit with a Grand Rapids High School varsity athlete and her coach, go curling with John Latimer...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:39
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Heart Pains
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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This week on Stay Human, stories from friends and neighbors about the departed, and a few ways of staying in touch with them. We’ll hear about a p...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:44
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