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A group of friends hit the road and travel across America in a van. One guy on the trip is a famous actor with a big mustache… he’s also made of wax.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 53:57
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 33:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We run through some particularly confusing grammar mistakes and how sometimes, we might think we’re saying one thing when we’re really saying another.

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Meet an extreme ironer, cheese roller, and shin kicking referee (also called a "stickler") on this weird sports episode of Audacious!

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
From: KMUW
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We run through a few of the many, many English words that contain silent letters. And we'll hear some of the baffling reasons we pronounce those wo...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like… do animals “break up”... is there a way to stop gaining weight when you quit smoki...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Tri States Public Radio, KKRN, KPOV, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 6
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We dig into why certain words are spelled ridiculously, thanks to a bunch of scholars a few hundred years ago who got a little too nutso about maki...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A wide variety of tunes today - including a Pixar jazz standard, a Chipmunks Broadway cover, a McCartney nursery rhyme, and new indie gems by The L...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Here is our second Halloween show. Many musicians and celebrities have been buried with some rather interesting items. We have a rather long list...

Bought by KHNS, The Bear 91.3, KUCA-FM, KSRQ, WOUB, KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Alexander Craig says his new tour entitled “Country Funk Grease Punk” perfectly embodies his sound – a tough and energetic style of blues rock with...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 39:12
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Original Air Date - January 8 2023 Early Eyes is an energetic and uniquely creative pop group from the Twin Cities featuring five young musician...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 12:44
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
The smelly food with a loyal following. Explore the origins of sauerkraut in the Texas Hill Country, its present makers, and sauerkraut’s ability ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 19:09
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“Your hands are clean now, and so are mine.” - Greg Barris

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 03:23
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Derek Smith is a musician who grew up in Grand Portage and now resides in Queenstown, New Zealand on the country’s southern island. During one of h...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 25:18
Caption: The Persimmon Tree, Credit: Scott Wen
A 70 year old woman risks everything for a taste of late autumnal fruit.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Jerry Vandiver is a lifelong paddling enthusiast and songwriter based in Nashville, and frequently comes up to the Boundary Waters and also WTIP to...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 34:14
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Just as his music career was heating up, Decio Rubano discovered he was not a U.S. citizen and was deported to Canada as a young man. He came to St...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:15
Caption: Kathy Lynn and the Playboys
Searching for the first rock and roll song in all the music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. This week, we'll start with son...

Bought by KFCF FM, WQCS, KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #110

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:52
Caption: Grand Marais Lighthouse, Credit: Will Moore
The Lynx class of 5th and 6th graders at Great Expectations School in Grand Marais recently helped create a music video for a rap song about the im...

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 15:21
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We are meditating upon some various facts and figures here in the Mojave High Desert this week, from the weather in Twentynine Palms to which apost...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cover of book by Chris Patton
Nature's call leads to police calls and log entries.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Male staring at flowers
Hawkeye state residents living up to the IOWA acronym.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:48
Caption: Baby raccoon...by itself
Their masks are just a cover for what they're really up to.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:21