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Explore the loving journey of Carol Burnett, a story of resilience, heart, and the transformative power of laughter.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 16:43
Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 25:28
Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:56
Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:30
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 26:21
Dark Winter Nights Executive Producer Ryan Peterson tells the wild story of how he found his birth parents.
- Added: Sep 23, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 27:53
Page Wilson ten years ago this month, and the Richmond music scene will never be quite the same. Page was a player and host of the most popular “re...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 25:55
Jamila Davenport of Durham, NC has been a lifelong fan of singer Kenny Loggins. When he comes to perform at the venue she manages, she comes face-t...
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 04:21
When is it true love or unhinged obsession? Find out in this tongue in cheek guide to adolescent love that lets you know when you've become way to...
- Added: May 06, 2018
- Length: 24:12
In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 21:29
Current Mood: Desperate. Mortified pays tribute to the kids who grew up in an era right before Myspace and Facebook and pioneered the idea of goin...
- Added: Apr 15, 2018
- Length: 27:04
Stories of men battling white water rapids and floods in Alaska.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Find out why you should never mess with Maria. The diaries of a rebellious Jersey Girl growing up in the 80s. The Mortified Podcast is a proud memb...
- Added: Aug 20, 2017
- Length: 25:08
English teenager obsessed with boys and heavy metal lets you listen to her deepest thoughts.
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 19:16
He left the East Coast for the West Coast to become an actor. Instead he became a comedian. And just as his career was taking off, he was diagnosed...
- Added: Nov 25, 2016
- Length: 26:34
When a bear is not a bear, a dead ermine is not a dead ermine, and a motivational speaker is not really a motivational speaker.
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:59
Champion dog musher Brent Sass gets sprayed in the face with bear spray and then nearly eaten by a bear and Bill Schnabel tries to raise pigs but c...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:01
Summer jobs, part-time employment, freelance work, gigs. There are all kinds of odd jobs out there, and these passengers have had odder ones than m...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 08:32
For my sister, eating a hamburger is a sublime experience. And recently she tried to give them up.
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
True (and humorous) story about Mark and Eric who find a stack of brand-new copies of Fifty Shades of Grey, just sitting on the sidewalk.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 06:48
All about do-it-yourself projects gone wrong.
Bought by XRAY.fm, KUOW, WYSO, WRVO Public Media, KUT and more
- Added: Feb 19, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6