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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
Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 52:04
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
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 20:30
A modern-day nativity story that takes place in a garage on Suitcase Alley in Richmond, Virginia's Fan District.
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 24:24
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 children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 28:59
Alaskans try to make situations better, only to make them much, much worse...
- Added: Nov 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- 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
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
Philip Armand gets repeatedly bitten by a spider and a famous artist dangles the carrot of fame.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:22
