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Ol’ Jack Keroac
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the Dusty Chaps in 1...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:17
Binaural Beats
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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There has much interest in the use of frequencies for health, healing and general feeling better. The most famous are the Solfeggio Frequencies. ...

Bought by KTRL, WYAP, KHNS, KSRQ, KNCT FM and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
420
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week will contain April 20. That's 4.20. It means smoking pot. But why? We will take an hour and discuss all the nicknames for pot and pl...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KTRL, KNCT FM, KSRQ, KHNS and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Razzies
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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The Golden Raspberry Award. It used to have a Worst Song catagory. Not anymore. But we will revist those that once made the cut in this award s...

Bought by KTRL, KNCT FM, KSRQ, KHNS, KWIT and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
206 part one: Goldfish FOV
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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You've heard of an ROV, a remotely operated vehicle. But did you ever think you'd see an FOV, a fish operated vehicle? Israeli scientists have atte...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
Tiktok Trends: Dream, Delusion or Dangerous?
From: Alyssa Tompkins
Series: Dream or Delusion
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In our very first episode, join co-hosts Alyssa Tompkins and Bryson Zauner as we discuss some of the craziest recent trends on Tiktok!

  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 32:12
Skaboom Book
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we have an interview with author Marc Wasserman about his new book Skaboom. An American Ska and Reggae Oral History. It is a history of ...

Bought by KHNS, KTRL, WYAP, KSRQ, KWIT and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
WSU THAD Presents: All Together Now
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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The cast of WSU's Theater And Dance Department's presentation of "All Together Now" joins us to talk about their experience in making this producti...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 31:13
204: Baker Miller Pink
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
201: Rabbit War
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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What happens when you are the Emperor of France and your hunting party plans go completely wrong? You get attacked by rabbits. This isn't a Monty P...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 2
Title Change
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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It happens now and again that a song will have its title changed after it is released and starts to become popular. The reasons why vary but colle...

Bought by WKPW, KTRL, KWIT, KSRQ, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Jingles That Became Hit Songs
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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It is quite common for a commercial to use a hit song but now and again a commercial will become so popular that the music in the commercial will b...

Bought by WKPW, KTRL, KSRQ, WYAP, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
StoryCorps Griot: Necothia Bowens-Robinson and Temica Hunt
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Temica Hunt came to StoryCorps with her mother, Neocothia Bowens-Robinson, to talk about their family’s multi-generation love of roller skating.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
Mechanics Expound on the Perfect Roadside Quip
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Signal Auto crafts and curates signage jokes for passing motorists and prospective customers. , Credit: Matthew Schneeman
The art of writing a good joke welds a lot of power. A good joke can drive the plot of a TV sit-com, can spark political controversy … or, in this ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 06:25
Chanaged Their Name After Fame
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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It is one thing to change your name before you become famous. It is quite another to change your name after you become famous. We have a list tha...

Bought by WYAP, KWIT, KTRL, KSRQ, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
188: Trash Parrots
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Forget raccoons digging into your trash cans, Australia has giant parrots snacking out of trash bins. Some family groups of Sulfur-crested cockatoo...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
Buzzing at the Bee
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The New York Times “Spelling Bee” word game really took off during the pandemic lockdown. But Sandip finds the Bee to be a bit exiguous.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
184: Dog Days of Summer
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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It's fall now, but we recorded this episode during the dog days of August. The sky wore a blanket of wildfire smoke and daytime lows were in the mi...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
Album Cover Lawsuits
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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The baby on the cover of the Nirvana Nevermind album is now 30 years old and he is suing everyone involved in the album for pornography even though...

Bought by WNYO, KWIT, KTRL, KSRQ, WOUB and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Apple Seed - First and Last
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On today's episode of the Apple Seed, you're going to hear from the great North Carolina storyteller Donald Davis, with a story about how he got fi...

Bought by KECG, KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 5
The Untold Story of Minnesota State Auditor Julie Blaha and Her Award Winning State Fair Crop Art
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack delves into a rather seedy aspect of the Minnesota Sta...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:23
Part III: Steve Palmer
From: Jed Alexander
Series: "Oh! That's Who Did That Part...Huh."
Caption: Steve Palmer, Credit: Provided by Steve Palmer
My interview with voiceover actor, Steve Palmer who played antagonist and outlaw Bill Williamson in the hit video game, "Red Dead Redemption I & II."

  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 11:31
From a buzzword perspective — Cristal
From: Andy Raskin
Series: Chill Beefs
Caption: Chill Beefs
Cristal complains about the workplace buzzwords she finds particularly annoying.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 04:20
Shipped! — Howard
From: Andy Raskin
Series: Chill Beefs
Caption: Chill Beefs
Howard complains about receiving "Your item has shipped" emails when it hasn't

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 03:26
The Apple Seed - Clever Counting
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed, Odds Bodkin will share an old story called The Runaway Horse, a story in which misfortune changes to good fortun...

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 5

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