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Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KGOU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 10
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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Twenty some years ago, when I lived in Eastern Washington, I was out at a lake one busy summer day, enjoying the heat of an Indian summer. I wasn't...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2023
  • Length: 07:12
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The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 19:45
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In this episode, Emily speaks with writer and philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones about her memoir Easy Beauty, which chronicles her quest to w...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:50
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Joy and tears were both a part of the experience for author Staci Lola Drouillard in writing the 2022 release Seven Aunts published by the Universi...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 08:32
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Traveling the west with an Aeolian Harp: listening in dry lake beds, great sand dunes, and the world's largest living organism, Pando Aspen Grove /...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 31:07
  • Purchases: 1
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We continue National Hispanic Heritage Month with essayist and fiction writer, Sergio Troncoso. A 2020 International Book Award winner for Best Col...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A collection of poetry which calls upon music as a metaphor.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2021
  • Length: 52:24
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Poetry about music and it's relationship to life events.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
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Richard and his daughter Margaret investigate the bird insurrection, while humans attack the U.S. Capitol and President Trump is impeached for the ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 11:47
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Before he would ever know it, Matt Gallagher was at the forefront of new veteran voices fighting the Global War on Terror. Literally. He unknowingl...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:09
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In this episode of Incoming, we’re speaking with playwright Delia Knight, whose relationship with her best friend and Marine brother suffered – and...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:08
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Army linguist and intelligence specialist Kayla Williams has authored two books that unveil not only her own service, but offer a fearlessly unapol...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:09
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The Duffel Blog satire news website is known as The Onion of the armed services, fearlessly pilloring military culture, saying truths to power with...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:08
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Allison Gill is a musician, stand-up comedian, and host of the Webby Award-winning podcast, Mueller She Wrote. Her art has led to her to tackle top...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:09
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This episode is split between two conversations–both about many things–but sharing the theme of protecting others and how that relates to one’s ide...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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On this episode of Incoming we talk with Doug Bradley, Army veteran and author of We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War....

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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On today’s show we’re talking with two enlisted veterans who rose to the top of their respective fields in civilian life: Navy veteran Chef Geoff C...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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We have two of the most entertaining, self-made, grunt-ass Marines I know on today’s show for you, and they really couldn’t be more different from ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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We’re spending this hour with our friend, writer, performer, and veteran Navy officer, James Seddon. James is one of the founding members of So Say...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:02
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“Everything Is A War,” focuses on stories about how serving in a war zone can stick to a person, so deeply that traces of it will magically appear ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 56:23
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Today’s show is titled, with our tongues lodged firmly in our cheeks, “The Undesirables,” because it features two wonderful veteran voices who spea...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01