You can’t start a three-day weekend without a new O’Dark podcast, good people! Well, you could, I guess. It’s not illegal or anything. But really, why would you want to?

So here’s a little podcast for you. We’ve got three cool pieces for you today, and we hope you like them. First it’s a show called Sift that we’ve only just discovered. This is the “Story of Earth” segment, and they must be covering everything in detail, because it’s fourteen minutes long.

Then it’s something kind of cool and interesting — a poem about Muhammad Ali by the Poet Laureate of Tampa, Florida.

And we’ll close things down with a new installment of the homegrown Liner Notes with Rabbi Neil Blumofe. Today the good rabbi will be talking about Bud Powell. Dig it.

We’re very excited to bring you an encore presentation of episode 181, because it’s our first palindromic episode since way back in the days when we brought you episode 171. I don’t even know how long ago that was, but I’m sure it’s been a really long time.

What do we got this week? Tons of stuff! We got Polk Street Stories from the fine folks at Transom.org, The Bike Ride of ’76 from producer Hugh Duncan, Four Seconds: Suicide Off the Golden Gate Bridge from our pal Jake Warga, and lots of other stuff, too.

It’s nothing but O’Dark Hall-of-Famers on today’s podcast, so you’re gonna love it. You’re gonna love it so much you leave it on your iPod forever, and burn copies of it on cd to mail to your friends. That’s the current technology, right?

Batting leadoff today is Nate DiMeo with his show The Memory Palace, and the “Giants in Those Days” episode.

In the two spot, it’s our Brooklyn buddy Eric Winnick with Beyond the Rope: A Captivity’s Aftermath.

And in the three hole, we’ve got heavy hitter Rob Roshenthal and his show HowSound. Rob always gets the dirt on radio productions, and we’ve got the “My Kingdom For Some Structure” episode of that show.

Hey, it’s the weekend, almost! Time to get your relaxation on with a little podcast action. So pour yourself a nice cool glass of lemonade, settle into your hammock, and blast this ‘cast into your earholes.

We’ll start off with a little “theater of the mind” from Joseph Dougherty and the fine folks at Handwritten Theatre. And if that’s not enough for you, we’ll bring you a new edition of KUT’s own Views & Brews Remix from O’Dark alum Rebecca McInroy. It’s a very compelling look at the changing face of celebrity through the work of photographer Arnold Newman. Good stuff.

You know, around here at the O’Dark office complex, we get lots of phone calls and postcards with the same question: “Can you please, please, air the show twice in a row on Sundays, and then again at least once every night of the week?” Well, in a word, no. We asked our program director if we could dedicate 24 hours or more of airtime to O’Dark every week, and he was strangely reluctant. So we make do with the next best thing, which is to put the show up on the interwebs so you can listen to it as often as possible on your own schedule.

This is the ground-breaking episode 180, featuring Clever Apes, Jay Allison’s Stories of Transformation, The Mikie Show, 99% Invisible, and much more! Enjoy it!

It’s the kind of rainy morning that makes you want to stay inside and listen to podcasts all day. Luckily for you, we’re providing a brand-new ‘cast to get you started. So we’ll handle the first 41 and a half minutes of your pod-fest, but you’re on your own after that.

Things will kick off with Decode DC, a show we’ve discovered pretty recently. It’s hosted by former NPR Washington reporter Andrea Seabrook, who’s given herself the daunting task of trying to figure out the wacky world of our elected officials.

Then we’ll pop in a new installment of KUT/KUTX’s own Liner Notes, hosted by Rabbi Neil Blumofe. The good Rabbi will be chatting a bit about Benny Goodman. It’s good, man. See what we did there? It’s a pun.

And hows about a little How Sound? It’s the “Curiosity City” edition of the show that gives you the dirt on public radio production.

We think it’s unfair that you should only get to listen to O’Dark 30 once a week, so we’re doing what we can to change that. But since we’re far too lazy to actually produce more than one of these things a week, we’re using the magic of technology to allow you to listen to the same show twice. Or thrice, even. Heck, you can play this thing all day every day if you want (though we wouldn’t recommend it).

Episode 179 brings you such wondrous audio tidbits as The Symphony of Sirens, Revisited, Decode DC, 99% Invisible, WTF featuring Amy Poehler and, as usual, more.

Hey everybody! We’ve got a nice long podcast for you today; at a little over 90 minutes, this thing is like half a complete O’Dark broadcast. And you can put it right on your portable listening device, because of technology!

We’ll bring you the “Benny Goodman and The Art of Intersection” episode of Views and Brews Remix. I don’t know if you guys know much about Benny Goodman, but let me tell you this: that dude could intersect like a sun of a gun.

What else? Well, that Views and Brews is putting us in the mood to keep on listening to nice people talking about music, so we’ll bring you a new edition of Bonjour Chanson, in which the always delightful Charles Spira will play and discuss his favorite French popular music.

And we’ll have a quick little surprise piece at the end for dessert. Enjoy!

Hello, interweb friends! It’s Friday, and the weekend’s getting underway, so you’re probably thinking about how to entertain yourself. Sure, you could spend all kinds of money going to see Iron Man 3, but why do that when you can listen to this podcast for free and it’s pretty much the same thing, anyway? Except for the action and special effects and really any visuals of any kind, we’ve got it all!

And we certainly do have some good stuff, starting off with a brand-new installment of Liner Notes, featuring Rabbi Neil Blumofe. Neil’s a super good dude, and today he’s talking about Louis Armstrong. If you don’t like Louis Armstrong, you’ve got a hole in your soul.

And what else, you ask? How’s about a little something from the fine folks over at RTÉ Radio One Ireland: Documentaries on One? We’ve been bringing you stuff from those guys quite a bit lately, ’cause they put out a lot of good stuff. This one (Two Ears) is no exception.

And after those appetizers, it’s time for the main course, the hour-long Holocaust Voices from WHRV in Norfolk, Virginia. Very nice and moving stuff from our Virginian friends.