May 4, 2012 5:00 am by: Mike Lee

Photo by Michael Lee.
Hoo boy, people. What a doozy we've got for you today. The two pieces on today's 'cast come from our recent inappropriately timed holiday show special. We'll kick things off with
The Jingle Cats, from producer Julie Bruins. You know those Christmas songs that feature the standards as sung by cats? Well, you don't
really know them until you hear
The Jingle Cats, which will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about singing cats and maybe just a little bit more. Would it surprise you to learn that the guy who created the singing cats craze owns nine cats himself? No, it probably wouldn't.
Then it's off to Halloween land, for something almost as scary as that first piece. It's
Haunted Houses, Vampires, and Zombie Poets. Enjoy!...
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Hey, it's May Day! We're not really sure what that is, but it sounds like a heckuva good time, and we're kind of annoyed that we didn't get the day off to celebrate it.
Hopefully you're luckier than us, and heading out for a big May Day feast or decorating your Maypole or something fun like that. If so, once you've had your fill of May Day carols, please consider listening to this podcast. After all, we've spent all May Day morning putting it together for you, so listening is the least you could do.
We've got a spanking new edition of 99% Invisible for you today. And, as is usual for producer Roman Mars, he'll explore a topic in a way that most folks don't think of. This episode, "Undesigned," is all about the way our modern world was designed (or, as you might have guessed... » read more
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I recently learned from my wife, who knows these kinds of things, that there's actually a word for people who are afraid of Friday the 13th (the day itself, not the movie series). And that word is paraskevidekatriaphobic. So to all you paraskevidekatriaphobics out there, hang tough. It's only one...
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Is it Tuesday already? Seems like only yesterday it was just Monday. Oh well. Life moves on, and so does the O'Dark podcast. We've got a big steaming pile of radio for your ears today, so listen up, buttercup!
We'll kick things off with the New Year's Eve edition of Portland's "Live Wire!...
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Happy Friday, O'Dark internet listener types. We've got a couple of spooky little pieces for you today, both taken from our momentous 100th episode.
We'll start this thing off with
The Weird Sisturs from our new pals at Icebox Radio Theater. The folks at Icebox are doing their part to...
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It's the last podcast of the year. What a bittersweet time.
And if you've been getting sick of all the Christmas stuff, you'll be happy to hear that there's no holiday content in the podcast at all. Well, maybe a little Halloween, but that's pretty usual for O'Dark, and if ghost stories bug you,...
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It's the day before Christmas Eve, and all of us here at O'Dark Central are full of Christmas cheer, if you get my meaning. Last night, we were visited by three spirits who showed us the error of our ways or something, and now we're a changed show! So we're breaking all the rules on today's...
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Happy Holidays, internet friends! We've got a little podcast for you today, as we usually do on Tuesdays. We'll start things off with
People Without a Nation from producer Charles McGuigan. It's a fascinating portrait of the Chickahominy tribe in Virginia.
And since it's the holiday...
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It's the Friday podcast! You might recall that, on Tuesday, we brought you a little something that had won a big award at the Third Coast Audio Festival. Did you think that was the only award-winning piece you'd get from us this week? If so, you were way wrong, dummy! We bring out award-winning...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with the Honorable Alan C. Page, Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in political science and the University of Minnesota Law School, Justice Page earned his...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents his second, and final, discussion with Gary M. Lavergne, author of Before Brown: Heman Marion Sewatt, Thurgood Mrashall and the Long Road to Justice. It is generally known that Sweatt was a mail carrier from Houston who...
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It's the first O'Dark podcast of 2012! And to celebrate, we've put together a 'cast that has nothing much at all to do with the new year. But it does have some good stuff!
You guys like cowbell? Darn right you do! That's why we're bringing you
More Cowbell, a half-hour show featuring...
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Hi folks. How's it going? We're trying to get over our holiday hangover around here, as we search for any leftover egg nog in the fridge, finish off our Christmas cookies, and play with our new toys. We're pretty wiped out from the weekend, we've got some got some fudge to eat and some video games...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Gary M. Lavergne, author of Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall and the Long Road To Justice. On February 26, 1946, a 33-year-old African American mail carrier from Houston, TX applied for admission...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with screen and stage legends Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Playwright, director, producer, actor, and advocate for civil and social rights, Davis was a passionate man with many achievements. As an actor, he starred on stage...
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Hello, party people! And also non-party people. We don't mean to discriminate against those of you who don't party. In fact, we're not really sure why we brought the whole thing up. We actually never use the word "party" as a verb, and we're not really sure why we did just now. Trying to sound...
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