May 2, 2013 12:48 pm by: Mike Lee
Hey, we know it can be a grind trying to stay up for three hours to listen to our stupid show. We don't judge. We're just glad you even try. That's why we always give you guys a second chance to listen to the thing.
On Episode #178 of the big big show, we'll bring you all kinds of audio wonderments! There's a new
Memory Palace, a new
How Sound, a new
Liner Notes, and a new
Clever Apes. And that's just the tip of the iceberg! We've also got all sorts of other stuff you can cram inside your ears, so start listening now! Or when it's more convenient for you if now's not a good time!...
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I've just been listening back to the "Speed of Light for Pyramids" episode of 99% Invisible, and boy is that some fascinating stuff in there. 99% Invisible is usually pretty interesting, but this episode, about the construction of the Egyptian pyramids, is really catching my ear. Hopefully it'll catch yours, too.
Then we'll bring you another installment of Jake Warga's series The Things They Carry. If you've been listening to the show and/or the podcasts lately, you've probably heard an episode or two of this series; in each one, we hear from a man or woman serving in Afghanistan as they describe the things -- physical and emotional -- that they carry every day. In this installment, we'll hear from Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen.
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Yiesha Beamon, founder of
The Humility Project. The project started as a simple thought some years ago after Beamon was looking through a box full of memories...
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If you're anything like me (and I know I am), you love the O'Dark podcast so much that your only complaint is that there just isn't enough of it. Forty minutes or so, twice a week? That's nothing! So you'll be pleased to know that today's podcast is a jumbo edition, clocking in at just under 90...
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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...
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It's the last podcast of the month, good people of the interwebs. That's the perfect time to reflect on the goings-on of the past few weeks, to weigh your wins and losses, to think about how you might have done things differently and what might have happened if you'd made better choices. Or you can...
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I hope you weren't considering starting the weekend without first downloading the spanking new O'Dark podcast. That would be a disastrous idea, and we would be held responsible for anything that happened to you if you made that call. Instead, start the weekend the smart way, the O'Dark way, with...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with veteran soul and gospel vocalist Shirley Murdock. Murdock started out singing gospel music in her hometown of Toledo, OH. Bandleader Roger Troutman hired her as a back-up singer for the funk band Zapp, who had several...
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Happy Tuesday and welcome to the podcast, friends. Here's what's on the agenda today:
1. A trip to Wonderland
2. A motorcycle trip across America
3. A chat with a documentary filmmaker
Sounds like a heck of a ride, right? Right. We'll bring you these bits of radio wonderfulness in the...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with the late Ron Banks. Banks was one of the founding members of the Detroit vocal group,
The Dramatics that formed in the mid-1960s and continued to play for...
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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...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Paul J. Tagliabue, former
NFL Commissioner
; N. Jeremi Duru, Counsel
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We've been bringing you a lot of
How Sound lately, 'cause it's a cool, relatively new show that we're pretty fond of, and also because we know you love to get a little peak at the inner workings of the world's most exciting business, radio production. This episode of the program is "#11:...
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So I was just thinking how crazy it is that Tax Day was always April 15 my entire life and now suddenly it's April 17 (which gives us all two extra days to file our extensions!) when I realized that it's only April 17 this year because April 15 was a Sunday and it's not really a big change or...
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Beware, our friends, because it's Friday the 13th, and I'm assuming it's gonna get full-on scary out there today. So what horrors do we have in store for you on the big podcast on what promises to be the spookiest day of April? How about some spooky, scary gorillas? And some creepy, eerie French...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Brian K. Burns, director of
Daddy Restoration located in Austin, TX. The lack of an involved father has had an extremely detrimental effect on children...
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