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How would you react when a friend tells you they're "inspired" to join the United States Postal Service?
- Added: Mar 24, 2013
- Length: 04:07
A story about the moment in childhood in which a person had to 'grow up.'
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 04:47
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 13:22
In celebrating Hanukkah Jews tell the story of sanctified oil that miraculously burned for eight days. In this humorous piece I retell the story of...
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 07:47
After accidentally joining a traveling circus, writer Jonathan Argyle recounts his discovery of the meaning of the word "home" from the point of vi...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 11:19
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 06:40
- Purchases: 1
The oldest and most revered piece of hardware in professional sports has arrived in Los Angeles for the first time. So, how will the Los Angeles Ki...
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 08:02
Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 11:53
An introduction to some of my illustrious colleagues from my days as a bellhop/valet/part-time restaurant host at the Hilton.
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 15:12
- Added: May 13, 2012
- Length: 21:16
- Purchases: 1
This week’s Moth theme is “silver lining,” so here is a piece about the one bright spot in the worst summer of my life.
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 06:56
From Archie Bunker to Murphy Brown, TV characters have been getting trapped in elevators, freezers and all other manner of small spaces for decades...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
Once upon a time, Sam and Gerrit were flipping through a booklet of incoming college freshmen when they happened upon an unlikely superhero named C...
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 18:51
The pair of crawler-transporters at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida have been delivering shuttles to their launch pad since the Apollo missions...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 1
Three seniors talk about there feelings and expectations of being at the end of the high school journey.
- Added: Nov 15, 2011
- Length: 05:36
Sam meets the mysterious Man in the White Van, who rents him a beat-up cab, which he uses for his first fare, which nearly destroys him.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 09:51
3 Essays from This I Believe on Fear
Bought by Red River Radio Network
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 18, 2011
- Length: 01:42
3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race
- Added: Feb 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
This true gothic story was told by author Randy Osborne in which he recounts life with his eccentric grandmother, her 35 cats, and a retribution th...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 10:24
This fun piece launches from the ideas broached in the New York Times article, "What is it about 20-somethings?" I ask my friends, all at the tail-...
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 03:54
Jennifer Bosworth had to go crazy in L.A. before she could discover that the man she was looking for was in her home town all along.
- Added: Nov 21, 2010
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 2
An unlikely dinner exchange between two not so different people...after all.
- Added: Sep 06, 2010
- Length: 08:04
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 09:16
From: Aubrey Ralph
My Great Great Grandfather was murdered by Thomas Jefferson's Great Great Grandson in a jealous rage in 1884.
This is a "Pitch" version of the pie...
- Added: Jul 21, 2010
- Length: 03:16
