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Everyone knows you don't start a sentence with "But." But why? We sort out the confusion over this little word. Also, how voice recognition technol...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 54:00
The best of the Oscar winners and nominees from the 1960s 'til today!
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 01:01:48
What do you call a guy with a bald pate? A chrome dome? Maybe the lucky fellow is sporting a solar panel for a sex machine. Also, which would you r...
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
Starting this year, Scripps National Spelling Bee contestants not only have to spell words correctly. A controversial new rule means they'll have t...
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Bobby speaks with Peter Hochstein, a self-described “jack-of-all-trades writer. The two discuss Hochstein’s new book, "HEIRESS STRANGLED IN MOLTEN ...
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 01:25:22
This week, forensic linguists use what they know about speech and writing to testify in courtrooms. And get out your hankies! Martha and Grant are ...
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
How did the word "gay" go from meaning "happy" to "homosexual"? Martha and Grant discuss the evolution of this word. Also, why are elementary schoo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
The sounds of classic remastered early LP cuts fill the air when the music of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross & Art Blakey is presented on the 29th edit...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 58:58
Remember getting caught sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G? Grant and Martha wax nostalgic on some classic schoolyard rhymes. What do you call your o...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
Imagine a time when heroin was marketed for the whole family. It really happened. Also, how Twitter, M&M's, and Hallmark cards got their names. Plu...
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
Bob Wills, Bill Boyd and Al Dexter are among the country swing artists who's 78 RPM records are heard on the 26th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 59:15
"Happy Days Are Here Again", "I Found a New Baby" and "This Year's Kisses" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 25th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 57:45
"The Sheik of Araby", "Don't Fence Me In" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 24th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 57:11
"In the Mood", "Begin the Beguine" and "Stompin' At The Savoy" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 23th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour.
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 57:35
"I'm Just Wild About Harry", "Sing, Sing, Sing" and "Christopher Columbus" will be among the 78 RPM records are heard on the 22th edition of Joe Be...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 56:27
Get out your skinny jeans and pass the PBR! Martha and Grant discuss the definition of the word hipster. Also, what happens when you pull a brodie?...
- Added: Apr 03, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 7
Laughter is the best medicine. But, it feels that today's musicians may be taking themselves too seriously. Here are selections from the 1920s to t...
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- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Have a question about objective pronouns? Whom ya gonna call? Wait--is that right? Or would it be "who ya gonna call"? "Whom" may be technically co...
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Although he hailed from St. Louis, Charles Ellsworth “Pee Wee” Russell took his clarinet cues from New Orleans. Only now is he beginning to be reco...
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- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
"I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket", "The Music Goes Round and Round" and "Run, Rabbit, Run" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 21st ed...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 59:43
"Cherokee", "One O'clock Jump" and "Kansas City Farewell" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 20th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour.
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 57:31
"Twelfth Street Rag", "New Orleans Stomp" and "Willie the Weeper" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 19th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 59:18
Bobby speaks, on location from the big, red staircase in the middle of Times Square, with Mr. Locario, masterful guru in the art of seduction. They...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 41:52
Should youngsters learn cursive handwriting in school? Plus, someone can be ruthless, but can that same person be ruthful? Which word refers to som...
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
Today's most popular dog names are Max and Bella. In the Middle Ages, though, dogs would answer to names like Amiable. Or Nosewise. Or even . . . ...
- Added: Mar 14, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
