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Mikki Lunda and Hana Zimorino are easy to spot walking down the street. The ladies are sharp dressers rarely caught without lipstick and their sign...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 07:22
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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
Caption: Detail of Diane's Portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B. Klein
When playing with bugs became macabre Diane started inviting people on "the spectrum" to live with her.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
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True (and humorous) story about Mark and Eric who find a stack of brand-new copies of Fifty Shades of Grey, just sitting on the sidewalk.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:48
Caption: Konstantine and Salina in grade 2 class photo.
The funny and touching love story of Konstantine and Salina. They met in 1st grade, and parted ways in 8th grade - just another childhood crush. Bu...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 28:08
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Hear from three people who do a media fast to take back control of their lives from their smartphones, Internet, and Social Media.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
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When the summer ends, Provincetown goes from being a tourist spot of 50,000 people to a quiet, small town. But, production of a new local TV series...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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18-year old Sam manages to land his first date, with a girl whose name is also Sam. Porn and ice cream are involved, and things gets messy (not li...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 19:41
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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
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A story about endings– of the long, drawn-out, painful variety in particular. Also, boat metaphors.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 18:15
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: Mike Smith
This week Field Trip Correspondent Becky Palmstrom takes us to a festival in Taung Byone, Myanmar, where we learn how to run a ferris wheel … using...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 10:28
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In this episode of Happy producer JP Davidson drops into a Laughter Yoga Club. The first one started in the mid-90s in Mumbai. Now there over 8000 ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2012
  • Length: 08:38

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1
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The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.

Bought by The Story, KUT, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Brooklyn hipsters explore modern commerce through social networking, urban tribalism, and suspicious fires.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
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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
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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
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Minneapolis and New Orleans may be an entire country apart, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate the feasts of Mardi Gras in our own way. Cul...

  • Added: May 12, 2012
  • Length: 05:22
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In the twelfth installment of The Taxi Tapes (http://thetaxitapes.com), Sam encounters a fellow cab driver who is fearful of the past.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Sign on the door from Falmouth Animal Control, Credit: JP Davidson
Strange visitors to an otherwise unremarkable strip-mall on Cape Cod face eviction. Shopkeepers and residents speak out on behalf of their beloved ...

Bought by KUOW and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
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Good morning! Mercenaries are lurking all around you, threatening to swarm your shores! Get up! Get up! Go, go, GO!

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 06:45
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Starting off on my quest to generate a new piece based on the Moth's weekly storytelling themes. This week's theme is vacation, so here is a tale ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 11:12
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In which I write an break-up letter to improv comedy.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 19:49
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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