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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
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
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 06:40
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
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
- Added: Jan 07, 2010
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
One girl's quest for coolness despite her hippie father's mortifying behavior.
- Added: Apr 21, 2008
- Length: 10:42
David Kates spent a few hours at Los Angeles' Original Pantry Cafe to soak up the sights, sounds and smells.
- Added: Jun 14, 2007
- Length: 03:49
- Added: Apr 14, 2006
- Length: 19:56
Is Groupie an outdated word? Folk Rock Guitarist, Tim Easton, from Ohio, tried to convince one of his ardent fans that it was.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 22, 2006
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 25, 2005
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 1
A search for candidates who can add a little levity to the current campaign.
- Added: Oct 07, 2004
- Length: 03:49
- Added: Apr 10, 2004
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 1
What's it like to move from New York to San Francisco? We hear from people about the culture shock that comes with moving between the coasts.
- Added: Mar 29, 2004
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 29, 2003
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 4
