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Off Book: The Improvised Musical

Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino

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It takes years for a Broadway musical to hit the stage, but on OFF BOOK: The Improvised Musical, you get a brand new original musical every week! Each episode, Jessica McKenna, Zach Reino and a special guest create a new musical on the spot. Accompanied by Scott Passarella, King of Pianists, Pianist of Kings.
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Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals

Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals

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Join Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Music Director Sam Scheidler, and drummer Chris Ditton as they create brand new musicals — completely on the fly — alongside some of Chicago’s most charming music improvisers and performers. Welcome to the scene!
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Noise

CJSW 90.9 FM

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For over 30 years, NOISE has been the home of the avant-garde, experimental, and free expression! Join host Steve as he takes you on a journey through all that is NOISE. You'll hear everything from improvisational composition, free jazz, neo-classical and plunderphonics to post rock, extreme, outsider, and more! So sit back, turn it up, and embrace the NOISE!
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Dive into the art of guitar and improvisation with expert insights, practical tips, and inspiring conversations. Whether you’re a seasoned player or just starting out, this series covers everything from technique and theory to creative approaches for developing your unique sound. Join us for engaging discussions, gear reviews, and interviews with musicians who live and breathe the craft.
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Wasting ALL the Time

Drowning Man Productions

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Wasting ALL the Time is a weekly audio improv comedy podcast hosted by Cody Parcell, Dave Paterson, Jes Deprez, and Jon Hansen with occasional guests. We improvise scenes and play improv games!
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THERAPY

Vincenzo Giarrusso & Michael Sheinberg

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Being a cheapskate Dr. Vincent Giarrusso has regular sessions with Michael Sheinberg, a psychotherapist in training These are the recordings.
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Dayna Gowan is a speaker, improviser, and Facilitator of Fun, and the Founder of Improvly Speaking. Each episode, she brings you golden, beautiful, delicious nuggets of wisdom about public speaking, improv, performance, creativity and anything in between. Learning public speaking and improvisation skills has changed her life and made her a more confident speaker, colleague, and friend. Listeners will be inspired to face their public speaking fears, try new things, flex their creativity muscl ...
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THE THIRD STORY features long-form interviews with creative people of all types, hosted by musician Leo Sidran. Their stories of discovery, loss, ambition, identity, risk, and reward are deeply moving and compelling for all of us as we embark on our own creative journeys.
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Life should be livable. The Improviding Life Podcast with Lori Crawford explores how life can be more livable and adulting can suck less through applied improvisational comedy, embodying your emotions, and becoming more okay with being human.
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Errant Space

Craig Chin

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Ambient Soundscapes by Errant Space A soundtrack suitable for working, sleeping or spacing out. Use as background music; best at a low volume. All music. Set to loop if desired.
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Phil Hendrie's historic improvisational genius goes to work everyday in this divinely hilarious satire of the modern media. And that's only part of what's really going on here. Get a hold of this top shelf entertainment from one of the acknowledged masters of comedy and social satire.
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This is Scripty Business. The made-up show about made-up movies. We have three episodes to turn three random words into one amazing movie pitch. Episode one is all about the three-act structure and setting. Episode two is about characters and themes. And episode three is A, B, C plotlines and sequences. But here is the thing. For each new episode in the Arc we throw in a game-changing, world-shaking, devastating and hilarious curveballs with the dreaded Wheel of Doom! And even worse, every e ...
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Into Your Head

Neal O'Carroll

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Neal from Ireland spins hilarious offbeat humour monologues fueled by untethered imagination, generic energy drinks and a unique twist on Irish wit and dry humour. Around every corner lie absurd analogies, unexpected laughs and surprising ways to pronounce the word dog. Completely improvised stream of consciousness amateur sit down comedy. | Older shows are on a separate, but still free, archives feed. See website or search for Into Your Head Archives Feed.
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Facing Fate

Dumb Dragons Productions

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An improvised audio fiction series that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Each season explores a new genre with some of the darkest and funniest improvisers we can afford.
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Exploring the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. Host Manoush Zomorodi inspires us to learn more about the world, our communities, and most importantly, ourselves. Get more brainy miscellany with TED Radio Hour+. Your subscription supports the show and unlocks a sponsor-free feed. Learn more at plus.npr.org/ted
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No Small Rolls

No Small Rolls

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Join our merry band of actors for a D&D podcast filled with intrigue, adventure and laughter. Where there are ‘No Small Rolls’ and no small consequences! New episodes every other Sunday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Geoff Gascoyne chats to big-name (and upcoming) jazz soloists as they pick and play their favourite jazz standards and talk about their jazz lives. A mix of candid discussion, technical insights and spontaneous improvisation, this weekly podcast is a must-listen for everyone that loves jazz. Geoff is a renowned jazz bass player and prolific composer and producer with credits on over 100 albums and a book of contacts to die for! He is also executive producer of the best-selling Quartet jazz s ...
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We dig into the mighty tape box and randomly select cassettes to listen to in the hopes of discovering an interesting home recording... and then we listen to our main cassette (the episode titles) and use our instruments to create a remix on the fly! If you like cassette tapes then this is the podcast for you! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/battery_operated_ Follow us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BatteryOperated Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor ...
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. RPG Major: Stories of kindness and bravery in a world full of darkness, mystery, and magic, told one song at a time. Welcome to Foxglove, a modern city where cryptids lurk in coffee shops and supernatural cases land on the desk of two unlikely private investigators: Mara, a charismatic Siren, and Aubrey, a Former Fairy Queen. This isn’t your typical actual play: every investigation unfolds as an improvised musical, with brand new songs inspired by the story in each episode. Like the best s ...
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Exploring what it means to be faithfully Christian in our always-changing world with its challenges and opportunities. I like to think out loud and talk with friends about biblical texts, books, politics, sports, music, films, and basically anything that interests me. This is all an attempt to be fully alive in God’s good world and to enjoy the liberating reality of the Christian gospel.
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20 Sides & Improvised

20 Sides & Improvised

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Four friends who met doing Improv start a game of Dungeons and Dragons. They've been at it for a while, and now they're finally ready to release their chaos upon the world. Come join Sanguine, Mogwai, and Daisy Duke Realm-Destroyer as they fumble, fib, and F-up their way through a story told by the Flying Gorilla God.
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Improvised Wikipedia

Improvised Wikipedia

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Comedians Jon Lunger and Glen Tickle are rewriting all of Wikipedia off the top of their heads without doing any research. Each week they take a listener suggestion for a topic, or get the topic from a special guest. We're in no way affiliated with Wikipedia.
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The following was recorded LIVE at the Park West Theater in Chicago on March 20th, 2025. It features K.O.P.P.O.K. Scott Passarella on the keys and the legendary Chris Ditton hit-on the Drums. This show is important for many reasons: 1. We get to correct the lore of Peter Pan, 2. It's the largest show we've ever done. 3. At the end we all make Scott…
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A new voice on the mic?? As we start in on our "Summer Slowdown" - here's a special BONUS episode featuring our incredible drummer Chris Ditton! We talk Chris's start in Chicago's music improv scene, his inspirations and techniques, and more in our first ever "CHAT Scene!" No musical this week, but we'll be back next Tuesday and every second Tuesda…
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We rejoin our divided Do Re Mi detectives - with Eric rescued, can Aubrey and Rory find Mara before something awful happens? Rory is special guest Oliver Bay (@Olavarius) Mara Vertere is Lauren Drake (@laladrake) Aubrey Stump is Camilla Franklin (@Camillastrator) Music by Noah Samuels (@Samuels_Noah) GM is Helix (@RPGMajor) You can come chat with u…
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Gillian Bellinger is an SAG character actor. To watch her character bits, follow her on Instagram @gillianbellinger. She has played roles on Hulu's "How I Met Your Father", "Disney's "Just Roll with It" as well as being a principal in commercials for Harris Bank, Time Warner, NorthShore Healthcare, and Unitrin Auto Insurance. She's also rocked out …
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https://jazzguitar.fretprints.com/ornithology https://jazzguitar.fretprints.com/lessons https://jazzguitar.fretprints.com/join Explore the world of jazz guitar and the art of improvisation with Guitar and Improvisation. This podcast delves into the traditions, techniques, and creative mindset of jazz greats, offering practical insights and inspirin…
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Samira talks to Mark Gatiss about his new detective series, Bookish. Playwright Suzie Miller discusses her new courtroom drama Inter Alia, about a Crown Court Judge facing a family crisis. We explore the impact of President Trump's cuts to US public media and consider the legacy of British cinema of the 80s. Presenter: Samira AhmedProducer: Simon R…
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As the Fatemarked gather the last of their allies, they must rise to face the cataclysm of the battlefield. The time has come to reach the Egregore and change the course of history. Their chance of success all rests upon the dice. Join our merry band of actors for a D&D podcast filled with intrigue, adventure and laughter. Where there are ‘No Small…
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It’s summertime and time for more “The Best of Buttner” with the Dooleys at their favorite lake getaway. Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy archives, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pr…
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Moses Patrou has spent the past twenty-five years in New York, carving out a unique space as a multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. From early days in Madison, Wisconsin playing hand drums in hip hop bands, to immersing himself in Cuban and Brazilian traditions, to gigging across the city in every imaginable context, Patrou has done it all. During…
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As AI infiltrates every aspect of our lives, who are some of the people behind this huge inflection point? In this special three-part series, you'll hear from the people predicting and shaping our tech future. Host Manoush Zomorodi reports on the latest and revisits her favorite conversations with the minds crafting the digital world we live in tod…
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A fishing show called “On The Water” or “Out In The Wild Blue” (the guys couldn’t remember) Bill Hassinger and Kip Pernell host. Plus a bunch of other shit! Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy archives, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See Privacy P…
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Tom Sutcliffe with reviewers Bidisha and Caroline Frost discuss the TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the cringe comedy film Friendship, starring Paul Rudd, and the wedding comedy Till The Stars Come Down, which has transferred from The National to London's West End. Also the latest ad…
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Neal makes the case for government assigned signatures for new borns, considers how sitcom kids have become so sophisticated, explains his virtual toast rack invention and how it relates to Mary Poppins and discusses making a raw chicken asthetically pleasing, turning a parking space into a home, ordering fruit juices with an extra shot, a decade o…
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Geoff heads east to Essex to catch up with an old friend — the award-winning jazz saxophonist, bandleader, arranger, and recording engineer Derek Nash. What happens when a lifelong love of saxophone meets decades of sound engineering expertise? Derek Nash's musical journey provides the perfect answer. From the moment 12-year-old Derek heard the Pin…
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It’s another Best of Barn and Brown from Rory MacLeod. Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy archives, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-s…
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Things get awkward when Michael suggest aroma therapy as a way forward and Vincent mistakenly sees a machine gun in the chart. Support the show Written and performed by Vincenzo Giarrusso and Michael Sheinberg Based on an original idea by Vincenzo Giarrusso. Therapy Transcripts available at https://vincey.ghost.io Music by Vincenzo Giarrusso publis…
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As a new exhibition of Ikea textiles opens, we discuss the impact of Scandinavian design concepts on our homes, with curator Anna Sandberg Falk of the Ikea Museum in Sweden and designer Anna Campbell Jones. Bestselling author John Niven talks about his latest novel The Fathers, an exploration of contemporary fatherhood and masculinity which is set …
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A truly bizarre offering courtesy of show curator Rory MacLeod. The Best of Drs Arthur Barn and William Brown. Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy archives, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor…
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From time to time this august podcast discusses the jazz vocal arts and opinions are expressed. Heavy hitters like Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Vaughan, and Torme have all been inspected. For this episode, the boys venture to the odder corners of the jazz vocal realm, looking at projects where the vocalist isn't the only - or sometimes even the main - tale…
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Former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer on creating a new work for the Manchester International Festival. As four new twenty minute operas are premiered at the Buxton International Festival, Helen Goodman, artistic manager at the festival, and Hannah Ellis Ryan, artistic director of theatre company, HER Productions, discuss how shor…
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To make the new world, to free tomorrow from the clutches of not done, we must bury the old world, shove ourselves inside the bone white sand, and there meet ourselves and everyone we have known. A wizard in her tower, oh let down your hair. A wild one, his one foot out the door of the prison cell. And a witch astride the world, who simply cannot l…
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It’s the Best of the Margaret Grey Songbook. Curated by Rory “The Rocket” MacLeod. Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy archives, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:…
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We mark Bastille Day with a dive into President Macron’s cultural policy for France. And we revisit the dark heart of filmmaking with two people who were there during the making of Apocalypse Now and Fitzcarraldo. Documentaries made about both films have been re-released - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse, about Apocalypse Now is in cine…
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We chat about Special K at jungle raves, Joe reviews The Matrix, Having a panic attack at the cinema, Fear of flying, Crazy situations at the comedy open mic and much more... Then it's into the mighty unlabelled tape box in hopes of finding something interesting... (no spoilers for this section!) and usually we play a main cassette, but this time w…
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Jay Santos and the Citizens Auxiliary Police investigate parking lot carnivals. Ted Bell gets drunk and inappropriate. Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy archives, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and…
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After a podcasting hiatus, Dayna Gowan is back behind the mic – and she’s got a lot to share. In this solo episode, Dayna opens up about the wild ride that has been new motherhood, from unexpected detours in her birth plan to sleepless nights, big trips and moves, and the messy, beautiful process of adjusting to her new identity as “mom.” Plus, she…
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It's Interview time with World-renowned chamber power-couple Roman Rabinovich & Diana Cohen ahead of the 4th annual Chamberfest West Festival! This year's theme - Lost & Found! Tune in to hear all about the week long event, along with the great avant-garde musical selections that Noise loves to play! Playlist: Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute…
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As AI infiltrates every aspect of our lives, who are some of the people behind this huge inflection point? In this special three-part series, you'll hear from the people predicting and shaping our tech future. Host Manoush Zomorodi reports on the latest and revisits her favorite conversations with the minds crafting the digital world we live in tod…
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Law talk with Frank Grey. Ted Bell is being sued by a server he fired. She claims she was wrongly fired for calling toast “Ted,” and asking customers if they wanted it buttered. Also, was Superman an immigrant? Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy archives, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming eve…
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Nancy Durrant and Boyd Hilton join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss Moisturizer, the second album from the female English indie rock duo Wet Leg. Their self-titled debut reached number one on the UK charts. They also assess Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness, directed by Hollywood star Johnny Depp. The film is Depp's first since 1997 and it cov…
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Ted Bell reviews his menu and interviews Don Berman on his recent visit to Ted’s. Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy archives, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:/…
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In the tranquil setting of Hertfordshire, England, Geoff sits down with the legendary tenor saxophonist Alan Skidmore, a musical force whose extraordinary career spans nearly seven decades. At 83, Alan's recollections are sharp, his stories captivating, and his legacy in jazz undeniable. The conversation begins with Alan's reluctant entry into musi…
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This week Jes can't give a compliment, Cody likes it Italian and spicy, and Dave wants to teach. Also, makes a lot of sense, no argument here! Show Notes: 00:00 - The Beginning 02:10 - Style It!: Homemade Art Supplies 10:27 - Cody's Segment: Like My Coffee 19:59 - Dave's Segment: Paterson's Premises 22:56 - The Ending ~~~~ Come hang out on our Disc…
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Vincent tracks his heritage whilst Michael is under scrutiny by a second supervisor Featuring special guest new supervisor Caroline Support the show Written and performed by Vincenzo Giarrusso and Michael Sheinberg Based on an original idea by Vincenzo Giarrusso. Therapy Transcripts available at https://vincey.ghost.io Music by Vincenzo Giarrusso p…
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Bestselling novelist Kate Mosse - much of whose historical fiction is set in medieval France - reacts to the news that the Bayeux Tapestry is to go on display at the British Museum in London next year. Comedian and actor Kat Sadler on her BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls, which is set in a dysfunctional single parent family. Sitar virtuoso Nis…
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Neal discusses Smurfs versus Avatar, explaining ball point pens to a cat, the argument against Meccano, early childhood memories: were those nurses or aliens, hand-me-down Lego management, raising children in a void, Lego Batman, listening in July, the man who made North Korea boring, watching with your ears, the future of home decor, the nation’s …
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An hour in the life of radio announcer Art Battaglia.Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy archives, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sel…
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