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Jack Russell Weinstein, host of Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life, joins Main Street to discuss the philosophical aspects of current events.
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Funny, poignant, sentimental, and sometimes controversial thoughts of the day. garrisonkeillor.substack.com
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Listen for interviews with authors, artists, and newsmakers that tell the story of our region. Email us: mainstreet@prairiepublic.org
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Television producer Matt Olien doubles as Prairie Public's resident movie critic, and uses his background in film studies and extensive knowledge of movie history to review a current film. Stay tuned until the end, where he's quizzed with obscure Oscar trivia.
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Join us each month as we engage in philosophical discussions about the most common-place topics with host Jack Russell Weinstein, professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Dakota. He is the director of The Institute for Philosophy in Public Life.
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Plains Folk is a commentary devoted to life on the great plains of North Dakota. Written by Tom Isern of West Fargo, North Dakota, and read in newspapers across the region for years, Plains Folk venerates fall suppers and barn dances and reminds us that "more important to our thoughts than lines on a map are the essential characteristics of the region — the things that tell what the plains are, not just where they are."
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Hosted by Chuck Lura, a biology professor at Dakota College in Bottineau. Chuck has a broad knowledge of “Natural North Dakota” and loves sharing that knowledge with others. Since 2005, he has written a weekly column, “Naturalist at Large,” for the Lake Metigoshe Mirror. His columns also appear under “The Naturalist” in several other weekly newspapers across North Dakota. Natural North Dakota is supported by NDSU Central Grasslands Research Extension Center and Dakota College at Bottineau, a ...
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Sitting Bull to Phil Jackson, cattle to prairie dogs, knoefla to lefse. North Dakota's legacy includes many strange stories of eccentric towns, war heroes, and various colorful characters. Hear all about them on Dakota Datebook, your daily dose of North Dakota history. Dakota Datebook is made in partnership with the State Historical Society of North Dakota, and funded by Humanities North Dakota, a nonprofit, independent state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, f ...
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Sessions from Studio A is a local program dedicated to showcasing regional and touring musicians, featuring performances recorded in WNIJ's own Studio A in DeKalb and hosted by Spencer Tritt. Have a band you'd like to hear on Sessions from Studio A? Send us your suggestions: sessions@niu.edu
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Talk of Iowa is a place for Iowans to connect to our shared culture and what it means to live in Iowa. Host Charity Nebbe brings a mix of regular guests and a range of experts to discuss the arts, history, literature and everything else happening in Iowa. Every day brings something new — even if it's in a recurring segment like Talk of Iowa Book Club or comes from a familiar voice on Horticulture Day.
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District of Conservation is a podcast highlighting the incredible conservationists who thrive and survive deep in or around "The Swamp." These are the policymakers, storytellers, trailblazers, and hardworking folks who go unnoticed but shape this region—whether they live or work here. In addition to guests, the podcast will also cover difficult and even controversial conservation public policy matters and news. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/district-of-conserv ...
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Each week Drift Off welcomes you with a soft melodic voice that will help you fall asleep to classic stories from the public domain. Every episode begins with a brief relaxation to help you settle in, followed by the bedtime reading. Accompanying the calming narration is a soft melody thoughtfully chosen to complement the storytelling. A harmonious blend perfectly designed to lull you to sleep.
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Dustin Ballard and Michael Ryan hike the trails of America’s National Parks. Each episode features one hiking trail in one National Park, one park at a time. Join them as they climb to terrifying heights, cross miles of desert, and hike through the forests of these public lands.
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Take an audio trip around Kentucky, Indiana, and throughout our region. On each episode, we listen to a field recording from the Kentuckiana Sounds map, and hear from the contributor who made it. Produced by Louisville Public Media, and Kentuckiana Sounds.
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Next Stop, Mississippi is your on-air source for information about upcoming events and attractions across the state. Get to know the real Mississippi! Each week the show's hosts, Kamel King (Visit Mississippi) and Germaine Flood highlight well-known and unknown places in Mississippi with the best food, parks, music and arts. They’ll not only tell you what’s going on in your neck of the woods but also share the history and people behind the markets, sporting events, concerts, fairs and festiv ...
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A podcast about the intersection of public health, cultural history, and war in Kansas. School closures, mask mandates, infection waves, front line workers, debates over the disease’s origin, disparities in health care access, quarantine fatigue. All of these descriptions could easily apply to both current times and a century ago. In the midst of the current Covid-19 pandemic, many have started looking back to the last global health catastrophe of this magnitude - the 1918 influenza pandemic ...
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ROAR With Shari™ is a weekly show hosted by rape and incest survivor, Attorney Shari Karney. “Pain put me into hiding, purpose called me out,” says Karney. Shari offers up straight talk about fighting for justice for victims of sexual abuse. Trauma. Resilience. Healing. For child sexual abuse survivors and all victims of sexual assault. Each week Roar with Shari talks with inspiring guests, rape and child sex abuse survivors, sexual violence victims, experts, nonprofit leaders, public office ...
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Where-to, how-to and when-to bird hunting advice on pheasant, partridge, ruffed grouse, sharptails, prairie chickens and quail, Host Randy Shepard has bird hunted from Oregon to Wisconsin to New Mexico and Arizona. He's taken 15 different combination limits and four different double limits of upland birds across the mid-west. He's never hired a guide, leased land, hunted as a guest or engaged in a swap hunt, while in pursuit of dual limits. All self-made, self-planned hunts, on public (and a ...
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In 1982, Toby Evans, The host of Dead, But Not Gone, began to dialogue with the unseen realms when the voice of her Higher Self broke through the sound barrier of her ordinary reality. Life as she knew it, began to change. She transitioned from a public school Art teacher to a modern day, shamanic, Earth Steward creating one of the largest seven-circuit labyrinths in the United States. As “Keeper” of The Prairie Labyrinth, www.prairielabyrinth.com she transformed a five-acre field of native ...
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Today marks the anniversary of one of the most memorable basketball games in North Dakota history as the Hillsboro Burros took on the Epping Eagles for the 1977 State Class B championship.By Merry Helm
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Welcome back! Tonight's bedtime storytelling is 'The Tears of Prunella' by Evelyn Sharp. In this dreamy fairytale, we follow a young lad who is deaf due to an enchantment bestowed upon him by the whims of fairyland. This enchantment separates him from the world he so dearly wishes to be a part of and, with unwavering determination, he seeks to beco…
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EP 423: Bears Ears National Monument Draft Plan (ft. Andrew Sandstrom)
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In Episode 423 of District of Conservation, Gabriella welcomes back Andrew Sandstrom, a conservative conservationist activists hailing from Utah, to discuss the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service's Bear Ears National Monument Draft Plan. This is the third plan of its kind. The Biden administration's preferred alternative - Plan E - w…
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"Show HER The Money" Film, ND Employment for Seniors
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Show Her The Money explores women's venture capital challenges; a Plains Folk Essay about historic land speculation; culinary dreams and senior employment training.
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EP 422: Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management
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In Episode 422 of District of Conservation, Gabriella speaks with Dan Gates from Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management - a 501 (c) 4 organization fighting bans on big game hunting. Dan talks about several ballot initiatives being mulled in Colorado this year and how his state is center stage for the fight over the future of conservation. S…
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March 18: Teachings of Our Elders - Dr. Twila Baker, "We Laugh So We Don't Cry" (Part One)
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In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll listen to Dr. Twila Baker, enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation. In part one of "We Laugh So We Don't Cry."
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Mike and Dusty look at the expedition led by Lewis and Clark and the many indigenous tribes that provided them help on their exploration of the West and how it is connected to Gateway Arch National Park. Instagram: @GazeAtTheNationalParks Facebook: Gaze at the National Parks #gazeatthenationalparks #hikeearlyhikeoften #adventureisoutthere Hosted by…
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Matt reviews, "Cabrini," a movie about the first American Saint and also updates us on the Academy Awards.
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We need to commemorate heroic acts of invention and creativity that have improved our lives vastly over those of our ancestors. I see that Microsoft has a little museum at its campus in Redmond, WA, and there are various rock and roll museums. I’ve googled around for a museum celebrating the first successful open-heart surgical operation, which too…
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The recent mild weather may have you eager to get working in the garden, but experts advise patience for your seedlings.By Danielle Gehr, Samantha McIntosh
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The short days of winter are starting to fade away as the days continue to lengthen. And next Wednesday, March 20, is the spring equinox.By Chuck Lura
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The laundry business became competitive in Bismarck in 1877, when two Chinese businessmen, Sing Lee and Sam Lung, opened for business. Since the Northern Pacific Railroad had not yet crossed the Missouri River, the laundrymen came up from the Black Hills, where many of their nationality were serving the new goldfields.…
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Next Stop MS | Women in Blues @ Black Prairie Blues Museum & Sweet Potato Queens @ Hal's St. Paddy's Day Parade 2024
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For our first stop of the day, we're keeping the party going in celebration of Women's History Month, and we're off to West Point, to check out Women in Blues, a showcase featuring female blues musicians, through the voices of M.S.U. opera students, March 24th at the Black Prairie Museum with Deborah Mansfield, Volunteer Director & Roza Tulyaganova…
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Mid-March brings two things to North Dakota: blizzards and basketball tournaments. Tournament time brings both happiness and heartache, as teams from across the state vie to be crowned champions.By Daniel Sauerwein
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HealthTech Insights: AI Psychiatry, News, and Matt reviews "Cabrini"
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Join Dr. Jodi Halpern as she delves into AI's role in mental health. Plus, catch up on the latest news with Dave and Matt's "Cabrini" review.
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The environmental impact of traditional burial techniques and the growing field of green burial optionsBy Charity Nebbe, Caitlin Troutman
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Dakota Territory began the work of organizing counties in 1861. Pembina was the first official county, established in 1867. Some North Dakota counties remain in their original form. Others were carved up. The southern portion of Hettinger County, for example, became Adams County. And the Bowman County story is interesting. Created in 1883, it was e…
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Medora Musical: A Timeless Tradition Renewed
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Experience the revamped Medora Musical celebrating tradition with modern twists. Plus, delve into prairie "pis" and Sleepy Hollow's artistic journey.
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With Jon Stewart back in the host chair on Mondays for The Daily Show, we discuss the role of satire in politics with philosopher Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein.
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On this date in 1993, the Bismarck Tribune reported that Agnes Geelan had died three days earlier in a Fargo nursing home. One biographer called her “one of North Dakota's grand ladies.” Another called her “debater extraordinary.” Another called her “a North Dakota legend.”By Andrew Alexis Varvel
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Poetry & Strings: North Dakota's Poetry Out Loud; FM Symphony Orchestra
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The art of poetry - North Dakota's young poets in Poetry Out Loud. And, prepare for the FM Symphony Orchestra's Masterworks 4: The Four Seasons of Vietnam and Tchaikovsky
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Host Charity Nebbe and wildlife biologist Jim Pease observe the prairie chicken mating dance and discuss the species' precarious situation in Iowa on this encore episode.By Charity Nebbe, Caitlin Troutman
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Anna Ingulsrud was 18 years old when she worked as a waitress in a Fairdale, North Dakota. Otto Weberg, 24, courted her, determined to marry. Anna, however, did not return his affection. Weberg became distraught upon learning Anna was seeing another man.By Carole Butcher
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Little House on the Prairie (Chapter 19 & 20)
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[CONTENT WARNING: This story contains imagery of weapons and hunting animals as they were needed for survival during the late 1800's. The story also has racist elements in its portrayal of Native American Indians and may be offensive to some listeners. Although these racist elements are disturbing, it is part of our history and offers an opportunit…
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WWII Hero Rolf Slen's Tales (Part 2) & Analyzing the Presidential Race
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Explore WWII navigator Rolf Slen's 40 missions and delve into the 2024 Presidential race's dynamics with historian Dr. Michael Patrick Cullinane.
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EP 421: Virginia Trout Revival with Ty Walker of Smoke in Chimneys
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In Episode 421 of District of Conservation, Gabriella sits down with Ty Walker of Smoke in Chimneys - a restored former Department of Interior trout hatchery in Newcastle, Virginia. This agribusiness's mission is simple: to figuratively put the smoke back into the chimneys, or in other words, bring life back to the land physically and spiritually. …
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March 11: Teachings of Our Elders - Eileen Little Ghost on the Medicine Wheel
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In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll listen to Eileen Little Ghost, Lakota Elder, as she talks about the medicine wheel.
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Dusty and Mike hike across St. Louis, Missouri to the Gateway Arch National Park. In this episode, they explore the museum and go to the top of the Arch. Instagram: @GazeAtTheNationalParks Facebook: Gaze at the National Parks #gazeatthenationalparks #hikeearlyhikeoften #adventureisoutthere Hosted by Dustin Ballard and Michael Ryan Episode Editing b…
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“How Does Luck Determine Our Lives?”
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Jack visits with Mark Robert Rank, the author of the forthcoming book, The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us."What shapes our economic fortunes? Perhaps what immediately comes to mind are attributes such as education, skills or labour-market experience. Demographics such as age and your parents’ s…
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He asked about North Dakota, so I told him. Yes, the winters are long and the land is flat, but the people are the salt of the earth. Decency and humor. No pretense. Nobody lives here to show off. The man in the greasy jacket and barn boots might be a multi-millionaire farmer and he will be friendly without patronizing you, and you can tell him wha…
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To get a larger plant selection conveniently sent to your home, there is an online market of bulbs, seeds and plants. But how do you know you are ordering quality plants?By Charity Nebbe, Danielle Gehr
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If you have never been to the petrified forest in Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s South Unit, you might want to consider doing so this year. And even if you have been there before, another visit to see these remnants of another time is a worthwhile experience.By Chuck Lura
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A few years ago a popular author came out with a popular book titled, The Children’s Blizzard. Credit where due: he effectively captures the catastrophe and trauma that overwhelmed the people of the plains on 12 January 1888. They called it “the children’s blizzard” for the same reason that it seared a deep scar into historical memory — because of …
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Next Stop MS | 8th Annual International Music by Women Festival, A Guide to Mississippi Museums & Birthday Shenanigans
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For our first stop of the day, in celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re off to Columbus to check out the 8th Annual International Music by Women Festival, at The W, happening now through March 9th, 2024 with Music Chair, Dr. Mortyakova, for our second stop, we’ll welcome authors Diane Williams and Richelle Putnam to discuss their book, A Guid…
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We've all heard the horror stories of angry parents in the stands yelling at the coach, the referee, other parents and even student athletes.By Charity Nebbe, Rick Brewer
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