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Playlist: O'Dark 30 episode 154 (3-50)

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KUT's O’Dark 30 enters the frightening post-election world with more of the very best from the world of independent radio production. Every Sunday at midnight on Austin's KUT 90.5 and also at 4pm on digital KUT2 we present 3 hours of a little bit of everything from the world of independent radio production.

Episode 154 (3-50) includes 72 Steps Above The Green...The Mill House Yellow...99% Invisible #49- Queue Theory and Design...#32- A Trip To The Dentist...The Mikie Show #42, Glenn...KUT's Views and Brews Remix: What Is An American...Episode 3: A Poet's Tree...Cannibals in Papau New Guinea...Postcards From Africa...Apocalypse Then

72 Steps Above the Green

From Third Coast International Audio Festival | Part of the 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories series | 02:58

Sometimes it's a blessing to have noisy neighbours.

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"72 Steps Above the Green" was produced by Geoff McQueen for the 2012 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge, a collaboration with EveryBlock, which invited anyone and everyone to produce short audio works featuring at least two neighbors, a color in the title, and three consecutive seconds of narrative silence. 

That Mill House Yellow

From Third Coast International Audio Festival | Part of the 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories series | 02:59

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.

Sd12tile In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.

"That Mill House Yellow" was produced by Nick Andersen for the 2012 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge, a collaboration with EveryBlock, which invited anyone and everyone to produce short audio works featuring at least two neighbors, a color in the title, and three consecutive seconds of narrative silence. 

99% Invisible #49- Queue Theory and Design (Standard 4:30 version)

From Roman Mars | Part of the 99% Invisible (Standard Length) series | 04:30

In the US, it’s called a line. In Canada, it’s often referred to as a line-up. Pretty much everywhere else, it’s known as a queue.

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[For Director's Cut, go to: http://www.prx.org/pieces/89170-99-invisible-49-queue-theory-and-design-direct]

In the US, it’s called a line.

In Canada, it’s often referred to as a line-up.

Pretty much everywhere else, it’s known as a queue.

My friend Benjamen Walker is obsessed with queues. He keeps sending me YouTube clips of queue violence. This preoccupation led him to find a man known as “Dr. Queue.” Richard Larson is a queue theorist at MIT and he talks us through some of the logic behind the design of queues.

Whereas US companies like Wendy’s and American Airlines once prided themselves on their invention of the single, serpentine, first-come first-served queue, more and more companies are instituting priority queues, offering different wait times for different classes of customers.

# 32 - A Trip to the Dentist

From HowSound | 21:20

You'll get dizzy listening to "A Trip to the Dentist," a legendary, psychedelic story from Larry Massett, produced in 1977.

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On this edition of HowSound, set the "Way-Back Machine" to 1977. I feature a legendary story --- Larry Massett's psychedelic "A Trip to the Dentist."

The piece is legendary in public radio circles for two reasons. One, it was assembled on three, reel-to-reel tape decks --- a process Larry says pushed the limits of the studios at NPR where it was produced and aired on All Things Considered.

Second, "A Trip to the Dentist" represents a time gone by, a time when NPR and public radio in general experimented a lot more with sound.

Maybe with the advent of Radiolab and 99% Invisible along with the popularity of the Third Coast International Audio Festival (which sold out this year, by the way), we're seeing a return to risky, experimental story-telling. That would be a good thing, if you ask me. But I'm not quite sure we've reached the halcyon days of the 1970s and early 1980s when flagship public radio programs and stations encouraged and broadcast sonically challenging work.

If you'd like to hear more of Larry's work, visit HearingVoices and Larry's collection of pieces at PRX .

Best, Rob

The Mikie Show #42, Glenn

From Michael Carroll | Part of the The Mikie Show series | 28:03

Episode forty-two welcomes back our friend, psychotherapist Glenn Berger, PhD. This is his fourth visit with us and as always it’s great to have him back. This time we discuss ADD, the difficulty of taking action and other topics of the psyche. And now I get that free session!
Plus, we get visited by a, okay, I’m not telling, you’ll have to listen to find out. And there’s news and a quiz and a remarkable soufflé recipe! Nope, the recipe thing is not true, but everything else is!

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Episode forty-two welcomes back our friend, psychotherapist Glenn Berger, PhD. This is his fourth visit with us and as always it’s great to have him back. This time we discuss ADD, the difficulty of taking action and other topics of the psyche. And now I get that free session!
Plus, we get visited by a, okay, I’m not telling, you’ll have to listen to find out. And there’s news and a quiz and a remarkable soufflé recipe! Nope, the recipe thing is not true, but everything else is!

KUT's Views and Brews: What is an American?

From KUT | Part of the KUT's Views and Brews Remix series | 01:01:51

Listen back as KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks about what it means to be “American” with UT Anthropology Professor John Hartigan, The Department Chair of Radio-Television-Film at UT and Documentarian Paul Stekler, UT History Professor Frank Guridy and writer and educator Sarah Rafael Garcia! We dive into a wide range of perspectives on the history of shaping an American identity in the political realm, in popular media and in the face to face interactions we have daily.

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What Is An American?

Do you define yourself as American? What does that mean to you? What kind of messages are we getting about patriotism, nationalism, and “foreigners” from the media and how does this affect our sense of self?

Listen back as KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks about what it means to be “American” with UT Anthropology Professor John Hartigan , The Department Chair of Radio-Television-Film at UT and Documentarian Paul Stekler, UT History Professor Frank Guridy and writer and educator Sarah Rafael Garcia!  We dive into a wide range of perspectives on the history of shaping an American identity in the political realm, in popular media and in the face to face interactions we have daily.

Episode 3: A Poet's Tree

From Astoria Sojourner | Part of the Handmade Radio series | 25:10

In celebration of National Poetry Month, 12 poets are featured with their original works. Stori Sojourner stitches the poems together to create the "Poetic Quilt".

Whispers_small In celebration of National Poetry Month, 12 poets are featured with their original works. Stori Sojourner stitches the poems together to create the "Poetic Quilt".

Cannibals in Papua New Guinea

From Jake Warga | 04:55

A sound-rich and thoughtful piece questioning who the actual cannibals in Papua New Guinea are: the locals or the tourists visiting them....

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http://www.npr.org/2012/09/25/161755274/mixing-past-and-present-in-papua-new-guinea 

Postcards from Africa

From Jake Warga | 06:43

Personal encounters in homes and streets of various African towns. I first went to Africa feeling like a child, everything new and different, but soon enough I grew-up. Sound-rich with music and tape.

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I know enough French to say “Leave me alone please.”  But not enough to say, “Go home to your family if they will have you, don’t sell yourself to strangers.  Use condoms. AIDS is not worth the money.  Be sure to be a child before you have one.”

I am looking at a young woman who lost her childhood—seduced by an empty urban culture.  She stumbles away, disappearing into the choking red dust of a cruel African street.

Apocalypse Then

From Nathan Callahan | Part of the The SoCal Byte series | 06:30

The Big Ending That Never Was...Yet

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December 12, 2012 is the end of the world. That’s a big story. December 12, 2012 is the date that the 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar ends.  That calendar belongs to the Mayans, who apparently forgot to make it infinitely long.  Because of this oversight, some people, who like stories, think we’re doomed.