MP3 download: Musings on death with "Metamorphosis" read by Jeffery Tambor

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Also features "Soul Has Weight, Physician Thinks: Biologist Lee Silver tells us the story of a physician’s ambitious 1907 experiment to discover the weight of the soul."

You can listen to just the Tambor segment below in embedded audio but it's worth the download - just check out this review from A. Nonymous:

I've never been actually moved by any particular NPR or Radiolab segment before. But listening to Jeffrey Tambor's reading of "Metamorphosis," I had to go back and listen several times.

It's fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.

Don Knotts: An Evening with me: Download the MP3s of the album

Coming out in 1961 and largely forgotten after that it's a bevy of top notch fun (and personally I found Knotts' stand up work much more enjoyable than the Andy Griffith stuff).

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(all seven of the MP3s still work so just right click to download)

and if you're just jonsing for more Knotts fun check out the remarkable value priced Don Knotts movie set over at Amazon.com

17 minutes with Daily Show's John Hodgman MP3 and MP4 Video download

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Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love.

MP3 download: 70 minutes with Steven Wright

From the Marc Maron WTF Podcast comes an extended chat with the great Steven Wright

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Runs approx 70 minutes

MP3/MP4 download: RALPH NADER, TED TURNER and some other GUY on the rich not being evil

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Video runs 113 minutes; audio 99 minutes

The 1% not being a bunch of sick mother fuckers? Hard to believe but Nader and Turner float the idea along with some man-bitch I've never heard of. Enjoy!

NYPL: In Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, Ralph Nader imagines a coalition of billionaires who join forces to answer the question: “What if several of America’s wealthiest individuals decided it was time to work for the collective good?”

7 minutes with Jerry Seinfeld: MP3 download

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Jerry talks sports, haircuts and puppies (huh?)

MP3 download: 45 minutes with Louie C.K. on NPR

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NPR: In the FX TV series Louie, comic Louis C.K. plays a divorced father of two struggling to balance his comedy career with being a single dad. The show, which has just been picked up for a third season, is often based on events that have happened to C.K. in his own life.

Ricky Gervais on his new comedy: Life's Too Short: MP3 download

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20 Minutes with Richard Lewis MP3 download

It's Curb Your Enthusiasm's Richard Lewis (...and, yeah...I guess Anything But Love as well) with the sports jocks

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5 minutes with Steven Wright MP3 dowload

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Steven Wright discusses his early appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson among other things in this podcast interview.

10 minutes with Bill Cosby MP3 download

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It's the 'Cos in this podcast interview. Enjoy!

Download 3 eps of Jim Backus in "Sad Sack"

The great Jim Backus (Thurston Howell the 3rd of Gilligan's Island and the voice of Mr. Magoo), Sandra Gould (Gladys Kravitz of Bewitched), Ken Cristy and Patsy Moran as "Sad Sack" based upon the comic strip from the 1940's.

Click each episode below to download in MP3 format direct from Archive.org

Sad Sack 1946-06-12 #001 Sack Returns Home from the Army	Episode 1
Sad Sack 1946-06-19 (Inc) Domestic Science School	Episode 2
Sad Sack 1946-08-14 The Liberty Bell Party (aka Sad Sack Runs for Mayor)	Episode 3

And if you're interested in more Jim Backus zaniness check out Jim Backus: Comedy Classics direct from Amazon.com by clicking right here

Penn and Teller at Comic Com: Download the MP3 interview

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Wired: The masters of deception sat down with host Adam Rogers to discuss deception as an art form, composition versus performance and their upcoming Discovery series, Penn & Teller: Tell A Lie.

Conan O’Brien MP3 interview on the eve of his new shows first ep

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39 minute Mp3 interview with Sacha Baron Cohen (Aka Bruno and Borat)

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42 minute MP3 interview with Monty Python's John Cleese

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Among other things we learn that part of his dissatisfaction with Monty Python was his sketches being rejected by fellow cast members. Interesting...

Bill Cosby MP3 interview download

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The interview starts at approx the 19 minute mark

Among other info we learn that Cosby will be the next recipient of the Mark Twain award for humour later this year.


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Command Performance with Jack Benny MP3 download

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From May 7th, 1942 comes a bevy of an episode of the classic radio series "Command Performance" starring the one and only Jack Benny along with Betty Grable as originally aired on the Armed Forces Radio Network.
Runs 26 minutes

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Lewis Black: 88 minute MP3 download with The New York Times

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34 minute Leonard Cohen MP3 interview download

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