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Architect, 1 percenter and desert hobo David Doge didn't intend to design a musical staricase in his magnificant home on the outskirts of Phoenix. The song in this episode is My Xylophones Love me by Melodium Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Late on night Matthew Kielty got a mysterious call from an unkown number... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What keeps the taggers tickin? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talked about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a recent trip to central America, Dennis Conrow wrote and recorded a short story and enlisted the help of some locals in San Pedro, Guatemeala to be characters in the story. This is some raw tape and an excpert form the porject. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is what english sounds like to someone who doesn't speak it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Dan Newman 's ice boat crashed through the surface of the frozen lake he had no idea he was about to do something that had never been done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sound of the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca, Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An awkward moment with Jeffrey Lewis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A collection of field recordings made around the State of Colorado between 1982 and 1987. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I lent my friend Moose a tape recorder and he returned it with with tape full of interviews he had done with his friends. One of those interviews was with Herbie, an artist who collaborated with a couple bearded friends to make a sculpture called Re-Neavus. I cut it up and added some music by Barin Darnew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Speed Levitch giving one of his signature wlaking tours of Columbia, Missouri. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Luke Cumberland is a second-year student in the MFA writing program at Washington University.  He is editor of the anthology "Faces of Virginia Poetry", available on LuLu.com. His most recent poetry has been published on StatusHat.org. He is from Virginia; he lives in St. Louis and he has never lost an arm wrestling match in his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I found this recording in a box of old tapes. I think I picked it up at a thrift store in Louisiana. It appears to be role playing excercises at a beauty school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nason Smith's nonfiction has appeared on NPR: Hearing Voices and his fiction has been published in The Pinch. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Florida. You look great! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the great things about New Orleans is that you can set up a card table and sell booze in the street. This is what it sounds like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My friend Keaton was having some trouble working on a tandem bicycle at the bike shop he works at when a customer recommended a solution he found on the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Film maker Karim El Hakim told this story at a live storytelling event at the True/False Film Festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This cover was performed by Walt McClement on banjo and Mary Go Round (the one time holder of the world record for spinning the most hoola hoops at once: 76 if my memory serves me correctly) on accordion and vocals. The song All the Pretty Horses is about the and the Army Corps of Engineers decision to dynamite the levee at Caernarvon, Louisiana to save New Orleans. The breach caused a flood that...

I was walking my dog the other night when I came across Larry Boutan sitting on a concrete wall drinking a beer. I bought some beers and joined him. This is the story of Larry’s very first beer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

is the band director at O Perry Walker High school in New Orleans. He runs one of the best marching bands in the state along with a concert band and a Jazz ensemble. Rawlins doesn’t just teach kids to play an instrument though, he provides discipline for a lot of kids who live in a chaotic environment. He teaches them about commitment and the benefits of hard work and education. He puts in a treme...

The Sound of Suffocation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, New England Review, and Narrative. He has received the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. Charms Against Lightning, his debut poetry collection, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. During 2012 he will...

I came across this piece of found tape today. I know nothing about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices