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Even Chickens Get The Flu

Airs at: Tue, 01/28/2025 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for Vinyl Pajama Party

Playtesting With Ned Damon

Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Winner's Bias
Nate and James welcome Ned Damon, the Portland Local Playtest Organizer with Break My Game. He gives local board game designers a chance to have their games played with a critical eye so they can improve their designs. Ned also has a podcast about the trading card game S... Read more

Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods with author Sarah Neidhardt and her mom Wendy McPhee

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Sarah Neidhardt, author of the memoir Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods, from The University of Arkansas Press. The book recounts Sarah’s experience growing up as part of a back-to-the land family in a small, isolated town in... Read more

The End Of An Error (The W Years - Redux)

Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2025 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for Vinyl Pajama Party
  This Show was first broadcast January 20, 2009. We felt that on this day, January, 21st,  2025,  the day after this "Inauguration" it might be fun, and maybe a  little helpful, to recall a "simpler" time. Stay strong - and keep vigilant, this too will pass.  Meanwhil... Read more

New Beginnings

Airs at: Wed, 01/22/2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for The Underground
The Underground takes a look forward and discusses new beginnings to kick off 2025! Read more

Ali Fitzgerald - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  As Syria struggles to emerge from decades of conflict, we revisit our November 2018 conversation with Drawn to Berlin author Ali Fitgerald. Drawn to Berlin follows Ali's encounters with Syrian youth, as she teaches comics workshops at a makeshift refugee center in Germ... Read more

Just Jess Returns to KBOO!

Airs at: Tue, 01/07/2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Winner's Bias
Nate and James interview founder of Community Connection Gaming and Twitch streamer, Jessy Damon about streaming board games, the importance of game stores, and expanding diversity in the hobby. Jessy also used to program at KBOO under the name Just Jess and hosted The M... Read more

Beginnings 2025

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
This is our first show of the new year, 2025, a year many of us are approaching with some trepidation, if not outright dread. When I sat down to plan the episode, I was feeling uninspired and rudderless, not knowing how to continue, or even if I should continue. But in t... Read more

It's the 17th Annual Year-End Special!

Airs at: Sun, 01/05/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Back To The Egg
I'm joined here as always by my pal Michael Keefe, author and public events coordinator over at Annie Bloom's books. Press on this to hear one of the highest-energy shows we've ever done, with only trace amounts of caffeine in our systems. You'll hear us talk about (and... Read more

Embrace 2025 with DJ Ellie D on The Sacred Circle "TEMENOS"

Airs at: Fri, 01/03/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
“Take a deep a deep breath and think about the best way ground yourself in this moment and to present for what is come in this year of Wood Snake . . . ” -El DJ Ellie D.  Eleanor Kiyoko Rose Nakayama Read more