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The Darwin Awards Chronicles, Books 4 -6

This compilation of The Darwin Awards books 4, 5 and 6 commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be! Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic lanes. These tales of trial and awe-inspiring error illustrate the ongoing saga of survival of the fittest in all its selective glory!

Wendy Northcutt (Author), Julie Schaller, Patrick Lawlor (Narrator)

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Cambria: Because Two People Fell in Love

Off the California coast, sits a small town split by the Pacific Coast Highway and in this town actually stood a salmon colored Victorian home where a not so young couple first learned how to trust. This was my second marriage. I was in my forties with a divorce under my belt, a job I hated, and then this woman comes into my life making games of my fears. She came from a world I had never known, one that wasn’t so cruel and dangerous. We married and travelled our little corner of the world together just before the 2008 recession hit, causing a career I thought I had built for myself to crumble just as a dream I had always denied became my only option. And I think the only thing that held us together, that held me together during that difficult time was trust. Trust isn’t something you see too much of anymore. It’s been replaced by confirmation, notarization, and security codes. But, without trust, I would never have even met Vicky, she and I would never have been wed, and we would never have made it to Cambria. Worse still, without trust we never would have lived in that big, pink, Victorian home on the California coast, travelled back to the 1960s, sailed a living room east of the Pacific, made friends with a golden retriever, or spoke with a cow. It was from out of all of this but also for all of this that I recorded my third autobiographical monologue: Cambria. All because two people fell in love.

Ken La Salle (Author), Ken La Salle (Narrator)

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[German] - Tauschrausch: Tretmühle oder Überholmanöver

Was haben ein junger, verheißungsvoller Journalist, den alle nur den 'Tschornalisten' nennen und eine Societylady die Charity-Veranstaltungen organisiert, gemeinsam? Mehr als man zunächst glaubt. Hans-Friedrich, der ehrgeizige Schreiberling einer angesehenen Münchner Zeitung ahnt nicht, welch eine Lawine er mit einem einzigen Interview lostritt. Dabei hat er doch nur eine harm- und belanglose Dame aus der High Society zu dem befragt, was sie gerne tauschen würde. Eigentlich hat diese mit jenen veralteten Methoden nichts am Hut, dennoch ist ein Tausch für die beiden der Schlüssel zu einem Schritt in eine vollkommen neue Richtung. Doch nicht allen in ihrem Umfeld gefällt dieses Überholmanöver. Werden sie es schaffen aus den Steinen, die ihnen in den Weg gelegt werden, ein neues Business aufzubauen?

Anja Ziegler, Sina Land (Author), Uschy Pip (Narrator)

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Mooses with Bazookas

Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read is a fun collection of stories. It’s exactly like The Count of Monte Cristo apart from the many differences. Our lawyers have instructed us to warn you that reading it may directly cause you to come down with every single disease you are worried about contracting. On the plus side, our nation’s beloved and heroic critics have had their say. “FANTASTIC is not a word that comes to mind.” —Beth Hinkle, author of Elite Prose “ASTOUNDING problems at the sentence level and beyond.” —Dr. Roger Johns, Ph. D. “S. D. SMITH IS in dire need of A GENIUS editor.” —Art Simonson, Inner Ring Magazine “This author had nothing MUCH BETTER to do THAN destroy the language of DICKENS, SHAKESPEARE, AUSTEN!” —Yammy Tork, Good Lit Guild S. D. Smith has been called “America’s aft-most wordsmith” and is the award-losing author of more than ten books and less than thirty-seven books. He is half-man, half-rabbit, and half-mathematician. He lives in West Virginia with his wife and four children, because it would be kinda weird to live with some other family and super weird not to live in West Virginia.

S. D. Smith (Author), Andy Harvey, Gina Smith, Joel Clarkson, Rob Riggle, S. D. Smith, Sarah Mackenzie (Narrator)

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Dirty Days

DIRTY DAYS is a nonfiction narrative. The Setting - the tough Irish bars of New York City in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. A place where life can change in an unforeseen instant. As a Bleecker street bouncer and musician during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s in Greenwich Village, author and narrator Kevin Patrick Corrigan relives true stories of old school New York City. Kevin Patrick Corrigan has been a fixture in the New York City Irish bar and music scene for three decades. He estimates he's been in over 200 street and bar fights. He smiles when he says he has a record of 147 wins and 72 loses. He has had a major record deal. He has toured the country telling stories and singing songs. He has also written a nationally distributed comedy series. DIRTY DAYS spans from a seven year old Kevin's interaction with Times Square hookers in the 1970s to a full grown adult helping a distraught Gulf War Marine avoid a PTSD situation on Bleecker Street in 2003. DIRTY DAYS is a journey that follows author and narrator Kevin Patrick Corrigan from bloody Halloween street fights - to being taught sage wisdom from baseball legend Yogi Berra - to opening for Alice Cooper, The Scorpions, and KISS - to being in a riot with 200 drunk sailors during Fleet week - to being asked to take a bullet for Snoop Dog. Those are just a sample of some of the many true accounts in this book. DIRTY DAYS is a ride back in time to the underbelly of New York City's long-lost rough and tumble, grimy era.

Kevin Patrick Corrigan (Author), Kevin Patrick Corrigan (Narrator)

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[German] - Der Satiriker - Peter Lodynski liest Walter Baco

Walter Baco (Author), Peter Lodynski (Narrator)

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Bill Nye: Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts

Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said 'We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.' And he did exactly that in hundreds of newspaper columns that were later collected into books. This is a selection of just 35 of the most humorous, wry and downright funny cogitations of his, written of course in the somewhat convoluted style common in the 19th century which just adds to their flavor in my opinion. The selection process was rigorous: only those that made me laugh, giggle or snort are included.

Bill Nye (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics Anonymous, by the writer and comedian Moshe Kasher After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: "What's next?" Over the ensuing decades, he discovered the answer: a lot. There was his time as a boy-king of Alcoholics Anonymous, a kind of pubescent proselytizer for other teens getting and staying sober. He was a rave promoter turned DJ turned sober ecstasy dealer in San Francisco's techno warehouse party scene of the 1990s. For fifteen years he worked as a psychedelic security guard at Burning Man, fishing hippies out of hidden chambers they'd constructed to try to sneak into the event. As a child of deaf parents, Kasher became deeply immersed in deaf culture and sign language interpretation, translating everything from end-of-life care to horny deaf clients' attempts to hire sex workers. He reconnects and tries to make peace with his ultra-Hasidic Jewish upbringing after the death of his father before finally settling into the comedy scene where he now makes his living. Each of these scenes gets a gonzo historiographical rundown before Kasher enters the narrative and tells the story of the lives he has spent careening from one to the next. A razor-sharp, gut-wrenchingly funny, and surprisingly moving tour of some of the most wildly distinct subcultures a person can experience, Subculture Vulture deftly weaves together memoir and propulsive cultural history. It's a story of finding your people, over and over again, in different settings, and of knowing without a doubt that wherever you are is where you're supposed to be.

Moshe Kasher (Author), Larry Wilson, Moshe Kasher (Narrator)

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Jigsaw: The Complete Series 1-2: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy

The complete Jigsaw, the surreal and rapid-fire Radio 4 sketch show In this brilliantly weird and hilarious sketch show, Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema find themselves trying not to annoy their accountant, taking a theatre trip to see Les Misérables, dreaming of opening a cattery, and singing a song in praise of fathers-in-law. Add to that a telling off to Clark Kent from his editor, a will reading with some rather odd twists, a bit of trouble with a life support machine and a very confusing cocktail bar, and you've got Jigsaw. Created and performed by Dan Antopolski (Good Omens, Hyperdrive, Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award 1998), Tom Craine (writer on Mock the Week and Hypothetical) and Nat Luurtsema (nominated for a BAFTA in 2014 for the short film Island Queen, and nominated for her short stories for the Royal Academy of Art and the V.S Pritchett Royal Society of Literature Short Story of the Year), this quirky, hysterical show is ideal for sketch fans of I, Regress, Harry Enfield and Chums and Daphne Sounds Expensive. Cast and credits Performed by Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema Written by Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema Produced by Colin Anderson ©2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Dan Antopolski, Nat Luurtsema, Tom Craine (Author), Dan Antopolski, Full Cast, Nat Luurtsema, Tom Craine (Narrator)

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Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol

From the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay, a hilariously candid and refreshingly honest account of Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's journey to breaking up with alcohol for good. When Stefanie Wilder-Taylor became a mother, being able to connect with other moms over drinks or enjoy a glass of wine at the end of a stressful day felt life-affirming. From liquor cabinet concoctions in high school to tequila shots in her early stand-up comedy days to grocery store wine in young motherhood, alcohol was the seasoning that could give almost any activity more flavor. A drink instantly took the edge off and made even the most difficult adversary (be it a tough crowd in a comedy club or a judgmental PTA mom) not just bearable but fun. As the years go by, Stefanie wonders if her relationship with alcohol is different from other people's. Is everyone else struggling this hard to moderate? Is it even legal to watch The Bachelor without a glass of white wine? Having spent a lifetime grappling with the question of whether or not she is a "real" alcoholic, one evening brings Stefanie close to the edge of losing it all. Miraculously unscathed, she decides that she doesn't need to dive all the way down to a stereotypical rock bottom before deciding to stop drinking; if sobriety will improve her life, that's a good enough reason to quit. Stefanie's memoir is a tender and funny farewell letter to a beloved but toxic friend.

Stefanie Wilder-Taylor (Author), Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, TBD (Narrator)

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Cancel Culture Dictionary

Anon9780063325685, Jimmy Failla (Author), Jimmy Failla, TBD (Narrator)

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Kalangadog Junction: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama

Hilarious comedy about a 1950s couple from Manchester trying to make it Down Under Dr Thomas Barrett and his wife Jane have a perfectly nice existence in 1950s Manchester, but dreams of a new life won’t let them rest. Leaving the security of their home and successful doctor’s practice, they set out for adventure, heading to Kalangadog Junction, a small Australian town of population fifty-nine that is so remote it’s not even on the map… Setting up Down Under isn’t quite as simple as the duo thought it would be. When Thomas’s new practice doesn’t take off, he tries to drum up business by judging the local beautiful baby competition, but can he do it without causing offence? A hilarious cast of colourful characters make for some interesting new neighbours, including Gaelene, an Olympic wannabe with dreams of a gold medal. A classic Aussie barbie will surely bring the town, and the couple, together. However, things don’t quite go to plan, especially with the unexpected arrival of the mother-in-law and an ex-fiancé. Will the happy couple be able to keep their marriage on track when their shared dream isn’t turning out quite how they thought it would? There’s a twist in this comedic tale of adventure, marriage and kangaroos that will have you crying ‘Crikey!’ louder than discovering a dingo playing the didgeridoo. From the mind of prize-winning writer Moya O’Shea, Caroline Quentin leads the cast in this fantastic comedy drama. Rising to fame with appearances in Men Behaving Badly and Jonathan Creek, Caroline Quentin is a regular star of TV, film and radio. Kalangadog Junction also features the voices of John Duttine, Niall Ashdown, Toby Longworth, Brian Bowles, Joanna Monro, Julie Gibbs and the wonderful June Whitfield. Cast and credits Written by Moya O’Shea Produced by Liz Anstee Jane - Caroline Quentin Thomas - John Duttine Jimmy - Niall Ashdown Pete - Toby Longworth Len - Brian Bowles Madge - Joanna Monro Milly - Julie Gibbs Phoebe - June Whitfield Gaelene - Moya O'Shea First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 27 February 1996 ©2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Moya O'shea (Author), Brian Bowles, Caroline Quentin, Full Cast, Joanna Munro, John Duttine, Julie Gibbs, June Whitfield, Moya O'shea, Niall Ashdown, Toby Longworth (Narrator)

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