Shows
That Doesn't Happen Every DayJake Warga the Skeptic Ghost HunterSend a textWhat happens when you love hunting ghosts, but you're also a skeptic? What happens when you finally do see a ghost, or at least you think you might have, but again, you're a skeptic? What would it take for you to believe your own eyes? We hear some of Jake Warga's scary stories and try to find out why he's still not convinced.Here's a link to Jake's story about the haunted summer camp featured on This American Life.Please check out some of Jake's other work here.
2026-02-1014 min
Papiery RozwodoweBAN Crawly i JellyFrucik, Tyson vs Paul, patostreamer w Korei - PAPIERKI #130Dzień dobry Papierki! Dzisiaj przychodzimy z wesołymi newsami dotyczącymi banów kilku twórców, którzy swoimi filmami aż się o to prosili, ale oprócz tego trochę o walce Jake'a Paula(Kuby Pawełka) z Mike'iem Tysonem, a także o tym, ze Nieuczesana jest już uczesana. Zapraszamy serdecznie!
2024-11-1936 min
KUOW ShortsBut... They’re My ChildrenOnce upon a time, there was a group of local ghost hunters called AGHOST - Amateur Ghost Hunters of Seattle-Tacoma. Radio producer Jake Warga went along with the group one creepy night. Terrifying hijinks ensue.
2022-10-2612 min
Filter Stories - Coffee DocumentariesA Girl on a Coffee FarmSofía is a teenager living on a coffee farm and was going to school five days a week. But a year later, she’s studying only on Saturdays.
This might sound trivial, but I’m going to take you on a journey to show you why this undermines an industry worth over $30 Billion.
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A list of charities working in the coffee sector: https://sritson.com/Good-Hands-in-Coffee-Beta
Buy your next coffee from a marginalized farmer: http://www.marginalizedfarmers.org/
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2020-05-2440 min
Home of the BraveThe Life and Times of Solidod
Solidod in Bozeman, Montana, 2012. Photo by Jake Warga.
Larry met Solidod by chance, or happenstance. He happened to be in Florida on vacation and he happened to be walking through an apartment complex in Vero Beach looking for another guy and he ended up meeting Solidod. She invited him into her apartment and then she told him her life story and they became friends. Shortly after that, Larry and Solidod went into a recording studio and made this story for Hearing Voices.
2019-08-2300 min
State of the HumanMythologizing (full episode)In this episode, we search for myths in the modern world. We ask-- where are monsters hiding, and who created them? What do the myths we circulate say about ourselves?
Producers: Claudia Heymach, Morgan Canaan, Sophie McNulty, Ben Schwartz, Jett Hayward, Michaela Elias, Christy Hartman, Jake Warga, Jenny March
Music:
2019-05-2139 min
The Austin Meyer PodcastThe Three Layers of a Well Told Story with Radio Journalist Jake Warga | Ep. 012This week my guest is award winning radio journalist, Jake Warga. Jake is a contributor to NPR, Public Radio International, and American Public Media. His stories have been featured on programs such as All Things Considered and This American Life. On top of making his own stories, Jake also teaches storytelling as a lecturer at Stanford University.
In this conversation, Jake and I discuss how one of his first radio stories ended up on This American Life, the three layers of a well told story, and how the brevity, clarity, and visual nature of writing for radio can...
2019-01-101h 08
SoundingsWhat I’m Grateful For -- Besher’s StoryBesher grew up in Syria till the war forced him, and his family, to flee. This non-narrated portrait follows his journey from Aleppo to California and finally to Stanford Medical School.
Produced as part of MED 232 Global Health course (2018)
Producer: Besher Ashouri
(and Jake warga)
Photo: www.flickr.com/photos/seier/1477997213
2018-12-2312 min
Braden Storytelling GrantWhat I’m Grateful For by Besher AshouriBesher grew up in Syria till the war forced him, and his family, to flee. This non-narrated portrait follows his journey from Aleppo to California and finally to Stanford Medical School.
Produced as part of MED 232 Global Health course (2018)
Producer: Besher Ashouri
(and Jake warga)
Photo: www.flickr.com/photos/seier/1477997213
2018-12-1612 min
State of the HumanSurvival (full episode)Sometimes you have to keep your head down to stay alive.
This is a show about playing the cello in the darkest hour, and returning to the site of the fire, and keeping your head down to stay alive. This is a show about what happens when the sun goes down, and when you get lost in the mall, and when you pick up the phone because you have nowhere left to turn. This is a show about the terrible and the beautiful. This is a show about survival.
Producers: Jett Hayward, Bella Lazzareschi, Elisabeth Dee, Stephanie Niu, Cathy Wong...
2018-04-251h 32
State of the HumanCaretaking (full episode)How do we take care of the past after it turns to ash? We visit with families digging through the rubble of their homes in Sonoma after the fires as they sift for memories. This episode asks how we care for people, and what to do if there's no obvious path to healing. Along the way, we meet a midwife, some worms, and a daughter caring for her mother and herself.
Host: Claudia Heymach
Producers: Claudia Heymach, Crystal Escolero, Emma Heath, Bella Lazzareschi, Helvia Taina, Sarah Jiang, Eileen Williams
Featuring: Roshni Thachil, Ronnie Falcoa, Claire Mollard, Josh Weil
Show music: "...
2018-02-0733 min
Braden Storytelling GrantSandbranch: a Deep-rooted Community by Claudia HeymachSandbranch is a community outside of Dallas that hasn’t had running water or well water for decades, but the residents refuse to leave. Founded by former slaves, it used to be a thriving town of over 500 people. In the 1980s, its wells were contaminated. The residents have been fighting for running water ever since. Now, led by a pastor, an environmental lawyer, and past and present residents of the community, Sandbranch is on the brink of change.
Producer: Claudia Heymach
featuring:
Eugene Keahey, Mary Nash, John Wiley Price, Mark McPherson, Ivory Hall, Chess Jones,
2017-12-1722 min
State of the HumanImmigrating: Crossings (full episode, part 1 of theme)We hear a lot about immigrants. In this episode, we hear from immigrants – not as statistics, but as individual human beings crossing borders. Oscar gets deported and tries to return home. Maddie comes to terms with her family relationships. And Nisrin enters the U.S. from Sudan after the first travel ban takes effect.
In this episode, stories of crossing. This is part one of a two part series.
Host: Noelle Chow
Producers: Carissa Cirelli, Noelle Chow, Jett Hayward, An-Li Herring, Julia Ingram, Louis Lafair, Rosie LaPuma, Yue Li, Jenny March, Kate Nelson, Jackson Roach, Helvia Taina, Melina Walling, Jake Warga, Eileen Williams, Cathy Wong
Show Music: johnny_ripper
(Links to this show's music and sound s...
2017-11-2738 min
SoundingsSandbranch: a Deep-rooted Community Fights for WaterSandbranch is a community outside of Dallas that hasn’t had running water or well water for decades, but the residents refuse to leave.
Founded by former slaves, it used to be a thriving town of over 500 people. In the 1980s, its wells were contaminated. The residents have been fighting for running water ever since. Now, led by a pastor, an environmental lawyer, and past and present residents of the community, Sandbranch is on the brink of change.
Producer: Claudia Heymach
featuring:
Eugene Keahey, Mary Nash, John Wiley Price, Mark McPherson, Ivory Hall, Chess Jones,
and the choir of Mt Zi...
2017-11-2422 min
State of the HumanImmigrating: Conversations (full episode, part 2 of theme)Immigrating is a conversation that happens across borders, generations, and versions of oneself. Grace and Justin talk across political differences. Unknown workers who forged the Transcontinental Railroad receive a new voice. Solmaz writes poetry to orient herself in the world. And Frankie and Francisco reflect on growing up in a new place.
This is part two of a two-part series.
Host: Cathy Wong
Producers: Carissa Cirelli, Noelle Chow, Jett Hayward, An-Li Herring, Julia Ingram, Louis Lafair, Rosie LaPuma, Yue Li, Jenny March, Kate Nelson, Jackson Roach, Helvia Taina, Melina Walling, Jake Warga, Eileen Williams, Cathy Wong
Show Music: johnny_ripper
(Links to this show's music and sound sources can be found at https://storytelling.stanford.edu)
Story 4: Grace and Justin
Grace and Ju...
2017-11-2436 min
State of the HumanCrashing (full episode)Sometimes, marching steadily through the steps of life—we crash right into something entirely unexpected. In one instant, the entire world changes, without even a word of warning. When a crash comes, that collision can destroy everything. But it can wake us up to what we truly need; we must decide what to raze and what to rebuild. How do humans move forward before the smoke is cleared? What happens after the crash?
Host: Eileen Williams
Producers: Eileen Williams, Claudia Heymach, Jackson Roach, Megan Calfas, Alex Cheng, Noelle Li Syn Chow, Jake Warga
Featuring: Eddie Mazon, Michael Peskin, Miles Traer, Dr...
2017-05-3140 min
State of the HumanBreathing (full episode)Breath and spirit have been closely related in human thought—for millennia. In a lot of human languages, we use the same word to mean both things. Yet it’s easy to take breathing for granted, in spite of the fact it is maybe the most common human experience. In this episode, we’re going to think about every inhale and every exhale, and speak to people who have to think about breathing in a lot of interesting ways: a biathlete, a beatboxer, a dancer. We’ll dive deep underwater to a dark and dangerous cave in the Bahamas, travel to China...
2017-05-0335 min
State of the HumanInheritance (full episode)In this episode, we explore inheritances’ many forms and unexpected outcomes. “You’ll hear the forgotten tales of hand-me down clothing, stories of family exploits that keep ancestors alive, how your genetic inheritance can define you...for better and for worse, and how even our values can get passed down from one generation to the next.”
Host: Rosie La Puma
Producers: Rosie La Puma, Luke Soon-Shiong, Hadley Reid, Jake Warga, Claudia Heymach, Christy Hartman, Annina Hanlon, Benjamin Philip Suliteanu, Jonah Willihnganz, Ethan Chua
Featuring: Rosie La Puma, Deborah Wicks-La Puma, Deanna Wicks, Luke Soon-Shiong, Brooke McEver, Claudia Heymach, Marisa Heymach, Sierra F...
2017-01-3159 min
Braden Storytelling GrantKingdom of Bicycles, Postmortem by Gloria Chua, Alice FangMao Zedong’s 1950s China was the world’s bicycle production capital. In the 90’s, when the economy opened up, bicycle manufacturing was commoditized and anyone could start a bicycle factory, right in their backyards. We immerse ourselves in the rural town of Wangqingtuo, one of the towns that transformed itself from a backwater agricultural village, to a bustling center of bicycle production. What did bicycles do for this town, and the people in it? Listen on for a tale of their hustle, of inspired imitation, and how bikes changed the lives of the people in this town.
Feat...
2016-12-1819 min
State of the HumanBurying (full episode)As a society, we still maintain many ancient traditions and practices relating to the care of our dead. We invest tremendous resources and energy in maintaining cemeteries and sacred ground for the bodies of our beloved. In the face of death, we dig and scrape through dirt, mixing our emotions in with the earth. We create a grave--a hallowed space carved out for sadness and pain, but also for warmth and joy. We lay down what we carry from the person we’ve lost--the good and the bad. It doesn’t matter what we bury--a body, a feeling, or an obje...
2016-12-1759 min
State of the HumanImagining (full episode)The mind’s ability to envision more than what is physically present in the world is an astounding fact of life. We’re always imagining, thinking, and living in our heads. Our thoughts and our imaginations shape how we see the world, they shape our words and our actions. This is nothing new. We’ve been doing this for all our lives. as far as we can remember. But that’s why we take a closer look and ask the question: how do our imagined lives shape our reality? What happens day to day at the frontier between the worlds we imagi...
2016-04-2059 min
State of the HumanTeaching (full episode)Teaching seems pretty straightforward: one person knows something better than someone else and teaches it to them. But there’s something important that happens to the teacher themselves. In this episode, a 3-year-old teaches his parents what he’s made of, a student defies expectations and becomes a teacher himself, teachers are surprised to learn what makes them tick, prehistoric people have to teach one of life’s hardest lessons (hint: there are llamas involved), a professor regrets a missed opportunity, and the cover of a Ghanaian newspaper does a whole lot of teaching. This week, we’re exploring how teaching...
2016-02-1058 min
State of the HumanLosing (full episode)When you lose something, there’s an emptiness, a hole, where that something used to be. And you have to figure out a way to keep living your life with that loss. Even though the emptiness will always be there, what can be gained from trying to fill it? What can be gained from losing? This episode has four stories about people who lose something, and then look for new things to fill the emptiness. A lifelong dream gets derailed by a butterfly knife, an athlete’s passion for her sport crumbles after an injury, a girl searches for something she...
2016-01-2059 min
Braden Storytelling GrantVanishing Remains by Reade LevinsonBraden Grant Recipient Reade Levinson travels to Mongolia in hopes of witnessing a practice known as sky burial, in which the bodies of the dead are prepared for the afterlife. But as Reade learns on her journey, in Mongolia the forces of urbanization, modernization and environmental change may be threatening this sacred ritual. “The scene would be not very nice, when you look at a dog running around with someone’s hand in his mouth.”
Featuring: Ganbat Namjilsangarav, Christine Murphy, Tsogbadrakh and Tuya Banzragch, and Dr. Keith Bildstein.
Producer: Reade Levinson
Special Thanks: Christy Hartman, Jake W...
2015-12-1916 min
State of the HumanSecret-Keeping (full episode)Nearly three decades ago, Psychologist James Pennebaker discovered a shocking correlation between secrets and health outcomes - that people who kept more secrets were dealing with more health issues. Today, secrets are generally considered bad. But in today’s episode, we’re going to discuss creative secret keepers. These people use secrets to form relationships, to explore worlds they wouldn’t otherwise be able to access, even to build new lives for themselves until - well - the secret’s out. Today we’ll explore what opportunities open up when someone keeps a secret, and what happens when that secret is reveale...
2015-10-2159 min
America AbroadHas Morocco's "Family Code" shown how gender equality and Islam can coexist in the courts?In 2004, Morocco's government adopted "Moudawana," or Family Code, a new set of laws was put into place to address women’s rights and gender equality within an international and Islamic legal framework. When it was passed, many embraced the reforms as evidence that gender equality is compatible with Islamic principles. Now that a decade has passed, reporter Jake Warga checks in on how it's worked in practice.
Image Credit: Flickr user Arts at LSE
2015-05-0505 min
Hearing VoicesZulu Kids XmasThis week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "Christmas Mashup: Holy Days & Silent Nights." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- A Christmas audio postcard sung by Zulu children in a South African orphanage. Produced by Jake Warga (2:14)
2008-12-0802 minHearing VoicesThe Person I Admire MostThis week's Hearing Voices from NPR hour is "Caregiver." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- "The Person I Admire Most" by Jake Warga: A day with Jenafir in Ethiopia, trying to save the world. (5:43)
2008-08-1105 min
WGBH Morning StoriesFather's DayJake Warga, Cyndy McCollough, and Tony Kahn hear back from their dads.
Thanks to Magnatune recording artist Jeff Wahl for the use of "Longing" in the production of this week's podcast. This is sampled under an sampled under an Attribution 2.5 Creative Commons license.
2008-06-1310 min