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Tom Belt reads a series of Cherokee vocabulary words from an 1888 pictorial book by Reverend A.N. Chamberlin.

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A voicemail received by George Hatcher from Giant Food Stores on Feb. 17, 2014.

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In this preview of our upcoming podcast The Gist, Mike Pesca gives his take on the punishment handed out to LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

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It seems that Stephen Colbert, a longtime listener of Slate's Political Gabfest, found occasion to pay tribute to the explicit language warning usually read by executive producer Andy Bowers on Colbert's own new podcast: http://www.colbertlateshow.com/podcasts/


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