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Latest Episodes

WORT OG 1975
December 04, 2025

Host Tony Castaeda speaks with some of the original staff and volunteers who worked at WORT at the dawn of its existence.

Promoting the Positivity in the Community
December 02, 2025

Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Jackie Brodean Morris joins us to talk about new magazine coming out next week, whats good going on in the commun

WORT’s Present and Future with Board President Grant Foster
December 01, 2025

WORTs journey into a half a century on the radio hasnt been without some bumps along the road. The station continues to face new challenges as it prepares for its next 50 years. WORT Board of Dire

WORT Greets Denizens of “the Eyeball Planet”
December 01, 2025

WORTs radio bubble at 89 megahertz has now traveled 50 light years from earth. That means that denizens of the Eyeball Planet are just now hearing WORTs inaugural broadcast from December First, 197

Fifty Years of WORT Weirdness
December 01, 2025

Fifty years ago, WORT hit the airwaves for the first time. Engineer and editor John Wilson takes us on a tour of some of the wild and wooly highlights of our first half-century.

Champagne Problems
November 25, 2025

Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, on Taras birthday-eve, some serious talk about dealing with the season, and talking about what weve got to be than

Finding Home on Highway 14: Episode Four
November 24, 2025

Performance artist and roving reporter Nicole Gruter joins us again with more tales from the road.

Cherish Fund Seeks to Fill Gaps in State Conservation
November 24, 2025

While the state legislature continues to dither on renewing the state stewardship fund, the Cherish Fund tries to plug the gap for conservation. Well talk with the Natural Resources Foundations She

State GOP Balks at Election Reforms
November 24, 2025

A month ago, Votebeat reporter Alex Shur told us how GOP rep Scott Krug was the voice of moderation in the state legislature. Well now, the right wing of the state Republicans are balking at Krugs m

Crying Wolf
November 21, 2025

Wisconsin State legislators have recently passed a bill that would mandate a wolf hunt with a hard cap goal regardless of science, pack health or ecological conditions. Melissa Smith, founding member