Each episode of Sailor Martin is 15 minutes and stands on its own. Click MP3 to listen or download, or use the WAV file for broadcast. The most recent episodes appear below; older programs are available in the archives.
Episode 015: I am a Saddled Colt to Some Great Thing
Runtime: 15:00
Shortwave premiere: July 2026
Three stories from Sailor Martin’s daily life; he has beer with friend Planetary Paul, who has weird ideas, and Sailor Martin regrets it; Sailor Martin goes to a rural folk art museum that may be able to tell the future.
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Episode 014: We Just Don’t Fall
Runtime: 15:00
Shortwave premiere: July 2026
There was a demolition derby featuring sailors and no cars; Sailor Martin dreams of being able to breathe underwater, and the other dreamers he meets at the bottom of the sea.
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Episode 013: Drive at Night
Runtime: 14:58
Shortwave premiere: July 2026
Sailor Martin remembers work as a long-haul trucker and the ghostly, jumpsuited figures he saw on the way; he recalls the strange, snowbound end of a tramp steamer; and he explains a puzzling fame that has suddenly beset him.
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Episode 012: The Ghost Broadcast
Runtime: 15:00
Shortwave premiere: July 2026
Sailor Martin’s suspicion that he has a roommate leads to a meditation about ghostly labor; New Orleans is suddenly full of ocean hags, taking over the civic infrastructure; Sailor Martin sings and narrates about bumping his toe and possibly dying from it over a public-domain 78; there is an impossible radio broadcast in the ocean, and Sailor Martin seeks its source.
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Episode 011: Sailor Sleep is Half Sleep
Runtime: 15:00
Shortwave premiere: June 2026
Sailor Martin explains cartoon-like sailor fighting techniques; describes a lost Canadian children’s television show about a tug boat war; talks irritably over a public-domain 78 advising never to date an old man; and meets an old television cowboy and his drinking group of faded celebrities.
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Episode 010: 100 Sailors on a Roof
Runtime: 14:59
Shortwave premiere: June 2026
It’s summer, and so it’s time for sailors to go back to school for classes, including aquatic martial arts and films on social diseases; there is a cow on a buoy on the Mississippi River, and Sailor Martin is going to go get it; Sailor Martin sings an original song about not knowing what the heck he picked up in the street; sailors climb on a roof in the French Quarter to perform an ancient ritual.
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Episode 009: Razzmatazz
Runtime: 15:00
Shortwave premiere: June 2026
Sailor Martin gets work at a mail-order program in masculine elegance; sings an original song, “If This Bed Could Talk, I’d Be Arrested”; and tells the story of a sailors’ constellation, The Water Horse.
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Episode 008: Kick Drum Dave
Runtime: 15:01
Shortwave premiere: May 2026
Sailor Martin attends a screening of a 1970s horror movie he appeared in, which may have unleashed a real horror on the world; teaches various sailor expressions about the weather; sings an original song, “I’m Not as Drunk as You Am I Think”; and tells the story of a friend who circles the bayous at night in a fanboat outfitted with a drum kit.
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Episode 007: Big Bomb Punch
Runtime: 15:00
Shortwave premiere: May 2026
Sailor Martin tries to understand a caveman with strangely Sailor Martin-like tattoos; sings an original song, “Big Bomb Punch”; describes the various sailor-y things in his pockets; and joins a cat on a French Quarter rooftop to watch a cruise ship on the Mississippi.
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