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Tessa Violet Says There Will Be Joy — Probably
Tessa Violet is a singer-songwriter and former YouTuber whose new album, There Will Be Joy, is a meditation on internal growth. Tessa and Hank talk a…
9 hours ago
Ted Dintersmith: Should We Teach Math Differently?
Ted Dintersmith is a Stanford engineering Ph.D., a successful venture capitalist, and now a committed math reformer. Hank and Ted talk about why ques…
1 week ago
T-Pain Doesn't Forget
T-Pain is a Grammy-winning artist, songwriter, and music producer. These days he produces music while streaming live on Twitch so that people can see…
2 weeks ago
Hannah Ritchie: The Future Is Not Bleak
Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist, author, and deputy editor of Our World in Data — and she's convinced the world is making more progress than the h…
3 weeks ago
Jerome Goddard: Welcome to the Bug Kingdom
Jerome Goddard is a medical entomologist, extension professor at Mississippi State University, fiction author, and now a TikTok star. Jerome and Hank…
4 weeks ago
Sam Forstag Might Be My Congressman
Sam Forstag is a former smokejumper who’s running for Congress in Montana’s U.S. House District 1. He’s the Democratic candidate, but is he actually …
1 month ago
Katie Mack: The Death of the Universe
Katie Mack is an astrophysicist who studies the end of the universe. Hank and Katie talk about the value of the Artemis II mission, how we can see th…
1 month, 1 week ago
Maya Rupert: The Inauthenticity of Authenticity
Maya Rupert is a political strategist and social justice leader. She also served as the campaign manager for Julián Castro’s presidential campaign, a…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Astronaut Reid Wiseman Thinks We're Going to Be OK
The commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission slid into Hank’s DMs on Instagram asking to talk. Their conversation covers what it’s like to leave Earth …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Vicky Holmes: Finding Humanity in Feral Cats
The original author of the Warrior Cats book series has contributed to over 70 books about feral felines, all while not liking cats. Hank and Vicky d…
2 months ago