Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFunny You Should Mention: Dusty Slay
Dusty Slay drops by with "Wet Heat" fresh on Netflix to talk Opelika lore (a.k.a. Snopalika), becoming parade Grand Marshal, and how a onetime pestic…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Sadie Dingfelder on "Hair, Feathers, and the Theater of Disgust."
We test whether a hair in your hummus is truly hazardous, compare bacterial counts on hair shafts vs. feathers, and trace America's hairnet obsession…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Colin Woodard: The Federation Is the Fault Line
Woodard maps America's clashing "nations," from American Nations to Nations Apart, arguing that our deepest divides are regional and newly combustibl…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Wars Trump Says He Ended, and the One Cheney Began
The veteran media strategist reflects on Chuck Schumer's once-golden Sunday pressers and how his "price-of-milk politics" model needs updating for 20…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Matthew Hiltzik on the Craft of Crisis Communications
Hiltzik, founder of Hiltzik Strategies, explains how his background in law, politics, and media shaped his methodical, fact-based approach to strateg…
6 months ago
Mike Pesca on "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em"
Mike joins Nancy Rommelmann and Sarah Hepola for a rowdy, caffeine-fueled dive into the NBA betting scandal—where marked decks, mobsters, and million…
6 months ago
Art Cullen on Iowa's Corn Gospel, Cancer, and Capture
Iowa's rivers run brown, its cancer rates climb, and its politics tilt redder. Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Art Cullen joins to discuss his new book…
6 months ago
Beth Macy: "When the Local Paper Dies, the Community Follows"
Journalist Beth Macy, author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, returns to her Ohio roots to chart what's bee…
6 months ago
Karine Jean-Pierre: "Independent," Evasion, and the Party She Says Left Her
Former Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joins to promote her memoir Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House Outside the Party Lines—a…
6 months ago
Steve Hayes & Damon Linker: The Hole Truth
Steve Hayes and Damon Linker debate whether Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing is another norm-busting outrage or just a gaudy renovatio…
6 months ago