Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBland Tacos, Tap Water, And Joe Biden
Luppe Luppen is a lawyer who is also the Twitter pugilist @nycsouthpaw. He is now the co-author of a new book, The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, a…
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Innovation, Alabama-Style
On January 25th, Kenneth Eugene Smith was the first American executed by nitrogen hypoxia. Observers were disturbed by the process of Smith's final f…
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Yellow Lines And Dead Armadillos
Jeremy Hobson has been hosting The Middle, a call-in public radio program. That sounds scintillating enough, but it gets even spicier when you learn …
2 years, 1 month ago
Paging Doctor Death
We're joined by the show runner of the Peacock series Dr. Death, Ashley Michel Hoban, to discuss why we are drawn to doctors who first do some harm. …
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Introducing American Scandal: Police Corruption in Baltimore
In the spring of 2017, a police corruption scandal rocked the city of Baltimore. And at the heart of it was an elite undercover unit called the Gun T…
2 years, 1 month ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Penguin Poop Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, upon hearing the news that researchers had discovered four previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins w…
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Hague: Vague, Schmague, Or Making A Mistake?
The International Court of Justice rules on the plausibility of Israel committing genocide, one particularly incendiary Israeli official tweets "Hagu…
2 years, 1 month ago
Fluke Happens
Brian Klaas, political scientist and author of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters, talks about flawed thinking and the flaws of …
2 years, 1 month ago
Will Haley Bail-y?
Tim Alberta of The Atlantic is author of the new book The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, and he als…
2 years, 1 month ago
Donald Dockett
New York Times columnist, Dispatch legal expert, and podcaster David French joins us to discuss timelines for the various Trump legal cases, and Dav…
2 years, 1 month ago