Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPicked The Wrong Week To Stop Sniffing Glue
The 1978 movie Airplane! was a disruptive force in comedy filmmaking, redefining what (and who) was funny. We discuss what went into making the iconi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Life Lessons From Peyton Manning
Sally Jenkins, sports columnist for the Washington Post, is out with The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work And Life. We can learn from And…
2 years, 3 months ago
Keep Your Friends Close And The Know-Nothing Doughfaces Closer
In Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded In a Divided America, NPR"s Steve Inskeep details how the 16th President used conversation, engagement, comp…
2 years, 3 months ago
Muzzling Trigger Warnings
Recently in The Atlantic, Jill Filipovic wrote an article titled "I Was Wrong About Trigger Warnings: Has the national obsession with trauma done rea…
2 years, 3 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: U.S. History Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, an extra from our two-part interview with Heather Cox Richardson, which aired this past week. She read every…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Hippest Thing About Adam Sandler's Aching Hip
Max Kerman, lead singer of Arkells, talks about how to write songs in an age of law suits, and the often weird ways a song gets placed in films and …
2 years, 3 months ago
A Constitution Ripe For Authoritarian Exploitation
We're joined again by Heather Cox Richardson to continue discussing her new book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Rutherford B. H…
2 years, 3 months ago
Phil-Loot-Delphia
Historian and author Heather Cox Richardson is out with a new book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Richardson is hopeful, though…
2 years, 3 months ago
It's The Corruption, Stupid
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks is a progressive who loathes the toxic left and points to corruption as the unifying explanation as to why there's so m…
2 years, 3 months ago
Island Of The Cancelled
A young physicist working on high-temperature superconductivity follows her mentor to an island established as a haven for the "cancelled and deplora…
2 years, 3 months ago