Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe High Priest Of The Church Of Audience Research
Kevin Goetz is the movie business' most influential market researcher. He joins us to discuss his new book Audience-Ology: How Moviegoers Shape The F…
3 years, 1 month ago
Walk This Way Into The History Of The World Pt. II
An Inquisition of Dave Stassen, Executive Producer of the new Hulu Series History Of The World Part II. What a show! Plus, why there are zero Black w…
3 years, 1 month ago
More Than 1% Chance Of Nukes
George Beebe is Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute, he was formerly the director of the CIA’s Russia analysis unit, and he worked as …
3 years, 1 month ago
Taking Flack For All The Yakety Yak
Admitted excessive-talker Dan Lyons researches a cure for his propensity for prolixity—STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noi…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Unremarkable Antics Of Congressman DeSantis
Then-Congressman Ron DeSantis did a moderate Republican a favor in 2013, when he “lit up” the head of the Parks Department. But it was the kind of li…
3 years, 1 month ago
BEST OF THE GIST: 7 Degrees Of Natasha Lyonne
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, to compliment our Friday show, which featured an interview with sisters Nora and Lilla Zuckerman—show runner…
3 years, 1 month ago
A Taste Of Poker Face
Lilla and Nora Zuckerman drop in to discuss how unusual it is to make a NON-serialized streaming show like Poker Face. We discuss if Natasha Lyonne’s…
3 years, 1 month ago
Tuning into the Anti-Anti Obesity Frequency
Insulin is getting cheaper, weight-loss drugs really work, and school-lunch programs are bringing childhood obesity down. This all should be universa…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Effective Altruism Crash
The philosophy of Effective Altrusim took a hit due to its close association with Samuel Bankman-Fried. New Yorker staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus pr…
3 years, 2 months ago
Second Amendment Creates Second-Class Citizens
Carol Anderson, Professor of Black History at Emory University, is here to discuss The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Plus, Meet…
3 years, 2 months ago