Podcast Episodes

Alafair Burke

Season 3 Episode 11

Alafair Burke: Vesper Martini (2 ounces gin, 3/4 ounce vodka, 1/2 ounce Lillet Blanc)

Alafair reveals the haunting impressions of growing up in Kansas…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Spencer Klavan

Season 3 Episode 10

Spencer Klavan: scotch

Spencer discusses the brimming culture of intolerance during his years at Yale, art and morality, the inherently required trans…

1 year, 9 months ago

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David Coggins

Season 3 Episode 9

David Coggins: Pilar rum 

David Coggins discusses Hemingway’s escapades on his fishing boat Pilar, the secret history of New York’s 21 Club, his proce…

1 year, 9 months ago

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Jim Rutenberg

Season 3 Episode 8

Jim Rutenberg: mango spritzer (equal parts mango and club soda)

Jim discusses the Murdoch family dynastic succession, the slow decline of the Big 3 Ne…

1 year, 10 months ago

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Lili Anolik

Season 3 Episode 7

Lili Anolik: gimlet (2 1/2 ounces gin, squeezed lime juice, sugar)

Lili shares some of the scoop from her terrific biography DIDION & BABITZ including…

1 year, 10 months ago

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Neal Stephenson

Season 3 Episode 6

Neal Stephenson: mezcal margarita (2 ounces mezcal, 1 ounce Cointreau, lime juice) 

Neal identifies the two greatest threats to the future of humanity…

1 year, 10 months ago

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Maureen Callahan

Season 3 Episode 5

Maureen Callahan: vodka martini (3 ounces vodka, 1/2 ounce dry vermouth, olives)

Maureen names the four worst hypocrites in the world today then we de…

1 year, 10 months ago

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Ken Burns

Season 3 Episode 4

Ken Burns: green tea

Ken names the three people from history that he’d invite to dinner, discusses the responsibility of a documentary filmmaker to re…

1 year, 10 months ago

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Tom Turcich

Season 3 Episode 3

Tom Turcich: Old Fashioned (bitters, sugar, whiskey with cherry and orange rind garnish)

Tom walked 28,000 miles around the world with his dog and a c…

1 year, 11 months ago

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Linda Fairstein

Season 3 Episode 2

Linda discusses founding the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan DA’s office - first in the nation - and when Mariska Hargitay and Dick Wolf shadowed he…

1 year, 11 months ago

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