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Presenting 'Code Switch': Kat Chow's 'Seeing Ghosts'
In this episode from our friends at NPR's Code Switch podcast, Kat Chow chats with former host Shereen Marisol Meraji about her memoir, Seeing Ghosts…
4 years, 2 months ago
Should I have kids? Move? Recycle? Your climate questions answered
Ahead of the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow this weekend, Sam chats with climate experts Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, marine biologist and writer, and Ken…
4 years, 2 months ago
Presenting 'Switched On Pop': the Cyndi Lauper conspiracy
In this special bonus episode, Sam joins Switched On Pop co-host Charlie Harding to talk Cyndi Lauper. Many fall for "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," b…
4 years, 2 months ago
Shea Serrano answers existential questions about rap in 'Hip Hop (And Other Things)'
Author and host of the No Skips podcast Shea Serrano gets obsessive about things — movies, basketball, and now, rap. In Hip Hop (And Other Things), h…
4 years, 2 months ago
Why can't Democrats pass legislation? Plus, 'Succession'
Sam chats with NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson about why dysfunction in the Democratic Party is putting the big "Build Back Better"…
4 years, 2 months ago
Why aren't Black and Indigenous missing persons cases covered enough?
Jermain Charlo was an Indigenous mother who went missing in Montana in the summer of 2018. Relisha Rudd, an 8-year-old Black girl, went missing in Wa…
4 years, 2 months ago
Nicole Byer's '#VeryFat #VeryBrave' guide to bikini confidence
Sam revisits his 2020 conversation with comedian and Nailed It! host Nicole Byer on her coffee table book: #VeryFat #VeryBrave: The Fat Girl's Guide …
4 years, 2 months ago
Pop music's 'Latin Explosion' of 1999
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Latino artists like Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira ruled the pop charts. But who was that …
4 years, 3 months ago
'LuLaRich' reveals how MLMs mirror the American economy
Sam interviews women's work and economic justice writer Meg Conley about the documentary series LuLaRich and how vulnerable people still get sucked i…
4 years, 3 months ago
Janet Jackson's Legacy After 'Control'
On the 35th anniversary of Janet Jackson's first No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit, we look back at Control, her career-defining album that changed the tra…
4 years, 3 months ago