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A President Gone Rogue: Can the Constitution Save Democracy?
Season 6 Episode 103
Five years after January 6th, Phil and Ted ask the question nobody wants to say out loud: is the Constitution actually built to survive this, or are …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Hollywood's Uncertain Comeback
Season 6 Episode 106
Hollywood's in free fall, and David Poland's got the play-by-play. Phil and Ted sit down with the veteran film critic for a candid, funny, occasional…
3 months ago
The Most Corrupt Supreme Court in U.S. History — Who's Paying It Off, And What It's Costing Us
Season 6 Episode 102
Phil and Ted sit down with Lisa Graves — author of the bestseller Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Consti…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Special Guests Toy Story 5's Mr. Potato Head, Bugs Bunny and Dolly Parton.
Season 6 Episode 101
The new voices of Bugs Bunny and Mr. Potato Head walk into a podcast. Phil and Ted are ready.
Jeff Bergman is the new Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story 5 —…
4 months ago
How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?
Season 6 Episode 100
Not Insane! Firesign Theatre, Psychedelic FM Radio, and the Comedy That Rewired Your Brain
Before the internet taught us to layer memes inside memes i…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
They're stealing the children. Ukraine is fighting back.
Season 6 Episode 99
Twenty thousand Ukrainian kids — ripped from their families, shipped into Russia, renamed, re-educated, erased. And some of their parents are slippin…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Tracks, Cracks & Political Hacks: How Sinkholes & Smog Battles Transformed L.A. Into the City of the Future
Season 6 Episode 98
What does it take to build a subway under one of the most car-obsessed, earthquake-prone, politically tangled cities on Earth? Turns out: a lot of ex…
5 months ago
WILL THEY LAUGH IN RUSSIA? How to Be Funny Anywhere with Comedy Expert John Vorhaus
Season 6 Episode 97
What do a Moscow sitcom and a Romanian punchline have in common? John Vorhaus has probably written both. A comedy writer, author, and globe-trotting …
5 months, 1 week ago
Dead Playwrights, Live Audiences: Some Stories Still Need a Room
Season 6 Episode 96
House lights down. Phones down. There's a human on stage — and apparently, that still matters. Turns out the wild, improbable comeback of live theate…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Far out! Man’s biggest leap yet, and the new space race to the Moon’s treasure.
Season 6 Episode 95
The Moon is having a moment — and Phil and Ted are all over it. Space journalist and author Leonard David joins the show to unpack Artemis 11's trium…
5 months, 4 weeks ago