Podcast Episodes

Special Episode: DeepDive Sneak Preview!

Today’s episode is a special preview of How to Write Autobiographical Fiction, a brand-new DeepDive course featuring acclaimed novelist Hannah Pittar…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Dancing with the Stars on 300mg of THC

Volume 61 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad & Mira do field work...adventures in Television City...Mira takes a hero dose of THC...Hilaria compet…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

992. Leigh Stein

Leigh Stein is the author of the novel If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You, a national bestseller available from Ballantine Books.

Leigh is th…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Kyle Spencer on the Dangers of Political Extremism, the Tragedy of Charlie Kirk, and the Future of American Democracy

Kyle Spencer is a journalist and the author of Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Po…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

The Everything is Bad Episode

Volume 60 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...The Emmys (didn't watch them)...Charlie Sheen's skeletons....Mira's adventures at a drag brunch...Angry Ad…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

991. Elaine Hsieh Chou

Elaine Hsieh Chou is the author of the debut story collection Where Are You Really From, available from Penguin Press. Official September 2025 pick o…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Rachel, 32, Director of Content and Engagement

Character Study, Vol. 17. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages …

9 months, 4 weeks ago

The Dawn of the Sheenaissance

Volume 59 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Trump's horny artwork in the terrifying Epstein birthday book....Angry Adam repeatedly punching his dashbo…

10 months ago

990. Hala Alyan

Hala Alyan is the author of the debut memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, available from Avid Reader Press.

Alyan is the author of the novels Salt Ho…

10 months ago

Jennifer Pastiloff on Grief, Creativity, Shame Loss, Sobriety, and Connection

Jennifer Pastiloff is the author of Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life, available from Dutton.

Pastil…

10 months ago