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WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.
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Jan 27, 2017 • 56min
How to Cover Trump’s Presidency, and Football’s Concussion Crisis
An N.F.L. pro, whose son now plays football, struggles to balance safety against a certain necessary brutality, and BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith on why he broke the norm to cover Trump.
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Jan 20, 2017 • 56min
The Two-State Solution, and a Standing Desk Problem
We take the temperature of the Middle East peace process. Plus, Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, Run the Jewels’ oldster rap, and the lifesaving benefits of a standing desk.
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Jan 13, 2017 • 56min
Episode 65: High-Rise Lettuce Farms, and the First Woman President
Ian Frazier explores indoor farming; Dan Savage tells David Remnick a thing or two about sex; and Amy Davidson asks, Why Angela Merkel but not Hillary Clinton?
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Jan 6, 2017 • 56min
Episode 64: Self-Esteem for Owls, and Newt Gingrich on the Heroin Problem
Newt Gingrich talks about the opioid epidemic and Donald Trump’s Twitter habit; Patricia Marx tries to relax, and fails.
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Dec 30, 2016 • 56min
Episode 63: Late-Night Icon David Letterman and Songwriter Jason Isbell
David Letterman discusses life after late night and songwriter Jason Isbell talks about songwriting while sober.
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Dec 23, 2016 • 56min
Episode 62: Laura Poitras, David Bowie’s Last Band, and the Poet Brenda Shaughnessy
Laura Poitras turns surveillance into art, David Bowie’s jazz band, and more.
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Dec 16, 2016 • 56min
Episode 61: Jeanette Winterson’s Christmas and Obama’s Legacy
The New Yorker’s political reporters assess the successes and failures of Barack Obama’s Presidency; Jeanette Winterson celebrates Christmas; and a poet visits the food court.
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Dec 9, 2016 • 56min
Episode 60: What Is Trumpism?
A populist candidate hires an economic team from Goldman Sachs, and an English professor delivers a Hegelian analysis of Trump the disrupter. Plus, Michael Chabon on TV’s best, most boring show.
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Dec 2, 2016 • 56min
Episode 59: The Koch Brothers and Boxing Champion Heather Hardy
Jane Mayer gets pushback after she investigates the Koch brothers; Heather Hardy prepares for a big fight; and an astronomer makes his case for the existence of a new ninth planet.
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Nov 25, 2016 • 56min
Episode 58: Bruce Springsteen Talks with David Remnick
Bruce Springsteen tells David Remnick why he waited decades to put out a memoir.
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