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Hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point is a unique, curiosity-driven combination of original reporting, newsmaker interviews, first-person stories, and in-depth analysis, making the world more intelligible and humane. When the world is more complicated than ever, we aim to make sense of it together. On Point is produced by WBUR.
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The WhatsOnStage Podcast

Sarah Crompton & Alex Wood

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WhatsOnStage managing editor Alex Wood and chief theatre critic Sarah Crompton host a weekly podcast on all things theatrical. News, views, frank exchanges and lists offer an unmissable guide to what’s happening on stage (and in film and on television) now, in the past and in future. From musicals, to plays, to immersive shows, to interviews with the biggest stars, there's something for everyone! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.
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Box Angeles

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Join actor Mike 'Box' Elder as he sits down with fellow actors, directors, writers, comedians, producers and casting directors to extract insightful commentary on what it takes to achieve success in both Hollywood and the entertainment industry.
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Mo News - The Interview

@mosheh / tentwentytwo

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Interviews and deep-dives into the biggest and most interesting headlines with some of the smartest people in the world. From authors to political leaders to business leaders to parenting experts, Mosheh and Jill get answers to the questions you are asking and take you behind the headlines in episodes for context and analysis.
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Talk Dizzy To Me

Balancing Act Rehab

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We’re just two vestibuloholics excitedly bringing you a comprehensive view into the complex field of dizziness. Made for both clinicians and patients, we’re aiming to provide you with endless resources, tips & tricks, interviews with experts, and so. much. more. Hosted by Dr. Abbie Ross, PT, NCS and Dr. Danielle Tolman, PT
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and ath ...
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Talk Art

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament

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Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament host Talk Art, a podcast dedicated to the world of art featuring exclusive interviews with leading artists, curators & gallerists, and even occasionally their talented friends from other industries like acting, music and journalism. Listen in to explore the magic of art and why it connects us all in such fantastic ways. Follow the official Instagram @TalkArt for images of artworks discussed in each episode and to follow Russell and Robert's la ...
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The Varsity

Puck | Audacy

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Puck Sports Correspondent John Ourand and a rotating cast of industry insiders take you deep inside the executive suites and owner boxes that run the entire sports business. You’ll hear interviews with everyone from players to network execs and everyone in between. The Varsity is an extension of John's private email for Puck by the same name. New episodes publish twice-weekly, every Wednesday and Sunday.
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MASH Matters

Jeff Maxwell & Ryan Patrick

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Jeff Maxwell (Private Igor from M*A*S*H) and Ryan Patrick host a lively discussion of all things M*A*S*H, Hollywood, acting, and other jocularity. We will also feature interviews with super fans and creative geniuses who helped to create the greatest television show of all time. Step into the VIP tent, grab a heaping bowl of creamed weenies, and join the fun … because now, more than ever, MASH Matters.
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Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

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Sometimes all it takes is one little fact or one little piece of wisdom to change your life forever. That's the purpose and the hope of "Something You Should Know." In each episode, host Mike Carruthers interviews top experts in their field to bring you fascinating information and advice to help you save time and money, advance in your career, become wealthy, improve your relationships and help you simply get more out of life. In addition, Mike uncovers and shares short, engaging pieces of " ...
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“Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one?” Tony Robbins, the #1 Life and Business Strategist, has helped over 50 million people from 100 countries create real and lasting change in their lives. In this podcast, he shares proven strategies and tactics so you, too, can achieve massive results in your business, relationships, health and finances. In addition to excerpts from his signature events and other exclusive, never-before-released audio content, Tony and his tea ...
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Late Boomers

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Welcome to Late Boomers, the podcast that is your guide to creating a third act with style, power and impact! Join your hosts, Cathy Worthington and Merry Elkins, as they bring you conversations with successful artists, entrepreneurs and entertainers who have set themselves up for an amazing third act. Everyone has a story, and Cathy and Merry take you along for the ride on each interview, recounting the journey each guest has taken to get where they are, and inspiring you to create a path t ...
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Lights Up!

The Real Putney Theatre Company

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Entertaining, thrilling and uplifting the Putney Theatre Company's dedicated podcast features show reviews, interviews with directors, cast and crew, and feedback from our wonderful audiences. We're a regional theatre working with the community to encourage new writing, new actors, offering fresh perspectives and familiar drama. Come and see us at the South West End!
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The Just Acting Up Show

The Just Acting Up Show

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"Lights, Camera, Conversation! Join hosts Chris, Joffy, Mike, and Tashay as they bring you intimate conversations with the creative forces shaping today's entertainment landscape. From rising stars to industry veterans, we spotlight talented actors, visionary directors, compelling writers, and innovative creators who are making their mark in Hollywood and beyond. But that's not all – dive into our lively discussions about breaking entertainment news, binge-worthy TV shows, must-see movies, c ...
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Creator's Cafe

Jessica Payne

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Host Jessica Payne of Kika Labs breaks down the subtle and the sublime of the creative process with inspiring artists at the Creator's Cafe. More info at https://www.kikalabs.com Transcripts and links at www.kikalabs.com/creators-cafe-shownotes
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Where we dig into God’s Word to discover what it means and how we can live it out to bring God the glory. Through interviews we will discover different ways God has called different people to live out His Word so their lives are an act of worship.
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Distraction Pieces with Scroobius Pip is one of the UK's biggest and longest running independent podcasts. Previous guests include Michael Fassbender, Mary J Blige, Stephen Graham, Florence Pugh, Spike Lee, Lena Headey, Stewart Lee, Kathy Burke, Dizzee Rascal, Aisling Bea, Kano, Adam Buxton, Vicky McClure, Peter Capaldi, Michaela Coel, Louis Theroux, Tim Key and many more. Available on acast, iTunes and all podplaces. Download, subscribe, rate & review now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri ...
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The Harland Highway

7EQUIS / Harland Williams

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Get your dose of Harland's twisted world of comedy on The Harland Highway. This is the place to be for Harland Williams jokes, commentary, interviews, observations & hilarious reoccurring characters. Put the pedal to the metal & tear on down The Harland Highway!
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Hosted by popular national radio host, podcaster and political commentator Ben Ferguson, The 47 Morning Update spotlights the latest news and political headlines, with a special focus on the President's administration, policies, and agenda. Join Ben for unfiltered insights, exclusive interviews, and honest commentary you won’t get from the mainstream media. Ben takes you behind the scenes, covering the issues shaping America today - straight from the President’s Oval Office. Don’t miss a sin ...
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Crude ACTS

Jen Schaffer

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We are a TEXAS TRUE CRIME PODCAST that focuses on crimes that occurred in the Lone Star State. On our episodes we shoot it straight: no banter, no jokes, no deviation from the story, just journalistic storytelling with exposition, interviews, and a focus on the facts.
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Hosted by Buddy Rahming, Actor/Comedian. The Yeah Buddy! Podcast is an in depth interview style podcast. Every interview features Buddy’s buddies in the entertainment business. Guests range from comedians, actors, directors, models and other various filmmakers and artists. We discuss our own personal adventures in show biz as well as hot topics and headlines going on today in Hollywood.
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Forum Borealis

Al Borealis

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A paradigm expanding variety podcast conducting old school, long-form, conversational, in depth interviews with the most interesting authors, scholars, researchers, and freethinkers of today - exploring controversial, marginalized, innovative, obscure, anomalous, and system critical topics within history, culture, philosophy, science, and politics.
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Give It To Me Straight

Moguls of Media

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Host Maddy Morphosis (RuPaul’s Drag Race S14) sits down with special guests for in-depth, often personal, and always shady interviews. Guests include Drag Race alumni, music stars, influencers and more. From humble beginnings, the highs and lows, and the embarrassing moments you never knew about, straight from the source.
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Maed in India

Maed in India

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Whether it’s a shoegaze band from Chandigarh, thrash metal act from Visakhapatnam, rapper from Kashmir, vocal folk quartet from Kohima, Tamil indie pop act from Madurai, or a singer-songwriter from Mussoorie, Maed in India is where you’ll discover it. Started in 2015, music nerd and ex-radio presenter Mae Mariyam Thomas showcases the best talent coming out of South Asia and its diaspora. The show is India’s first indie music podcast and prides itself on being the premier destination for new ...
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A VO's Journey is about helping new voiceover artists grow their business by listening to my journey to becoming a full-time voice actor. I have been an actor, coach, director, and teacher for over 20 years. I started six years ago in the voice-over industry and wanted to create a way to document my journey so other voice over actors could benefit from it. Voiceover is now my life, and I love every moment of it.
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Empire

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Empire features interviews with top crypto founders to get the real stories that aren’t shared elsewhere. Empire is your look behind the curtain of the crypto industry. We release two episodes per week: guest interviews on Monday and a weekly roundup on Friday.
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In Their Own Words

The Deming Institute

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Interviews with members of The Deming Institute community, including industry leaders, practitioners, educators, Deming family members and others who share their stories of transformation and success through the innovative management and quality theories of Dr. W. Edwards Deming.
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This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

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This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. They do the scientific research, so you don’t have to. Since 2017, Erin and Erin have explored chronic and infectious diseases, medications, poisons, viruses, bacteria and scientific discoveries. They’ve researched public health ...
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Mike Lenz Voice - A Journey Into Voice Acting

Mike Lenz interviews Bob Souer, Harlan Hogan and other amazing voice-over p

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Join professional voice actor, audiobook narrator, and podcast host Mike Lenz as he shares stories from some of the most amazing and inspiring people from all areas of the voice-over industry - as well as other incredible entrepreneurs - to help inspire you to achieve your dream of becoming a professional voice actor.
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Kent Philpott's Bible Study Sermons

Kent Philpott, Pastor, Miller Avenue Church

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Kent Philpott, MDiv, ThD, has been pastor of Miller Avenue Baptist Church in Mill Valley, CA since 1986 and has presented half-hour Bible exposition sermons on TV since 1984. The series on the Book of Acts is expository preaching—verse by verse, looking at some of the hard issues. The series on Why We Are Christians is a conversational interview format wherein stories are told of coming to faith in Jesus Christ.
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Theatre · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing & Behind the Scenes Conversations

Acting, Directing, Writing & Behind the Scenes Conversations · Creative Process Original Series

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Theatre episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to performers and behind the scenes creatives. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find us on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their lif ...
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What’s Your Limp?

Jordan Walker Ross

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Host Jordan Ross is a differently-abled actor, born with Cerebral Palsy and Scoliosis. Because of his disabilities, he was a victim of vicious bullying and limited opportunities as an actor. However, Jordan's role on THE CHOSEN, helped him learn to not just accept his circumstances, but embrace them. Now, Jordan's goal is to help his listeners learn to embrace their own limps - turning their perceived weakness into a strength - one vulnerable conversation at a time. Jordan sits down with som ...
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Insiders

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Every Sunday morning, the ABC's national political lead David Speers unpacks the major stories shaping Australia's future. Each episode includes a major interview with an Australian politician and an extensive discussion with a panel of the country's best journalists. This show will help you understand the major factors behind the decisions and debates driving a national conversation.
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Just Shoot It is a podcast about directing hosted by directors. Each week we interview filmmakers on writing, cinematography, development and acting to learn how to build a successful career as a filmmaker in the Hollywood industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In this powerful and inspiring episode of The Mike Lenz VO Podcast, I sit down with the incredibly versatile Melissa Mirren, a professional voice actor with over eight years of experience spanning commercials, corporate narration, e-learning, animation, and video games. Melissa shares her path from childhood performances and college theater to a mu…
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In The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Terri Diane Halperin has provided a political history of the 1790s and explained the origins of one of the most contentious free speech events in American history. The Alien and Seditions Acts, which were actually four laws enacted in 1798, dram…
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On September 21, 1976, a car bomb exploded in Washington DC, killing a former Chilean diplomat named Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronni Moffitt. The assassination was a cruel and brazen attempt by the Chilean government to silence a critic of the Pinochet regime. And it proved to be a major strategic error––Pinochet himself used the …
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Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But do animals and smart machines really have intelligence comparable to that of humans? In Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart? (MIT Press, 2021), Paul Thagard l…
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In African Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Dr. Jonathan Fisher and Dr. Nina Wilén explore the story of Africa's contemporary history and politics through the lens of peacekeeping. This concise and accessible book, based on over a decade of research across ten countries, focuses not on peacekeeping in Africa but, rather, peacekeepin…
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Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into exile following his 1949 defeat in the Chinese civil war. As attention pivoted to Mao Zedong’s communist experiment, Chiang was relegated to the dustbin of history. In Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Sha…
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In The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press, 2022), Dr. Megan Brown details the surprising story of how Algeria joined and then left the postwar European Economic Community and what its past inclusion means for extracontinental membership in today’s European Union. On their face, the mid-1950s …
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As we now know, epidemics and pandemics are not new phenomena. In her new book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press, 2020), Manuel Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World. In fact, Barcia argues that the h…
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If you mention Appalachia to many people, they may immediately respond with the "Deliverance" dueling banjos theme. Unfortunately, this is an example of how the region is stereotyped and misunderstood, particularly in films. In her book, Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film(University of Georgia Press, 2018), Meredith McCarroll, Director of Writing …
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The Song of Songs, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes—full of poetry and enigmatic imagery, these are among the most challenging books of the Bible to understand. Well take heart, because we have some help coming your way! Tune in as we speak with Rabbi Benjamin Segal about his Gefen publications on the Ketuvim. We’ll talk with Rabbi Segal about his transl…
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🧭 1. Border Security and Immigration Enforcement The first half of the podcast discusses recent developments in border enforcement, particularly in Texas. Key points include: Arrests of Migrants: Despite lower overall border apprehensions, Texas law enforcement continues to arrest migrants who have entered the U.S. illegally. Specific Incidents: Ex…
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In Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War (Harvard UP, 2019), the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning challenges the idea that women are outside of war, through a trio of dramatic stories revealing women's transformative role in the American Civil War. We think of war as a man's world, but women have always played active roles …
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In our charming interview, Amy Moore celebrates two new picture books, The Bakers Dozen (illustrated by Andrea Stegmaier) published by Sleeping Bear Press in May. 2025, and Humpty's Great Fall (illustrated by Josh Cleland) published this month by Two Lions. Amy Moore has been writing since childhood. After earning a degree in Journalism from the Un…
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Throughout American history, lawmakers have limited the range of treatments available to patients, often with the backing of the medical establishment. The country's history is also, however, brimming with social movements that have condemned such restrictions as violations of fundamental American liberties. This fierce conflict is one of the defin…
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1. Criticism of Jake Tapper and the Media The Ben and the Senator strongly criticize CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios's Alex Thompson for their book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. They accuse Tapper and mainstream media of knowingly covering up President Biden’s cognitive decline for years.…
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UPGRADE TO SYSK PREMIUM! To unlock ad-free listening to over 1,000 episodes plus receive exclusive weekly bonus content, go to ⁠⁠ https://SYSKPremium.com⁠ You probably have a drawer where you keep spare batteries for when you need them. But if some or all those batteries are loose and floating around that drawer, it could be dangerous. This episode…
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The DOJ wants your voter information. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins the podcast to discuss the DOJ’s demand for state voter lists, Maine’s dangerous voter ID ballot initiative, and how Trump’s conspiracy theories harm election workers. -Become a Democracy Docket premium member: https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-youtube …
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Back in the early 70s, Eli Zaretsky wrote for a socialist newspaper and was engaged to review a recently released book, Psychoanalysis and Feminism by Juliet Mitchell. First, he decided, he’d better read some Freud. This started a life-long engagement with psychoanalysis and leftist politics, and his new book Political Freud: A History (Columbia Un…
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The Craic is back! Petesy Carroll is joined by Craic regulars Chuck Mindenhall and Ben Fowlkes to break down the week’s biggest headlines. First up, Charles Oliveira’s return against Rafael Fiziev. The crew debates whether it’s too quick a turnaround for Oliveira after his KO loss to Ilia Topuria just three months ago (6:12). One fight fast approac…
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“Well, I mean for starters it still is the greatest first sentence ever,” says Francine Prose in this week’s episode of The World in Time. “I mean, three words. A three-word first sentence. I think if you were to ask a kind of range of readers, ‘Can you think of a first sentence?’ You know, you probably get ‘It was the best of times, and the worst …
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It’s wedding season and Alex is away at one of the numerous celebrations he’s been invited to this summer. Which made him and Sarah think about the way that weddings are used on stage, screen and television. As Beth Steel’s Till the Stars Come Down packs them in in the West End, they look back at plays by writers such as Lorca, Shakespeare and more…
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Happy Friday! This week we livestreamed our Roundup and Yano, Santi and Rob got right into the topics of the week - DATs keep on keeping on, Coinbase’s convertible notes, Kraken and other upcoming crypto IPOs, Roman Storm’s guilty verdict, crypto and 401Ks, stablecoin growth continues, ChatGPT 5 launches and content recommendations. -- Start your d…
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When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don’t necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are closely linked because the historical processes that created life also created cancer. The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer (Princeton UP, 2020) delves into this extraordinary relationship, and shows tha…
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What claims could Jewish veterans make on the Nazi state by virtue of their having fought for Germany? How often did Germans treat Jewish veterans differently from Jewish men without military experience during the Weimar and Nazi periods? How did perceptions of masculinity and of Germanness intersect to shape attitudes and behaviors of Jewish veter…
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This book tells the story of how, over the past century, dedicated observers and pioneering scientists achieved our current understanding of the universe. It was in antiquity that humankind first attempted to explain the universe often with the help of myths and legends. This book, however, focuses on the time when cosmology finally became a true s…
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This book explores the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary because of the contrast between Germany's genocidal policy towards Jews on one hand, and its relatively non-discriminatory treatment of Jewish POWs from western countries on the other. The radicalisation of Germany's anti-Semiti…
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Grant Us Eyes is a book-length close reading of Bloodborne by literary critic Nathan Wainstein (LA Review of Books, Cartridge Lit, American Book Review). Grant Us Eyes situates the game’s oft-discussed difficulty in relation to a much longer tradition of difficult art – surrealist painting, the modernist novel, etc. Wainstein probes the difficulty …
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Amid the ongoing reckoning over America’s history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot the country’s landscape, while schools and street signs continue to bear the names of segregationists. With poignant, lyrical prose, cultural commentator Irvin Weathersby confronts the inescapable spe…
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🧾 1. Congressional Subpoenas Related to Jeffrey Epstein Investigation The first half of the podcast focuses on a significant development in the U.S. House Oversight Committee's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein: Subpoenas Issued: The committee, led by Chairman James Comer, has issued subpoenas to several high-profile individuals, including: Former…
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Behind the braided wigs, buckskins, and excess bronzer that typified the mid-century "filmic Indian" lies a far richer, deeper history of Indigenous labor, survival, and agency. This history takes center stage in historian Liza Black's new book, Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960 (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), which looks…
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From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm banks in each of China’s twenty-two provinces, the biggest of which screen some three thousand to four thousand potential donors each year. Given the estimated one t…
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In this episode, we are joined by Dr Yasmin Ortiga, Associate Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University, to speak to us about her latest book, Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration, published by Stanford University Press. Yasmin is mainly interested in how changing ideas about desirable “skill” shape where…
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Criticism of Jake Tapper and Mainstream Media: Cruz and Ferguson accuse Tapper and CNN of knowingly covering up Biden’s mental deterioration. They mock Tapper’s role in the book, likening it to an arsonist writing about fire prevention. Biden’s Cognitive Decline: The podcast discusses alleged incidents of Biden’s confusion, memory lapses, and dimin…
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Today, Jay sits down with serial entrepreneur, investor, and powerhouse mom of four, Kim Perell. Known for building her first company from her kitchen table and later selling one for $235 million, Kim shares the raw, behind-the-scenes truth of what it takes to turn failure into fortune. The conversation centers around Kim’s latest book, Mistakes Th…
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Ask Jordan a question! In this episode of What's Your Limp? Jordan chats with actor, producer and writer Anna Konkle! Anna is the co-creator and star of the hit Hulu comedy, PEN15. She also stars in Apple TV's Murderbot. In this episode, Anna talks about finding healing through her art, growing up as a child of divorce and dealing with chronic heal…
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Rachel Lee and I dig into finding yourself to bravely embody your own brand. My guest, Rachel Lee, is an artist, designer, and co-founder of Neo Genesis, a personal branding agency for creatives and misfit entrepreneurs who are ready to own their weird and finally, rocket online. Rachel believes that there's no better way of marketing yourself than…
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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Stewart Lee, originally episode 15 from 2015-01-21. A VERY early episode from the back catalogue but one that is hugely important in the DPP canon. This episode is refered to to this very day, and has rem…
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The Boys in the Back kick off the show by reacting to breaking news that Charles Oliveira will return to action against Rafael Fiziev in October (1:22). Then, they launch into a deep dive on recent comments made by both Khamzat Chimaev and Dricus du Plessis ahead of their UFC 319 fight (09:30), including Khamzat's call to capture three UFC belts, D…
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This is Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge. My guest today is GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. In many ways, GitHub Copilot set off the current AI coding boom. But since Thomas was on the show a year ago, the rise of vibe coding has shifted the buzz to newer platforms like Cursor and Windsurf. As you’ll hear in our conversation, Thomas is thinking a l…
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This episode features Dr. Kit W. Myers, associate professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced, discussing his book The Violence of Love: Race, Family and Adoption in the United States, which was published by the University of California Press in January 2025. The Violence of Love challenges the …
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How did Tokyo—Japan’s capital, global city, tourist hotspot and financial center—get to where it is today? Tokyo–or then, Edo–had a rather unglamorous start, as a backwater on Japan’s eastern coast before Tokugawa decided to make it his de facto capital. Eiko Maruko Siniawer picks ten distinct moments in Edo’s, and then Tokyo’s, history to show how…
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War remains the most chaotic and destructive act our species is capable of. In addition to waging war against those we disagree with, we also battle with which beliefs about war are superior to alternatives. We make war with ideas, beliefs, and mindsets along with bullets, bombs, and missiles. The tactics and technologies matter, but only if societ…
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Director Emily Elizabeth Thomas joins Matt and Oren to talk about her journey from commercial success to directing vertical series and feature films. Meanwhile, Oren’s been updating his website and shares some valuable insights on what to include in your reel, what to leave out, and why it matters. And that leads into Matt sharing some insightful d…
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The Krama School of the Trika Saivism of Kashmir, more familiar as Kalikrama in the contemporary parlance, has turned out to be the most crucial among the monistic Saiva traditions of medieval Kashmir after the Pratyabhijna school, a scenario people could hardly envisage six decades back when it first came to the notice of modern scholarship. The d…
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Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders--these are some of the features that divide the world on our maps and in our minds. But geography is far less set in stone than we might believe, and, as Maxim Samson's Earth Shapers contends, in our relatively short time on this planet, humans have become experts at fundamentally reshaping our surroundings…
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