Best Fox With A Fish Podcasts (2025)

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Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague” 21:11

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Richard Linklater is one of the most admired directors working today, and yet moviegoers may admire him for very different things. There are early comedies such as “Slacker” and “Dazed and Confused”; there’s the romance trilogy that started with “Before Sunrise,” starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy; and the crowd-pleasers like “School of Rock” and…

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Michael Townsend & Jeremy Workman: "Secret Mall Apartment" 33:26

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Michael Townsend and director Jeremy Workman tell the wild true story of an eight-artist collective that built a hidden home inside Providence Place Mall—part prank, part art project, and a pointed reply to gentrification. They revisit grainy 2003–07 footage, a tape-art 9/11 memorial, and the logistics (and ethics) of living behind a cinderblock wa…

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NFL Week 7, Fastest 2 Minutes, Broncos Historic Comeback, Colts Domination, Commanders Down Bad + Shohei's Greatest Single Game Performance Ever And Who's Back Of The Week 3:09:10

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NFL Week 7, we start with Fastest 2 minutes (00:00:00-00:11:13) Rams 35, Jaguars 7 (00:11:13-00:25:48) Eagles 28, Vikings 22 (00:25:48-00:41:01)Bears 26, Saints 14 (00:41:01-00:53:47)Browns 31, Dolphins 6 (00:53:47-01:05:12)Patriots 31, Titans 13 (01:05:12-01:14:04)Chiefs 31, Raiders 0 (01:14:04-01:21:41)Panthers 13, Jets 6 (01:21:41-01:37:06)Colts…

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Halloween Special: The 'Scream' Killer 48:31

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For Halloween this year we are bringing back one of your favorites. In 1996, a new horror movie with an innovative twist would reinvigorate the slasher genre. But behind the fictional Ghostface was an inspiration steeped in reality. A man in a makeshift mask who stalked and tormented teenage girls during a three-day murderous rampage. A man known a…

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Chris Murphy: “Congress needs to take war powers back.” 23:26

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Mike revisits his 2019 conversation with Senator Chris Murphy on the AUMF — the two-decade-old law still used to justify U.S. military strikes from Yemen to the Caribbean. Plus, a new strike on a Venezuelan vessel raises questions about presidential authority and transparency. We trace how “temporary” wartime powers became permanent policy, and wha…

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Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play 39:17

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Lisa Graves joins to discuss Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights—from court "capture" networks to why she sees the recent immunity ruling and emergency-docket moves as system-tilting, not umpiring. She and our host spar over what counts as a "constitutional crisis," con…

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How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target 29:26

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The swiftness and severity with which the Trump Administration has tried to impose its will on higher education came as a shock to many, not least university presidents and faculties from Harvard to U.C.L.A. But for conservatives this arena of cultural conflict has been a long time coming. The staff writer Emma Green has been speaking with influent…

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Jon Gruden In Studio, Joe Flacco Wins TNF And The Hearts Of America, Week 7 Picks And Preview + Fyre Fest 2:45:00

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Joe Flacco is all the way back and the Bengals have life. The Steelers are still the Steelers, losing games they should win under Mike Tomlin (00:00:00-00:20:03). Dodgers up 3-0 and the Blue Jays/Mariners are all tied up 2-2 (00:20:03-00:25:04). NFL Week 7 picks and preview for every game. The Rams weird travel schedule, blind resumes, a bonus segm…

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Not Even Mad: Jonah Goldberg & Zee Cohen-Sanchez 1:06:06

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Hamas hostages, Trump and autocracy, and the strangely quiet shutdown — we tackle all three. Why Trump’s blunt style played in the Middle East, whether “competitive authoritarianism” really fits his second-term instincts and enablers, and who’s taking the fall for Obamacare-premium brinkmanship. Plus: goat-grinders (pointless rebrands at Max and Ap…

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Jonathan Mahler: The Tabloids That Made The City That Made the Country 48:14

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Mahler walks us through The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986–1990—how a late-'80s crucible of crime, crack, and tabloids minted characters like Spike Lee ("the coolest guy in America"), Al Sharpton, Donald Trump, Ed Koch, and Rudy Giuliani. We revisit Howard Beach, Yusuf Hawkins, Do the Rig…

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MLB Playoffs With Jeff Passan, CFB With Matt Leinart, Bears Beat Commanders In The PMT Bowl + Guys On Chicks 3:01:22

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The Dodgers are unfair and have dudes on dudes on dudes. Mariners team of destiny and a serious not about our friend Nick Mangold (00:00:00-00:22:18). We kick it back to ourselves back in studio to talk about Monday Night Football, the Falcons big win over the Falcons and the PMT Bowl as Jayden Daniels fumbled away the game and the Bears move to 3-…

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Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It 35:52

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Doctorow lays out his "enshittification" playbook—how tech platforms lure users, trap businesses, then extract value from both—tying it to interoperability, right-to-repair, and DMCA lock-ins, with Facebook as Exhibit A. He explains why incremental state laws can break Big Tech's coalitions better than sweeping federal reforms. Meanwhile, Venezuela…

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John Carpenter Picks Three Favorite Film Scores 12:25

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The filmmaker John Carpenter has a whole shelf of cult classics: “They Live,” “The Thing,” “Escape from New York,” “Halloween,” and so many more. And while he hasn’t directed a new movie in more than a decade, Carpenter has continued working in the film industry, composing scores for other directors (Bong Joon Ho recently approached him about a hor…

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NFL Week 6, Fastest 2 Minutes, Baker Mayfield MVP, Chiefs Are Back, Drake Maye Looks Awesome + Playoff Baseball, Cubs Eliminated And Who's Back Of The Week 2:58:54

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NFL Week 6 and we start with Fastest 2 minutes then we recap every game from Sunday (00:00:00-00:10:35)Broncos 13, Jets 11 (00:10:35-00:33:40)Chargers 29, Dolphins 27 (00:33:40-00:43:33)Patriots 25, Saints 19 (00:43:33-00:54:48)Steelers 23, Browns 9 (00:54:48-01:06:57)Rams 17, Ravens 3 (01:06:57-01:14:33)Seahawks 20, Jaguars 12 (01:14:33-01:18:58)P…

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The Smiley Face Murder Theory 49:11

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This episode first aired on November 18, 2024. Across the U.S., college-aged men have been found dead in rivers, lakes, and ponds, and while their deaths have been ruled accidental, a team of retired detectives believes something more nefarious is going on. We’re joined by producer Chelsea Wood and co-hosts Aine Cain and Kevin Greenlee from The Mur…

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SCOTUS’s Shadow Docket, Calibrated + Steven Vladeck 35:22

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Mike previews the new Supreme Court term: Colorado’s conversion-therapy ban, transgender athlete cases out of Idaho and West Virginia, a Louisiana Voting Rights Act fight, and a Rastafarian grooming claim, then dials in the panic meter on the “shadow docket”: what it is, why Trump’s emergency-order wins look so lopsided, and where concern beats cat…

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Funny You Should Mention: Steph Tolev 1:07:34

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Season 3 of Funny You Should Mention begins with the “Filth Queen” herself Steph Tolev to explore why gross can be smart, how crowd work goes viral, Bill Burr’s boost to her career, and the Canadian comedy grind. Big laughs, sharp ideas, adult themes. We also get into slapstick dummies, family lore, and why Boston brings the best chaos. Come for th…

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Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump 48:19

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Next month, New York City may elect as its next mayor a man who was pretty much unknown to the broader public a year ago. Zohran Mamdan, who is currently thirty-three years old and a member of the State Assembly, is a democratic socialist who won a primary upset against the current mayor, Eric Adams, and the former governor Andrew Cuomo, who was tr…

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NFL Week 6 Picks and Preview, Max Has The Worst Night Possible With Eagles & Phillies, Commanders Center Tyler Biadasz + Fyre Fest Of The Week 2:41:49

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Max is down bad as the Phillies lose in an all time fashion and the Eagles get smoked by the Giants. We talk Playoff Baseball, the Yankees get eliminated, Cubs and Tigers force Game 5 and Max wants to blow up all his sports teams (00:00:00-00:44:15). Week 6 picks and preview for all of Sundays games and we talk Flacco in Cincy, the Browns never win…

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Plestia Alaqad: “The Eyes of Gaza,” Witness and Journalist 51:48

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Today on the Gist, a tough conversation with Plestia Alaqad about what she saw in Gaza and how she frames it for a global audience. They dig into sympathy versus credence, terminology like IDF versus IOF, the Al-Ahli Hospital claim, and whether journalism requires shared vocabulary. Plus, a spiel on U Thant, transliteration, and the “clean” versus …

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Jake Tapper and the Race Against Terror 35:55

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Today on The Gist. Jake Tapper breaks down the first U.S. criminal trial of a foreign combatant: why prosecutors chose court over Gitmo, and the painstaking sleuthing that turned a shaky confession into a conviction. We talk DOJ institutional memory, the politics orbiting the Comey case, and why trials rather than commissions lock terrorists away. …

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Miami HC Mario Cristobal, CFB With Tom Fornelli, Jerry From Meow Mix + Playoff Baseball, Jaguars Big Win And FAQ's 2:49:51

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Obama CDC Director Tom Frieden: “'Believe in Science' Is a Terrible Idea.” 37:35

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How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song 30:41

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Steven Pinker: “Common Knowledge Changes Everything” 37:39

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NFL Week 5, Fastest 2 Minutes, Broncos Big Win, Bucs Win In A Shootout, Jayden Daniels Back + Who's Back And Playoff Baseball 3:04:26

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NFL Week 5, we start with fastest 2 minutes then recap every game from Sunday (00:00:00-00:10:29)Vikings 21, Browns 17 (00:10:29-00:20:32)Patriots 23, Bills 20 (00:20:32-00:28:45)Broncos 21, Eagles 17 (00:23:48-01:00:09)Saints 24, Giants 14 (01:00:09-01:07:23)Cowboys 37, Jets 22 (01:07:23-01:22:33)Colts 40, Raiders 6 (01:22:33-01:29:27)Panthers 27,…

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The Doomsday Murders 40:37

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This episode first aired on April 14, 2025. The sordid story of Chad and Lori Daybell hit national news in 2020: missing children, suspicious deaths, and a trail of fringe religious beliefs. We’re diving in with author and former criminal defense attorney Lori Hellis, whose book Children of Darkness and Light unpacks the twists of this case. Stay u…

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Diane Foley on America’s Hostage Blind Spot 29:12

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Diane Foley, founder of the Foley Foundation and mother of slain journalist James Foley, joins Mike to discuss America’s fragmented hostage-recovery system, wrongful detentions, and why the U.S. response lags far behind countries like Israel. In the Spiel, Mike looks at the 20-point Gaza plan, Israeli hostages, and the very different ways nations v…

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Jonah Blank: “Very Quickly and Then Very Slowly” in Nepal 34:51

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South Asia expert Jonah Blank explains how a Gen-Z–driven uprising—fueled by social media, flaunted elite wealth, and ubiquitous VPNs—toppled Nepal’s government. He sketches a country where remittances power daily life, institutions lack public trust, and political parties play musical chairs. Also: Trump fires another U.S. attorney and pressures M…

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A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture 26:02

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Robert P. George is not a passive observer of the proverbial culture wars; he’s been a very active participant. As a Catholic legal scholar and philosopher at Princeton University, he was an influential opponent of Roe v. Wade and same-sex marriage, receiving a Presidential medal from President George W. Bush. George decries the “decadence” of secu…

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Doug Pederson In Studio, Week 5 Picks And Preview, Playoff Baseball, Big Cat Won The 50/50 And An All Time Fyre Fest 3:40:26

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Sports are so back. We talk Thursday Night Football and a great win for the Niners and Mac Jones (00:00:00-00:12:01). Playoff Baseball and the Yankees, Tigers, Dodgers and Cubs advance (00:12:01-00:25:42). Big Cat fulfilled a lifetime goal of winning the 50/50 raffle and recaps an all time week at Wrigley (00:25:42-00:46:01). Week 5 Picks and Previ…

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Not Even Mad: Ben Wizner & Ilya Shapiro 1:02:34

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Free speech under heat: the ACLU’s Ben Wizner and the Manhattan Institute’s Ilya Shapiro square off (and sometimes align) on the “ethos” of the First Amendment—from the Ball State firing over Charlie Kirk comments to cancel culture, government jawboning, and campus heckler’s vetoes. We dig into the Supreme Court’s shadow docket and unitary-executiv…

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Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time 44:58

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Yaakov Katz co-author with Amir Bohbot, of While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East, traces the failures that led to October 7 and how Israel's security establishment misread Hamas's strength and intent. He explains how world opinion, hostage leverage, and casualty ratios constrain Israel differently in …

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Playoff Baseball, CFB With Brandon Walker, Ole Miss Head Coach Lane Kiffin, Jets And Bengals Are A Disaster + Guys On Chicks 3:16:21

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Playoff Baseball is here and we recap all the action from Tuesday's games. Memes is doing a hate watch of the MLB playoffs and we get to the bottom of the WNBA scuttlebutt (00:00:00-00:36:21). We talk MNF and the Jets and Bengals being a disaster and get a status check with Memes on the future of the Jets. Broncos got right and the Bengals need to …

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KJ Steinberg, on The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox 37:30

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We talk with KJ Steinberg, showrunner of Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, about concentrating on Knox’s perspective while still showing how others perceived her, and the legal tightropes that shaped the series. She details the refracted structure (episodes from the prosecutor’s to the co-defendant’s POVs) and why the story follows Knox throu…

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Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure 43:58

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The Political Scene’s Washington Roundtable—the staff writers Jane Mayer, Susan Glasser, and Evan Osnos—discuss how, in the wake of the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, public resistance has a chance to turn the tide against autocratic impulses in today’s politics. They are joined by Hardy Merriman, an expert on the history and practice of civ…

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Amanda Knox — “You don’t have to be a psychopath to wrongly convict somebody.” 33:31

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Knox recounts confronting prosecutor Giuliano Mignini and explores how certainty, incentive structures, and “alternate realities” turned her story into a sprawling international conspiracy. She parses the feedback loop between media and Italian justice, and why today’s true-crime-savvy public might have questioned the case sooner. Also: the 21 poin…

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NFL Week 4, Fastest 2 Minutes, Chiefs Are Back, Bills/Eagles Stay Undefeated + We Talk Ryder Cup And Baseball Playoffs 2:44:58

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NFL Week 4 and we start with Fastest 2 Minutes. (00:00:00-00:10:42) We then recap every game from Sunday Steelers 24, Vikings 21 (00:10:42-00:28:13) Eagles 31, Bucs 25 (00:28:13-00:38:12)Giants 21, Chargers 18 (00:38:12-00:45:37)Falcons 34, Commanders 27 (00:45:37- 00:53:20)Bills 31, Saints 19 (00:53:20-00:59:20)Patriots 42, Panthers 13 (00:59:20-0…

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Albert Fish 37:12

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This episode first aired on August 19, 2024. He’s been called many names: the Boogeyman, the Thrill Vulture, the Moon Maniac, the Werewolf of Wysteria… But in life, he was known as Albert Fish and his gruesome crimes redefined the limits of human depravity. Stay up to date with changes coming to the feed on @serialkillerspodcast! Learn more about y…

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Is Masculinity A Prison? - Mike on Open to Debate 41:51

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Listen to the full debate on Open to Debate’s podcast channel or watch it on YouTube: https://bit.ly/MikePesca Men are falling behind in our society, and some point to traditional ideas of masculinity as the cause. What does it mean to “be a man” today, and how do labels like toxic masculinity impact that question? For some men, masculinity is a co…

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Andrew J. Taylor: “Blue-Collar Voters Don’t Want Blue-Collar Politicians” 31:58

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We talk with North Carolina State political scientist Andrew J. Taylor about his new book, A Tolerance for Inequality: American Public Opinion and Economic Policy, probing why voters often prefer public goods and tax cuts over classic redistribution—and how policy frequently tracks aggregate opinion more than pundits admit. Taylor also explores why…

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Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party 50:02

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The author and podcaster Ezra Klein may be only forty-one years old, but he’s been part of the political-culture conversation for a long time. He was a blogger, then a Washington Post columnist and editor, a co-founder of Vox, and is now a writer and podcast host for the New York Times. He’s also the co-author of the recent best-selling book “Abund…

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NFL Week 4 Picks & Preview, Seahawks Beat Cardinals, 1 Question With A QB Featuring Daniel Jones, Shane Bacon Talking Ryder Cup + Fyre Fest Of The Week 2:40:52

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Seahawks beat Cardinals in a Thursday Night Football game that sucked for 55 minutes and ended up being exciting in the end. Kyler Murray and Marvin Harrison JR are bummers to watch (00:00:00-00:13:46). Playoff baseball is going to be incredible with 1 weekend left in the season (00:13:46-00:21:56). NFL Week 4 Picks and Preview for every NFL game o…

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Justin Driver: “The Fall of Affirmative Action” 41:38

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Yale Law’s Justin Driver argues that SFFA v. Harvard/UNC broke with precedent and embraced a faux “colorblindness,” spotlighting the Court’s creative reading of Grutter’s 2028 “sunset.” He lays out the early fallout—sharp drops in Black enrollment at elite schools, Asian American gains, and the perverse incentive for applicants to “essay their trau…

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Laura Spinney on the Language That Conquered the World 31:36

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Laura Spinney joins to discuss her new book Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, tracing the unlikely rise of Indo-European and why most of the world now speaks it. Also, a look at the Dallas ICE field office shooting in the broader context of political violence and how we categorize it. And in the Spiel: Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback monologue, …

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NFL With Greg Olsen, Goose The Band In Studio, CFB, Are The Ravens In Trouble + Pardon Your Takes 2:50:27

28d ago2:50:27

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The Lions look all the way back and the Ravens may be in trouble. Derrick Henry has a case of the fumbles and who’s more panicked if they lose on Sunday the Ravens or the Chiefs (00:00:00-00:25:02)? We talk some CFB, Mike Gundy fired, Indiana and Texas Tech look awesome and Wisconsin is in a dark dark place (00:25:02-00:48:45). Hot Seat/Cool Throne…

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Sadie Dingfelder on Mosquito Magnets and Who Tastes Best to Bugs 26:22

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President Trump mangles acetaminophen and issues a sweeping “don’t take Tylenol” decree. Are some people truly more attractive to mosquitoes than others? Sadie Dingfelder joins to walk through decades of mosquito studies, from Gambian huts filled with human volunteers to modern lab assays with paraffin membranes, and explains why carbon dioxide, sw…

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The Cartoonist Liana Finck Picks Three Favorite Children’s Books 11:38

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Liana Finck is a cartoonist and an illustrator who has contributed to The New Yorker since 2015. She is the author of several books, including the graphic memoir “Passing for Human.” Like many of her forebears at the magazine, Finck has also published works for children, and her recent book, “Mixed Feelings,” explores the ways that emotions are oft…

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Andrew Fox on “Slam Frank”: Make Something Dangerous 51:11

29d ago51:11

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The writer-composer behind the viral Slam Frank (an Anne Frank musical staged as if by the most social-justice-forward regional theater) explains why he pushes rules to their reductio ad absurdum and why “art should lift up the people who are beneath me.” Fox walks through a contentious table read, a Change.org backlash, and the joy/rage of craftin…

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NFL Week 3, Fastest 2 Minutes, Browns Stun The Packers, Eagles Big Comeback, Caleb Williams Career Day And Justin Herbert Is Incredible 3:00:06

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Week 3 Fastest 2 minutes then we talk about every game from Sunday (00:00:00-00:12:08)Eagles 33, Rams 26 (00:12:08-00:35:44)Bucs 29, Jets 27 (00:35:44-00:50:00)Browns 13, Packers 10 (00:50:00-00:59:53)Steelers 21, Patriots 14 (00:59:53-01:13:22)Commanders 41, Raiders 24 (01:13:22-01:24:01)Jaguars 17, Texans 10 (01:24:01-01:30:31)Panthers 30, Falcon…