Emily Nussbaum, staff writer at The New Yorker, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the history of reality TV – from the Loud family in the 1970s to “Cops” and “The Bachelorette” – and what makes it an intriguing and controversial genre even in today’s saturated market.
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Leslie Jamison joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss her new memoir about the intense joy she felt watching her child grow coupled with the duality of sorrow as she faced divorce.
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New Yorker staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the industry trying to create “electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles”—a.k.a. flying cars.
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Eyal Press, a contributing writer for The New Yorker, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss cases of mistaken identity that sent innocent people to prison, all on the authority of tech that is still new and has unintended bias built in.
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New Yorker contributing writer Matthew Hutson explains why there needs to be 100-times more storage for renewables by 2040, and why that goal is currently out of reach.
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Daniel A. Gross of The New Yorker joins us to talk about why we deny prisoners the right to vote and if we should restore that privilege.
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Science journalist Adam Mann joins us to talk about the renewed push and excitement to fund the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, despite skepticism and pushback.
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Michael Schulman joins us to talk about the rise of superfans and the power they command.
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This hour, we’ll talk about the conflict Mexican-American border agents have while doing their jobs with Alfredo Corchado, whose three-part series on the topic appears in “The New Yorker.”
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We’ll talk about extreme cases of philanthropy with New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar, author of “Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help.”
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New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee joins us to talk about what separates the comics that make it into the magazine from the ones that don’t – and about packing the maximum amount of humor into a single frame.
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This hour we’ll revisit our May talk with Mary Norris, who spent over three decades in The New Yorker’s copy department.
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