We’ll talk about getting the best bang for your educational buck with the author of Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make.
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Tattoo You
We’ll talk specifically about what extensive body art says about the women who chose the look with Siena College sociology professor Beverly Yuen Thompson.
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Francis: The Pope, The Person
We’ll get to know the man born Jorge Mario Bergoglio a little better with Robert Draper, whose book with photographer David Yoder is called Pope Francis and the New Vatican.
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Do I Sound Gay?
We’ll talk about whether a “gay voice” exists – and if it does, why? – with filmmaker David Thorpe, whose documentary Do I Sound Gay opens this weekend at the Texas Theatre.
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The Surfing Life
This hour, we’ll talk with New Yorker writer William Finnegan about the allure of surfing, which he explores in his memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.
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Frame By Frame
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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How Identical Twins Became Fraternal
Imagine being separated at birth from your identical twin and raised alongside your assumed fraternal twin. That’s exactly what happened to four infants in Colombia.
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The Life Of A Speechwriter
We’ll talk about the process of populating all those TelePrompters with Barton Swaim, a one-time speechwriter for former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
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The Two-Dad Dynamic
We’ll talk this hour about two-dad households with Aaron Goodfellow, author of Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship.
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To Japan, With Love
We’ll talk with Tracy Slater about leaving America to live across the Pacific with the man she fell in love with, which she writes about in her memoir, The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World.
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Serious Taco Talk
The history and future of the taco in Dallas – and where the best ones can be found.
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The Legacy of Dadaism
We’ll talk about the lasting legacy of Dadaism with Jed Rasula, author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century.
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