Pastor Mark Wingfield joins us to talk about the tough and meaningful work a group of his congregants and clergy did to address how churches incorporate LGBTQ members.
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The Case For Holding A Grudge
Sophie Hannah joins us to explain how grudges can actually be good for us if we think of them in the right context. Her new book is called “How to Hold a Grudge: From Resentment to Contentment – the Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life.”
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All She Wanted Was To Be A Single Black Mother
Nefertiti Austin joins us to talk about what that painstaking process taught her about how America thinks of single, black motherhood.
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Lindy West Takes On The Patriarchy
The New York Times columnist Lindy West joins us about to talk about her book “The Witches Are Coming,” which looks the deep ways that misogyny and male privilege are baked into American society.
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When A White Supremacist Attended Shabbat
Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson join us to talk about the time Matthew invited Derek to attend a Shabbat dinner – and how that interaction paved the way to a new understanding.
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The Nerdy Brilliance Of Comedian Hari Kondabolu
Comic Hari Kondabolu joins us to talk about his comedy style, his Netflix special, and that graduate degree in human rights he earned from the London School of Economics.
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‘Undone’: The Story Behind Amazon’s Coolest Series
Kate Purdy, co-creator, producer and writer of “Undone,” joins us to talk about her drama, which uses Rotoscope animation to bridge the worlds of the living and the dead.
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What Brexit’s Really About
Fintan O’Toole joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the English worldview after the empire collapsed and why that’s key to the fractured policies of today.
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Frauds And Fakers And Counterfeit Makers
Lydia Pyne, visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the value of the right kind of fakes and which ones still take us for a ride.
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Death, Ingénues, And True Crime: A Halloween Special
Obsession, murder, dying, and a touch of humor: just some of the dark subjects we’ll touch on in this Halloween special.
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YouTube and the Next Generation of Celebrity
Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair joins us to profile these internet celebs, who are devoted to digital clicks and the fickle tastes of their audiences.
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You Don’t Know Joe: The Culture Of Coffee
Mark Pendergrast joins host Krys Boyd to talk about our obsession with all things coffee.
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