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The Supreme Court recently started hearing oral arguments about whether the January 6 attacks constitute obstruction of an official proceeding. Tomorrow, they'll hear arguments on Trump's claim of presidential immunity. This hour, a status upda
Daniel Dennett was one of the most famous philosophers in the world, one of the so-called “Four Horsemen of the New Atheism.”Dennett died April 19 at age 82.This hour, our 2015 conversation with Daniel Dennett, as recorded onstage at the Mark
It took almost a week to select the jurors and alternates for the Manhattan trial of former President Donald Trump. This hour is all about juries. We'll talk about jury selection, how to root out potential bias, and the process of choosing an i
Rupert Holmes won two Tony Awards for his musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. His single “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. His dramedy Remember WENN was AMC’s first original scripted series. And his newest
In January, we did a show that wondered both how much the American Civil War speaks to the present American moment and how likely a new American Civil War might be. Well, movies and television have now, finally caught up with us.Civil War is t
This hour, we've got one show with three topics. First, the Trump 'hush money' trial; next, the history of slouch-shaming; and finally, the Golden Bachelor's divorce news.GUESTS: Mark Joseph Stern: Senior writer at Slate covering courts and
Taylor Swift’s newest album, The Tortured Poets Department, comes out Friday. So this hour, we are taking a look at the idea of the actual tortured poet. We talk about where the idea of tortured poets came from, learn about the nature of creati
We imagine pirates to be the quintessential rule-breakers — but really, they had their own strictly-followed codes.How did 18th-century pirates dictate their own community standards? How did they create social mobility in an age when changin
We’ve been doing these shows a couple times a month where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing.This hour, the conversation winds around to an essay ab
Ripley is an eight-episode limited series adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels. It is the first serialized screen version of those stories following five feature film adaptations, including the 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley, sta
If I say “cult classic,” what do you think of? Probably an underground movie that built up an intense following over time, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Room, right? Or maybe even something a bit more mainstream like The Big Lebowsk
This hour, Yale Dean Tamar Gendler joins us to discuss her course “Public Plato: Ancient Wisdom in the Digital Age.” We'll talk about how to make ancient philosophy relevant for a modern audience, questions of framing and form, and what we can
This hour, we’re talking about lotteries. How did this massive money redistribution game come to be? And we know that lotteries can randomly allocate cash prizes to ticket buyers – but could they also pick our political officials? Or the victim
This legislative session, local students lobbied Connecticut lawmakers to change our state insect, which is currently the praying mantis. This hour we are focused on the praying mantis. We'll learn about the insect, why students think it should
Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm has been on HBO for going on 24 years. As the show comes to a close, we take a Nose-ish look at it and its impact on cringe comedy and the role of cringiness and awkwardness in our lives.GUESTS: Katie Baker
On Monday, the contiguous U.S. will see a total solar eclipse for the last time until 2044. Online, the excitement is also giving way to fears — will communities in the eclipse’s path have enough food and gas to support all the travelers? Will
Bestselling author Don Winslow joins us to discuss his new novel, City in Ruins, which he says is the last of his career.GUEST: Don Winslow: Bestselling author, whose new book, City in Ruins, is out this weekJoin the conversation on Facebo
Today “Luddite” is used as a derogatory term for someone who doesn’t understand technology. But the original Luddites weren’t behind. They were technical workers who were concerned about the impact that technology would have on people.This hou
We’ve been doing these shows a couple times a month where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing — calls about grammar, gardening, long-distance dialing,
This week’s Nose has crazy substitute teacher energy.3 Body Problem is a Netflix series created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo and loosely based on the 2008 novel The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, the first novel in the Re
It's tax season. How did this quintessentially frustrating thing come to be so frustrating? And must it be so?This hour, we’re learning about why taxes are so complicated to file in the U.S. Then, we’ll talk about how some of the richest peopl
Constructed languages have existed in popular culture for a long time, but they've reached a new level of ubiquity today. This hour, we talk with professional conlangers who have created languages for Game of Thrones, Dune, and many other world
This hour, we grapple with the impact our ancestors have on our lives and what our responsibility is if they did something we disagree with.GUESTS:Maud Newton: Author of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a ReconciliationJenny Strauss: Great
Plastic is everywhere in our world, and scientists are increasingly discovering the negative health and environmental impacts of the material.This hour, we take a look at our relationship to plastic. We talk about the material, its evolution,
The Nose is off. In its place this hour, a look at the current controversies swirling around certain celebrities:Catherine, Princess of Wales hasn’t made a scheduled public appearance since last year. Kensington Palace announced in January tha
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