R.A. Dickey, pitcher for the New York Mets
Mets pitcher RA Dickey talks about fighting his way through 10 years as a marginal pro baseball player before giving himself over to the uncontrollable but devastating knuckleball.Then we travel back ...
11 Sep 201258min
W. Kamau Bell, Mike Birbiglia, Eleni Mandell
W. Kamau Bell, host of Totally Biased, calculates the gentrification sweet spot. Singer-songwriter Eleni Mandell's life is changed by a Tom Waits song, even though it wasn't the one she meant to hear...
4 Sep 20121h 6min
Kurt Andersen, Chris Fairbanks and Ari Graynor
Guest host Jordan Morris sits down with Kurt Andersen to talk about creative procrastination, why a new generation is happily digging into its parents record collection, and Andersen's new book True B...
28 Aug 201258min
Black Dynamite, The Explorers Club and Rachel Dratch
Black Dynamite's Michael Jai White and Carl Jones talk about their favorite blaxploitation films of the 70s. Actress Rachel Dratch walks into a bar, and six months later she's pregnant. Plus, Jason Br...
21 Aug 20121h 7min
Bob Newhart and the Directors of Mr. Rogers & Me
Jesse talks to Ben and Christopher Wagner about America's most beloved broadcaster — Mister Fred Rogers — and they all hold back tears. Plus, Jesse sits down with another beloved, cardigan-wearing Ame...
14 Aug 201258min
Redd Kross and Matt Braunger
Jordan Morris sits in for Jesse and talks to the influential punk band Redd Kross about their own influences — from Deep Purple to Ziggy Stardust — and then asks where they disappeared to for almost a...
7 Aug 201257min
Michael Ian Black & Tom Bissell, author of Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation
Michael Ian Black talks about his memoir: "You're Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations". Plus, Black explains why he started compulsively Googling the phrase "Fat ...
31 Jul 20121h 8min
RJ Smith profiles James Brown, comedy from Cameron Esposito
James Brown wasn't just the Minister of the New New Heavy Super Funk and the Godfather of Soul. He was the hardest working man in show business, and a complex character to boot. RJ Smith profiles the ...
24 Jul 20121h 7min
