Jo Dee Messina on Hard Times, Jesus, and Her First Album in 12 Years
Jo Dee Messina has a long career in the music industry: number one hits, platinum and gold records, many awards. She’s a country music icon. Jo Dee just released Bridges, her first new album in 12 yea...
13 Jul 51min
Best of Depresh Mode: Hanif Abdurraqib on Cultivating a Support System, Depression, Anxiety, and Basketball
Hanif Abdurraqib is a MacArthur Fellow, accomplished poet, and critically lauded author of numerous books, including There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, which is now out in paperbac...
6 Jul 50min
We Should Praise Addiction, Not Condemn It, Says Anthropologist Elizabeth Roberts
The title of Elizabeth Roberts’ new book, In Praise of Addiction, is likely to catch your attention, maybe even set off some cognitive dissonance in your mind. But the University of Michigan’s Elizabe...
29 Jun 52min
Cartoonist Gemma Correll Saw a Therapist with a Clown-Festooned Office. Once.
British-born, LA-based author and illustrator Gemma Correll had a couple of reasons to choose the motif of an amusement park for her new anxiety book, Anxietyland. One, she loves amusement parks and ...
22 Jun 46min
RFK Jr. Wants To Take Your SSRIs Away. So What Are Democrats Doing About It?
Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is, to put it mildly, a skeptic of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medication, a form of meds that millions of Americans use r...
15 Jun 50min
Robyn Hitchcock is Fundamentally Delusional, Welcomes Birds
If you’ve ever listened to Robyn Hitchcock’s music, you know that it can get pretty surrealistic. Some might say divinely bizarre and eclectic. Others might just say weird. All of that’s fine with the...
8 Jun 1h 4min
Blake Mycoskie Helped the World, Got Rich, Retired to a Life of Ease, Then Fell Apart
There is no Tom behind TOMS Shoes. It’s short for “Tomorrow’s.” There is a Blake, however. Blake Mycoskie founded the company in 2006 under the model that for every pair sold, a second pair would be d...
1 Jun 58min
An Episode About the Grind, Singer Zayna Youssef of Sweet Pill, and YOU
Yes, the episode is about a rock singer but it’s also about any of us who grind away for the benefit of our work and the detriment of ourselves. The sudden cancellation of the band Sweet Pill’s extens...
25 Mai 53min
