Lizz Winstead: From Comedy Writer to Pro-Abortion Activist
Lizz Winstead is best known as the co-creator of The Daily Show, a program that reinvented late-night, and showed a new generation of comedians how to combine news with satire and activism. Her next a...
24 Sep 20211h 17min
How to Craft A Life Worth Living
After enduring what she calls “700 bad days” in a row, author Kelly Williams Brown realized that simple rituals and crafty projects were often what got her through her most difficult days. In her new ...
17 Sep 20211h 5min
The Power Struggle Behind Who Does The Dishes with John Hodgman
For the past 10 years, actor, author and humorist John Hodgman has hosted the podcast “Judge John Hodgman” where he helps friends, roommates and romantic couples negotiate their long-standing quibbles...
10 Sep 202148min
The Anti-Black History of the Second Amendment w/Carol Anderson
Best-selling author of "White Rage" Carol Anderson explores the anti-Black history of the Second Amendment. There is structural racism built into our Bill of Rights! The story of white Americans' fear...
27 Aug 20211h 21min
The Lawsuit About the Indian Child Welfare Act That Isn’t About the Children
Fellow Crookedian Rebecca Nagle joins us to talk about Season Two of “This Land.” From the “boarding schools” of the 19th century to the good intentions of the Indian Child Welfare Act — and the big m...
20 Aug 20211h 5min
Everything You Thought You Knew About the Alamo Is Wrong
The co-author of “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth,” Bryan Burroughs, debunks the Anglo-centric fables surrounding Texas’ founding myth — with a cameo appearance from Phil Colli...
13 Aug 20211h 5min
Brian Broome Is His Own Man with Brian Broome
Brian Broome’s dad used to threaten to hit him so hard he’d go to heaven — “punch him up to the gods” — if he didn’t conform to the ideal of Black masculinity. Broome joins to discuss his memoir, “Pun...
6 Aug 20211h 22min
Growing Up Girl with Melissa Febos
Former young girl and memoirist Melissa Febos joins to discuss the pressures and paradoxes in how society treats female children. Her most recent book is called “Girlhood.” For a transcript of this...
30 Jul 20211h 6min
