Aging, Death and Other Uplifting Topics with Mike Birbiglia
Aging, parenting by mortality and dying alone or kinless: these are just some of the uplifting topics Kara and Nayeema tackle today before our interview with Mike Birbiglia. The comedian and writer is...
12 Dec 202252min
A Bad Week for Donald Trump? … And Potentially for Gay Marriage?
It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump. Herschel Walker lost the Georgia Senate runoff and a New York jury found the Trump Organization guilty of criminal tax fraud. But the former President (and curre...
8 Dec 202257min
The Man Behind "Sex and the City" and "Emily in Paris"
Love them or hate them, chances are that you’ve watched at least one Darren Star series. Kara once called them the “hottest trash on TV” but for over 30 years she has devoured shows that Star has crea...
5 Dec 202252min
Why Twitter’s Former Safety Chief Left Elon Musk
Elon Musk's Twitter is a spectacle, and the drama and meaning of the last six months is perhaps best unpacked by Yoel Roth. The company’s former head of trust and safety survived the early flood of fi...
1 Dec 20221h 7min
A Nobel Prize Winner on the “Dark Matter of Biology”
Kara interviews Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, a Stanford University scientist who, along with Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry earlier this year for developing bioorthogo...
28 Nov 202245min
Into It: A Portrait of Artist as Taylor Swift
Today, we’re sharing a special episode of Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders about one of Kara’s favorites: Taylor Swift. What is the meaning of Taylor Swift? She's performed damsel in distr...
24 Nov 202236min
Where’s the Line in Comedy? Monty Python’s Eric Idle Has an Idea
Should anything be off-limits in comedy? Kara and Nayeema discuss this question, and the recent Dave Chappelle SNL monologue, before Kara’s interview with our guest today: writer-comedian Eric Idle wh...
21 Nov 202257min
Can Chris Licht Turn CNN Around?
Chris Licht faces an uphill battle at CNN. He got the CEO gig in the midst of a prickly merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery and right after the shocking exit of beloved long-time boss, Jeff Zuck...
17 Nov 20221h 3min
