• Episode 102: Cian O'Clery
    Apr 25 2025

    Cian O'Clery is a director and producer of unscripted television. He is the co-creator and series director/producer of 'Love On The Spectrum'. His series have won numerous awards both in Australia and internationally, including several Emmy Awards.

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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Episode 101: David Gessner
    Apr 5 2025

    David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including the New York Times bestselling, All the Wild That Remains, Return of the Osprey, Sick of Nature and Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness.

    His latest book is titled The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird.

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Episode 100: David Nasaw
    Mar 17 2025

    David Nasaw is an American author, biographer and historian who specializes in the cultural, social and business history of early 20th Century America. Nasaw is on the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Professor of History.

    His most recent biography, The Patriarch (2012), based on unrestricted and exclusive access to the papers of his subject Joseph Patrick Kennedy, was named one of the five best nonfiction books of 2012 by the New York Times.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 99: Ada Ferrer
    Jan 30 2025

    Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is a professor of history and Caribbean Studies at Princeton University. She won the 2015 Frederick Douglass Prize for her book Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution. She was also awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American History.

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Episode 98: Rodney Ascher
    Jan 3 2025

    Rodney Ascher is an American film director, best known for Room 237 (2012), A Glitch in the Matrix (2021) and The Nightmare (2015).

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Episode 97: Spencer Kornhaber
    Dec 19 2024

    Spencer Kornhaber is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic as an editor in 2011, he was a staff writer at OC Weekly, an editor at Patch, and a freelancer for Spin and The A.V. Club. In 2019, he won the Excellence in Column Writing Award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. At The Atlantic, he covers pop culture and music. He is the author of On Divas: Persona, Pleasure, Power.

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Episode 96: A. L. Kennedy
    Nov 20 2024

    A. L. Kennedy is a Scots writer, academic and stand-up comedian. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction, and is known for her dark tone and her blending of realism and fantasy. She contributes columns and reviews to European newspapers.

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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Episode 95: Ben Johnson
    May 21 2024

    Ben Johnson is a Canadian former sprinter. During the 1987–88 season he held the title of the world's fastest man, breaking both the 100m and the 60m indoor World Records. He won the 100 metres at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics; and at the 1988 Summer Olympics, but was disqualified for doping and stripped of the gold medal.

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    44 mins
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