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The official podcast of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor
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Political commentator and comedy writer Erin Ryan and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco are joined by a bicoastal squad of funny, opinionated women to talk through everything from reproductive rights to romcoms. They break down the political news of the week, plus the topics, trends, and cultural stories that affect women’s lives.
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Welcome, to SuperKind Kids! Join Teacher Katie and Leo on this podcast adventure where we explore the extraordinary power of kindness and its impact on the world. In each episode, we dive into heartwarming conversations with nonprofits, favorite authors, and other kids making a difference. But here's the exciting part – we're not just talking about kindness; we're inspiring action. Discover how your SuperKind Kids can engage in kid-friendly community service projects right from the comfort o ...
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Ever wondered what happens when you fill a cello with bees? Or how robins have successfully colonised the outer-reaches of our universe? Or why the world is destined to be populated purely by female turtles? This podcast celebrates nature and the stories of those who care deeply for it. Join artist, actor and Woodland Trust & Wildlife Trusts ambassador David Oakes, for a series of informal, relaxed conversations with artists, scientists, creatives and environmentalists as they celebrate the ...
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Discover your next favourite book, or take a deep dive into the mind of an author you love, with The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Long-form interviews with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded from our bookshop in the heart of Paris. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director, Adam Biles. Discover all our upcoming events here. If you enjoy these conversations, you can order The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews here. Past guests include: Ottessa Moshfegh, Ian McEwan, Ali ...
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Jessica Iclisoy is the founder of California Baby, the leader in plant-based skincare products for babies, kids and sensitive adults for over 25 years. Jessica's inquisitive questioning style helps us break down healthy living challenges in order to apply problem-solving tactics. Topics are as varied as bee keeping, Chinese medicine, organic textile production and tips for living a healthy vibrant lifestyle.
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Joe has seen every episode of the HBO show Entourage. Emily has not. Each week these two comedians will watch, recap and review an episode of Entourage with some great comedians and Entourage newbies from the UCB Theatre, Netflix, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central, Samantha Bee and more joining them along the way. Recorded live from Queens Blvd baby!
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No matter your fitness level, how long you've been cycling for, how big or how small you perceive your cycling goals for 2018 to be, the group wants to hear and support you all the way. Share your rides, what has pushed you, the highs and the lows on your journey to your goals to help and inspire others achieve theirs.
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Best Friends Amanda and Courtney deep dive into true crime cases with an empathetic standpoint. They focus awareness mainly on lesser known crimes and crimes against those deemed extra vulnerable. Occasionally, the hosts will cover more well known cases due to relevance or a particularly fascinating element. The bees (the honeybee) is seen as synonymous with victims and survivors. We must always protect the bees. We must always let their voices be heard. We must not stifle the buzz of the be ...
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Do you want to go behind the sciences and learn about how the food gets on your table? Hear about the complex world of agricultural policy, food safety, crop protection, disease control and more from the most influential people working in farming. Be sure to tune in each week as we delve deeper into the inner workings of our food system.
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Three friends from Grad School get drunk and talk about the pop-culture phenomenon that is Glee and how we might rewrite it when it comes time for the Glee reboot.
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Now, thanks to our sponsors, we are subscription free! WINNER of the International Communicator Award for Best Storytelling Podcast and the Davey Award for best inclusive podcast! Imagination Storybooks makes illustrated children's books accessible to blind and ALL children by adding rich audio description (AD) of the pictures. Visit us at https://imaginationstorybooks.org
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Episode 131 Kyle Edgell CHP - Caricatures As An Experience
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Kyle Edgell started drawing caricatures in a bar. For fun. She never considered the talent she had to capture a likeness and connect with people a product to be “sold”…until a life-changing request to draw at a company picnic as entertainment allowed her to gift the drawings to her subjects and be paid for it. Her insight and ability to encourage o…
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Katie Couric on Weird Republicans and Team USA
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Katie Couric joins Alyssa Mastromonaco for a chat about Kamala Harris fundraising (featuring white people on Zoom calls), the Veepstakes, and calling MAGA Republicans like JD Vance “weird.” Then, Katie and Alyssa answer YOUR questions, covering romance, the idea of interviewing Melania Trump, and everything in between. Show Notes Katie Couric (Twit…
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Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips
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So much has been written about the imminent transformation that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our world. But it is often hard to get much of a sense of what that will mean on a personal level—for our work, for our leisure and, perhaps most importantly of all, for our families. What improvements will result? What new tensions will arise? Wha…
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9. Sharing Kindness One Cup at a Time with Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
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Send a message to Teacher Katie! Have you heard Alex's story and her mission of kindness? At just 4 years old she knew she wanted to help her doctors find a cure for cancer so that other kids didn't have to go through the battle. She started with a single lemonade stand. Others joined in and ultimately earned 1 million dollars together. Since then …
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Katie Couric on Kamala Harris, Childfree Cat Ladies & Summer’s Bounty w. Evan Kleiman
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Katie Couric co-hosts with Alyssa Mastromonaco, diving into Biden dropping out of the race, Kamala Harris, potential VP picks, and misogynistic political media. Then, for some levity: Sani-Petty (Celine Dion! The Olympics!). Finally, Evan Kleiman of KCRW joins to talk about summer foods — fruit pies, preserves, cocktails — and cookbook favorites. F…
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Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey
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We recently welcomed Catherine Lacey to the bookshop to discuss her vertiginous latest novel Biography of X. Ostensibly the quest of a journalist, C.M. Lucca, to discover more about the life of her late wife—an artist who went by many names, but who she knew only as X—it quickly becomes clear that, in Biography of X, it’s not just one life being ca…
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S.E. Cupp on the RNC, Conservatives and Hilaria Baldwin
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S. E. Cupp (CNN contributor, Jeopardy winner) joins Alyssa Mastromonaco to discuss MAGA world’s latest: the mess of the Republican National Convention, Trump picking JD Vance as his VP, and the Pennsylvania assassination attempt. Then, they cool off with Sani-Petty. Finally, Alyssa interviews four fantastic state-level candidates — Mai Xiong of Mic…
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Set in small-town, post-crash Ireland, The Bee Sting follows the Barnes family—Dickie, Imelda, Cass and PJ—as the fabric of their lives first frays at the edges, then begins to unravel completely. The Barnes’ are endearing, and complex, and funny, and infuriating… In short, one of the most realistic and memorable portrayals of a family you’ll find …
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Episode 130 - MUST LISTEN! Comedian and Speaker Mike Cotayo
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Funny Man Mike Cotayo is a comedian who knows how to take the stage by storm. His unique blend of silly, smart and dark humor leaves audiences in hysterics, while making others snarf drinks through their nose. Funny Man Mike promises to have you coming back for more. Mike Joins Jim-Bob Williams and Katy BEE to discuss comedians with disabilities, w…
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Respect VP Kamala Harris w. Errin Haines & Dr. Karen Tang
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Errin Haines of The 19th is back, co-hosting with Alyssa and diving into the recent media coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump trying to walk back his support of Project 2025 in news. Then, Dr. Karen Tang joins to discuss her book It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (but Were Never Told) — whi…
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Matthew Oates: A Paean to the Purple Emperor. One Man’s Passion-filled Past Devoted to Great British Butterflies
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Matthew Oates is a naturalist, nature writer, and poet with a lifelong passion for butterflies. In the short sward of the Cotswolds, Matthew takes David Oakes on a journey through his fluttery past. They discuss the writers who have inspired him, from Tolkien to Wordsworth and W.H. Hudson, and share stories of other notable butterfly enthusiasts, s…
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Claire Kilroy on Parenting under the Patriarchy
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A woman tells her son about his early life. About the months and years that he will by now have forgotten. When he was a baby, then a toddler, and when she was going into battle every day. For him first, and only then for herself. It’s a battle fought on many fronts. Against exhaustion, against time, against the loss of selfhood, against an increas…
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Episode 129 - The Indonesian Humor Institute Pioneers - Danny Septriadi and Ulwan Fakhri
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Combining tax & humor? No tax authorities and practitioners implement that in the world, until Danny Septriadi starts it out! As a tax practitioner & academia, Danny has been using humor in his 30 years professional life. Experiencing humor as a resilience tool himself, he then founded the first world-record library of humor studies & Indonesian hu…
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Turning Debate Anxiety Into Action w. Tre’vell Anderson
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Tre’vell Anderson of Crooked’s What A Day podcast co-hosts with Alyssa Mastromonaco this week! They dive into the 2nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned, the first Trump v. Biden presidential debate, and the status of the Supreme Court’s rulings in news. Then, Hysteria producer Fiona Pestana joins to discuss the current state of anti-trans…
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Farm to Fork for Real with San Miguel Produce’s Garrett Nishimori
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In this episode, Western Growers Director of Communications, Ann Donahue, talks with Garrett Nishimori, Business Manager at San Miguel Produce. Garrett grew up in a farming family in Oxnard, Calif. He left to attend culinary school, after which he became a chef in a two-star Michelin restaurant in San Francisco. He returned to the family farm 15 ye…
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Our Dystopian Project 2025 Future w. Errin Haines & Deesha Dyer
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Errin Haines, editor-at-large for The 19th, joins Alyssa to talk the latest abortion news, the horrors of a possible second Trump presidency, some hope for those with medical debt, and more. Then, Deesha Dyer talks about her new book Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble. To close, Errin and Alyssa get Petty. For a closed-c…
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Rachel Cusk on Art, Violence and Freedom through Destruction
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The biographies of several artists, all named G, form a kind of exoskeleton to Rachel Cusk’s latest novel Parade, encasing the book’s other captivating strands—the story of an unprovoked attack on a Parisian street, the story of a couple on a remote island, the story of a suicide at a museum, the story of the death of a mother. Elements which thems…
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Tim Kendall & Fiona Mathews (PART TWO): Eye spy an eco-engineer! Deep in the Forest of Dean in search of the contentious Wild Boar...
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In the second part of David Oakes' interview with Professors Fiona Mathews and Tim Kendall, the mammal-enthused trio head into the Forest of Dean in search of Wild Boar! Fiona Mathews is a professor of Environmental Biology at the University of Sussex and the founding Chair of Mammal Conservation Europe; Tim Kendall is a professor of English Litera…
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Episode 128 - Christiana Frank Applied Improvisation Consultant and Speaker
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Christiana Frank is a certified speaker, coach, consultant, program developer, and mentor. Since 1999, she has been helping corporate teams, educational institutions, and mental health facilities connect to themselves, each other, and the world at large. Founder of KidScape Productions and with a strong passion for helping all ages, you can typical…
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Trump’s Vice Presidential Roulette w. Samantha Bee
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Samantha Bee joins Alyssa Mastromonaco to break down Trump’s Vice Presidential candidates, the latest in abortion news, the Supreme Court financial disclosures and Alex Jones liquidating his assets from Infowars. Plus Alyssa and Sam answer listener questions! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episo…
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Fiona Mathews & Tim Kendall: Wild Mammals are far from 'Boar-ing'
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Fiona Mathews is a professor of Environmental Biology at the University of Sussex and the founding Chair of Mammal Conservation Europe; Tim Kendall is a professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, and; their dog Charlie Brown is an especially trained labrador with the talent for locating the bodies of bats that…
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Feckless Republican Behavior w. Samantha Bee
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Samantha Bee joins Alyssa to guest host while Erin is out on maternity leave! They dish about Trump’s guilty verdict, Republican buffoonery, and the latest abortion news ahead of the 2-year anniversary of Roe being overturned. Then, Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan discusses working for the CIA, Congresspeople who aren’t “in it for the right reasons…
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When Radical Art meets Obscene Wealth, with Hari Kunzru
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Last week we were joined in the bookshop by Hari Kunzru, whose new novel Blue Ruin is a deeply unsettling, and intensely thought provoking reflection on the impact capital has on people, but also on art, and those who create it. It is the perfect final instalment—alongside White Tears and Red Pill—in Hari Kunzru’s own trois couleurs —a loose trilog…
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Episode 127 - Stefano Iaboni Smile Solution
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Meet Stefano Iaboni, a comedic performer from Rome who turned his love for the arts into a global adventure. Starting in circus school in Holland, Stefano soon found the weather and cuisine lacking. He relocated to Barcelona, where he immersed himself in the vibrant scene of nouveau clowning, collaborating with legends like Johnny Melville and Jang…
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8. Koala Kindy, Sneaky Snackers, and Replanting for the Future with Friends of the Koala
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Send a message to Teacher Katie! It's been a koala extravaganza with Team Kind Humans this month and it is continuing with another meaningful episode with Friends of the Koala. Listen in as Chloe, a koala rescuer, shares the inside scoop on what it's like to help koalas thrive and rejoin the wild. - Watch their koala documentary - Join the Joey Bud…
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Last week we were joined by the wonderful Sheila Heti to celebrate the launch of her Alphabetical Diaries. In taking a decade of her journals, sorting the sentences alphabetically, then paring them down to about a tenth of their original length, Sheila Heti has freed a slice of her life from the shackles of time and in doing so has extracted some o…
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