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Voted “Favorite Political Podcast” by Apple Podcasts listeners. Stephen Colbert says "Everybody should listen to the Slate Political Gabfest." The Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz, is the kind of informal and irreverent discussion Washington journalists have after hours over drinks.
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Novel Dialogue

Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz

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Novel Dialogue: where unlikely conversation partners come together to discuss the making of novels and what to make of them. What makes us special? Critics and novelists in conversation. Breaking down the boundaries between critical, creative, and just plain quirky, Novel Dialogue’s approach is wide-ranging and unconventional. Ever wondered what Jennifer Egan thinks of TikTok, how Ruth Ozeki honed her craft working on the movie Mutant Hunt, or if Colm Tóibín will ever write a novel about an ...
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Getting to sleep can be difficult sometimes. Now you can achieve that urgently needed rest by taking advantage of our most precious natural resource: celebrities. Each week on the slyly humorous and reassuring Sleeping with Celebrities, host John Moe talks with a different guest from the world of entertainment about something they know a lot about. The conversation is guaranteed to be just interesting enough to draw your attention away from your own swirling anxieties but never interesting e ...
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Ask Roulette

Jody Avirgan

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Ask Roulette is a conversation series in which strangers ask each other questions, live on stage. It's a mix of conversation, comedy, and storytelling -- there's also music. David Plotz of Slate calls it "great" and the Observer says it's one of NYC's 10 Best Podcasts. The podcast features highlights from our live events at Housing Works Bookstore in New York, including appearances by special guests. Past guests have included Robert Krulwich of Radiolab, Kurt Braunohler, Julie Klausner, Bara ...
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“The Other Side of Midnight” is live and local radio at its finest, with an emphasis on theater of the mind. Hosted by Frank Morano, a lifelong New Yorker with an encyclopedic knowledge of local politics and an excessive passion for cheese, Star Trek, cigars and martinis, this show takes you where other radio shows don’t dare to tread.
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You know that bookclub you belong to? The one where the wine flows freely, the laughter is loud and the books are extremely interesting. That is this podcast, in your ears. My name is Jennifer Radke and I am your host and a body image coach. I get my guests to read a book in the Fat Acceptance/Body Positive/Health at Every Size space and I talk to them about it. Throughout these conversations I get them to tell their stories, we go off on tangents and we give you a great idea of the main con ...
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Look, we’ll admit right now that this week’s episode is interesting. We’ll stipulate that. David Plotz, CEO of CityCast.fm and longtime contributor to Slate’s Political Gabfest is fascinated by the measures taken around the nation’s capital to prevent a Confederate invasion that could tilt the balance of the war. He details all the forts that were …
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Frank starts the show talking with space expert and radio host Steve Kates a.k.a. Dr. Sky. They discuss supermoons, a Russian satellite that exploded and much more. Frank spends the hour talking with Maureen Callahan, an award winning investigative journalist, author, columnist and commentator. Her latest book is Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women…
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This week, we travel all the way inside the Moe household as host John interviews his wife Jill. She is a bona fide celebrity within the narrow, odd, and passionate world of crop art. It’s what it sounds like: art made out of seeds, leaves, anything that grows. The world capital of crop art is in Saint Paul, home of the Minnesota State Fair and hom…
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Frank starts the show joined by WABC host Dominic Carter to discuss Target stores no longer accepting personal checks. He is later joined by Dan Luzadder, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, veteran journalist, documentary filmmaker and author, whose books include, The Manchurian Journalist. They talk about how the American intelligence community uses…
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Frank starts the show joined by WABC host Dominic Carter to discuss Target stores no longer accepting personal checks. He is later joined by Dan Luzadder, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, veteran journalist, documentary filmmaker and author, whose books include, The Manchurian Journalist. They talk about how the American intelligence community uses…
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Frank starts the show joined by WABC host Dominic Carter to discuss Kevin Bacon and the difficulty of fame and blending in. He moves on to talk with Kenneth Khachigian, a political consultant, speechwriter and attorney, who was a longtime aide to President Nixon and Chief White House speechwriter in the Reagan White House. He’s the author of the bo…
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Frank starts the third hour with commendations for the week. He then talks about elections across Europe and is joined by Jack Fox, a man known as the Human Lie Detector, who listens to the words people use to see if they’re telling the truth, lying or hiding something. They discuss the trial of Karen Read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m…
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Frank starts the show joined by WABC host Dominic Carter to discuss Kevin Bacon and the difficulty of fame and blending in. He moves on to talk with Kenneth Khachigian, a political consultant, speechwriter and attorney, who was a longtime aide to President Nixon and Chief White House speechwriter in the Reagan White House. He’s the author of the bo…
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This week, host June Thomas talks to Jim Saah, a photographer who documented D.C.’s legendary hardcore punk scene in the 1980’s and 90’s. In the interview, Jim explains how he fell in love with punk music in high school and soon started photographing bands like Minor Threat and Fugazi. He also discusses the chaotic environments he had to work in, a…
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James Flippin fills in for Frank Morano! He starts the show wrapping up Independence Day and talks about alien encounters. He is joined by Chris Rutkowski, an author and professor at the University of Manitoba who has written about investigations and research on UFOs. They discuss UFO popularity in recent years, significant incidents and much more.…
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James wraps up the show talking with political consultant, author and radio host, Roger Stone. They discuss the JFK assasination. He later talks with former youtuber Risky Chrisky who was banned off the platform after doing investigations into the 2017 Las Vegas Shooting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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James starts the next hour talking with Dan Falato, an award-winning executive producer, writer and performer. They talk about Dan's experience working with personalities like Artie Lange, Stephen A. Smith, and Cubs player Mark Grace. He is later joined by Ricky Gold, the Founder and CEO of Juice Reel, a sports betting analytics app. They talk abou…
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James Flippin fills in for Frank Morano! He starts the show wrapping up Independence Day and talks about alien encounters. He is joined by Chris Rutkowski, an author and professor at the University of Manitoba who has written about investigations and research on UFOs. They discuss UFO popularity in recent years, significant incidents and much more.…
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Frank starts the show this Independence Day with Ask Frank Anything. Frank starts the next hour talking about the dangers of fireworks and their effects on animals and the environment. He also talks with Elliot Ackerman, a former marine and intelligence officer who served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. He's also a contributing writer f…
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Frank starts the next hour talking about the dangers of fireworks and their effects on animals and the environment. He also talks with Elliot Ackerman, a former marine and intelligence officer who served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. He's also a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a best-selling author, whose latest book is 2054.…
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Frank starts the third hour with denunciations for the week. He moves on to talk with Chris Carosa, a hamburger historian backyard grill master, Yale graduate and award-winning writer, and author of Hamburger Dreams. They talk about the history of burgers and grilling one to perfection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Supreme Court decisions on presidential immunity in Trump v. United States and the administrative state in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo as well as the future of Joe Biden’s nomination to be re-elected president. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Su…
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Do we understand racism as the primary driving engine of American inequality? Or do we focus instead on the indirect ways that frequently hard-to-discern class inequality and inegalitarian power relations can produce racially differentiated outcomes? Adaner Usmani, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies at Harvard and on the editorial …
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Frank starts the show talking about a transgender olympian competing with female runners. He then moves on to talk with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, an award winning historian of the presidency, political culture and government institutions as well as an author, whose latest book is MAKING THE PRESIDENCY: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Re…
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Frank starts the third hour talking about the trial of NJ Senator Bob Menendez and storing large sums of money at home. He is later joined by George Shea, Co-Founder and Commissioner of Major League Eating as they discuss the July 4th hot dog eating contest and Joey Chestnut's absence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Frank starts the show talking about a transgender olympian competing with female runners. He then moves on to talk with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, an award winning historian of the presidency, political culture and government institutions as well as an author, whose latest book is MAKING THE PRESIDENCY: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Re…
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Frank starts the next hour with a midnight panel consisting of John McDonagh, a cab driver, comic, playwright, and radio talk show host; Freddy Mertz, veteran radio talk show host, who formerly hosted overnights on 77WABC and Noel Ashman, a film producer, entrepreneur and legendary nightlife impresario. They discuss everything from the presidential…
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Frank starts the show joined by WABC host Dominic Carter to discuss Boeing and Dominic's time in St. Louis. Frank moves on to talk about the recent SCOTUS rulings on presidential immunity and how it may affect the upcoming election. Frank starts the next hour discussing the latest on the trial of Karen Read, a woman who was accused of killing her p…
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Frank starts the show joined by WABC host Dominic Carter to discuss malls using facial recognition software. He moves on to discuss lyme disease, a UAP sighting in Canada and much more. Frank starts the next hour discussing the state of Biden's re-election campaign. He moves on to talk with Cynthia Sue Larson, Founder of RealityShifters, the first …
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Frank starts the next hour discussing the state of Biden's re-election campaign. He moves on to talk with Cynthia Sue Larson, Founder of RealityShifters, the first president of the International Mandela Effect Conference and a best-selling author, whose books include The Mandela Effect and its Society: Awakening from Me to We. They discuss the Mand…
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This week, host Ronald Young Jr. talks to John DeLore, a podcast editor and sound designer who’s been in the industry since its heyday. He’s produced hugely popular shows for companies like Gimlet and Stitcher, and now he runs his own production company, Starlight Diner Studio. In the interview, John breaks down his sound design process, shares tip…
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The morning after, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the first presidential debate of 2024 and President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance. Here are some notes and references from the show: CNN Presidential Debate: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump Will Weissert for AP: Here’s why it would be tough for Demo…
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Frank starts the show like he always does on Fridays: With Ask Frank Anything. In the next hour, Frank hosts a panel consisting of E. O’Brien (Obie) Murray, a veteran political consultant and crisis communications strategist as well as Anthony Weiner, a former Democratic Congressman from New York and a radio talk show host on 77WABC. They analyze t…
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