During the period of the year with the highest turkey consumption, we bring y...
A show for this year's midterm elections. Two best friends in Michigan, both ...
Stories of unconditional love between parents and children, and how hard love...
Operation Iraqi Freedom is over. And the next chapter of Iraq is being writte...
Mike Birbiglia had bizarre adventures at night, but just got used to sleep be...
This week we bring you stories about friends. Or wait, enemies? How about bot...
When John returned from Iraq, he was haunted by the killing he'd done. He got...
Stories about people who have the right to remain silent...but choose not to ...
We take the stately laws of physics—laws which mathmaticians and scientists h...
Stories of people living completely outside the grid of American life. Americ...
Nine radio producers. Two days. One rest stop on the New York State Thruway. ...
We answer the following questions about superpowers: Can superheroes be real ...
In the 1970s a journalist named Charles Salter wrote a column for the Atlanta...
This week we bring you little-known and surprising stories of how all sorts o...
Back in the 1980s Michael Larson made the most money ever on the game show Pr...
Stories of summer camp. People who love camp say that non-camp people simply ...
Stories of first encounters with unknown beings: girls, foreigners and perhap...
Richard Ravitch has helped fix three governmental crises, including when New ...
A kidnapping victim in Colombia spends his nights listening to a radio statio...
“Everything a joke to you, Fletch?” “Everything, Sam.” It’s like the first notes of the first song that I ever heard. A song that I can’t stop humming. See, I’m both afflicted by the plague of smartassery and fascinated by it; spending too much time analyzing it, absorbing it and writing about it. It even [...]
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After a trip into drug-fueled crazy, last night’s Mad Men returned to its senses, focusing on the ever devolving state of Don and Megan’s marriage, Peggy and Abe’s political divide, and the repercussions that come with Roger’s “Peter Pan” mentality. Playing House Never saw this coming: after a saber clash between Don and Ted for [...]
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Every week, we’ll take a look at the biggest stories in entertainment news, sports, politics, news news, and pop culture, and we’re going to present them to you here on THE WEEKLY WIND-UP PODCAST in about 15 minutes. Good deal right? Yes, your choice for sound clips is filling you in on all the news [...]
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A criminally under-worshipped film from the 1980s, Lost in America exists both as a comedic cautionary tale for all those who seek to embrace their inner Thoreau and the notion that well-fed boredom can be toppled by a mindless divorce from the swaddle cloth of society. Co-written, directed and starring Albert Brooks, Lost in America [...]
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen some large sea changes on Mad Men, so many changes that we seemed due for a break. Last night’s episode, “The Crash” was a break in more ways than one and an unanticipated jaunt through the back alleys of show creator Matthew Weiner’s mind. The Stalker We’ve never [...]
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Every week, we’ll take a look at the biggest stories in entertainment news, sports, politics, news news, and pop culture, and we’re going to present them to you here on THE WEEKLY WIND-UP PODCAST in about 15 minutes. Good deal right? Yes, your choice for sound clips is filling you in on all the news [...]
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