‘I woke up in an Ambulance Stuck in Traffic.’ : A Listener’s Story of Recovery
Rebecca Kaduru was driving home… then woke up in an ambulance. She’d been in involved in an accident and her face was smashed. Living in Uganda, she struggled to receive…
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11. Writing on the Wall
After prison, Miki is a changed man . . . kind of. He knows better than to break the law again. So he finds other ways to make money. He…
10. Aging Boy of Summer
After getting busted in France in 1981, Miki finally surrenders himself to the FBI. Agents have spent years interviewing denizens of the surf world, gathering dirt on Miki. His criminal…
The Summer of Our Discontent with Reporter Astead Herndon (The New York Times)
With the closing of the latest season of The Run-Up, political reporter Astead Herndon (The New York Times) returns to the show. At the top, we discuss the recent impactful…
Phillip Persson, Rock Salesman
Can you put yourself through college by selling rocks on eBay? Philip Persson did! He’s a geologist and mineral dealer who’s been obsessed with digging things out of the ground…
America’s Poverty is by Design
America is the richest country on earth, and yet we have the highest levels of poverty of any advanced democracy. Why is that? And what should we do about it?…
Damon Albarn
Over the course of his 35-year career, Damon Albarn has reached international fame with two very different bands. In 1988, Damon created the rock band Blur with three friends in…
On Background: Who Buys Distressed Assets?
Andy Mitchell could be called a “doctor for business.” His firm, Lantern Asset Management, buys up businesses in immediate need of cash and willing to sell at bargain-basement prices. Michael…
A Neuroscientist’s Curious Approach to Dying
At age 59, neuroscientist David Linden received a startling diagnosis of heart cancer. Even in the face of a terminal illness, David is continuing to think like a scientist. He…
9. The Fall Guys
Kevin Naughton and Craig Peterson are on assignment for Surfer magazine. Their task? Find Miki Dora. When they do, he’s living in a campervan in the South of France, surfing…
The Making of Tom Hanks
Today, on his 67th birthday, we’re joined by actor Tom Hanks! We begin by discussing his debut novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (6:45), his nomadic upbringing…
The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon
“If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss…” Those words – from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” – were based on…
