The East River Mammoth Tusk Hoax
What happens when extinct animal skeletons meet the “Joe Rogan Experience”? The answer is murky, freezing, and may contain submerged cars. This week, we bring on Michael Wilson from the…
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis succeeded in stripping important ideas and essential people out of the new curriculum for the national Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Khalil and Ben discuss…
Adam Davidson, Economics Journo & Entrepreneur
Adam Davidson co-founded NPR’s hit podcast Planet Money, wrote The Passion Economy, and was an economics writer for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. So of course…
Mistress Marley, Financial Dominatrix
Real job alert: Earn money from men who send you cash just because you exist, no sex involved. Mistress Marley talks bondage, real-time reparations, and why her clients think giving…
Introducing Started from the Bottom
Every week on Started from the Bottom, host Justin Richmond interviews successful people who grew up on the outside – people of color, people who weren’t part of the old…
The Upside of Stress
We’re all familiar with the ways that stress can make us feel bad. But professor and stress expert Modupe Akinola argues that a simple change in our mindset can turn…
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and Self-Knowledge
Question everything… that’s a key insight from the great Greek philosopher Socrates. We may think we know ourselves and what makes us happy… but that’s not always true. Yale professor…
Episode 4: A Very Sophisticated Gal
When Esther flees New York, she inadvertently ignites a media firestorm. Reporters and TV producers rush to tell the story of the Ivy League imposter: the so-called “brazen brunette beauty”…
The Year of Actor Pedro Pascal
For the long weekend, we return to one of our favorite talks with actor Pedro Pascal! At the top, we discuss his role in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (5:02),…
The Hero Who Rode His Segway Off a Cliff
Steve Jobs called It “the most amazing piece of technology since the PC.” According to Jeff Bezos It was not only “revolutionary,” but infinitely commercial. It was a fiendishly clever…
Running in Recycled Shoes
Caspar Coppetti is the co-founder of On, a company that makes athletic shoes. Caspar’s problem is this: How can you sell tens of millions of shoes a year — and…
Not Lost Chat: Paradise City (Pico Iyer & Reggie Watts)
No piña coladas were consumed during travel writer Pico Iyer’s quest for paradise. Instead he found himself communing with guides and locals in thorny parts of the globe: Iran, Kashmir,…
