The Riskies: The Best, Worst, and Most Interesting Decisions of 2024
What were the best, worst, and most interesting decisions of 2024, and what can we learn from them? Nate and Maria award the year’s most notable decisions in our first…
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Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst’s music is dynamic, deeply smart, captivating, funny, and sometimes biting. His extensive catalogue dates back to the early ’90s and includes music with Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos, the Mystic…
Gambler Billy Walters on the Sharp’s Life
Michael Lewis sits down with Billy Walters, one of the most famous sports bettors of all time. They talk about Walters’ impoverished childhood in Kentucky, and his transformation from an…
Breaking Free From Family Beliefs
Writer Safiya Sinclair grew up on the north coast of Jamaica in a Rastafari family. Her father was the head of the household and he made Safiya and her siblings…
Bush v. Gore: Bonus – What If…
An interview with Ralph Nader on his role as a “spoiler” in the 2000 election, and historian Mary Frances Berry, who led the 2001 commission looking into the impact that…
Talk Easy in 2024: A Mixtape
It’s been a year. And while we’re not quite done with it (3:15), we wanted to take a moment to celebrate some of our favorite episodes and guests from 2024. …
Captain Coward and the Blame Game
Off the coast of an Italian island, an enormous cruise ship – seventeen floors high, three soccer pitches long – is tilting noticeably to one side. The local mayor is…
The Viral Universe Inside Us
The world is full of undiscovered viruses. They’re in the air we breathe, the ground we walk on, and they’re inside our bellies. For this last episode of the season,…
Presidential Pardons and Other Family Gift-Giving Strategies
Is Biden on tilt? Nate and Maria analyze the Hunter Biden pardon and try to find the line between false equivalence and equivalence. Then, inspired by the president’s present, they…
Episode 7: Little Big Short
As a resident of California, Michael Lewis cannot place bets on any of the online sports books at the center of this season. They’re not allowed to operate in the…
Hiatus Kaiyote
Hiatus Kaiyote is an incredibly talented group of four Australian musicians—vocalist and guitarist Nai Palm, drummer Perrin Moss, bassist Paul Bender and Simon Mavin on keys. But those aren’t permanent…
Why Giving is a Great Daily Habit
It’s Giving Tuesday – a time when many people donate to charity (using websites like this: givingmultiplier.org/happiness). Giving money to help people makes them feel good, but it can also…
