Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Friendships like Ben and Khalil’s are rare in America, according to the numbers. In this episode, they talk about the social science on interracial friendships, and about the particular conditions…
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The Perils of Loving a Chatbot
On the Replica app, you can create an AI-powered chatbot to talk to, befriend, sext and even virtually marry. The service has millions of users. Some of them are now…
The Quest for the Factory-Built House
Today’s show is about a problem people have been trying to solve for a hundred years: how can we mass produce houses, like we do cars? Listen for a house…
Katherine Spiers, Restaurant critic & Food investigator
Her job involves eating her way through L.A., but Katherine Spiers also has a less-talked-about way her finances all come together. The host of the Smart Mouth podcast and founder…
Suze Orman: From Waitress to Financial Guru
Suze Orman has spent the past few decades sharing her financial wisdom with the public. But before Suze became an investment maven, bestselling author, and host of her own show…
Aaron Dessner
Today we’re kicking off a two-part series of interviews with members of The National, who just released their ninth album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein. Today’s conversation is with Aaron Dessner,…
Smell, Taste and Touch: How to Joyfully Awaken Your Senses
Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin was warned that her eyesight was in peril. It shocked her into realising she’d taken all of her five senses for granted – and so she…
Alison Roman’s Imperfect Approach to Cooking
Today, we’re joined by cook and food writer Alison Roman! We discuss her new dessert cookbook Sweet Enough (4:55), her early years as a restaurant pastry chef (12:24), and the…
Roger McGuinn
Roger McGuinn is best known as the driving force behind The Byrds. But McGuinn is also a preservationist of traditional folk music. For the past 27 years he’s been re-recording…
Building Houses Like Tesla Builds Cars
Alexis Rivas is the co-founder and CEO of Cover. His problem is: How do you build houses in a factory, the way you build cars? And how do you do…
Melania’s Marine Mammal Mystery
In 2012, Melania Trump tweeted a photo of a smiling beluga whale and captioned it “what is she thinking?” Eleven years later, Sabrina Imbler, a journalist at Defector Media, decided…
What’s Wrong with ‘You People’?
Romance across race and religion has been the focus of a bunch of movies – some comedies, some dramas. Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill are taking a swing at it…
