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Here We Go Again With Kal Penn
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Each week, Kal Penn takes today’s trends and headlines and asks: Why does history keep repeating itself? From the new space race and plane delays to fad drugs and movie remakes, our guest's answers will make you feel better about everything.
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The De-evolution of Late Night with Bill Carter
Mar 1700:39:50Tap to summarizeIt's been a crazy year for late night TV -- from ratings on the decline and budget cuts to cancellations and political influence. Bill Carter, the journalist and author behind The Late Shift and The War for Late Night, joins the show to talk about the evolution (and de-evolution) of late night.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Battle of the Generations with Versha Sharma
Mar 1000:51:01Tap to summarizeBaby boomers, millennials, now Gen Z -- they all have their haters. Whichever generation is in their twenties is always walking around with older people rolling their eyes at them. As the former Editor in Chief of Teen Vogue, journalist and millennial Versha Sharma is here to help us understand the seemingly cyclical generational pecking order.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →The State of Stand-up with Patton Oswalt
Mar 300:40:39Tap to summarizeThough he's a comedic actor, Kal has always felt like the label "comedian" was a sort of stolen valor. That is, until this past year, when he started opening for some of his stand-up friends. This week, Kal calls up Patton Oswalt, a legend in stand-up comedy, to get some advice about getting on stage, what's changed in the comedy world, what hasn't, and what's next.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Sports Betting with Albert Chen
Feb 2400:41:06Tap to summarizeSince 2018, sports betting has been legalized in 38 states. Plus, sports betting apps have brought gambling right to our fingertips. It turns out this country has a pretty long and fraught history with gambling. Albert Chen, journalist and author of the book, Billion Dollar Fantasy, helps us answer: How dangerous is sports gambling? Is it tainting the games we love to watch? And, how is technology changing the landscape?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Being Offline with Ann Friedman
Feb 1700:40:54Tap to summarizeAnn Friedman was running popular blogs, newsletters and podcasts before media people flocked to those mediums. But now that the industry is trapped in a rinse and repeat cycle of rising and falling and consolidating, she's getting off the social media content creator wagon and asking a much different question: What does the long game look like?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →The American Dream with Rafael Agustin
Feb 1000:41:54Tap to summarizeSome historians trace this idea of the American dream back to the first European settlers and colonizers. American businessman, James Truslow Adams, popularized the phrase in his book: The Epic of America. But this notion of a single Americcan dream isn't so cut and dry. This week, Kal talks to Rafael Agustin, TV writer, film producer, and author of the memoir, Illegally Yours, about the weight of inheriting someone else's American dream.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Will Technology Replace Us? with Jacob Goldstein
Jan 20Tap to summarizeAI is automating thousands of jobs. But humanity's fear of technology replacing us is nothing new. Journalist and podcaster Jacob Goldstein tells Kal the story of the original Luddites during the early 1800s Industrial Revolution. They talk about how technology changes, how those changes reshape our work, and who historically gets protected and who gets left behind.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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