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Ye Gods With Scott Carter
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Host Scott Carter, an award-winning executive producer and writer, known for his work on Real Time with Bill Maher and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, explores codes of religious, cultural and secular conduct. Among Carter's diverse celebrity guests are Martin Short, Bob Costas, Ken Burns, Patricia Heaton, Killer Mike, Sam Harris, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Larry Wilmore, Moon Zappa, Rainn Wilson, Yvonne Orji, Rabbi Steve Leder and Tim Gunn.
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Dr. Miriam Udel
Feb 2500:50:30Tap to summarizeDr. Miriam Udel is Director of Jewish studies and a professor at Emory University. The focus of her work can be summed up in the title of her new book, MODERN JEWISH WORLD-MAKING THROUGH YIDDISH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, which tells how stories can help kids understand tough moral topics, like injustice, inequality and racism. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →Father Greg Boyle
Feb 1800:50:46Tap to summarizeFather Greg Boyle, author of such bestselling books as TATTOOS ON THE HEART and CHERISHED BELONGING, explains how Homeboy Industries, which he founded in downtown Los Angeles in 1998, has become the world’s largest gang intervention, re-entry and recovery program. Greg has been finding, as he says, “the thorn underneath” gang violence since 1988. His work has helped thousands of formerly incarcerated people around the world. But in LA Greg is an icon and a symbol of Angelino pride. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →Jacob Jonas / Ana Marie Cox
Feb 1100:50:30Tap to summarizeChoreographer Jacob Jonas, whose memoir CEMENTED BEAUTY is the intimate documentation of his 2-year battle with stage 4 cancer, told in stark, intimate, black-and-white photos and brutally honest and vulnerable journal entries, dictated to Jacob’s partner, Jill Wilson, who also provides an Afterword.Ana Marie Cox is a political columnist and culture critic. Her writing has appeared in Time Magazine, G.Q., The Guardian, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast and Esquire. She’s currently a contributing editor at The New Republic. She’s also a prolific podcast host. In her weekly podcast, Past Due, she and co-host Open Mike Eagle, chronicle the struggles of creatives in today’s collapsing media landscape. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →George Saunders
Feb 400:50:41Tap to summarizeGeorge Saunders, often hailed as America’s greatest living short story writer, who's collections include THE TENTH OF DECEMBER and LIBERATION DAY. George discusses his new novel, VIGIL, as well as being raised Catholic in Chicago, growing away from the church and, joining his wife Paula to become a meditator, then an Episcopalian and, currently, practitioners of Buddhism. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →Lee Hawkins
Jan 2800:50:43Tap to summarizeLee Hawkins is a journalist, musician, and author of I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free - which has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the nonfiction category. A few weeks after sending his book to his publisher, Lee was contacted by the FBI. His DNA indicated that he was a distant cousin to a murdered unidentified woman. Discovering the story of that Jane Doe is the subject of his recent Wall Street Journal Article: What I Owe My Murdered, Nameless Cousin. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →Season 1 Trailer
Aug 20Tap to summarizeA look-ahead at the first season of Ye Gods, where host Scott Carter explores codes of religious, cultural and secular conduct with his guests, including Martin Short, Bob Costas, Ken Burns, Patricia Heaton, Killer Mike, Sam Harris, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Moon Zappa, Rainn Wilson, Rabbi Steve Leder and Tim Gunn. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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