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The jazz musician Charles Mingus was a celebrated band leader and one of the most important composers of his generation. But at the same time he was recording The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, he was working on another masterpiece of sorts. He figured out how to get his cat, Nightlife, to poop in a toilet — and he decided he’d share his method with the world.
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Amy Schumer, who stars as a romantic train wreck in the new Judd Apatow film Trainwreck, is at the top of her game in real life. The third season of Inside Amy Schumer premieres April 21st on Comedy Central. The show just won a Peabody Award. And a screening of the new season's first episode at the Tribeca Film Festival showed there's nothing Schumer won't tackle.
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The Sporkful debates burrito construction and the LA/SF rivalry with MaxFun's Jesse Thorn and Good Food's Evan Kleiman. Plus Matt Yglesias compares Chipotle burritos to iPhones.
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Comedian Eugene Mirman offers Soundcheck a list of his favorite funny songs—whether they were intended to be funny or not.
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Radiolab tells stories of striving, grasping, tripping, and falling for happiness, perfection, and Bliss.
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Joan Rivers guest-hosts the Leonard Lopate Show and talks to Deon Cole, Billy Eichner, and Reza Farahan about comedy and life.
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Alec Baldwin talks to Paula Pell, who was singing and dancing at a Florida theme park when she got a call from SNL.
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It's been over eighty years since audiences first watched The Wizard of Oz. Meet the original man behind the curtain, L Frank Baum, and trace the history of his greatest creation.
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Radiolab tells the story of a family literally saved by movies. Ron and Cornelia Suskind had two healthy young sons, promising careers, and a brand new home when their youngest son Owen started to disappear. But the Suskind family finds an unlikely way to access their silent son's world.
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Road Trip with WNYC: Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out snoring bunk-mates, masking nature sounds outside the tent, keeping dad from telling you that one story for the hundredth time, killing time while mom goes antiquing.
Snap Judgement tells stories about what it's like to find yourself on someone else's wavelength.
Road Trip with WNYC: Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out snoring bunk-mates, masking nature sounds outside the tent, keeping dad from telling you that one story for the hundredth time, killing time while mom goes antiquing.
The New Yorker cartoonist and author talks to Alec Baldwin about mothers, man-pants, and birds.
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Road Trip with WNYC: Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out snoring bunk-mates, masking nature sounds outside the tent, keeping dad from telling you that one story for the hundredth time, killing time while mom goes antiquing.
Studio 360 talks to film critic David Gilmour about his decision to let his son Jesse drop out of school and watch movies all day.
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Road Trip with WNYC: Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out snoring bunk-mates, masking nature sounds outside the tent, keeping dad from telling you that one story for the hundredth time, killing time while mom goes antiquing.
Note To Self talks to someone who makes a strong case for listening to—and valuing—your voicemail. "Voicemail is a default archive of your life. You would miss it if it were gone."
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Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out snoring bunk-mates, masking nature sounds outside the tent, keeping dad from telling you that one story for the hundredth time, killing time while mom goes antiquing.
This Movie Date podcast has a little something for everyone, especially those who love quirky girls, or hate crazy dads. To wit: The story of six brothers who are locked in their lower east side Manhattan apartment by their father for their entire lives, with only a collection of movies to connect them to the outside world.
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Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out snoring bunk-mates, masking nature sounds outside the tent, keeping dad from telling you that one story for the hundredth time, killing time while mom goes antiquing.
It costs $50,000 to have Billy Idol appear at a private event, but in 2012, a 25-year-old working at a Seattle mall convinced the rock star and his band to play his birthday party for free. Michael Henrichsen tells Sideshow how he enlisted a boatload of B-listers, friends, and family to help make his '80s dream come true.
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Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out snoring bunk-mates, masking nature sounds outside the tent, keeping dad from telling you that one story for the hundredth time, killing time while mom goes antiquing.
The Sporkful follows a pair of young lovers on a quest for the perfect Buffalo wing. But will the universe deliver a happy ending for their hearts and bellies?
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Road Trip with WNYC: Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out snoring bunk-mates, masking nature sounds outside the tent, keeping dad from telling you that one story for the hundredth time, killing time while mom goes antiquing.
The Sporkful and Radiolab's Jad Abumrad explore the new frontier of weed-infused foods with a French pastry chef. They'll tell you how it tastes. They'll tell you how it makes them feel. And they'll tell you what happens when you eat way, way too much of it.
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Al Madrigal has been The Daily Show's "Senior Latino Correspondent" for years. In his funny new documentary, Half Like Me, he travels across the United States and Mexico to explore his ambivalence with that ethnic identity. Sideshow explores what it means that Madrigal can't really pronounce his own name—and that he doesn't really care.
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A real CIA spy gives her take on the new Melissa McCarthy movie, "Spy." Plus Rafer and Kristen review "Entourage," "Testament of Youth," "Love and Mercy," and a special Mystery Date: "Sexual Intelligence," hosted by Kim Cattrall.
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Ken Jeong met his wife while they were both practicing medicine at the same hospital in Los Angeles. But after he married, he quit medicine to pursue acting full-time. Then, a year later, his wife was diagnosed with aggressive stage III breast cancer. They had twins who were a year old. And Ken had just gotten an offer to play an Asian mobster in a Las Vegas buddy movie called "The Hangover."
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