Award winning songwriter, and New York Times best selling author Alice Randall and I discuss country music, banjos, and so much more!

Dr. James R Gregory and I discuss Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine as well as his advertising and branding career

Jacob Goldstein and I talk Joan Didion's "The White Album" and use it to fuel the ultimate NYC vs. LA debate

Poet Campbell McGrath gives advice to writers and reads some of his work from "Nouns and Verbs"

Parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach and I Talk Skeptics, Mediums, and How The Ghostbusters Helped His Career

Why We Should Actually Be Optimistic About The Environment with Environmentalist Adam Dorr

Environmental Scientist Adam Dorr and I discuss 10 Reasons Why We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than We Think in Hans Rosling's "Factfulness"

The Beatles Interesting Tie to Florida with Bob Kealing, the Sunshine State's Specialist

"The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read" and "Parenting On Earth" with moral and political philosopher Elizabeth Cripps

Should We Settle Outer Space? Rocket Scientist Erika Nesvold and I talk about capitalism and prison in space, mining astroids, and "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell

Professor Chris Impey and I talk about "Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould and what we have wrong about scientific orthodoxy

Professor Chris Impey and I talk about habitable planets, Drake's equation, and Chris' book, "Worlds Without End"

Should Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita be removed from school lists? Stephen Mills and I discuss this and our personal encounters with sexual abuse

Laura Warrell is back to discuss Julia Otsuka's "The Swimmers" and the difficulty of writing in third person plural

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Laura Warrell talks to us about her journey writing Sweet Soft Plenty Rhythm

I'm back with Katie Davis where we talk about Jake Ward's "The Loop" and how that relates to regression toward the mean

Katie Davis shares why giving your kids screens is doing more harm than good

I'm back with professor Nick Mirzoeff talking about cultural restitution and Dan Hick's Brutish Museums

NYU Professor and author, Nick Mirzoeff and I talk about whiteness, and white replacement from his book, White Sight

Tony Hiss shares why he's optimistic about Earth's future thanks to the Half-Earth project