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  • 43 minutes 35 seconds
    How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
    After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk instituted sweeping changes. He laid off or fired about 75% of the staff –including about half the data scientists. He also ended rules banning hate speech and misinformation. Authors Kate Conger and Ryan Mac recount the takeover in Character Limit.

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    11 September 2024, 6:31 pm
  • 43 minutes 56 seconds
    The Unchecked Power Of Sheriffs
    Investigative journalist Jessica Pishko says that a growing group of "constitutional sheriffs" have become a flashpoint in the current politics of toxic masculinity, guns, white supremacy, and rural resentment. "Constitutional sheriffs would argue that there is no one who can tell them what to do," Pishko says. "Not the president, not the Supreme Court, not the governor, not the legislature. Sometimes constitutional sheriffs will call themselves something like a king." Her book is The Highest Law in the Land.

    Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner.

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    10 September 2024, 3:31 pm
  • 44 minutes 39 seconds
    Taylor Tomlinson Is Ready To Joke About Her Bipolar II. Mostly.
    The After Midnight host was initially unsure about sharing her bipolar II diagnosis on-stage. But, she tells co-host Tonya Mosley, "I got such amazing feedback from people who had been struggling with their mental health." Her new Netflix comedy special is Have It All.

    Also, David Bianculli reviews the new season of Only Murders in the Building.

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    9 September 2024, 7:50 pm
  • 48 minutes 1 second
    Best Of: SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson / Novelist Danzy Senna
    Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's new memoir, Lovely One, gives us a rare glimpse into her legal mind. And she gets personal about her childhood, marriage and her time as a public defender.

    Also, we hear from writer Danzy Senna, who writes about the experiences of being biracial in America and the meaning of race itself. Her new novel Colored Television.

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    7 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 46 minutes 58 seconds
    Inside The Making Of 'The Sopranos'
    25 years ago, The Sopranos premiered on HBO and changed expectations of what TV could be. There's a new two-part documentary, called Wise Guy, about the making of the show, centering on the series creator and executive producer, David Chase. We're using that as an excuse to revisit our interviews with Chase, as well as Lorraine Bracco, who played Tony's psychiatrist, Dr. Melfi, and Michael Imperioli, who played Tony's impetuous nephew.

    Film critic Justin Chang reviews Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

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    6 September 2024, 5:26 pm
  • 44 minutes 8 seconds
    The Anti-Fascist Vigilantes Infiltrating White Nationalist Groups
    New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick says anti-fascists are using extra judicial methods to do what the FBI can't, by infiltrating white nationalist groups to expose them and their planned attacks.

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    5 September 2024, 7:24 pm
  • 44 minutes 24 seconds
    SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Gets Personal
    Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks with Tonya Mosley about her teen years, her time as a public defender, and the poem she keeps in her office. Her new memoir is called Lovely One.

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    4 September 2024, 7:22 pm
  • 44 minutes 52 seconds
    Danzy Senna Writes Herself (And Other Mixed-Race People) Into Existence
    Novelist Danzy Senna spoke with Terry Gross about racial identity, growing up with a Black father and white mother in an era when "mixed-race" wasn't a thing. "Just merely existing as a family was a radical statement at that time," she says. Her new book is Colored Television.

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    3 September 2024, 7:10 pm
  • 46 minutes 35 seconds
    Film Icons: Spike Lee / Samuel L. Jackson
    To wrap up our series, we're closing with director Spike Lee and actor Samuel L. Jackson. Lee spoke with Terry Gross in 2017 about growing up in Brooklyn and his acting and directorial debut, the 1986 movie She's Gotta Have It. In 2000, Jackson talked about playing tough guys, watching movies in segregated theaters, and nearly dying on the New York subway.

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    2 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 48 minutes 54 seconds
    Film Icons: Steven Spielberg / Carrie Fisher
    In 2022, E.T. and Jaws director Steven Spielberg talked about how he fell in love with film, and how he was afraid of everything as a kid. We'll also revisit our 2016 interview with actor Carrie Fisher about what it was really like to become a sex symbol as Princess Leia.

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    31 August 2024, 7:00 am
  • 47 minutes 22 seconds
    Film Icons: Clint Eastwood / Eli Wallach & More
    The 1964 spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars turned Clint Eastwood into a star. He had a famous squint in his closeups, but he told Terry Gross in 1997, it wasn't necessarily character driven. "They bombed me with a bunch a lights, and you're outside and it's 90 degrees, and it's hard not to squint."

    We'll also hear from Eastwood's co-star in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Eli Wallach, who went on to play a bandit in several Westerns. Cultural historian Christopher Frayling tells us how the Italian director Sergio Leone broke the conventions of the Hollywood Western, and stuntman Hal Needham describes his most daring feats.

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    30 August 2024, 8:18 pm
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