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News Nerds
by News Nerds
News Nerds explores the issues that are shaping the world around us with well known public figures. Join Ezra Graham for interviews about culture, politics, health, and science that will keep you informed about what's happening and how the world is reacting. Listen wherever you get podcasts. New episodes drop whenever Ezra wants them to.
Episodes
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Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate Kaiser Leib
This week, we continue to hear from the candidates running to be Montana’s next governor. Libertarian Kaiser Leib worked as a software developer before starting his stand up comedy production company in Helena. We’ll talk today about how he views taxation, transgender rights, and climate change…
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Ryan Busse & Raph Graybill: "Get Your Montana Back"
From 1995 to 2020, Ryan Busse worked in the gun industry as the vice president of sales for Kimber America. This sparked his 2021 book, Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America, and a period in his life when he began to question his political beliefs. His sons were 2 of…
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The Woman Who Made Me Love Cooking
During the pandemic, I learned to love cooking. I picked up a copy of the Art of Simple Cooking ad started experimenting with salad dressings, pie dough, and breads. My guest today is who I have to thank for that. Alice Waters built her restaurant, Chez Panisse, off of the food culture in France,...
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David Cross: Pious As Ever
Hi, Technically we're off for the summer, but it's fun to break rules. Today, a conversation about religion, parenting, acting, and comedy with David Cross. Cross is best known for partnering with Bob Odenkirk in the 1990s to create Mr. Show, and acting in shows and movies such as Arrested...
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Forensic Pathologist Werner Spitz
Today we talk to forensic pathologist Werner Spitz. Dr. Spitz is 96 but shows no signs of retirement. As we’ll find out, he wouldn’t even want to retire on his 100th birthday in 2026. Spitz was born in what was then Germany and is now Poland in 1926 to a Jewish family and moved to France early in...
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Radio Adventurer Barbara Bogaev
This week, the search for the perfect interview. Public Radio host Barbara Bogaev will join us to talk about her experience growing up in Philadelphia listening to Fresh Air with Terry Gross to eventually guest hosting the show. Bogaev also hosted the radio documentary series Soundprint and…
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King: A Life
I think it’s rare for a biography to be so well written that almost every aspect of a figure’s life is detailed. My guest today, Jonathan Eig, seems to have done just that and managed to keep my attention for more than 600 pages. Jonathan is the author of 5 other nonfiction books, as well as 4...
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Former Trump Lawyer Peter Ticktin
Today, a conservative view of the April 4th Trump indictment brought by Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg. My guest today, Peter Ticktin, was a lawyer for Donald Trump who worked on a legal case against the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and other Democrats. Ticktin and the other lawyer working on the case...
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Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy And The Battle For Truth
When a gunman killed 20 first graders and 6 educators on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, many called for bipartisan action. My guest today will explain that this action never really came and in addition, conspiracy theorists including Alex Jones spread false claims that the...
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Global Cooking With My Dad Year
Today we hear two interviews about youth in the limelight. First an interview with the CEO of Global Citizen Year, Erin Lewellen. She grew up in rural Oregon as the daughter of a logger and schoolteacher and now heads a nonprofit that sends high school graduates around the world on a global gap...
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Even Mark Bittman Loves How To Cook Everything
Food royalty Mark Bittman joins us today to talk about a career spanning from the late seventies and early eighties until now. Of course he’s the author of the 1998 cookbook How To Cook Everything and the series that followed, he worked with the New York Times for 30 years including at his...
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Rikers
Rikers Island in New York City houses a complex of ten jails. Although some might think of the facility in terms of statistics and numbers, Reuven Blau and Graham Rayman's new book, Rikers: An Oral History documents Rikers' history from the 70s until today from the point of view of people that...
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Michael Kimmelman ❤s NY
Have you ever thought about what New York City was like before Europeans settled the area? This is just one of the many questions answered by Michael Kimmelman’s latest small gem of a book, The Intimate City: Walking New York. The book combines Michael’s own knowledge of the city with other…
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Analyzing The White House With Peter Baker
Today we’ll analyze last week’s State of the Union Address with Peter Baker. Peter is the chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. Biden is the third president Baker has covered with the times. He previously covered Bill Clinton and George W. Bush for the Washington Post. In…
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A Special Food Show With Christopher Kimball And Matt Sartwell
If last week’s show was for the history buffs today is for the people that love to eat. Today we have a gargantuan show with Christopher Kimball of Milk Street and Matt Sartwell of Kitchen Arts and Letters. First, we’ll play my recent interview with Christopher Kimball, the cook with the bowtie....
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The Conspiracy To Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, And Churchill
Today we have a show for the history buffs out there. Nearly eighty years ago, a historic conference took place in Tehran. The three leaders fighting against the Nazis in World War II, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Iran after exhaustive planning and correspondence. They knew that the...
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It's Been A Year Since The Deadly Kentucky Tornadoes
This week marks the one year anniversary of a chain of deadly tornadoes that travelled through Kentucky and the surrounding states. 80 Kentuckians died in the tornadoes and many more were injured. One of the hardest hit towns in Kentucky was Mayfield. Many businesses were affected by the storm...
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A New Perspective Of World War II With Matthew Delmont
The U.S. military has been racially integrated for less than a century, and the nation has fought some of the most significant wars with segregated troops. As this week’s guest will tell us, the often overlooked role of African Americans in the second World War is important; black troops fought…
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Thanksgiving With J Kenji
I'm back from Italy with an interview with one of the great foodies of America. You might know J Kenji Lopez Alt from his cookbooks or maybe his work at Cook’s Illustrated and Serious Eats or maybe from social media, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers. Lopez Alt is known for his...
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The Latest From Florida, Remembering Loretta Lynn, And Science Writer David Quammen
Following a slow start to the hurricane season, Hurricanes Fiona and Ian left many without electricity or even a house to return to after the storm. This week we’re joined by National Public Radio’s Miami correspondent Greg Allen, who has been covering the hurricanes. Allen got his start in radio...
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Remembering Queen Elizabeth With Robert Hardman
On this week’s News Nerds, remembering England’s Queen Elizabeth who died earlier this month at 96. Journalist Robert Hardman joins us to talk about his book, Queen Of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, which was published in March of this year. Robert writes for the Daily Mail and has worked...
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National Political Correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti On His New Book, The Long Alliance
Yo, News Nerds, I'm so glad to be back! This week I (virtually) sat down with NY Mag correspondent, Gabriel Debenedetti. The complicated relationship between Barack Obama and Joe Biden is mostly thought of through the lens of their two terms in the White House , but today’s guest, New York…
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Professor Mary Ziegler On Roe Vs. Wade
We'll be gone for the summer, so I thought that I would leave you with a treat. Every week day this summer we'll be posting a new mini crossword that you can print or solve online. Have fun with those! This past week was noteworthy for the Supreme Court; along with rulings on religion and gun...
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Writer Kathryn Schulz On Her New Book, Lost & Found
This week on News Nerds we’ll be speaking with Pulitzer Prize winning writer Kathryn Schulz. Her new book, Lost & Found grapples with the loss and then later discovery in Kathryn’s recent life. The book is split into three sections, lost, where she recounts the event of her father’s death and her...
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Montana Congressional Candidate Tom Winter
It’s primary season! Earlier this week, 7 states held primary elections including Montana were I produce this show. Because of the 2020 census, we’ve gained an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. This week we’ll listen to my interview with former state representative, Tom…
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An Exploration In To Yellow Rain
In the years following the so called ‘secret war’, when the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency trained the ethnic group of the Hmong to fight against the Northern Vietnamese, mysterious reports emerged of a yellow substance falling out of aircrafts and causing harm, sometimes fatally, to the Hmong....
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A Son Reflects On His Relationship With His Witty Mother
In his first memoir, novelist Brian Morton chronicles the story of his mother as she suffers from the effects of a stroke and then dementia. The book, Tasha: A Son’s Memoir is an excellent look into the lives of not only one family, but I think, many others who have gone through similar…
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The Latest On Ukraine With Mark and Caroline Cancian
As the war in Ukraine continues, the information behind the conflict continues to change rapidly. This week we’re joined by Mark Cancian. He’s a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank based in Washington D.C; this week he’s helping us understand some of...
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How The Iranian Revolution Of The 70s Affected A Family
When my guest this week, Neda Toloui - Semnani’s grandfather walked across the dessert to Tehran in search of work decades ago, he decided on a surname for his family. Toloui (of sunrise), and Semnani (of Semnan). This is just one of the stories described in Neda Toloui - Semnani’s new memoir…
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The BBC's 100th Anniversary... And Our Second
It's our second year anniversary show, but do you know who’s been on the air a lot longer? It’s the British Broadcasting Corporation, or the BBC. This we’re talking to historian, author, and BBC insider, David Hendy. He’s latest books, 'The BBC: A People's History' (UK) and 'The BBC: A Century on...
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A Former State Department Official On The War In Ukraine
When Russia started its invasion of Ukraine in February, my guest this week, Michael Kimmage was watching the conflict unfold from Washington D.C. He oversaw the Russia/Ukraine portfolio from 2014 to early 2017 for the U.S. State Department. He’s now a professor at Catholic University. We talk...
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How A Ukrainian Journalist Got Out Of Their Country
This week, we’re getting the latest on the war in Ukraine with journalist Maria Romanenko. She left the country on the first day of the invasion and she’s telling us the process of crossing multiple boarders to get into the UK were she is now. She’ll tell us how President Zelensky was elected in...
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Cooking With Jacques Pepin And The Latest From Ukraine With Manny Marotta
This we’re back with another edition of the podcast. We’ll start off the show with a short summary of the latest news. Next we’ll talking to Manny Marotta, he’s an independent journalist who was reporting from Ukraine as Russia started its invasion. He’s now in the US, but this week he’s telling…
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The War In Ukraine Continues
We’re starting the show this week with my interview with Natalia Melnychuk. In addition to working for PEN International, an association dedicated to advocacy for writers, poets, journalists, and people of the pen, Natalia works as a freelance journalist. After she left Ukraine on the second day…
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The Latest From Ukraine With Journalist Mircea Barbu
As the war in Ukraine continues, now into its 2nd week, we have what you need to understand the Russian invasion. We’re starting off the show with the latest on Ukraine including the latest on the occupation of the port city Kherson, President Biden’s state of the union adress, and how the world…
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Joshua Prager On The Family Roe
This week we’re joined by author and journalist Joshua Prager. Joshua's latest book, The Family Roe: an American Story, chronicles the family behind Roe vs. Wade, the historic Supreme Court decision that is being challenged today. In the book, Joshua details the family behind the pseudonym, Roe....
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26 Year Old State Senator Will Haskell
This week we’re joined by one of the youngest state senators in office right now, democratic representative Will Haskell. Will was elected as the state senator for the 26th district of Connecticut when he was only 22, and now he’s written a book about the experience. It’s called 100,000 First...
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Newberry Award Winner Lois Lowry
Known for works such as The Giver Quartet, Number The Stars, and The Willoughbys, author Lois Lowry joins for the whole episode. We'll talk about her most well-known books, as well as her newest books, including On The Horizon and the Willoughbys Return. Ezra
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Former CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden On The Pandemic
The former CDC director, Dr. Tom Frieden joins us this week to discuss the latest on the Covid pandemic including the Omicron variant, N95 masks, and more. Dr. Frieden served as CDC director from 2009, 2017. He’s also the founder of Resolve to Save Lives an organization working to prevent...
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It's Our Holiday Special!
It’s the holiday season and on this episode of News Nerds you’ll hear some never before heard before and after discussions with two of our past guests. First, we’ll be hearing from Lisa Napoli. Lisa is a former journalist turned author who’s latest book is called Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The...
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The Climate And A Small Business Owner In The Path Of A Tornado
British environmentalist and author Jonathon Porritt talks with us about his new book Hope in Hell: How we can Confront the Climate Crisis and Save the Earth. Also Daniel Carr, an owner of Carr’s Steakhouse in Mayfield Kentucky. The restaurant was destroyed by deadly tornadoes that swept through...
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NPR's Chief Economics Correspondent, Scott Horsley
NPR’s chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley joins us this week to discuss the stock market, November’s unemployment and jobs reports, how the Omicron variant might affect the economy, inflation, and more this week on News Nerds for Friday, December 17th, 2021. Ezra
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Apoorva Mandavilli And Michaeleen Doucleff On The Omicron Variant
We’re joined by New York Times science and global health Reporter Apoorva Mandavilli and Michaeleen Doucleff, a correspondent for NPR’s Science desk, this week on News Nerds for Wednesday, December 8th, 2021. They share their reporting on the new Covid-19 strain, Omicron which was detected on...
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Tuvulu's Foreign Minister On Climate, John Swartzberg With The Latest On Covid, And Jeopardy!
We’re joined this week by Simon Kofe, the foreign minister to Tuvalu, a small country about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. He recorded a viral video for the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow where he stands knee deep in the Pacific Ocean, where he says was once land. We talk about Tuvalu and...
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Susan Stamberg and Linda Wertheimer: The Founding Mothers of NPR
NPR’s Susan Stamberg and Linda Wertheimer join us this week to discuss their careers, being a woman journalist in the 70s at a startup organization, and more. We’re back after a break from the podcast. There’s going to be some amazing interviews in store for you this season on News Nerds. For...
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The KNP Complex Fire Rages Through Sequoia Groves As 126,000 Gallons Of Oil Has Been Spilt
The Huntington Beach oil spill in California has spilt approximately 126,000 gallons of crude oil, damaging the ecosystem. Meanwhile, the KNP Complex fire rages through the state, destroying over 80,000 acres of land and threatening ancient sequoia trees, some of which have been standing for...
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Encore: Pulitzer And Peabody Winning Journalist, Nadja Drost
On this week’s episode I talk to Pulitzer and Peabody award winner, Nadja Drost. She is a correspondent for the PBS Newshour. Before the pandemic she and Bruno Federico documented the struggle of immigrants from around the world crossing a dangerous stretch of jungle called the Darien Gap, many...
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Encore! BJ Leiderman on Composing for NPR
It’s September and that means the end of summer. Over the season we’ve talked to some amazing guests and covered so much. Today we’re looking back on that. This week, my interview with BJ Leiderman. He is composer of many notable (NPR) National Public Radio themes. These include the Wait Wait…
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The Taliban's Control Over Afghanistan Continues Into It's Second Week
This week we continue to cover the transfer of power in Afghanistan, where the Afghan government fell to the Taliban last Sunday. From inside Kabul, Ali Latifi speaks to us with a firsthand account of Kabul. Ali is a correspondent for Al Jazeera English. But first we talk to Lynne O’Donnell. She...
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News Nerds explores the issues that are shaping the world around us with well known public figures. Join Ezra Graham for interviews about culture, politics, health, and science that will keep you informed about what's happening and how the world is reacting. Listen wherever you get podcasts. New episodes drop whenever Ezra wants them to.
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