Episodes
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Beach Day Edition: The Charles Mingus Method for Toilet Training Your Cat
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...
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Beach Day Edition: Amy Schumer is No Train Wreck
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…
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Beach Day Edition: The Man Who Made 5 Million Burritos
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. Subscribe to The Sporkful. Phone: off. Email: off. Brain: off. Podcasts: on. Road Trip with WNYC: Beach Day Edition is...
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Beach Day Edition: Eugene Mirman's Funniest Songs Of All Time
Comedian Eugene Mirman offers Soundcheck a list of his favorite funny songs—whether they were intended to be funny or not. Subscribe to Soundcheck. Phone: off. Email: off. Brain: off. Podcasts: on. Road Trip with WNYC: Beach Day Edition is perfect for: smiling, soaking, sunning.
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Beach Day Edition: Bliss
Radiolab tells stories of striving, grasping, tripping, and falling for happiness, perfection, and Bliss. Subscribe to Radiolab. Phone: off. Email: off. Brain: off. Podcasts: on. Road Trip with WNYC: Beach Day Edition is perfect for: smiling, soaking, sunning.
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Beach Day Edition: Comedians Deon Cole, Billy Eichner, and Reza Farahan
Joan Rivers guest-hosts the Leonard Lopate Show and talks to Deon Cole, Billy Eichner, and Reza Farahan about comedy and life. Subscribe to The Leonard Lopate Show. Phone: off. Email: off. Brain: off. Podcasts: on. Road Trip with WNYC: Beach Day Edition is perfect for: smiling, soaking, sunning.
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Beach Day Edition: Paula Pell on an SNL Career
Alec Baldwin talks to Paula Pell, who was singing and dancing at a Florida theme park when she got a call from SNL. Subscribe to Here's The Thing. Phone: off. Email: off. Brain: off. Podcasts: on. Road Trip with WNYC: Beach Day Edition is perfect for: smiling, soaking, sunning.
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Beach Day Edition: The Wizard of Oz
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. Subscribe to Studio 360. Phone: off. Email: off. Brain: off. Podcasts: on. Road Trip with WNYC: Beach Day Edition is...
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Home Movie Edition: Juicervose
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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Home Movie Edition: Simpatico
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...
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Home Movie Edition: Cartoonist Roz Chast on Mom and Man-Pants
The New Yorker cartoonist and author talks to Alec Baldwin about mothers, man-pants, and birds. Subscribe to Here's The Thing. 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,...
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Home Movie Edition: Father-Son Film Club
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. Subscribe to Studio 360. Road Trip with WNYC: Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out snoring bunk-mates, masking nature...
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Home Movie Edition: Seriously, Listen to Your Voicemail
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." Subscribe to Note To Self. Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out...
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Home Movie Edition: Quirky Girls, Crazy Dads, and Working Women
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…
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Home Movie Edition: The House of Dreams
Freakonomics Radio host Stephen Dubner's childhood home goes from sacred to profane...and back again. Subscribe to Freakonomics Radio.
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Home Movie Edition: Use the Internet to Meet Your Idol
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...
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Home Movie Edition: The Search For Perfection In Buffalo Wings And Love
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? Subscribe to The Sporkful. Road Trip with WNYC: Home Movie Edition features a few good stories about family. Perfect for: tuning out...
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U-Turn Edition: Not Your Mom's Pot Brownies
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. Subscribe to The Sporkful.
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U-Turn Edition: Al Madrigal on Being 'Half'
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...
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U-Turn Edition: Outsiders By Design
What does it mean to pursue something that everyone else think is nuts? And what does it take to succeed? You’ll hear about three radical thinkers whose lives didn’t proceed in a perfectly straight line. In each case, their work was ridiculed or ignored—but ultimately, they triumphed. <a...
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U-Turn Edition: I, Spy
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. Subscribe to Movie Date.
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U-Turn Edition: Cancer Changed Ken Jeong's Comedy
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…
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U-Turn Edition: U2 Inspires a 180
Yillah Natalie grew up studying ballet. But when her family couldn’t afford classes anymore, she had to quit. Later, Yillah was mesmerized by the belly dancer in the video for U2's 1991 hit "Mysterious Ways" — both with the way she moved and the power she seemed to possess. Twenty years later,...
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U-Turn Edition: Yes, You’re Distracted. Is it ADHD?
You pick up your phone to send an email. You see a notification for a text message. All of a sudden, you're on Instagram debating whether or not to like an old high school classmate's engagement picture, Pinterest-ing the photographer, and contemplating the ice cream options within range. Note To...
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U-Turn Edition: The Zen of Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld was just 27 when he first appeared on Johnny Carson in 1981. His unique comedy style eventually led him to create his namesake show with Larry David. After Seinfeld ran for nine seasons, he decided to go back to stand-up, and to his audience. Subscribe to Here's The Thing.
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Open Road Edition: Movies in Motion
A father writes in to Movie Date to ask for suggestions on what to show his 8-year-old daughter while on a road trip. Also, Jack Black’s new movie, “The D Train,” focuses on a man traveling from his small town to LA to get the BMOC to come back for the high school reunion. Finally, the Sofia...
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Open Road Edition: Fact Checking John Steinbeck
Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck took a road trip across America with his dog and published a non-fiction book about it. But as On The Media finds out, it’s mostly a fabrication. Subscribe to On The Media.
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Open Road Edition: Bumblebee Takes Flight at High Velocity
The Fishko Files explores the backstory of one of classical music's most frenetic songs. Subscribe to The Fishko Files.
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Open Road Edition: The Bus of the Future Will Catch You
Note to Self talks to someone who says his technology will be the first fundamental evolution in mass transit since subway tracks were laid. Subscribe to Note To Self.
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Open Road Edition: Revisiting Kerouac's 'On the Road'
For almost six decades, Jack Kerouac’s classic novel has been a totem for anyone who crawls behind the wheel in search of adventure. Studio 360 wanted to find out whether the book still speaks to readers—and provoked a little marital tension in the process. Subscribe to Studio 360.
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Open Road Edition: Drive 80 MPH Without Touching the Gas
Will Knight covers artificial intelligence and robotics for MIT Technology Review. He traveled to Germany and got a taste for what it feels like to take your hands off the wheel, remove your feet from the pedals and let the car take over while zipping across Germany at 80 miles per hour.…
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Open Road Edition: James McBride on Fast Cars and Slow Living
Death Sex & Money talks to the best-selling author of The Color of Water about a life divided between his BMW days and his pickup truck days. (He loves the latter.) Subscribe to Death Sex & Money.
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Open Road Edition: Billy Joel's Life On and Off the Road
Alec Baldwin sits down with fellow Long Islander Billy Joel—at the piano—for a conversation about life, and the musical choices he’s made. Subscribe to Here's The Thing.
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Open Road Edition: Time
Are we there yet? Radiolab explores the strange, subjective nature of time—from a sped-up spin through childhood, to a really, really slowed-down Beethoven symphony. Subscribe to Radiolab.
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Flyover Edition: The Middle of Everywhere
From an East Coast view, or West, it can appear that Chicago is the middle of nowhere. In this episode, Freakonomics Radio makes the argument that Chicago is, in fact, the middle of everywhere. <a...
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Flyover Edition: Haunted
Radiolab tells the story of the night a group of paranormal investigators showed up at Dennis Conrow's door in Kansas and made him realize what it really means for a house, or a man, to be haunted. Subscribe to Radiolab.
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Flyover Edition: Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Studio 360 explains why William F. Cody was the most famous American in the world—a showman and spin artist who presented a new creation myth for America, bringing cowboys, Indians, settlers, and sharpshooters to audiences who had only read about the West in dime novels. Subscribe to Studio 360.
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Flyover Edition: Michigan's Weirdest Museum
Dan Pashman talks to the curator of the Moist Towelette Museum about the best way to use them and what makes an especially great one. Then Dan and his friend Mark Garrison debate cloth vs. paper napkins, whether napkin color affects meal enjoyment, and whether restaurants should be banned from...
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Flyover Edition: In Austin, the Future is Now
There's a neighborhood in Austin, Texas, where the refrigerators tell stories. The roofs are paved in solar panels. There are more electric cars per capita here in the Muëller community than in any residential neighborhood in America. It's a kind of paradise. And it could drive you nuts.…
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Flyover Edition: What's In a Name
On The Media tells the story of one Pennsylvania paper that stopped using the word "Redskin" when referring to Washington's pro football team. Subscribe to On The Media.
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Flyover Edition: 80's Indie from the Land of 10,000 Lakes
The Replacements were famously hard-living and raucous during their mid-to-late 1980s heyday. Recently, another of Minnesota's favorite musical sons, Craig Finn of the Hold Steady, found himself sharing a stage with his childhood heroes. He walks Soundcheck through a playlist of his favorite…
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