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The Arik Korman Show — 382 episodes

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Nature Writer Robert Moor on the Wisdom of Trees

2

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

3

Hacks to Boost Your Memory, Focus, Problem-Solving, and Much More

4

Alex Stewart on Avallé Wines and Taste Washington

5

Hala Alyan on Parenting, Multiculturalism, and the Middle East

6

The Case for American Power

7

Former U.S. Education Secretary John B. King on Teachers Who Change Our Lives

8

Martha Barnette on Friends with Words

9

Amanda Morgan and Christopher D'Ariano on the Ballet World and AfterTime

10

Selfhood in the Digital Age

11

Robert Macfarlane on Whether Rivers Are Alive

12

William Shatner and Neil deGrasse Tyson on The Universe Is Absurd

13

How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships

14

The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali

15

Sameer Pandya on Our Beautiful Boys

16

Tyler and JJ Williams on Kiona Vineyards and Taste Washington

17

The Science of Racism

18

The Science-Backed Strategy to Uncovering and Harnessing Your Innate Talents

19

The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation

20

A Life of Language Love

21

A Father’s Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love

22

A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

23

Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

24

How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap

25

Luke Raley of the Seattle Mariners

26

Daniela Rus on Our Bright Future with Robots

27

Adam Gopnik on All That Happiness Is

28

Derek Black's Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism

29

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Chain Gang All Stars and the Power of Student Voice

30

How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully

31

Kayta Apekina on Family, Identity, and Intergenerational Trauma

32

How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life

33

Washington Wine Legend Dick Boushey

34

Jamie Peha on Washington Wine Now and in the Future

35

Prachi Gupta on the Myth of the Model Minority

36

Nell Greenfieldboyce on the Science of Life

37

A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars

38

Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

39

David Brooks on How to Know a Person

40

What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

41

Amy Schneider on the Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

42

Wynton Marsalis on the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Future of Jazz

43

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

44

Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

45

The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

46

What It Means to Be a Man Today

47

Adrienne Brodeur on Little Monsters

48

A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe

49

Winemaker Ellie Zeron on Red Mountain

50

Former FBI Director James Comey

51

How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

52

The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them

53

Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

54

The Mystery of Mastery

55

Lessons in Acceptance, Love, and Letting Go

56

Shae and Greg Frichette on Washington Wine

57

Crystal Pite on Choreography and Kidd Pivot

58

How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

59

Hidden in the Open

60

Why Koalas Are Remarkable

61

Sofi Tukker on Wet Tennis and the Freak Fam

62

One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism

63

The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

64

Virginia Johnson on Dance Theatre of Harlem and Life as a Principal Ballerina

65

Lewis Black on Standup Comedy and the State of the World

66

Evgeny Afineevsky on Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

67

Barack Obama's Chief Speechwriter on How to Move Our Country Forward

68

Navigating Love and Loss of Our Pets

69

Anya Kamenetz on How COVID Changed Children’s Lives

70

How to Engage Students in Our Democracy

71

Sloane Crosley on Relationships, Screens, and New York City

72

Inflation Now and Then

73

Washington Wine and the Red Mountain AVA

74

The Past and Future of Written Language

75

Journalist Putsata Reang on Living at the Edges

76

Putin, Trump, and Why Authoritarian Strongmen Are Dangerous

77

Filmmaker Daniel Roher on Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny

78

Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America

79

One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children

80

Coders and the Remaking of the World

81

How to Use Fine Art to Solve Real-Life Problems

82

Ballet Dancer Noelani Pantastico on Living in the Here and Now

83

Maeve Higgins on Friendship During a Pandemic

84

How to Build Unshakable Confidence

85

The Neuroscience of Navigation

86

ABC News Anchor Diane Macedo on The Sleep Fix

87

Why People Behave Badly in Graduate School

88

The Underground Railroad and Learning Unbiased History

89

Nine Months, Six Continents, Three Teenagers

90

Giulio Boccaletti on Climate Change and How We Manage Water

91

The Politics of a Darkening America

92

The Redemption of Bobby Love

93

When Nature Breaks the Law

94

Journalist Eric Garcia on Changing the Autism Conversation

95

Our Bodies Have the Power

96

The Strange Science of Perspiration

97

Tragedy in Paradise and the Wildfires of the West

98

Gregory Brown on Colonialism and the Story of the Land

99

A Headhunter's Strategies to Get Hired Now

100

An American in China

101

The Power of Awareness

102

Brian Broome on Masculinity and Being Yourself

103

Peter Ho Davies on Truths about Fatherhood

104

Renée Felice Smith and Chris Gabriel on Choosing the Harder Path

105

Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph on How to Be a Great Entrepreneur

106

Dr. Jennifer Ashton on Resilience in the Pandemic Era

107

Shankar Vedantam on the Self-Deceiving Brain

108

Life in Israel and Palestine Up Close and Personal

109

Louis Chude-Sokei on Identity and Biafra

110

Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar on Crazy Stories About Racism

111

How the Hunger for Land Ownership Shaped the Modern World

112

There’s Nothing Like a Black Salesman on a Mission

113

Robert Macfarlane on Journeys in Unquiet Places

114

Sabaa Tahir on Good, Evil, and the Importance of Diversity in Art

115

Sophia Lillis on Family, Acting, and the COVID Pandemic

116

The Art of Being Indispensable at Work

117

Stanley Donwood on Art, COVID, and the End of the World

118

Robert Macfarlane on Nature in the Time of COVID

119

Mychal Denzel Smith on Standing Up for Democracy

120

How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

121

In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration

122

The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II

123

Congressman Eric Swalwell on the Impeachment of Donald Trump

124

Novelist Lydia Millet on How Systemic Crises Impact Our Kids

125

COVID-19: Short Term and Long Term

126

Race, Equity, and What Belonging Means

127

Race, Diversity, and Silicon Valley

128

Rediscover Your Childlike Wonder to Unleash Inspiration, Meaning, and Joy

129

Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe

130

The FBI, The CIA, and the Truth about America's "Deep State"

131

Divergent author Veronica Roth on Chosen Ones and COVID-19

132

Barack Obama's Campaign Manager David Plouffe

133

COVID-19 and Decoding Four Billion Years of Life

134

Rahm Emanuel on Why Mayors Are Now Running the World

135

Rockstar Astrophysicist Brian Greene on The End of Time

136

Long Shadows Wine Master Gilles Nicault

137

A Dad's Message to his Boys

138

One Kid’s Extraordinary Journey

139

How College Makes or Breaks Us

140

Felicia Day on Facing Your Fears and Unleashing Creativity

141

Unlocking the Power of Emotions

142

Adrienne Brodeur on why it's important to be a Parent, not a Friend

143

Travel Legend Paul Theroux on the Real Mexico

144

Young Adult Author Nic Stone on Race and Class

145

Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

146

Questions Kids Have About Death

147

What's Under the Earth and Climate Change

148

Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist

149

Imagining a Post-Climate Change Society

150

How Safe Are We in Cyberspace?

151

Truths About Being a Foster Parent

152

Astronaut Renaissance Man Story Musgrave

153

Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China

154

Environmental Icon Bill McKibben on Humanity's Future

155

Esther "Woj" Wojcicki on How to Raise Successful People

156

Elle King on Shake the Spirit

157

Uncovering Our Hidden Racial Bias

158

Internet Activist Cory Doctorow on How to Change the World

159

How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live

160

Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

161

Rockstar Winemaker Kerry Shiels of Cote Bonneville Winery

162

How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

163

Political Thriller Writer Mark Greaney on How Safe the World Is

164

Podcaster and YouTuber Gaby Dunn on Money

165

Henry Winkler: Everybody Is Somebody

166

Lindsey Jordan on the road as Snail Mail

167

Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It

168

Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

169

Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change

170

The Life and Times of Black Holes

171

Disney Animator Kira Lehtomaki on Ralph Breaks the Internet

172

Anna Todd, bestselling author of the After series

173

Skateboarding Stars of the film Mid90s

174

How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

175

Cirque du Soleil VOLTA Hair Suspension Artist Danila Bim

176

Temple Grandin on Helping Our Kids Become Inventors

177

The Power of Transcendental Meditation

178

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America

179

Science Icon Freeman Dyson

180

Bo Burnham and Elsie Fisher on Eighth Grade

181

How Teens Saved Humanity

182

Why Our Kids Can't Do What We Want Them to Do

183

The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

184

The Amazing Journey of Coffee from Yemen

185

An Ode to Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

186

Steven Pinker on How Science Can Move Our Society Forward

187

The Art of Screen Time

188

Cannibalism, Fatherhood, and Why Our Brains Are Getting Smaller

189

Cairdeas Winery and Taste Washington 2018

190

Amy Chua on Political Tribes

191

Robert Reich on The Common Good

192

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris on how Adverse Childhood Experiences affect us

193

David Cay Johnston on What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

194

Rockstar Tenor Ben Bliss on Opera and Reality TV

195

Our Brain on Autopilot and How Blind People See

196

Inside the Mind of a Mathematician

197

The Conscious Music Journey of Singer/Songwriter Trevor Hall

198

The Martian author Andy Weir on Artemis

199

Coco and Life at Pixar

200

Chris Matthews on Bobby Kennedy

201

Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

202

What Makes Us Curious

203

Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

204

Our Trails: History and Metaphor

205

Brain Science on Living as Long as Possible

206

How to be a Badass at Making Money

207

A Journey Through Anxiety

208

Liberal Arts and the Future of Technology

209

A Young Doctor on Residency and Obamacare

210

Lessons from Jim Jones and the Kool Aid

211

Zoe Lister-Jones on Band Aid

212

How our Pets Teach us about Love, Loss, and Personal Growth

213

Writer/Director Jenée LaMarque on Relationships

214

Sam Elliott and Brett Haley on The Hero

215

Rising Latvian Star Elina Vaska

216

Crime and Punishment in Black America

217

Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

218

The Science Behind Hits

219

Popcorn and Rebuilding Technology from Scratch

220

Dancer and Cultural Icon Misty Copeland

221

Washington Wine Master Bob Betz

222

Why Time Flies

223

Service Design, Strategy, and the Art of Customer Delight

224

Michael Lewis on the Friendship That Changed Our Minds

225

Finding the Lost City of the Monkey God

226

The Secret Life of Fat

227

Dava Sobel on Curiosity, Storytelling, and Modern Astrophysics

228

Washington Governor Jay Inslee on 2017 Education Priorities

229

The Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

230

Emily Witt on Future Sex

231

Alison Gopnik on Parenting as a Verb

232

Microsoft's Early Days and Technology's Future

233

Rising Opera Star Marcy Stonikas

234

Sasha Lane, star of American Honey

235

What Swearing Reveals About Us

236

How Big Data Threatens Democracy

237

The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

238

Craig Robinson on Parenting, Diversity and Spamalot

239

One Woman's Journey Through the Inside Passage

240

The Curious Science of Humans at War

241

Viggo Mortensen and Matt Ross on Parenting Off the Grid

242

What Every Teacher Needs to Know

243

Lydia Millet on Writing a Psychological Thriller

244

Paper and How We Create Technology

245

Angela Duckworth on GRIT

246

Presenting Princess Shaw

247

Juan Williams on the Modern Founding Fathers

248

Garry Marshall on Mother's Day

249

Lenore Skenazy on Free Range Kids

250

Neil Pasricha on The Happiness Equation

251

Col Solare Winemaker Darel Allwine

252

All the Single Ladies

253

Sonia Shah on Pandemics

254

Adam Grant on Originals

255

The Story of Autism

256

Our Brain is not wired for Modern Politics

257

Hacking how we Sense the World

258

Soprano Juliana Rambaldi on Opera, Creativity and Teatro Zinzanni

259

World Class Rock Climber Alex Honnold

260

Cheryl Strayed is Brave Enough

261

The Future of Work

262

Celebrity Chef Chris Cosentino is Offal Good

263

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

264

How to Make your Work and your Marriage better

265

Robert Reich on Fixing Capitalism for the Rest of Us

266

Hit Songs affect your brain like Doritos

267

Computer Algorithms in Politics, Sports and Dating

268

Choosing Hope after Sandy Hook

269

You can beat Real Life Challenges like a Video Game

270

How to Organize Your Life

271

Behind the scenes at Pacific Northwest Ballet with Jerome and Laura Tisserand

272

Salman Rushdie on Dreams and the Power of Literature

273

Serbian-born blues phenom Ana Popović

274

Pat Mills on Child Actors and Guidance Counselors

275

How Babies Learn Language

276

Bassist and Singer Esperanza Spalding

277

Technology will not save Humanity

278

The Godfather of British Blues

279

How your Brain reacts to Injury and PTS

280

What Cooking and Math have in common

281

Jason Schwartzman and Patrick Brice

282

Simple Rules for Work, Life and Money

283

Football, Fine Wine and Your 401k

284

Colin Hanks on Tower Records

285

Can we stop Robots from Taking our Jobs?

286

How to Make Love Last and Marriage Work

287

How to Make Yourself Stand Out

288

We are Completely Wrong about China

289

Phantom of the Opera behind the scenes

290

Joseph Stiglitz on Income Inequality

291

Laila Ali on We Day

292

Actress / Model Lily Collins on We Day

293

YouTube stars Lennon & Maisy on We Day

294

Social activist Spencer West on We Day

295

Hannah Simone on We Day

296

Kweku Mandela on We Day

297

The Amazing Resilience of Janiva Magness

298

We are Evolving Ourselves

299

Dr. Scott Sampson of Dinosaur Train

300

Barney Frank on How Politics Works

301

Brian Carter Cellars at Taste Washington

302

OK Go on Multimedia Creativity & Success

303

Chris Ballew is Caspar Babypants

304

Cooking a Life from Scratch

305

Sleep is More Important than we Thought

306

What it's really like to have PTSD

307

Leighton Meester on "Heartstrings"

308

Inside the Cirque Du Soleil Kurios tent

309

Katniss and Tris, move over for Quin

310

Grammy Nominated Saxophonist Mindi Abair

311

Why Touch is so Important

312

What it's like to Live in Iran

313

The Extreme Life of the Sea

314

How to Find Your Life's Purpose

315

Itzhak Perlman on the Joy of Music

316

Selma and our Eroding Voting Rights

317

Our Two-Tier System of Justice

318

Behind "The Imitation Game"

319

Cary Elwes on The Princess Bride

320

E.O. Wilson on the Meaning of Human Existence. Really.

321

Hackers, Cyberspace & the Future of War

322

Math, Magic and How to find True Love

323

Sebastian Junger on War and Manhood

324

French Cinema Royalty on Life and Film

325

Former CIA Operative Valerie Plame

326

Are we living in "The Matrix?"

327

To Move Mountains, it Just Takes Two

328

Embrace... don't fear... Adolescence

329

Pacific Northwest Ballet's James Moore

330

What to do in a Terrorist Attack

331

Why Iron Man is cooler than Batman

332

Olympics vs. Circus with Elena Gatilova

333

MIT's David Rose on Enchanted Objects

334

The Joy of Aerial Entertainment and P!nk

335

Director Richard Linklater on "Boyhood"

336

Google Glass, Apps and Modern Medicine

337

Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper

338

How Math actually helps us in Life

339

Nearly One-Third of the World Overweight

340

Actress Danielle Panabaker on Time Lapse

341

Microbes Rule the World

342

John Ridley and Hayley Atwell at SIFF

343

Inside singer/songwriter V. Contreras

344

Classical Violinist Hilary Hahn

345

Nate Silver on Politics, Sports and Life

346

China, like you've Never Heard Before

347

YOU have power to become a Great Leader

348

Spies are Everywhere... Thank Goodness

349

Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran

350

Questions are More Valuable than Answers

351

You are Likely Part Neanderthal

352

World's Biggest Show Odysseo By Cavalia

353

Venus in Fur and Gender Dynamics

354

Suspended Animation is Real

355

Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture

356

Speaking to a Chimpanzee in Project Nim

357

Director Joseph Kahn on movies for Teens

358

Being in the same room as the Dalai Lama

359

"We Live in Public" with Ondi Timoner

360

Professional Tennis Up Close & Personal

361

Davis Guggenheim, "Waiting for Superman"

362

Arik Korman interviews Sloane Crosley

363

Brain Guru John Medina on Kids Today

364

Pacific Northwest Ballet's Maria Chapman

365

The Amazing Joseph Gordon-Levitt

366

Lily Verlaine, Queen of Burlesque

367

Arik Korman interviews Gary Oldman

368

Sex & Death w/Opera Singer Ani Maldjian

369

Arik Korman interviews Melissa Etheridge

370

Matthew Lewis, a.k.a. Neville Longbottom

371

Seattle Storm Superstar Sue Bird

372

Arik Korman interviews Dennis Haysbert

373

Brain Cancer Rock Star Doctor Jim Olson

374

Donald Johanson, the man who found Lucy

375

Arik Korman interviews The Tiger Mom

376

Arik Korman interviews Emile Hirsch

377

Arik Korman interviews The Bloggess

378

Meet the First Female Thunderbirds Pilot

379

Arik Korman interviews Carrie Fisher

380

Arik Korman interviews Jared Diamond

381

Arik's Wikileaks interview w/Alex Gibney

382

Arik Korman interviews Dr. Brian Greene