All Episodes

Michelle Buteau: "Words Have Power"

Michele Tafoya: "I'm a Big Freedom of Speech Person"

John Fetterman: "It's Been a Long, Strange Trip"

Alex Edelman: "There's not a lot of comedy in being right."

Yaakov Katz: "An idea cannot be defeated."

David Pakman: "The stage was really set."

Roy Wood Jr.: "People just want to feel good."

Axes and Sodium with Rachel McCarthy James and Maria Konnikova

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Viral Misinformation and Public Health Failures

Django Gold: "Don't Be Funny"

KJ Steinberg: "The echoes of trauma are loud and they are long."

Ken Bensinger: "To catch the devil, sometimes you have to go to hell."

Sam Jay - Funny You Should Mention

Gilbert Gottfried: "My feeling is, can I get the hell out of here?"

Jennifer Esposito: "Finding a voice in a world that tells you not to have one."

Philip Mudd: "Take out the stops, make sure it doesn't happen again."

Gina Gershon: "You have to learn how to be tough."

Chuck D: "Art is your signature, it's your pulse."

Nimesh Patel: "I am always pro joke before I am pro anything."

Diane Foley and Elizabeth Tsurkov on Hostages, Wrongful Detentions, and State Terror

Vic Michaelis: "Improv is not just existing live in front of an audience on stage."

Virginia Sole-Smith: "Weight loss is not the solution."

Adam Kinzinger on Cults, Country, and Trump

Al Franken: " I had a career in identifying absurdity. And I know it when I see it."

TJ Miller: "When the air hits your brain, it's never the same."

Chris Smalls: "Worker led means worker led."

Bob Saget: "I just, I wanna entertain people."

Andrew Fox: Make something that surprises people because everyone's bored.

Derrick Palmer: "The union was always the solution."

Larry Wilmore: "I have pushed for the ability to suck in anything, rather than just racial content."

Kelsey Snelling: "Anytime there is a scale, you can't do so ethically."

Funny You Should Mention: Des Bishop

Nathan Alebach: "Don't listen to me, I'm just a frozen piece of meat."

Lara Bazelon: "What are the repercussions when you speak outside your tribe?"

Justin Garson: "If you turn dopamine on and off, you can turn schizophrenia on and off."

Maria Konnikova: "If you're looking for a healthy food, this ain't it."

Robby Hoffman: "For me, to complain is to enjoy."

Helen Lewis: "Vulnerable guys could use a friend, but they get a charlatan."

Ted Kaye: "You can love a flag and have it co-opted."

Vincent Schiraldi: Mass Supervision and Criminal Justice Reform

Michael Murphy: "The Spaces Around Us Are Shaping Us and Changing Us"

Steven Johnson: "We Have Three Levels of Probability. It's Gonna Happen, It's Not Gonna Happen, and Maybe"

Funny You Should Mention: Jeff Arcuri

Pesca La Vista

David Wain & Ken Marino: "We're Always Modulating The Madcap"

Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Anti-Zionism Now Is A Central Plank Of Leftist Politics"

Ray Madoff: "The Tax System No Longer Taxes Investments And Inheritances"

Chris Cillizza: "Most Of Those People Don't Pay"

Not Even Mad: Elizabeth Bruening & Ben Kawaller

Isaac Butler: "Part Of Living In A Society Means Giving Over A Certain Amount Of Agency"

Eric Lichtblau: "Hate Speech Leads Directly To Hate Crimes"

Ben Fountain: "We're Real Good At The Blur"

Ro Khanna & Mike Pesca: The Middle

Funny You Should Mention: Graham Kay

Anna Varfolomeeva: "Eighty Percent Of Russian Troops Are Getting Wiped Out Before They Reach The Front Line"

Ben Rhodes: "The Thing They Do As The Next Step Is The Most Consequential Part Of The Deal"

Ben Rhodes: "If We Had To Pay With All This Blood, It Was Worth It"

Michael A. Cohen: "There Is an Inherent Bias Toward Exaggerating the Benefits of Using Military Force"

Michael Schur: "The Afterlife Score Is Mathematical and Omniscient, But It Might Be Wrong"

Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner & Matt Welch

Sadie Dingfelder: "You Cannot Be Burned by Wind Alone"

Michael Schur: "It Is Funny to Watch Fans Turn Themselves Inside Out to Try to Hold on to Something That No Longer Exists"

Joe Posnanski: "Life Is Lonely, and Sports Provides a Community"

Chris Cillizza: "Most of the People I Know in Media Can Barely Pay Their Bills"

Gary Slutkin: "Violence Meets Every Scientific Definition of a Contagious Disease"

Not Even Mad: Bradley Tusk & Charles Fain Lehman

Sadie Dingfelder: "Raccoons Have Never Been a Rabies Vector in America"

Benoit Denizet-Lewis: The Case Against “I’ve Changed”

Tom Steyer’s Very Expensive Optimism

Christian Miller: Why We Say We Love Honesty, Then Reward Liars

Claude Steele Has a Better Way to Talk About Race

Ian Coss: How One Man Controlled A Quarter Of New England’s Groundfish

Simone Stolzoff: We’re Getting Worse At Not Knowing

Aaron Tang: "Re-instill This Idea That We Can Sit Around and Talk to Each Other"

Mike Pesca on The Reason Roundtable

Janet McNamara: Smart People Think I'm Smart, Stupid People Think I'm Dumb

Astead Herndon: Polling Has Blind Spots That Regular People Explaining the "Why" Can Fill

Holly Buck: A Pause on New Data Centers Isn't Really Going to Slow the Progress of AI

Beyond the Politics of Contempt

David Oppenheimer: "The LSAT Is a Wonderful Predictive Tool for Determining An Applicant's Family Wealth"

Alvin Roth: "A Repugnant Transaction Is a Morally Contested Transaction"

Not Even Mad: Isaac Saul & Jamie Kirchick

David Oppenheimer: "Diversity Is Not About Being Comfortable"

J Schuberth: "I'd Settle for Number Two"

David Sussillo: "I Had to Be Like a God"

Mike Pesca on Fake the Nation

Matt Sterling: Finding the Strength to Survive

Franklin Foer: Did the Press Miss Biden's Decline?

Franklin Foer: Chronicling The Purged

David Epstein: Thinking Inside the Box

Kevin Williamson: The Psychotic State of Texas Politics

Finding Political Kryptonite with Paula Poundstone

Benjamin Saltzman: The Art of Turning Away

Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Ben Dreyfuss

Jonathan Vigliotti: The Olympic Rush to Rebuild LA

Joseph Moore: Negotiating With Drug Dealers for Real Estate Success

Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex

Ethan Strauss: Great Writers, Bad Thinkers, and the Death of the Sports Gamer

Liz Hoffman: Why We Are So Pessimistic About a Resilient Economy

Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?