All episodes
[SPECIAL] Clever Creature with Jason Gots - Episode 1: DESERT
235. Neil Gaiman (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – and then it gets darker
234. Robert MacFarlane (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – deep time rising
233. Terry Gilliam (Jason Plays Favorites #5) – the impossible dream
232. Anaïs Mitchell (Jason Plays Favorites #4) – sometimes the god speaks through you
231. Marlon James (Jason Plays Favorites #3) – don't get too comfortable
230. Eve Ensler (Jason Plays Favorites #2) – no way out but through
229. David Sedaris (Jason Plays Favorites #1) – Sir David of the Spotless Roadways
228. Sharon Salzberg (meditation and mindfulness teacher) – on balance
227. Roz Chast and Patricia Marx (cartoons, words, ukuleles) – The Beatles stole everything from us
226. Joseph Goldstein (dharma teacher) – doubt comes masquerading as wisdom
225. Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America) – American Multiverse
224. Norman Fischer (zen priest, poet) – the only way out of the catastrophe we’re in
223. Karen Armstrong (theologian) – the art of getting outside of yourself
222. Deborah Levy (writer) – it's those thoughts that are slightly awkward that need an airing
221. Yancey Strickler (Kickstarter co-founder) – you, me, us: now and in the future
220. Elif Shafak (writer) – the cemetery of the companionless
219. Reginald Dwayne Betts (poet) – nothing to resurrect after prison
218. Bill Bryson (writer) – the most extraordinary machine
217. Ibram X. Kendi (author, activist) – Antiracism 101
216. Gail Collins (NY Times columnist) – The brief social media life of Glam-ma
215. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie: the cognitive segregation of America
214. Liz Plank (journalist) – men, masculinity, and the unfinished conversation
213. Catherine Wilson (philosopher) – the Epicurean cure for what ails ya
212. Downton Abbey film director Michael Engler – the best idea in the room
211. Etgar Keret (writer) – a tunnel dug under the prison floor
210. one night in Istanbul, with chef Musa Dağdeviren
209. a mixtape for 2019
208. Antonio Damasio (biologist) – this incredibly rich machinery
207. Lisa Brennan-Jobs (writer) – on growing up without, with, and in spite of her dad
206. Jenny Odell (artist) – attention as an act of resistance
205. Jeffrey Israel (religious studies scholar, old friend) – Private hate, public love, and everything in between
204. The Butler Sisters (filmmakers) – identity, intolerance, and change in the American heartland
203. Elif Shafak (novelist) – The story no one hears
202. Tracy Edwards, MBE (British sailor) – If you don't like the way the world looks, change it
201. Chris Moukarbel (WIG and GAGA FIVE FOOT TWO filmmaker) – The closest thing to actual magic
200. Robert MacFarlane (writer) – deep time rising
199. Lama Rod Owens (RADICAL DHARMA co-author, Buddhist teacher) – the price of the ticket to freedom
198. Barbara Tversky (cognitive psychologist) – World makes mind
197. Eve Ensler (author, activist) – No way out but through
196. Susan Hockfield (MIT president emerita, neuroscientist) – Extraordinary machines
195. Adam Gopnik (essayist) – the rhinoceros of liberalism vs. the unicorns of everything else
194. Jared Diamond (Historian) – Look inward, Nation
193. Anaïs Mitchell (HADESTOWN creator, songwriter/singer) – sometimes the god speaks through you
192. Delphine Minoui (journalist) – Land of paradoxes: the inner and outer Iran
191. Simon Critchley (philosopher) – the philosophy of tragedy & the tragedy of philosophy
190. Terry Gilliam (filmmaker) - The impossible dream
189. Ross Kauffman (Oscar-winning filmmaker) – Tigers and the humans who love them
188. Frans de Waal (primatologist) – You're such a social animal
187. Aml Ameen (actor) - how the world teaches you who you are
186. Josh Clark (podcaster) - It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
185. Martin Hägglund (philosopher) – What happens to freedom when time is money
184. Mitchell S. Jackson (writer) – Notes from the other America
183. Will Hunt (explorer) – into the Earth: the mysteries and meanings of underground spaces
182. Ha Jin (writer) – the wild and tragic life of China's greatest poet, Li Bai
181. Marlon James (writer) – don’t get too comfortable
180. Benjamin Dreyer (copy chief of Random House) – Really actually truly great English
179. Edith Hall (classicist) – from Aristotle to Oprah and back again: how to live your best life
178. Douglas Rushkoff (freelance intellectual) – It's not the technology's fault
177. Joseph Goldstein (Buddhist teacher) – Lighten Up: mindfulness, enlightenment, and everyday life
176. Area 51 and the epistemology of the unexplained - Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (filmmaker)
175. Helen Riess (psychiatrist) – Empathy in the brain and the world
174. Ruth Whippman (writer) – A mindful, productive, super-positive nation of nervous wrecks
173. Wesley Yang (writer) - The Souls of Yellow Folk
172. A trans family in the holy land
171. Michelle Thaller (NASA astronomer) on the multiple dimensions of space and human sexuality
170. Lynsey Addario (photojournalist) – on art, love, and war
169. Ben Marcus' reality is only slightly askew from our own
168. Michael Palin (writer and comic) – So long as there was laughter, I was safe
167. Gary Shteyngart (writer) - Reality catches up to dystopian fiction
166. Manoush Zomorodi (journalist) — How blockchain might save journalism. Maybe.
165. Man Booker prize winners Olga Tokarczuk (author) and Jennifer Croft (translator) — As fact and fiction blur, America’s finally ready for Olga Tokarczuk
164. Jill Lepore (Historian) – Why America keeps going to pieces
163. Four Letter You – Merve Emre (scholar and critic)
162. Emily Nemens (Editor, The Paris Review) — The Literary Industrial Complex
161. Congo: This Seemingly Impossible Knot – Daniel McCabe (documentary filmmaker)
160. Bassem Youssef (political satirist) – Now I Have to Answer for This?
159. Change is Made by the Ones Who Stay – Paula Eiselt (documentary filmmaker)
158. Parker Posey (actor) – I See a Dachshund In You
157. The Spiders From Mars – Jason Heller (Hugo Award-winning writer)
156. While You Live, Shine – Christopher C. King (Grammy-winning music producer)
155. Lauren Groff (writer) – We Should Die of That Roar
154. Jonathan Safran Foer (writer) – One Thing We Can All Agree Upon
153. Guns: The Genie and the Bottle – Priya Satia (Historian)
152. Where You Gonna Run To? Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo (documentary filmmakers)
151. Jessica Abel (cartoonist, creative coach) – Practical Magic
150. David Sedaris (humorist) – Sir David of the Spotless Roadways
149. Yanis Varoufakis (former finance minister of Greece) – Happiness, Inc.
148. Jonathan Lethem (writer) – Batman's Greatest Enemy
147. Ronan Farrow (investigative journalist) — A Failure to Communicate
146. Think Again LIVE with Kristen Radtke (graphic novelist) – The Fascination of What's Difficult
145. Michael Gazzaniga (neuroscientist) – The Impossible Problem
144. Antonio Damasio (neuroscientist & philosopher) – Where is My Mind?
143. The Way Brothers (documentary filmmakers) – City On a Hill
142. Meg Wolitzer (writer) – Messages From Another Planet
141. Tara Westover (writer, historian) – Nothing Final Can Be Known
140. Martin Amis (writer) – The Spooky Art
139. Neil Gaiman (writer) – And Then it Gets Darker
138. Steven Pinker (Cognitive Scientist) – The Defeat of Defeatism
137. Amy Chua (author, attorney) – U.S. & Them