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Jason Derulo is a global superstar whose music and personality transcend borders, generations, and genres. Since his debut single reached #1 in 2009, Jason has gone on to sell well over 250 million singles worldwide and earn 12 billion global streams. In 2020, with the viral sensation “Savage Love” Derulo joined the exclusive list of artists with a #1 song in three consecutive decades. He is one of TikTok’s top creators and has 57 million TikTok followers. Sing Your Name Out Loud: 15 Rules for Living Your Dream is Jason Derulo’s first book.

In this episode you will learn,

• How to have a clear mission and wake up excited to chase your dreams.
• The insights and of going viral on TikTok and topping the music charts.
• The biggest fears and insecurities of a global pop superstar.
• How to silence negative criticism internally and externally.
• Keys to establishing non-negotiables and the habits needed to adhere to them.

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What’s the best form of entertainment: movies or TV series? At-home streaming or going to a movie theater? Daily Show correspondent Dulcé Sloan and Daily Show writer Josh Johnson discuss TV reboots, the heartbreak of TV show cancellations, the struggles of watching movies with your parents, and how Lifetime movies sparked Josh’s love for movies.

Original Air Date: September 1, 2022

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Aaron Levie joins Jason to discuss the launch of Box AI (19:13), AI as a platform shift, its potential effects on employment dynamics (25:53), and much more!

(00:00) Aaron Levie joins Jason

(4:12) Thoughts on the impact and pace of AI

(6:54) Aaron's "Aha!" moment

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(11:33) Getting consent to use data from customers

(13:50) Creating an AI model for early adopters

(19:13) Aaron demos Box AI

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(25:53) AI making the workforce more efficient

(33:29) How AI technology affects morale

(36:45) The non-obvious uses of AI

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(39:44) The Writers Guild strike in Hollywood

(46:57) Copyright and citations

(53:49) The challenges with Crypto

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Roy Wood Jr. tackles the circus that was Trump’s arraignment in New York, including Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and George Santos’s indictment-bombing. Plus, Obi-Wan Kenobi aka Jon Stewart stops by to give Roy some sage advice. Robin Thede discusses how and where she finds the talented Black women for her show.

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After a long day of arts and crafts in the newsroom, Jane and Fi discuss the pros and cons of a 'pimped up M&S hot cross bun'.

They're joined by Alice Winn author of 'In Memoriam'.

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Can the production team fool Jane and Fi with an AI generated email?

They're joined by Nigerian writer Ayobami Adebayo about her second novel 'A Spell of Good Things'.

And, Deputy Food Editor at The Times, Hannah Evans, tells Jane and Fi about Michelin starred kids menus.

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John Leguizamo takes on the latest news including the NFL allowing players to have "0" as their number, the Dutch man being sued after father at least 550 children, the Wisconsin Supreme Court race that could affect the 2024 election, and Mike Pence being ordered to testify about Jan 6. Multi-hyphenate Princess Nokia discusses how John Leguizamo and Martin Lawrence are her biggest inspirations and why she decided to allow herself to be publicly vulnerable with her new EP.

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Reading Rick Rubin’s production discography is like taking a tour through the commanding heights of American music over the past few decades. Jay-Z. Run-DMC. Beastie Boys. Slayer. The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Johnny Cash. Kanye West. Neil Diamond. Brandi Carlile. Eminem. Adele. And it’s not just his production credits: Rubin co-founded Def Jam Recordings and was a co-chairman of Columbia Records. What’s allowed him to work with so many different kinds of artists, across such a stunning range of genres, so successfully?

In his new book, “The Creative Act: A Way of Being,” Rubin turns his philosophy of creativity into a manual for living. It is not, to be honest, the book I was expecting. It is less about music than mind states: awareness, openness, discernment, attunement to nature, nonjudgmental listening, trust in your own taste. It is at once mystical and practical, alive to the tensions of creation but intent on holding them gently. I found it unexpectedly moving.

We discuss how Rubin listens to new music, the importance of staying open to the natural world, the difficulty of appreciating art that’s different from what you already like, the rituals that artists like Carlos Santana have when recording, why minimalist composers like Steve Reich are just as “extreme” as heavy metal bands, how Rubin helped Johnny Cash strip down his sound and revive his career, what it takes to level up your taste, the difficulty and gifts of awareness, the relationship between speed and art, how streaming culture is changing our taste, the kind of music that makes Rubin stop and pay attention and oh so much more. This one’s a delight.

Mentioned:

The Tao Te-Ching by Lao Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell

American Recordings by Johnny Cash

"Pulses" by Steve Reich and Erik Hall

Music for Wobbling. Music Versus Gravity. by F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm

Album Recommendations:

Forever Changes by Love

The Beatles by The Beatles

Ramones by Ramones

Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.

You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.

“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Emefa Agawu, Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld, Rogé Karma and Kristin Lin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Mixing by Sonia Herrero. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Jon Caramanica, Dan Charnas, Jack Hamilton, Felix Grimm, Carole Sabouraud and Kristina Samulewski.

​​“One of the biggest things about poetry is that it holds all of humanity,” the poet Ada Limón tells me. “It holds the huge and enormous and tumbling sphere of human emotions.”

At the end of a turbulent year, we thought revisiting this May 2022 conversation with Limón would be fitting. Just months after our conversation, Limón was named U.S. poet laureate.

Limón’s work is a salve for all that the world faces: her books of poetry are filled with meditations on grief and infertility, as well as striking moments of insight about friendship, lust and our fellowship with animals. Her most recent book, “The Hurting Kind,” explores what it means to share the planet with nonhuman beings like birds and trees. Limón describes the marvels of Kentucky’s rural landscape and the dusky beauty of a New York City bar with equal care. Her writing is highly acclaimed by fellow poets and also delightfully accessible to those who have never before picked up a book of poetry.

Limón is a lively reader of her own poetry, so to structure this conversation, I asked her to read a varied selection of her work. We use those readings to discuss what poetry gives us that the news doesn’t, the importance of slowing down in a world that demands speed, how the grief of infertility differs from that of losing a loved one, how to be “in community” with ancestors and animals in lonely times, why Limón loves “chatty” and humorous poems as much as serious ones, why we often have our best thoughts in cars and on planes, how Instagram and Twitter affect our relationship to the world, why Limón meditates every day, how our relationship to excitement changes as we age and more.

Book Recommendations:

Stones by Kevin Young

Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Thoughts? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. Guest suggestions? Fill out this form.

You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.

“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Haylee Millikan; original music by Isaac Jones and Jeff Geld; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin, Kristina Samulewski, Rebecca Elise Foote and Jahan Ramazani.

George Saunders is regarded as one of our greatest living fiction writers. He won the Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” and has published numerous short-story collections to wide acclaim, including his most recent book, “Liberation Day.” He also happens to be one of my favorite people to read and to talk to.

Saunders is an incredibly prescient and sharp observer of American political culture. Way back in 2007, he argued that our media environment was transforming politics into a competition within which the loudest voices would command the most attention and set the agenda for everyone else. With the rise of social media — and the advent of the Trump era — that observation has been more than vindicated. So as we approach the midterm elections, I wanted to have Saunders back on the show to talk about how politics and media have changed, and how those changes are shaping the way we interact, communicate and even think.

We discuss how Twitter takes advantage of — even warps — our “malleable” selves, how politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene strategically manipulate our attentional environments, how Barack Obama leveraged our human desire to be seen as our best selves, whether discipline or gentleness is more effective in helping others grow, what options we have to resist anti-democratic tendencies in our politics, whether a post-scarcity future — with jobs for everyone — would leave us more or less satisfied, how the greatest evils can be committed by those trying to care for their loved ones, what attending Trump rallies taught Saunders about political violence and more.

Mentioned:

The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders

“Host” by David Foster Wallace

“The Semplica-Girl Diaries” by George Saunders

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

“What It Means to Be Kind in a Cruel World” by The Ezra Klein Show

“I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message” by Ezra Klein

Book Recommendations:

The Storm Is Here by Luke Mogelson

Sugar Street by Jonathan Dee

Marlena by Julie Buntin

Thoughts? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. (And if you’re reaching out to recommend a guest, please write  “Guest Suggestion” in the subject line.)

You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.

“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Emefa Agawu, Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris and Mary Marge Locker. Original music by Isaac Jones. Mixing by Jeff Geld. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.

You might not expect a deep friendship to bloom from an argument about favorite authors...in a Miami bar...during spring break. Yet that’s exactly how Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow’s long journey to becoming business partners began... 

Fast forward more than a decade, and Greg and Wylie are now co-founders of Yuga Labs—the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection. Since the collection was unveiled in spring 2021, the value of each digital ape has skyrocketed, with celebrities like Paris Hilton, Snoop Dog and Madonna getting in on the action. Within a year of its founding, Yuga Labs received a whopping $4 billion valuation, making it one of the fastest companies ever to achieve unicorn status. 

This week on How I Built This Lab, Greg and Wylie recount their whirlwind success story in one of their first-ever public interviews. We hear how a shared love of storytelling and online gaming helped spawn the idea for the bored apes; plus, Greg and Wylie tell Guy about the next big endeavor for Yuga Labs: expanding into the metaverse.

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Puzzles may seem like fairly pedestrian pastimes — fun ways to while away a rainy afternoon. And while they certainly do make for satisfying diversions, my guest would say they're also more than that, and can teach us plenty about life as well.

His name is A.J. Jacobs, and he's the author of The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life. Today on the show, A.J. explains what makes a puzzle a puzzle, and why we're drawn to them and enjoy them so much. We then discuss the charm of certain puzzles, from crosswords and Rubik's Cubes, to jigsaws and mazes. Along the way, we discuss some of the strategies behind solving these puzzles, and how these strategies can help you become an all-around better thinker and decision maker, and better at navigating the puzzling dilemmas of life itself.

Resources Related to the Podcast

• A.J.'s previous appearance on the podcast — Episode #53: Experimenting With Your Life
• Maki Kaji — the father of Sudoku
• AoM Article: The Best Riddles for Kids
• A.J.'s wife's scavenger hunt company, Watson Adventures
• Wordplay
• The Great Vermont Corn Maze
• Tanya Khovanova's Math Blog
• Kryptos — art sculpture with encrypted code on the grounds of the CIA
• Apophenia
• Sunday Firesides: Take It Bird by Bird

Connect With A.J. Jacobs

• A.J.'s Website
• A.J. on Twitter