Explore "stories" with insightful episodes like "Encore: Getting home", "Charles Duhigg: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection", "Communist Spies in Hollywood? - Michael Malice", "#707 - Morgan Housel - 9 Timeless Lessons About Human Psychology" and "Introducing The Weekend Intelligence" from podcasts like ""Endless Thread", "The Rich Roll Podcast", "TRIGGERnometry", "Modern Wisdom" and "Economist Podcasts"" and more!
Endless Thread co-host Amory Sivertson spent three years unraveling a cold-case murder. Her reporting eventually became the forthcoming podcast series Beyond All Repair.
Every story has its beginning. Amory's investigation starts here: Endless Thread's second-ever episode—originally released in 2018—about a man and his folder of documents.
Credits: This episode was produced and co-hosted by Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson. Mix and sound design by Paul Vaitkus.
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In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the so-called “telephone game,” in which a whispered message travels through a chain of individuals and is eventually announced again in an altered form. What does this game reveal about communication and what else can we learn from it?
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We're back from vacation and had a good restful break. We catch up on everything we missed including NBA All Star Weekend, Mac McClung saving the dunk contest, Jonathan Gannon's awkward video from the first day of being Cardinals HC, Genesis Open and tons more (00:00:00- 00:42:18). Who's back of the week (00:42:18-01:06:52) . We then welcome on Bert Kreischer in person to catch up, talk about how he's going to die and a potential random meet up he may now have us attend (01:06:52-01:47:33). We finish with our first live lottery ball in 2 weeks (01:47:33-01:52:47).
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Today we're revisiting one of our favorite episodes from this year, with the prolific writer Margaret Atwood.
A good rule of thumb is that whatever Margaret Atwood is worried about now is likely what the rest of us will be worried about a decade from now. The rise of authoritarianism. A backlash against women’s social progress. The seductions and dangers of genetic engineering. Climate change leading to social unrest. Advertising culture permeating more and more of our lives. Atwood — the author of the Booker Prize-winning novels “The Blind Assassin” and “The Testaments,” as well as “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Oryx and Crake” and, most recently, the essay collection “Burning Questions” — was writing about these topics decades ago, forecasting the unsettling world that we inhabit now. Pick up any one of her 17 published novels, and you will likely come across a theme or a quality of the setting that rings eerily true in the present day.
This is especially true of Atwood’s magnum opus, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which takes place in a future America where climate change, droughts, a decaying economy and falling birthrates lead to the rise of a theocracy in which women called Handmaids are conscripted into childbirth. The repressive regime she created in that novel, Gilead, has been endlessly referred to and reinterpreted over the years because of the wisdom it contains about why people cooperate with — and resist — political movements that destroy the freedom of others. And as recent weeks have shown, we’re far from the day when that wisdom becomes irrelevant to present circumstances.
We discuss the deep human craving for stories, why Atwood believes we are engaged in “an arm wrestle for the soul of America,” what makes the stories of the Bible so compelling, the dangerous allure of totalitarian movements, how the shift from coal to oil helped to fuel the rise of modern consumerism, why she thinks climate change will cause even more harm by increasing the likelihood of war than it will by increasing the likelihood of extreme weather, how our society lost its capacity to imagine new utopias, why progressives need to incorporate more fun into their politics, why we should “keep our eye on the mushroom,” Atwood’s take on recent U.F.O. sightings and more. She even sings a bit of a song from the 1950s about the Iron Curtain.
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Book recommendations:
War by Margaret MacMillan
Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reid
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin, Kristina Samulewski, Coral Ann Howells and Brooks Bouson.
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