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"Weird Al" Yankovic Celebrates 10 Years of "Mandatory...

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2024/07/19

10 years after his comedy album "Mandatory Fun" became the first comedy album in history to hit number 1 on the Billboard charts, "Weird Al" Yankovic, musician, comedian, and actor, looks back on his career parodying hit pop songs, previews his latest single "Polkamania!", and takes calls from his multi-generational fanbase.

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Why NYC Cars Are Deadlier Than Guns

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2024/07/19

Clayton Guse, WNYC/Gothamist editor on the NYC Accountability desk, and Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom, break down the latest city data that show more New Yorkers were killed by drivers during the first six months of 2024 than those who were fatally shot over the same period.

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Leader Jeffries Talks Biden Politics

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2024/07/19

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn) talks about the debate engulfing the Democrats on whether President Biden should stay in the race, plus reacts to Trump's speech at the RNC and listeners share their views.

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Friday Morning Politics: Trump's Speech at the RNC

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2024/07/19

Charlie Sykes, founder of The Bulwark, MSNBC contributor and author of How the Right Lost Its Mind (St. Martin's Press, 2017), recaps President Trump's speech and the whole week at the Republican National Convention.

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What the Massive Tech Outage is Affecting Locally and...

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2024/07/19

Brittany Kriegstein, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, and Tom Warren, senior editor and author of "Notepad" for The Verge, talk about the effects of the massive tech outage, including critical infrastructure, apps, travel and more -- as callers share issues they're finding with work, travel, and making purchases.

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Thursday Morning Politics: The RNC, Political...

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2024/07/18

Loading... Coming up on today’s show: McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Romney: A Reckoning (Simon & Schuster, 2023), recaps the happenings at the Republican National Convention, including JD Vance's speech, plus reflects on political violence here in the United States. Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation, talks about the NYC Bin, the City’s first "official trash can" which will be mandated for use by residential buildings

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The City's First Official Residential Trash Can

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2024/07/18

Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation, talks about the NYC Bin, the City’s first "official trash can" which will be mandated for use by residential buildings with 1-9 units in a continuing effort to deprive rats of access to garbage.

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Thursday Morning Politics: The Buzz from the RNC

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2024/07/18

McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Romney: A Reckoning (Simon & Schuster, 2023), recaps the happenings at the Republican National Convention, including JD Vance's speech, plus offers analysis on Nikki Haley's apparent evolution into a Trump believer.

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Democracy's 'Shadow'

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2024/07/18

Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent at Vox and the author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World (PublicAffairs, 2024), explores the resistance to democratic ideals that has always accompanied progress toward greater freedom and how that reactionary movement is active here and around the world.

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Celebrating an American Anthem: 'Rhapsody in Blue'

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2024/07/18

Classical pianist Lara Downes previews a free outdoor concert in which she'll perform a new arrangement of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," which turns 100 this year. On Saturday, July 27 at 6 p.m., WNYC and St. Ann’s Warehouse will present Rhapsody for This Land: The American Odyssey in Music, a free concert in Brooklyn Bridge Park that celebrates a century of hope, protest and change as expressed through American music. RSVP for free here.WNYC is celebrating its centennial with live events,

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Rep. D'Esposito on the RNC; Menendez Convicted;...

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2024/07/17

Loading... On today's show: U.S. Representative Anthony D'Esposito (R, NY-4) talks about the convention and the campaigns. Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and editor, and host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted on bribery and other corruption charges. NS reports on what comes next for him and for his re-election campaign. Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject

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Reporters Ask the Mayor: FDNY Chief Steps Down, Adams...

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2024/07/17

Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week's event. This weeks topics include: the resignation of the FDNY commissioner, Laura Kavanagh; the mayor pointing fingers at the press in response to the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump; a first look at how much Democratic mayoral primary candidates are fundraising for the

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Summer Bests, So Far

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2024/07/17

Halfway through summer, listeners share their favorite finds: Cultural, Culinary, Air-Conditioned.

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Rep. D'Esposito on the RNC

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2024/07/17

U.S. Representative Anthony D'Esposito (R, NY-4) talks about the Republican convention and the campaigns.

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100 Years of 100 Things: RNC Speeches

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2024/07/17

Continuing our centennial series "100 Years of 100 Things," Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, NPR contributor, and author of several books and co-author with Kevin Kruse of Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past (Basic Books, 2023), walks us through pivotal RNC speeches from the last 100 years. 100 Years of 100 Things is part of WNYC’s centennial celebration. Each week, we’ll take listeners

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Menendez Convicted

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2024/07/17

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted on bribery and other corruption charges. Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and editor, and host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, reports on what comes next for him and for his re-election campaign.

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Tuesday Morning Politics: Trump's VP Pick; Climate...

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2024/07/16

Loading... Coming up on today’s show: Jonathan Lemire, host of “Way Too Early" on MSNBC, Politico White House bureau chief, and the author of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 (Flatiron Books, 2022), offers analysis of the Republican National Convention so far, Trump's VP pick and more national political news. Zack Colman, reporter covering climate and energy at Politico, talks about how climate and energy show up in the Republican

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Poverty in Black and White

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2024/07/16

William Barber, a Protestant minister, social activist, professor, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, president of Repairers of the Breach and the author of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy (Liveright, 2024), argues against seeing poverty as primarily a Black issue and seeks to create common ground across racial lines to address the problem.

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How Hot Is It?

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2024/07/16

The year 2024 is the hottest year on record in New York City, and the current heat wave is expected to bring real-feel temperatures into the triple digits today. In this oppressive heat and humidity, we ask our listeners simply, "how hot is it?"

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Climate and Energy at the RNC

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2024/07/16

Zack Colman, reporter covering climate and energy at Politico, talks about how climate and energy show up in the Republican platform and in Project 2025, plus reports from the RNC on how Republicans are talking - if at all - about climate change.

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