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HTDE: Earthquakes, Dentists, and How To Talk To Your...

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2025/10/15

On today’s episode: a bold new way to help out when an earthquake hits, and Mike and Ian help out a listener with the help of a friendly dentist and a dog named Stella. Plus, our continuing commitment to be your Out of Office emergency contact turns into a surprise birthday celebration.You can email your burning questions to howto@npr.org.How To Do Everything is available without sponsor messages for supporters of Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me+, who also get bonus episodes of Wait Wait Don't…Tell Me

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A Real Groovy Track - Sound Opinions

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2025/10/15

In this bonus episode of Sound Opinions, Jim gets "reaal!" about his love of disco with this groovy track.Join our Facebook Group:https://bit.ly/3sivr9TBecome a member on Patreon:https://bit.ly/3slWZvcSign up for our newsletter:https://bit.ly/3eEvRnGMake a donation via PayPal:https://bit.ly/3dmt9lUSend us a Voice Memo: Desktop:bit.ly/2RyD5AhMobile:sayhi.chat/soundopsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt? (Update)...

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2025/10/15

Arthur Brooks, an economist and former head of the American Enterprise Institute, believes that there is only one remedy for our political polarization: love. In this 2021 episode, we ask if Brooks is a fool for thinking this — and if perhaps you are his kind of fool? SOURCES:Arthur Brooks, professor of public and nonprofit leadership at Harvard University. RESOURCES:“Vital Statistics on Congress,” by Molly Reynolds and Naomi Maehr (Brookings Institute, 2024).Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the

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Hidden Levels #3: This Game Wants YOU - 99% Invisible

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2025/10/14

Before Fortnite and Call of Duty ruled the scene, the US Army quietly shaped the early 2000s with a wildly popular, free shooter designed to excite young people about enlisting.Hidden Levels is a production of 99% Invisible and WBUR's Endless Thread. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of 99% Invisible ad-free and a whole week early.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com

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Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour - The Moth

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2025/10/14

This episode originally aired on December 7th, 2021. In this hour, courage, tenacity, spunk! New opportunities, self-confidence, and parents going the extra mile (or rollercoaster) for their kids. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Curatorial Producer, Suzanne Rust. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Pamela Mitchell learns to put her opinions first. Javier Morillo and his family hold true to their cultural traditions. David

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From the Archives: Lawrence Wright - Here's The Thing...

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2025/10/14

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer forThe New Yorkermagazine. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2006 bookThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Most recently, filmmaker Alex Gibney directed an HBO documentary based onWright'sreporting inGoing Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Unbelief. Much ofWright's work isabout howreligious belief animates personal actionand political conflict. He has documented the Jonestown massacre, explored

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Why Would You Put A Recipe On Your Gravestone? - The...

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2025/10/13

Rosie Grant was already obsessed with cemeteries when she came across her first gravestone recipe. The headstone was carved into the shape of an open cookbook with a cookie recipe on it. Rosie made the cookies, posted about it on TikTok, and overnight she became the gravestone recipes lady. She tracked down dozens more gravestone recipes, meeting the families of the deceased and cooking the recipes herself — then compiling it all into a new cookbook, entitled To Die For. Rosie explains why this

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870: My Other Self - This American Life

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2025/10/12

What happens when people create alternate versions of themselves and release them into the wild?Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription.Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks about a recent experience being interviewed and the realization that he was being asked about another version of himself. (4 minutes)Act One: Reporter Evan Ratliff creates an AI version of himself and then sets it loose on the world. This story was adapted from Evan's podcast, Shell Game. (43

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WWDTM: Taimane - Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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2025/10/12

This week, we're live in Honolulu with panelists Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Peter Grosz, and Paula Poundstone. Plus, special guest Taimane!Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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Authoritarianism, but Make It Look Normal. Plus, the...

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2025/10/11

The Supreme Court has returned to the bench and is poised to hear major cases on tariffs and federal firings. On this week’s On the Media, how a century-old legal theory may help us understand how the highest court handles Trump’s second administration. Plus, meet the Ellisons, who are buying up American media like the Vanderbilts collected railroads.[02:26] Host Brooke Gladstone speaks with Greg Sargent, a staff writer at The New Republic and the host of the podcast “The Daily Blast,” on Stephen

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Can I Wipe My Oily Hands On My Legs? (Reheat) - The...

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2025/10/10

We open the phone lines to settle your most contentious food disputes this week. Eliza wants to wipe her oily hands on her bare legs — is her boyfriend Connor right to object? Then, Natalie thinks she’s entitled to half of what her husband Josh cooks, even though he’s generally hungrier. What’s the fairest way to divvy up meals? To answer these questions, Dan enlists the help of Drew Magary and David Roth, the extremely opinionated co-hosts of The Distraction podcast and co-founders of Defector

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Hidden Levels #2: Stick It to 'Em - 99% Invisible

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2025/10/10

From airplanes to Pac-Man to the battlefield, the joystick has quietly shaped the way humans connect with machines.Hidden Levels is a production of 99% Invisible and WBUR's Endless Thread. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of 99% Invisible ad-free and a whole week early.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data

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Creation Story - Radiolab

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2025/10/10

Ella al-Shamahi is one part Charles Darwin, one part Indiana Jones. She braves war zones and pirate-infested waters to collect fossils from prehistoric caves, fossils that help us understand the origin of our species. Her recent hit BBC / PBS series Human follows her around the globe trying to piece together the unlikely story of how early humans conquered the world. But Ella’s own origins as an evolutionary biologist are equally unlikely. She sits down with us and tells us a story she has rarely

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649. Should Ohio State (and Michigan, and Clemson)...

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2025/10/10

Soccer leagues around the world use a promotion-and-relegation system to reward the best teams and punish the worst. We ask whether American sports fans would enjoy a similar system. (Part two of a two-part series.) SOURCES:Domonique Foxworth, sports analyst and former N.F.L. player.Stefan Szymanski, professor of sport management at the University of Michigan.Victor Matheson, professor of economics at the College of the Holy Cross. RESOURCES:"'Root, root, root for the home team" did TV kill minor

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Producer of "Planet Rock" Arthur Baker, Plus Opinions...

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2025/10/10

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot chat with record producer and author Arthur Baker about his new book, Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms. The hosts also review the new album from Wednesday.Join our Facebook Group:https://bit.ly/3sivr9TBecome a member on Patreon:https://bit.ly/3slWZvcSign up for our newsletter:https://bit.ly/3eEvRnGMake a donation via PayPal:https://bit.ly/3dmt9lUSend us a Voice Memo:

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Banned Books Week: The Moth Podcast - The Moth

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2025/10/10

This week is Banned Books week, and to honor that, we’ll be sharing stories about censorship, courage, and the importance of the written word. This episode was hosted by Cleyvis Natera. Storytellers: Mohammed Bin Khulayf tells us about meeting a man in a parking lot to buy banned books. Toby Price faces unexpected consequences when he introduces his students to a book he and his family love. Podcast # 941 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit:

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Batwoman - Snap Classic - Snap Judgment

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2025/10/09

A woman in Texas takes animal rehabilitation to new heights when she brings over a thousand bats back from the dead in her own home. And a Snap producer reveals he owes a lot to one single hairy flying mammal. STORIESBatwomanA woman in Texas takes animal rehabilitation to new heights when she brings over a thousand bats back from the dead in her own home.Thank you, Mary Warwick, for sharing your story with us!Big thanks also to The Houston Humane Society, The TWRC Wildlife Center, and the Batworld

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The Waltz (Archive Episode) - In Our Time

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2025/10/09

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dance which, from when it reached Britain in the early nineteenth century, revolutionised the relationship between music, literature and people here for the next hundred years. While it may seem formal now, it was the informality and daring that drove its popularity, with couples holding each other as they spun round a room to new lighter music popularised by Johann Strauss, father and son, such as The Blue Danube. Soon the Waltz expanded the creative world in

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Sir Thomas Wyatt (Archive Episode) - In Our Time

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2025/10/09

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the greatest poet of his age', Thomas Wyatt (1503 -1542), who brought the poetry of the Italian Renaissance into the English Tudor world, especially the sonnet, so preparing the way for Shakespeare and Donne. As an ambassador to Henry VIII and, allegedly, too close to Anne Boleyn, he experienced great privilege under intense scrutiny. Some of Wyatt's poems, such as They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek, are astonishingly fresh and conversational and yet he

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What's Wrong with True Crime? - On the Media

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2025/10/08

This week, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” is the most watched show on Netflix. It’s a dramatized retelling of the life of the serial killer who inspired “Psycho” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” The “Monster” franchise, which includes two earlier seasons about Jeffrey Dahmer and Lyle and Erik Menendez, is one of Netflix’s splashiest hits – the Dahmer season is still the fourth-most viewed English language show in the history of the platform. And the true crime obsession only grows each year. On

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