57: THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE with Rob Verchick
Rob Verchick, author of the award-winning new book, The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience is Jenβs guest today. Why this…
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56: THESE ARE THE PLUNDERERS with authors Gretchen Morgenson and Josh Rosner
Today we are doing Jenβs favorite thing: following the big dirty money. This time the focus is on the world of private equity. Those two…
▶️ Watch →55: Chuck Collins on ALTAR TO AN ERUPTING SUN
Chuck Collins, author of several works of nonfiction including The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions is Jenβs guest today. They mostly…
▶️ Watch →Making Black AF History (featuring Pharrell Williams and John Legend)
In this episode before the season finalΓ©β¦ Join Michael as he goes behind the scenes to meet the people who make the Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History…
▶️ Watch →The Many Beefs of Ida B. Wells (featuring Georgia Me and Karen Morrow)
Arguably, best investigative journalist of her time, 19th-century trailblazer, Β anti lynching champion and a force to be reckoned with. From her days in the Deep…
▶️ Watch →Choices We Made: Earth or Space? (with Kal Penn)
Actor and former Obama White House staffer Kal Penn joins Sam to talk about how he doesnβt make calculated decisions and hates when people suggest…
▶️ Watch →Mary Ellen Pleasant: Black Capitalist (featuring TourΓ©, Diamond Stylz, and Jody Simms)
Can you name the 19th century Black woman entrepreneur who funded hundreds of Black people to flee from slavery? Β Mary Ellen Pleasant reported in 1875…
▶️ Watch →Boley, Oklahoma: A Black Town In The American West (featuring Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tiffany Cross, and OlaRonke Akinmowo)
Have you heard about Boley, Oklahoma – the town that wished a motherfucker would? Boley was a thriving, black town founded by Abigail McCormick who…
▶️ Watch →North South or East West? (with Senator Murphy)
Senator Chris Murphy joins Sam to talk about keeping plants alive and why heβs been walking across the state of Connecticut for ten years, now…
▶️ Watch →Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Woman Who Invented Rock & Roll (featuring LynnΓ©e Denise and Reagan Gomez)
Who really invented rock n roll? The facts are clearβit was Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Black queer gospel-influenced rock and roll BeyoncΓ© of the 1930s…
▶️ Watch →Joy or Happiness? (with Kate Bowler)
Professor, author, and podcast host Kate Bowler joins Sam to talk about her new book Joyful Anyway, and what the difference between joy and happiness…
▶️ Watch →House or Home? (with Lisa Ann Walter)
Actress and comedian Lisa Ann Walter joins Sam to talk about becoming the βman of the houseβ when she was ten and what it means…
▶️ Watch →Choices We Made: TV or Radio? (with Christa Miller)
Actor Christa Miller joins Sam to talk about the new season of Shrinking and her other role where she serves as music supervisor. Christa talks…
▶️ Watch →American Madness: The Obama Years
The election of President Barack Obama ignited feelings of hope and promise. But the election of the first black president of the United States also…
▶️ Watch →Democracy Imperiled
What happened at the Capitol on January 6 begs us to look to our past to help us understand our present, and to imagine a…
▶️ Watch →Introducing: What We Spend
Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. On What We Spend, people from across the country and across the financial…
▶️ Watch →The Second Reconstruction
The Civil Rights movement of the mid-twentieth century begins despite the internal conflicts that shape it. We focus particularly on the complex response to the…
▶️ Watch →White Betrayal
The black freedom struggle of the mid-twentieth century leads to the emergence of white backlash. Here we show how conservatives mobilized immediately, in the courts…
▶️ Watch →Will Sommer On The New Abnormal
Will Sommer joins The Daily Beast’s The New Abnormal to talk the America first movement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more…
▶️ Watch →Gary Marcus On The New Abnormal
Gary Marcus joins The New Abnormal to discuss the dangers of AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad…
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