EP, Narrative Pods @Slate | Previously @WNYC @WBEZ @NPR @Freakonomics @Audible_com @CRC_NYU | Born in Kansas, raised in Brooklyn, living in Chicago.
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So....Tom Hanks just plugged my latest radio doc. I gotta say it was a good day.
I can’t get enough of 2001 even in 2019. Hanx pri.org/stories/2019-05-09/a…
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Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:
"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."
Come for the birdsong, stay for the bird puns. It's a real lark!
For months, I’ve been investigating a heinous crime: the wrongest bird in the history of cinema. Today I finally release the results of my investigation. (🧵)
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For months, I’ve been investigating a heinous crime: the wrongest bird in the history of cinema. Today I finally release the results of my investigation. (🧵)
slate.com/podcasts/decoder-r…
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In the fourth episode of Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News, we look at Fox's critics, including The Daily Show, liberals on Fox News itself, and a whistleblower that Fox couldn't ignore slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn…
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"This isn’t just a great history, it’s fucking juicy." Thanks for this review of Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News @laurenpassell podcastthenewsletter.substac…
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Just Announced! @Slate is throwing an election-themed event @BellHouseNY feat Slate reporters, your favorite podcasts including What Next hosted by @marysdesk, the new season of Slow Burn hosted by @josh_levin & trivia! More guests announced soon
Tickets:
slate.com/octobersurprise
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In 2019 I wrote about the very first episode of @SlatePodcasts' How To in Podcast the Newsletter because I was so excited about it and this week I got to be ON IT! Pinch me! Also a dream to get to talk to @carvellwallace.
slate.com/podcasts/how-to/20…
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The second episode of Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News is about what came before Fox: Roger Ailes' weirdo cable channel America's Talking and a Fox news division run by a disciple of Walter Cronkite slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn…
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The season premiere of Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News is out today. It's about the moment when Fox really became itself, and became a bogeyman for the left: the 2000 election, when George W. Bush's cousin presided over the Fox decision desk slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn…
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"Slow Burn does this thing that makes you feel like you lived through historical events even if you didn’t ... [Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs] could not be a more important listen."
Thank you to @laurenpassell for this review!
Listen now to Slow Burn: slate.com/slowburn
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In a time of growing backlash against the LGBTQ+ community, one controversial state ballot initiative will spark an unstoppable demonstration of pride across the country.
This is @SlatePodcasts' Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs, hosted by @c_cauterucci.
apple.co/SlowBurn
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Did you hear? Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas was awarded Podcast of the Year at @podcastacademy this week. 🎉
Slow Burn continues its award-winning work this year with season 9, Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs.
Follow now and never miss an episode: slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn…
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Latest Decoder Ring is a fantastic, searing, vulnerable, smart, moving one from @katie_shep about the fat suit, its history, prevalence, persistence and all around wtf-ness. It'll stay with you.
slate.com/podcasts/decoder-r…
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Thank you to @nwquah for including Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs, hosted by @c_cauterucci, in @vulture's "8 Podcasts We Can’t Wait to Listen to This Summer" 🎉
Read the review here: vulture.com/article/new-podc…
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it's so good ! listen and also — if you don't yet subscribe to Slate Plus, do it for this! not only does membership support this kind of (incredibly labor intensive, meaningful) work, you will get the first 5 episodes this week and the final 2 next week ! xitter.cf/Slate/status/179329194…
1/ OUT NOW: Slow Burn Season 9: Gays Against Briggs
Host @c_cauterucci explores one of the most consequential civil rights battles in American history: the first-ever statewide vote on gay rights.
🎧link.chtbl.com/yxMeVIiA
ALT Slow Burn cover art: a powerful image of a street protest with signs like "Help Stop Briggs" and "No! On the Briggs Initiative" with an activist in the center under the "Slow Burn" artwork with their fist in the air.
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From wild to mild, picante to pathetic. 🥵🥶
Decoder Ring host @willapaskin chats with food critic @bgreinhart, LA Times columnist @GustavoArellano, and chili pepper experts to unravel the spicy mystery behind America’s favorite pepper.
apple.co/Jalapeno
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1/ OUT NOW: Slow Burn Season 9: Gays Against Briggs
Host @c_cauterucci explores one of the most consequential civil rights battles in American history: the first-ever statewide vote on gay rights.
🎧link.chtbl.com/yxMeVIiA
ALT Slow Burn cover art: a powerful image of a street protest with signs like "Help Stop Briggs" and "No! On the Briggs Initiative" with an activist in the center under the "Slow Burn" artwork with their fist in the air.
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COMING MAY 22: Slow Burn Season 9: Gays Against Briggs. A nationwide moral panic, a California legislator who rode the anti-gay wave, and the LGBTQ+ people who rose up and came out to try and stop him.
Hosted by @c_cauterucci. Find it where you listen: slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn…
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incredibly proud of the juris team @Slate for their work unpacking what 'originalism' even is and how it is intertwined with the current vibe of SCOTUS being incredibly at odds with the will of the people right now slate.com/originalism
