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In Quarantine with Steve Bodow
Ben Smith Distrusts Facebook, TikTok, and Poppy Seeds
In Quarantine with Steve Bodow is a twice-weekly series of funny, insightful, and revealing 10-minute conversations between some of America’s least house-leaving artists and thinkers, and 14-time Emmy-winning former Daily Show executive producer Steve Bodow. Offering a quick hit of connection, In Quarantine is about how creative people are living, personally and professionally, in this very weird time.
Guests include Ben Sinclair (star/co-creator, HBO’s High Maintenance), A.J. Jacobs (editor at large, Esquire), Jessica Koslow (James Beard finalist chef, Sqirl Restaurant), and many others!
Episodes
Ben Smith Distrusts Facebook, TikTok, and Poppy Seeds
The NY Times’ “Media Equation” columnist weighs in on how cable news might blow Election Night, tech platforms’ hopeless hunt for “fairness,” and Trump’s next move if he, y’know, loses.
Ronny Chieng Would Try Parking Garage Standup At This Point
After five months quarantined in Sydney, the Daily Show correspondent reports on returning to NYC, why Australia kicked our corona response ass, and what Chinese New Year can teach Rosh Hashana.
(It’s dragons. The answer is dragons.)
Marina Gorbis Thinks Ahead. Like, That’s Literally Her Job.
How is the pandemic changing us? Institute for the Future exec director Marina Gorbis on how to tell short-term trends from long-term shifts, using stories to shape what’s coming, and why you’ll be spending much less time at the dermatologist’s office.
Sharon Brous didn’t want to be a Rabbi
The LA-based, nationally recognized rabbi talks about what to do when your society is having five crises at once, why the pulpit is for politics, and hot ’90s kiddush seduction techniques.
Cory Booker’s Sure He’s My Most Difficult Podcast Interview
Nah, but: The New Jersey senator talks with Steve Bodow on “In Quarantine” about Kamala’s ascent, the future of the racial justice movement, and which medical procedure most resembles getting vetted for the vice presidency.
“What to my people is the fourth of July?” — Idris Goodwin & Adam Mansbach
Two creators, one Black and one white, of a biting new BLM video – inspired by Frederick Douglass’s best-known speech and performed by Daveed Diggs – discuss their collaboration, how an 1852 speech matters so much right now, and why “white privilege” doesn’t go far enough.
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