Employee of the Month
We spend most of our time working, so what does it take to (mainly) love what you do? How do even the most gifted, talented, intelligent, ambitious, disciplined, imaginative, inventive, and lucky people develop their point of view, find meaning, serve a greater good, deal with work place politics, rejection, finances, boredom, red tape, logistics, and creative roadblocks? What are the perks or enjoyable about forging your own path? Catie Lazarus and her guests delve into beauty, banality and absurdity of work, jobs, and labor.
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Zadie Smith on pot, Prince, plotlessness, and p...
Zadie Smith
33 min
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The Yes Men on Trump, Barbie, and Bird Dogging
The Yes Men
22 min
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Emel Mathlouthi sings on hope in face of struggle
To celebrate International Women's Day, check out Emel Mathlouthi, who has been called the "Voice of the Arab Spring." After her song went viral during the Arab Spring in Egypt, she performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 2015. Whi...
13 min
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SARAH JONES on so-called actor Meryl Streep, qu...
A gifted character actor, Sarah Jones could be on SNL. Instead, chose to
take her brilliantly funny embodiments of humans you know, maybe even
you, to tackle poverty, prostitution, and now, "pussy grabbing." She
reveals what it was like to...
25 min
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ALAN ALDA on dogs, death, and doctor poses.
Alan Alda
40 min
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LESLIE GOSHKO on leaving and finding Jesus on a...
LESLIE GOSHKO
46 min
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SUAD AMIRY, Syrian-Palestinian, on diaspora, dy...
SUAD AMIRY
29 min
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J. Period on Jesse Williams, Norman Lear, DJ Ja...
J. Period on DJ Jazzy Jeff, Lauryn Hill & Norman l Lear
58 min
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HAMILTON MIXTAPE'S to Lauryn Hill's secret weap...
J.PERIOD
22 min
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PHOEBE ROBINSON talks Broad City, Dicks & WNYC
If you went to a career counselor, they might claim comedy is a dreamy career. It is. It is also a hard one. But on paper, comedy sounds fun! But it is notoriously competitive, and great comics from Louis CK to Seinfeld will say it takes years to truly...
16 min
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SARAH KAY performs, sings and talks being robbe...
2017 marks a critical juncture where I am paying attention to what I consume and create. For starters, I strive to shed new light as a writer. I also want to share conversations with exceptional people who devote their careers to not only distilling li...
25 min
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The Met's Morris Robinson will make you laugh, ...
As a 6’2, 300-pound offensive guard for the Citadel, Morris Robinson scored first team All-Southern Conference, first team Kodak All-American, and second team Sports Network All-American. He wanted to play pro. Sports Illustrated profiled Robinson...
20 min
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JOHN TURTURRO on sex with Bobby Cannavale, Audr...
Turturro, who is best known, as one of the most pliable, memorable actors of our time, spoke about needing to laugh post the election of Donald Trump. We certainly did a lot, as the Brooklyn native shared hilarious stories about working with Robert...
45 min
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JON GLASER talks about Second City and whether ...
JON GLASER talks about Second City and whether SNL grabbed his joke by Catie Lazarus
39 min
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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT sings and talks Leonard Cohen...
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT is touring in Australia, the UK, Ireland, and Canada, just released her fourth solo studio album, GOODNIGHT CITIZEN. The bilingual, dual citizen has lived betwixt and between worlds, and when you hear her sing, you'll feel how he...
20 min
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THE AFFAIR's SARAH TREEM on firing and hiring, ...
"Get comfortable with people hating you," Sarah Treem, who created THE AFFAIR, which is in the midst of its third season on SHOWTIME, says about what it takes to be a boss. Her keen awareness about the messiness of real life is palpable in th...
43 min
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MITSKI on her new album Puberty 2, Stephen Colb...
The extraordinarily talented musician Mitski Miyawaki composed two albums before she had graduated from college. Her latest album Puberty 2 led her to her first live TV performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Most importantly, it gave her mo...
16 min
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NICK DENTON on Peter Thiel, Gawker, & bankruptcy
Donald Trump's legacy is already underway. Instead of calling for higher standards and ethics when it comes to how journalism treats privacy issues, a Florida judge awarded Hulk Hogan millions of dollars for recording his affair with his best frie...
33 min
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NATE SILVER on polling errors, media refusing t...
Nate Silver the leading political pollster in history, and is as deft with sports and social issues. Silver explores all three arenas as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief at 538, which he sold to ESPN, after a stint at The New York Times.
In our interv...
34 min
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The New York Times journalist Jessica Bennett o...
Jessica Bennett is a columnist at the New York Times Style section and wrote about Monica Lewinsky and online shaming to Hillary Clinton's closest confidantes to sororities and feminism. Her work has also appeared in Newsweek, Time, and was the c...
36 min
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ISAAC OLIVER on writing his debut book, porn, a...
Isaac Oliver is the author of INTIMACY IDIOT, which was named one of NPR's Best Books of 2015. Even if you read it in 2016, you'll see why his writing has been featured on BuzzFeed, Gawker, and Out Magazine. A gifted storyteller, Isaac Oliver...
17 min
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LAURA BENANTI sings and talks vibrators, Melani...
Tony Award-winner LAURA BENANTI is playing all over the country so catch her singing live. You may recognize her from her impression of Melania Trump which went viral.
She was also a smash hit in the 2016 Tony nominated role of Amalia Balash in the h...
39 min
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MAYA RUDOLPH talks Prince, Oprah, and performs
Maya Rudolph is pure joy. After wrapping the first season of NBC’s Maya and Marty, her comedy variety show with Martin Short, Maya toured with her college friend Gretchen Lieberum to sold out crowds. Their band Princess pays tribute to the late genius ...
47 min
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PATTI LUPONE sings with Tituss Burgess & talks ...
Patti LuPone may be best know for her irresistible voice, but the two-time Grammy and Tony, and Olivier Award winner’s secret weapon is feeling everything. Lord knows, especially on stage, there are actors who overact and mug, in doing so, leave no roo...
36 min
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JON HAMM on Mercedes Benz, dick jokes, and dati...
JON HAMM is best known for revolutionizing how society envisions masculinity, in all of its raw sensuality, insatiable competitive hunger, arrogance, and corrosive loneliness, in his deft portrayal of Don Draper, but he is equally deft at comedy. Happy...
36 min