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Bill Hader

This week, legendary actor and comedian Bill Hader! We discuss the return of Barry (4:57), the thematic evolution of the series (7:02), and how it...

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Rupi Kaur

This week, our guest is poet Rupi Kaur. Ahead of her international tour (4:44), we sat to discuss her childhood in Canada (13:05), how she processes...

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Syd

“In the process of making Broken Hearts Club, I learned a lot about myself and reached a new level of self-awareness. The heartbreak songs on the...

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Karina Longworth

“There’s very little sex in Hollywood movies in 2022. I wanted to try to figure out why that is — or what has changed — by looking at that...

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Anita Hill

“I was born in 1956. In 1956, segregation was legal. We didn’t have a Civil Rights Act of 1964. I realized that you have to take risks for change...

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Questlove

“I want to note how important dreaming is. I absolutely grab people by the collar and insist, implore them: daydream more. Summer of Soul was the...

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Marina Abramović

“Performance art has this incredible power of realization of so many things. It is difficult to maintain because it is immaterial; it is time-based...

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David Byrne

“In musical collaboration, you can kind of get outside of yourself. Being in a band, performing— in all those things you have to collaborate and work...

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Margaret Atwood

“After the poem has passed out of the hands of the one who’s written it down, and after that person may have departed from time and space and be...

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Stacey Abrams

“When people believe that more is possible, they are more likely to participate. And when they are aggrieved, when they know that someone is trying...

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W. Kamau Bell

“So much of this is about representation. We have enough people in our communities who could be role models and international icons, but we...

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Dr. James Whitfield

“I stand on the shoulders of those people that came before me. There are people counting on me to step up and say what needs to be said, and do...

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Glory Edim

“We can be resources for one another. We can share our value and show people how the publishing industry really works. Within the podcast...

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Cate Blanchett

“The privilege I’ve had in being an actor is having been able to enter lot of different psyches. Solidity is a dangerous place for the...

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Questlove

“I want to note how important dreaming is. I absolutely grab people by the collar and insist, implore them: daydream more. Summer of Soul was the...

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Tessa Thompson

“I wanted to make Passing because of this idea of what gets to be canon. No one ever handed me Nella Larsen’s work. I didn’t know it...

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Ezra Klein

“There’s a mismatch in the way American elections work, which ends up making it hard for people to think strategically and clearly. In...

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Alana Haim

“It makes me emotional—how rich my life is with such amazing people. I’m so grateful to have met Paul and Cooper. Like, look at this thing we...

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