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This week we got comedian and retro lunchbox collector Liz Miele in the studio talking about doing stand up in Jordan. The country, not the host.

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White people (and men, and straight people &etc) presume their identity represents a default or neutral state. When others bring up their difference we react as if we are under a terrifying assault. Grow up. Listen to someone else for a change.

If you are bothered by reporting on “identity politics” I promise you are telling on yourself. The freedom to pretend identity is not a central part of our American lives is a product of hegemonic force.

I've long wondered why Jesse Thorn 🤷‍♂️ (he/him) didn't ask actor Ted Danson about the staggering grain debt owed him by Beef & Dairy Network during their Bullseye interview in 2021. Today I got my answer. I hope never to owe Ted Danson a single grain.

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What a mad state of affairs. And what a good egg.

Look we all knew it but only Dallas was brave enough to say it. 😆

Many things wrong w/terrible Berliner column on NPR, including not observing basic fairness. Didn't seek comment from NPR before publishing. Didn't mention many things which could detract from his conclusions. Set up staffers of color as scapegoats: loom.ly/QPLdX1w

Berliner's claims are that journalism at NPR has been harmed by a lack of viewpoint diversity and that has cost us the public's trust. I disagree and so do officials at NPR, who challenged those conclusions. So I'm gonna disagree w/you on that point, tho I love your work.

there’s a weird genre of person who has to make up a fake past where everyone was cool with each other as a defense of why they’re allowed to be a bigot now

Jazz musician Shabaka Hutchings : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn : NPR npr.org/2024/04/02/119…

I got to interview Cole Escola today about their absolutely fucking hilarious show 'Oh, Mary.' If you are in New York and you don't go see it you've got gravel for brains.

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🚨 Extremely dangerous anti-LGBTQ adoption and foster care legislation has now passed both chambers of the Tennessee legislature. It would literally bar the department from protecting LGBTQ children in placement decisions.

Erin Reed has more: erininthemorning.com/p/tennessee-pa…

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One of our favorite traditions is back: it's the pin sale for charity! This year's sale will benefit @voteriders, who provide voter ID assistance so that every American citizen can cast a ballot that counts. maximumfun.org/pinsale/

Hi! I am hosting the Writers Guild Awards in New York City in two weeks, and I don't have a fancy publicist so I am boldly taking to this app to ask: Are there any brands that want to give or loan me a cool suit to wear during the ceremony?

As we slog through the fetid discourse around sketch comedy and female attractiveness, I want to remind everyone that the Kids in the Hall never made drag the joke, they built CHARACTERS, and Dave Foley was so consistently hot in drag, Newsradio did an episode about it.