Kliph Nesteroff returned to my radio show to talk about two TV projects he has coming up. One of them is “Funny How?” a five-part series debuting July 10th on Viceland, in which he follows Dave Attell, Mike Birbiglia, Rhea Butcher, and other comics as they work across the country. The other is CNN’s “History […]
Finn Murphy’s job is to move people and their stuff — loading and unloading and carrying their belongings thousands of miles across the US, crisscrossing the country and encountering all sorts of characters, from clients to truckers to cops. He’s been doing it for over thirty years, and writes about his life in “The Long […]
Here’s my conversation with Dave Weigel about his book, “The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock.” That’s the term applied to bands like Yes, ELP, the Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, and more that rose to fame in the 1970s. Among the topics we discussed: Why it took […]
Here’s my conversation with quantum physicist Jim Al-Khalili about his book, “Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.” Among the questions I asked him: Can we say definitively that there’s no other life in our solar system other than on Earth? What are the odds that life elsewhere has evolved faster […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson is America’s favorite science educator. He is an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium, hosted the Fox series “Cosmos,” and does the podcast/radio/TV show “StarTalk.” I was delighted a few years ago when he came to town and 3,000 people packed the Peabody Opera House to see Tyson talk about science […]
Here’s my conversation with Jason Zinoman about his book, “Letterman: The Last Giant Of Late Night.” Among the topics we discussed: Whether it was harder to convince David Letterman to sit down for interviews or his former showrunner/girlfriend Merrill Markoe to share her diary; Letterman’s three distinct creative eras at NBC, and why the CBS […]