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Dead People Don't Have Any Secrets

Mar

23

Rosie, Sixto, Hari, Uma, Mahershala, Amatus, Lisa & Dan

For Rosie Perez, it's her cousin, Sixto Ramos. For Mahershala Ali, it's his wife, Amatus. And for Hari Kondabolu, it's been his mom, Uma Kondabolu. Our recent live show in Brooklyn was all about times of big change in life and the family who keeps us...
Mar

16

After My Brother Avonte Disappeared

Danny Oquendo was in the spotlight long before his 14-year-old autistic brother, Avonte, disappeared from his New York City school. Growing up, Danny was a football star— “sort of a golden child,” he sheepishly told me— eventually playing for the...
Mar

02

Falling in Love... With Heroin

Susanne met Mike when she was 16. He was 18, and her supervisor at the call center where they worked. They flirted and started dating. "Average teenager stuff," Susanne recalls. Soon after they got together, Mikeoffered Susanne heroin. She says she...
Feb

17

Michael Ian Black's Middle-Aged Angst

Being a rebellious smart-ass helped comedian Michael Ian Black launch his career. And it occasionally got him into trouble. “Once I called the head of MTV a drunk,” he told me. “She was very offended.” It didn’t help that he was working for MTV at the...
Feb

10

DANCE BREAK!

We've been asking you to tell us about the songs that have meant a lot to you during times of big changein your life. You've sent in more than 500 suggestions so far—along with a lot of great stories. Our listener Kevin Chung from Seattle sent us his...
Feb

03

Lucinda Williams Says Whatever the Hell She Wants

When Lucinda Williams was in elementary school, all the other kids brought rock collections and other standard fare to show-and-tell. But she brought a folder. "I put this notebook together of seven poems and a short story by Cindy Williams," she...
Jan

27

Why Jeb Corliss Jumps Off Cliffs

Jeb Corliss says he's "impossible to be in a relationship with." He's a professional BASE jumper and wingsuit flier—who's learned to very carefully analyze and control his emotions, including fear. "People don't realize that feelings get you in big...
Jan

13

Brooke Shields, Recovering Daughter

Brooke Shields became famous as a sex symbol long before she was actually having sex. At 12, she playeda child prostitute in the film Pretty Baby. Soon after, she starred in the sexy teen romance Blue Lagoon. And at 15, she became the controversial...
Dec

30

Living Alone, One Year Later

Today, more than a quarter of American households are home to just one person. And living alone has its perks.You can eat what you want, crank up the stereo and let your dishes pile up for days. But there's also no one to help foot the bill, andno one...
Dec

09

Autism Isn’t What I Signed Up For

Diane Gill Morriswas 25 when her first son, Kenny, was born. About 15 months later, she and her husband realized that he’d stopped talking. By the time Kenny was officially diagnosed with autism, Diane’s second son, Theo, was eight months old. Less...
Nov

04

Kevin Powell Doesn't Fight Anymore

Born in Jersey City to a poor, hard-working single mother from the South, Kevin Powell was a gifted young writer who earned a scholarship to Rutgers. Then things fell apart. He got expelled after a series of violent outbursts, two of which were...
Oct

28

All in the Family of Norman Lear

I spoke with Norman Lear, the veteran writer and producer behind such hit TV shows as All in the Family and The Jeffersons,at his luxury apartment in Manhattan. He told me hewanted to make sure his kids would never be "desperate for a dollar" -- but...
Oct

21

The Power of Yesi Ortiz

On weekdays between 10 and 3, Yesi Ortiz is the warm, flirty host for the popular Los Angeleship-hop station Power 106. But off the air, she’s a dedicated single mother of six adopted kids. Her kids'biological mom is Yesi’s older sister, who had her...
Oct

07

An Astronaut’s Husband, Left Behind

Dr. Jonathan Clark and his eight year-old son Iain watched the space shuttle Columbia launch from Kennedy Space Center on January 16, 2003. Sixteen days later, Columbia exploded upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Jon's wife, Dr. Laurel Clark,...
Sep

23

The Sex Worker Next Door

I first heard from Emma—that's not her real name—after our cheating episode. She emailed me about all of the married men that she encounters through her job. "Am I facilitating cheating? I guess so," she wrote. "Can I sleep at night? Mostly." She...
Sep

09

From Chaos to Sesame Street

Sonia Manzano, who spent more than 40 years playing Maria on Sesame Street, often gets asked by kids if she’s rich. It all depends on where you came from, she told me. Compared to Jennifer Lopez, she’s “poor as a church mouse.” But compared to where...
Aug

21

In New Orleans: How to Get Elected Coroner

Dr. Jeffrey Rouse isNew Orleans' coroner—a job he describes as the “interface between law and medicine.” But ten years ago, he was working in a lab studying the brains of people with PTSD, getting ready for a life in academia. When the storm hit, Dr....
Aug

20

In New Orleans: A Doctor Stands By Her Adopted Home

Ten years ago when Katrina hit, Dr. Kiersta Kurtz-Burke didn’t evacuate. Instead she stayed inside New Orleans’ Charity Hospital, where she worked for six days, caring for 18 patients on the 5th floor. There was no power, and it seemed like no one was...
Aug

19

In New Orleans: Big Freedia Bounces Back

Even before becoming Big Freedia, Freddie Ross was known around New Orleans. Her"signature call"—an operatic bellow that she lets out when I ask to hear it—was legendary in the city. "They'd be like, 'Oh that's Freddie in the club'.... The signature...

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Location New York, NY
Genres Talk
Networks WNYC
Language English
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Death, Sex, and Money

Dead People Don't Have Any Secrets

Rosie, Sixto, Hari, Uma, Mahershala, Amatus, Lisa & Dan

After My Brother Avonte Disappeared

Falling in Love... With Heroin

Michael Ian Black's Middle-Aged Angst

DANCE BREAK!

Lucinda Williams Says Whatever the Hell She Wants

Why Jeb Corliss Jumps Off Cliffs

Brooke Shields, Recovering Daughter

Living Alone, One Year Later

Autism Isn’t What I Signed Up For

Kevin Powell Doesn't Fight Anymore

All in the Family of Norman Lear

The Power of Yesi Ortiz

An Astronaut’s Husband, Left Behind

The Sex Worker Next Door

From Chaos to Sesame Street

In New Orleans: How to Get Elected Coroner

In New Orleans: A Doctor Stands By Her Adopted Home

In New Orleans: Big Freedia Bounces Back

PROGRAM INFORMATION

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