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PodSkip has analyzed 92 episodes of Fresh Air, averaging 6.0 ads per episode (5% of runtime).
Best Of: ‘The Invite’ screenwriters / Guitarist Lenny Kaye
Jul 18, 2026
Rashida Jones and Will McCormack are the screenwriting duo behind ‘The Invite.’ It takes on the realities of marriage in middle age, told over the course of one dinner party that spirals out of…
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Fresh Air Best Of: John Lithgow / Sondheim's Tumultuous Life Review
If you've ever wondered what…
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Ebon Moss-Bachrach on ‘The Bear’
Jul 17, 2026
As ‘The Bear’ wraps its final season, TV critic David Bianculli reflects on the show’s run. Also, we listen back to our interview with Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays Cousin Richie, the abrasive and…
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Apache Chef Nephi Craig says cooking saved his life
Jul 16, 2026
White Mountain Apache chef Nephi Craig had an unconventional culinary path: from a reservation to a fine dining restaurant to cooking for 7,800 inmates while in county jail. Now he's the executive…
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Gold, secrets, never-ending meetings: Inside the Trump White House
Jul 15, 2026
Journalist Jonathan Swan’s book, ‘Regime Change,’ co-written with fellow ‘New York Times’ reporter Maggie Haberman, is a portrait of President Trump’s second term – which Swan calls "unrecognizable"…
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Uncovering abuse inside America's largest ICE detention center
Jul 14, 2026
‘New Yorker’ staff writer Jonathan Blitzer says thousands of people are being held in tents in the El Paso, Texas, desert, where inhumane conditions have become a tool to pressure people to accept…
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'The Invite' screenwriters Rashida Jones & Will McCormack
Jul 13, 2026
The new film, ‘The Invite,’ directed by Olivia Wilde, offers a portrait of a marriage in middle age, told over the course of one dinner party that spirals out of control. Screenwriters Rashida Jones…
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Best Of: Record producer Peter Asher / Romance writer Kennedy Ryan
Jul 11, 2026
Record producer and manager Peter Asher discovered James Taylor and launched Carole King’s career. Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in his family’s basement. He spoke…
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Remembering musical theater historian Robert Kimball
Jul 10, 2026
Kimball, who died July 2, was artistic advisor to Ira Gershwin. He wrote books about the Gershwins, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, and helped unearth unknown songs and manuscripts by them and other…
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Guitarist Lenny Kaye on Patti Smith, Nuggets, and his solo debut
Jul 09, 2026
Kaye's collaboration with Patti Smith began in 1971 and continues to this day. He says she taught him to trust his musical sensibilities — and to always keep evolving. Now 79, he has his first solo…
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A look at new barriers at the ballot box
Jul 08, 2026
The rules of the midterms are being rewritten, from redistricting to campaign money. Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman explains why President Trump seems "obsessed with the mechanics of voting." He…
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Legendary record producer & manager Peter Asher
Jul 07, 2026
Asher remembers when Paul McCartney and John Lennon played “I Want to Hold Your Hand” for him for the first time. “I thought, am I losing my mind, or is this one of the best songs I've ever heard in…
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Writer Rachel Aviv explores the complexity of the mother-daughter bond
Jul 06, 2026
‘New Yorker’ staff writer Rachel Aviv spent years reporting stories about mothers and daughters searching for each other. When she became a mom, she saw everything she wrote differently. Her book is…
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Best Of: Tennis stars Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova / American Culture Wars
Jul 04, 2026
The two most famous women’s tennis champions of their generation, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, talk about being friends and rivals. After they had retired, they were both diagnosed with…
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Steven Spielberg
Jul 03, 2026
After making ‘ET’ and ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ in the ‘70s and ‘80s, Steven Spielberg returns to the theme of extraterrestrials in his new film, ‘Disclosure Day.’ He spoke with Terry…
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Writer Kennedy Ryan uses romance novels as a vehicle for discourse
Jul 02, 2026
The romance books Kennedy Ryan read growing up rarely included characters who looked like her. Now she deliberately centers people the genre has left out – like women of color and women with chronic…
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The “bullies of the tick world” are on the hunt
Jul 01, 2026
The lone star tick seeks out its blood meal and transmits a potentially dangerous allergy to red meat. ‘New Yorker’ staff writer Burkhard Bilger talks with Terry Gross about his reporting on the…
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Banned books, shocking art & the birth of the culture wars
Jun 30, 2026
“The culture wars have completely eaten America,” says author Isaac Butler. His new book, ‘The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars,’ looks at how the religious…
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Tennis rivals Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova team up against cancer
Jun 29, 2026
Once the most successful women’s tennis champions of their generation, Evert and Navratilova open up about friendship, cancer and retirement in the Netflix documentary ‘Chris & Martina: The Final…
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Best Of: Laverne Cox /Comic Ali Siddiq
Jun 27, 2026
For over a decade, Laverne Cox has been one of the most visible trans women in America. In her new memoir, ‘Transcendent,’ she writes about growing up in Mobile, Ala., and the bullying and harassment…
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Remembering master of the TV sitcom, James Burrows
Jun 26, 2026
We remember one of the most sought-after directors in television, James Burrows. He died June 19 at age 85. Burrows worked on many classic sitcoms including ‘Taxi,’ ‘Frasier,’ ‘Friends,’ ‘Will and…
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Playwright Anna Deavere Smith turns to her family’s history for inspiration
Jun 25, 2026
For more than 50 years, Anna Deavere Smith has pioneered a type of theater built from real people's words, interviewing hundreds of Americans and then performing their words verbatim. Now she's…
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"Masculinsim" goes mainstream: a movement to fight feminism
Jun 24, 2026
Masculinism is a belief that feminism emasculates men, and men should be in control while women stay at home raising children. Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis says the movement is becoming…
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Wendell Pierce is a proud journeyman actor
Jun 23, 2026
Wendell Pierce is working as hard as ever. He says he's motivated by the "ticking clock of mortality" — and the desire to challenge himself as an actor. He's currently starring in the Shakespeare…
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Laverne Cox
Jun 22, 2026
For more than a decade, actor Laverne Cox has been one of the most visible trans women in America. But the ‘Orange Is the New Black’ star says she spent most of childhood keeping herself hidden. Cox…
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Best Of: A family split by race / Eddie Glaude Jr. on America at 250
Jun 19, 2026
Pope Leo XIV’s Creole family roots inspired New Orleanian journalist Susan Saulny to research her Creole great-uncle who moved to Chicago, identified himself as white and never returned. She…
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The collapse of Freedman’s Bank / Remembering Abdullah Ibrahim
Jun 19, 2026
‘In Savings and Trust,’ historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created for formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, its collapse cost depositors millions. She…
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Comic Ali Siddiq on fatherhood, prison, and his biggest regret
Jun 18, 2026
Siddiq grew up in Houston with a largely absent father. In his new stand-up special, he paints a picture of the flawed man he admired – and reflects on his own experience as a parent. Siddiq spoke…
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An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland
Jun 17, 2026
New Yorker writer Ben Taub tells Dave Davies that while the idea of acquiring Greenland is out of the headlines, it hasn’t been dropped by Trump. Taub describes how his ongoing efforts have broken…
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Remembering the nation's 'Lost Founder'
Jun 16, 2026
Jesse Wegman talks to Dave Davies about James Wilson. A brilliant lawyer who helped craft the U.S. Constitution, Wilson lived a colorful life and died as a Supreme Court justice on the run from the…
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Scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflects on America at 250
Jun 15, 2026
Glaude's book, 'America, U.S.A.,' looks at the country through the lens of its previous anniversaries and centennials. Today, as in the past, he tells Tonya Mosley, "the divided soul of the nation is…
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