Podcast appearances and mentions of Jeremy Hobson

Last week, Michael appeared on The Middle alongside former Facebook exec, Katie Harbath for a conversation about how the changing media landscape has contributed to political fragmentation. Here is an excerpt from that conversation. For the full episode, head over and listen to The Middle with Jeremy Hobson.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From time to time on the weekends, we'll be bringing you some of our recent favorite episodes. Enjoy your weekend, and we'll be back with a brand new puzzle on Monday! Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: host of The Middle, Jeremy Hobson! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, Mike's Thursday Spiel about the carnage at NPR and the reason for it. Then we listen back to part of Mike's January conversation with Jeremy Hobson, host of The Middle and long-time public radio personality, about what's going wrong at NPR. This part of the interview with Jeremy was formerly a PescaPlus extra.    Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike's Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: host of "The Middle", Jeremy Hobson! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: host of The Middle, Jeremy Hobson! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeremy Hobson has been hosting The Middle, a call-in public radio program. That sounds scintillating enough, but it gets even spicier when you learn that the show is dedicated to non-extremism. As much as this reasonable-seeming description might evoke thoughts of high-minded even-handedness, in practice it's actually quite exciting and exceedingly rare. Plus, the newest members of The Squad squander the brand name, while every Republican on the House Homeland Security committee claims that Alejandro Mayorkis has committed the High Crimes and Misdemeanors worthy of impeachment. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jackson, Miss. is known for its water — and not in a good way. Beyond the attention grabbing boil water notices, residents have had to deal with expensive water bills for years. For the latest utility bill of the month, Stephan Bisaha of the Gulf States Newsroom brings us the story of how one Jackson resident is fighting for accurate bills. Last April marked the 13th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon spill, when an oil rig leased by BP exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. 11 were killed, 17 injured and in the years since, many have been impacted by the environmental damage of the country's largest oil spill.  This month, American Public Media and Western Sound launched the new podcast “Ripple.” Host Dan Leone tells us about the show's first season, which looks at the spill and its lasting impacts. .  A familiar voice to public radio listeners has a new show dedicated to exploring political middle grounds and overlooked topics in national media coverage. Longtime journalist Jeremy Hobson tells about the goals of his call-in show “The Middle,” ahead of tonight's live show in New Orleans.  Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Bob Pavlovich. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our assistant producer is Aubry Procell. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman.  You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12 and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pod Crashing Episode 289 With Jeremy Hobson From The Middle The Middle with Jeremy Hobson is a national call-in talk show focused on bringing the voices of Americans in the geographic and political middle into the national conversation. The people who are crucial in our politics but are often ignored by the media. Along with DJ Tolliver and two panel guests, Jeremy takes calls each week from across the country and aims to keep things civil while talking through some of the most contentious issues we face. You can join the conversation by calling 1-844-4-MIDDLE or by reaching out at listentothemiddle.com. Episodes here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-middle-with-jeremy-hob-102531530/

Pod Crashing Episode 289 With Jeremy Hobson From The Middle The Middle with Jeremy Hobson is a national call-in talk show focused on bringing the voices of Americans in the geographic and political middle into the national conversation. The people who are crucial in our politics but are often ignored by the media. Along with DJ Tolliver and two panel guests, Jeremy takes calls each week from across the country and aims to keep things civil while talking through some of the most contentious issues we face. You can join the conversation by calling 1-844-4-MIDDLE or by reaching out at listentothemiddle.com. Episodes here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-middle-with-jeremy-hob-102531530/

Highlights from recent episodes, including James Beard-recognized chef Sunny Baweja; radio-diehard Jeremy Hobson; and the art of going straight from b-school to owning your own company.

Scott Watson talks with Jeremy Hobson about whether or not there is still a "middle" in today's society.  Hearing Voices on WHTC.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Middle with Jeremy Hobson is a national call-in talk show focused on bringing the voices of Americans in the geographic and political middle into the national conversation. The people who are crucial in our politics but are often ignored by the media. Along with DJ Tolliver and two panel guests, Jeremy takes calls each week from across the country and aims to keep things civil while talking through some of the most contentious issues we face. You can join the conversation by calling 1-844-4-MIDDLE or by reaching out at listentothemiddle.com. Episodes here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-middle-with-jeremy-hob-102531530/

Jeremy Hobson, a voice synonymous with so much of NPR and Marketplace's Morning Report, is barnstorming the map with his new live call-in radio show, "The Middle." What's the thinking behind doubling down on terrestrial radio in 2023?

On Friday's show: As those with federal student loans prepare to start paying them again after a three-year hiatus, we discuss a new initiative that seeks to increase transparency in borrowing money for college. Also this hour: We talk with Jeremy Hobson, host of The Middle, a program focusing on the voices of those in the geographical and political center. It's now airing Thursday nights at 8 on News 88.7. And we remember longtime Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips, who was born 100 years ago today. Then, another week, another Katy ISD book policy revision. And some foodies in New York fall for a fake restaurant. We talk about those stories and more as we break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week And Troy Schulze tells us about the fascinating life journey of NASA astronaut José Hernández, the subject of the new Amazon movie, A Million Miles Away.

The new radio show "The Middle with Jeremy Hobson" is coming to Boise State Public Radio News.

People in the political center, and people in the middle of the country, will decide the presidential election of 2024. If you're one of these people, Jeremy Hobson, the former host of NPR's Here and Now, wants to know what you're thinking. His new call-in show, The Middle, airs on select public radio stations across the country, including WPLN. The show will air Thursday evenings at 8 p.m., and for the next several weeks, will re-air Fridays at noon. Today on This is Nashville, Jeremy Hobson explains how he developed this new show and fills us in on the kinds of conversations he's hoping to have. Guest: Jeremy Hobson, host and executive producer, The Middle This episode was produced by Khalil Ekulona and Char Daston.

Jeremy Hobson is an NPR Host, Journalist, and Producer who has worked in public radio for more than 20 years, most recently as host for Here and Now where he was for more than seven years. Prior to that he reported for and then hosted the Marketplace Morning Report. Jeremy has also reported and hosted for public radio stations in Rhode Island, Cape Cod, and Illinois. And he spent time as a producer for All Things Considered, Day to Day, and Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! He's also the creator and host of The Middle, a new show focusing on listeners, voters, and the marginalized in the "middle" of the country. 

Today on Boston Public Radio: Sen. Elizabeth Warren called in to talk about student loan forgiveness and what is coming ahead for Democrats in the midterms. Warren has been representing Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate since 2013. We opened our lines to ask listeners: What is motivating you to cast your ballot on Nov. 8? Juliette Kayeem discussed the purchase of conservative social media app Parler by rapper Kanye West, and deadly floods in Nigeria over the weekend. Kayyem was the assistant secretary for Homeland Security under former President Barack Obama, and is the faculty chair of the Homeland Security program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Her 2022 book is “The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters.” Jeremy Hobson discussed his new live, call-in national radio show, “The Middle,” which aims to reach middle America. Hobson is the former co-host of NPR's “Here and Now.” Sy Montgomery joined us for another edition of, “The Afternoon Zoo.” She discussed recent mystery respiratory illnesses in dogs, a new report that finds animal populations have plummeted nearly 70% in the last 50 years and more. Montgomery is a journalist, naturalist and Boston Public Radio contributor. Her latest book is “The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty.” Jim Salge discussed how climate change is impacting fall foliage, and fielded questions from listeners about everything fall foliage. Salge is a foliage reporter, photographer and former meteorologist at the Mount Washington Observatory.

  On Wednesday's show: We preview the Astros' sixth-straight appearance in the American League Championship Series, once again against the New York Yankees with a trip to the World Series at stake. The two teams also faced off in the ALCS in 2017 and 2019. The first game of the  best-of-seven-game series is tonight at Minute Maid Park. Also this hour: We discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup. And too often political discourse in America is fixated on the coasts and maybe gives short shrift to the rest of us. That's where a series of public radio election specials called The Middle comes in. We talk with the host, Jeremy Hobson.

We talked with Champaign-Urbana born Jeremy Hobson about his new national call-in show The Middle, to elevate Midwest perspectives.

President Biden took questions from reporters on Wednesday for nearly two hours — ranging widely from voting rights to Ukraine and more — as senators from his own party threatened his top legislative goals. The president says he's outperformed expectations. His approval rating — a meager 40% or so — doesn't seem to square with that. But can Biden be blamed for taking power during a historic pandemic? Or did he set himself up for failure by trying to strongarm moderate Democrats into a bill they already said they wouldn't vote for?  Also, Biden says he expects Russia will invade Ukraine. Economic sanctions might work, but how can the U.S. and Europe — which is heavily reliant on Russia for energy — work together to curb Russia's territorial aspirations? Guest host Jeremy Hobson brings on panelists Megan McArdle on the right and Jamelle Bouie on the left to discuss.  This week's special guest is John Avlon, a political analyst at CNN and the author of a new book called “Lincoln and the Fight for Peace.” With Democrats' voting agenda in peril and some on the left saying democracy is facing an existential fight, how does the present moment compare to other presidents in times of trouble? Our panelists break it down. Then — what are Republicans for? Biden asked that question at this week's press conference and it may become a talking point during the 2022 midterm elections. How will Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis differentiate himself from Trump in the run up to the Republican primary? Which Republican nominee should Biden be more worried about?

If your grocery or gas bill weren't enough of an indicator, inflation is here at historic levels. The consumer price index, which tracks how prices change over time, showed a 7% increase at the end of last year, which is the highest jump since 1982. The Biden administration says this too shall pass. But voters are feeling sticker shock and aren't giving the president good marks on the economy despite a strong job market, a low unemployment rate, and rising wages. How did we get here? Are generous stimulus packages and tax credits to blame? Is there a way to move forward on spending bills with inflation in mind, and to get the sign-off of one Democratic senator from West Virginia? Guest host Jeremy Hobson brings on panelists Christine Emba and Alice Stewart to discuss. Next: Voting rights are big on Biden's agenda. On the heels of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol riots, the president and Vice President Kamala Harris travelled to Atlanta to make their biggest push yet for voting rights. They're encouraging Democrats to do away with the filibuster and get rid of the 60-vote threshold to pass a bill, all to pass comprehensive legislation to expand voting access to Americans. We bring on special guest and former congresswoman Jane Harman to discuss whether that's a good idea, and whether it's risky to excite Biden's base if he can't deliver. Also, high-level talks took place this week between Washington, NATO and Russia amid fears of another Russian invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin's troops are looming over Ukraine's border, and he's demanding that NATO withdraw all allied troops from countries that border Russia. That's a key foreign policy test for President Biden, who's had to deal with many a crisis abroad during his presidency between a trade war in China and an evacuation in Afghanistan. The million dollar question: What should the U.S. do if Putin invades Ukraine? Do economic sanctions even work? And if they don't, what's next for war-weary America? And finally, GOP consultant Alice Stewart explains what's wrong with shopping carts, Washington Post columnist Christine Emba says [Joe] Manchin and [Kyrsten] Sinema aren't really Democrats, and host Jeremy Hobson explains one way the pandemic could be depoliticized.

As he prepares to leave office, New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson talks with Jeremy Hobson about his time as Speaker, the movement to defund the Police, and the tension between liberals and moderates in the Democratic Party.

Jeremy Hobson speaks with Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, about his upbringing on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, and his writing career. His fiction piece, Featherweight, was recently published in the New Yorker Magazine.

Jeremy Hobson talks with Beth Fouhy, longtime political reporter and current partner at the public affairs firm Finsbury Glover Hering, about the elections results in Virginia and what they mean for Democrats, Republicans and the country going forward.

Jeremy Hobson speaks with Bryan Legare, seascape ecologist and manager of the shark ecology program at the Center for Coastal Studies, about his shark research and the health of our oceans.

Jeremy Hobson talks with longtime business journalist Roben Farzad, who hosts public radio's Full Disclosure and is a resident of Richmond, Virginia. They discuss three interconnected stories: inflation, reconciliation and the upcoming gubernatorial election in Virginia.

While in Athens, Greece, Jeremy Hobson speaks with business lawyer Dimitri Diakopoulos about COVID-19, the booming Greek economy, China and the Biden Administration.

Jeremy Hobson speaks with former NFL player and part-time Provincetown resident Esera Tuaolo, who made history coming out as gay in 2002 after nine seasons in the NFL. After his football career, he has excelled as a singer, a chef, and an advocate for LGBTQ rights.

Jeremy Hobson talks with Philippa Soskin, an emergency room doctor in Washington, D.C., about how the pandemic is playing out on the front lines and what needs to be done to get it under control.

Jeremy Hobson speaks with Eric Hundman, assistant professor of political science at NYU Shanghai about China's economy, its people, and its perspective on a number of important global issues.

Jeremy Hobson is joined by CBS News Business Analyst Jill Schlesinger to talk about the challenges facing employers and employees as they figure out what workplaces will look like post-pandemic.

Jeremy Hobson speaks with Provincetown musician and drag queen Qya Cristál about music, gender identity, and race.

Jeremy Hobson is joined by the BBC's Pooneh Ghoddoosi and the BBC's Rich Preston to discuss the collapse of the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country. Ghoddoosi spent years anchoring BBC News and has reported from Afghanistan. Preston is a BBC World News and BBC World Service presenter who covered the fall of Afghanistan live on air. 

One of California's top political reporters, Scott Shafer of KQED, joins Jeremy Hobson to discuss the upcoming Recall vote,  California politics, wildfires and more.

As the Hobcast HQ of Provincetown, Massachusetts becomes national news because of a July 4th outbreak of COVID-19, Jeremy Hobson speaks with Paolo Martini, Chief Scientific Officer of Rare Diseases, Hematology and External R&D at Moderna.

Femi Oke, host of The Stream on Al Jazeera English, joins her old friend Jeremy Hobson to talk about what the Hobcast will be.

Hi listeners, On this week's episode I talk to Jeremy Hobson. Jeremy was the host of NPR's Here & Now and before that, the Marketplace Morning Report. He talks to me about his experience at Here & Now, why he left, his early career in radio when he contributed to a WILL show in Illinois called Treehouse Radio, what the LGBTQ movement means to him as a gay man, and more. Also, a mass shooting in San Jose has left 9 dead including the gunman after the gunman, An employee of the Valley Transportation Authority opened fire. We'll cover that. And Eric Carle, the renowned children's book illustrator has died at the age of 91. Also, here is the link to the fund for VTA workers devastated by Wednesday's mass shooting. Ezra --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/newsnerds/message

Ali Velshi is joined by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Georgia State Representative Donna McLeod, Retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Katie Benner and Carol Leonnig, Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins, former prosecutor Yodit Tewolde, reporter and self-proclaimed infrastructure geek Jeremy Hobson, and Dr. Irwin Redlener.

Cheques sent out to people in the US to help them during the pandemic won’t be as big as they were before – we have the latest on the politicking from the US. Global travel has been restricted and the aviation sector is severely affected – we speak with one Australian traveller who has experienced the difficulty first hand, whilst US journalist Jeremy Hobson gives us the intricacies of US travel restrictions. Plus, French designer Pierre Cardin dies – we look back at his life and influence on the fashion industry. We discuss all this with guests Alexis Goldstein in the US, and Samuel Ellis, Taipei bureau chief for Bloomberg News. (Image: Roll of US Treasury Checks. Photo by Jeff Fusco/Getty Images)

The US's considers further travel restrictions to stop coronavirus - we speak with journalist Jeremy Hobson in the US about the intricacies of how people in the US are feeling. And financial assistance on a national scale is still buoying US stock markets, as Joe Saluzzi from Themis Trading explains.

Jeremy Hobson (NPR's Here and Now) and Gabe Roth (Fix the Court) discuss with host Jeremy Fine how to go about political discourse in the year 2020.

The protests sweeping the country for more than a week are calling for an end to racism and discrimination by police and in the law. Guy-Uriel Charles, professor of law at Duke School of Law, about how protests can lead to legislation and political change. Also, NPR Books editor Petra Mayer joins host Jeremy Hobson to talk about the new "Hunger Games" prequel, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," and a few other book suggestions.

Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women's VoicesBy Katherine Alford & Kathy Gunst Intro: Welcome to the number one cookbook podcast, Cookery by the Book, with Suzy Chase. She's just a home cook in New York City, sitting at her dining room table talking to cookbook authors.Kathy Gunst: Hi, I'm Kathy Gunst, the author of Rage Baking, the Transformative Power of Flour, Fury and Women's Voices, which I co-wrote with Katherine Alford.Suzy Chase: For more Cookery by the Book, you can follow me on Instagram. If you enjoyed this podcast, please be sure to share it with a friend, I'm always looking for new people to enjoy Cookery by the Book. Now on with the show. "And then late one night I found myself in my kitchen pulling flour, sugar, butter and baking powder out of the pantry. I decided to bake a simple almond cake topped with late summer fruit. I scooped out the flour and made sure it was perfectly level in my measuring cup. I softened the butter. I listened to the whole almonds growl as I chopped them in the blender. I peeled ripe peaches and caught every last drop of their sweet juice in my batter. I scattered the last of the tart wild Maine blueberries on top. And a few hours later I had a gorgeous cake and a calmer heart." Can you sort of take us through that experience and what led up to it?Kathy Gunst: Sure. It's nice to hear you read it. It was during the Kavanaugh hearings, when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was giving testimony about her experience as a teenager and what she alleged occurred between herself and Brett Kavanaugh. So I was listening to NPR, I had the TV on for a while, I became a bit obsessed with this trial. And every night when it wound down, I was wound up. I was filled with rage, it really set something off in me. And I found myself in my kitchen, as you just read, baking, but it wasn't really very normal, in that I would bake that almond cake you just described, then I would bake a batch of cookies, and then I would make a pie all in one night. And then the next day I listened to the entire trial again and baked obsessively that night. And it actually took several months before I understood what I was doing and why I was baking like that.Kathy Gunst: It was not about rage eating. I sort of had no interest in eating these gorgeous things I was baking, it was more about the science of baking. I think I found it soothing and grounding. The thing about baking is that if you weigh your flour and if you level your sugar and if you follow the rules as they're written in a recipe, you will be rewarded with a cake or a tart or a pie. And I felt like when I was watching this trial, all the rules were being broken. I felt that I was listening to these men, primarily men, pretending to listen to Dr. Blasey Ford, pretending to have their mind open to voting for or against Kavanaugh, but what became increasingly clear to me was that they were not listening to her and they had already decided how they were going to vote and the trial was a charade.Kathy Gunst: And I was remembering Anita Hill, and I was remembering so many brave women who have come forward to say, "I know something about this man that you're about to put in this powerful office," that should convince you that maybe he's not the right person for this job. And it just, it really made me full of rage. And so this rage baking began, and I started posting pictures of the results of my baked goods on social media, #RageBakers. And I got a lot of response from a lot of women saying, "I'm doing the same thing," or, "I'm rage knitting," or, "I'm rage sewing," or, "I'm lying on the couch sobbing, maybe baking would be better." And I thought, "Wow, there's really something to this." And then I talked to my friend Katherine Alford whose been in the food media business for as long as I have, which is quite a while, and one day she said to me, "We should write a book." And I thought, "Wow, we should write a book. We should absolutely do something called Rage Baking." And it was born.Suzy Chase: The definition of rage, is violent, uncontrollable anger. I found it interesting that you use the word, rage, in the title. It's a very emotionally charged word. Why do you think female rage is so off-putting to men?Kathy Gunst: I guess that first of all, I'd want to take exception with the use of the word, violent, in a definition of rage, because for me, and I can only speak for myself, there's nothing violent about it. I mean, if I can pound on bread dough and feel calmer, that's the extent of my violence. But to get to your larger question, I mean, you think about Hillary Clinton and everything that went down during that election, and that's a whole other conversation, but one of the things that came out about her was that she was, "Shrill," and that she was, "Angry." And there is something about being a woman where people, men in particular, don't like us to raise our voices, don't like us to act like them. And I, you need to talk to a psychologist, I don't understand the root of that or why it's so threatening, but women raising their voices goes back a long, long time.Kathy Gunst: It is the anniversary, the 100 anniversary of a woman's right to vote this month, right now, right here, and when you think about that a hundred years ago we weren't allowed to vote, and here we are in 2020 still fighting for our rights to control our own bodies and what happens with it, women have had a long fight. They will continue to have a long fight. And if we don't speak up, and whether that takes the form of anger or rage or speaking loudly, we have to own it. One of the contributors to this book, Rebecca Traister, wrote a brilliant book called, Good and Mad, and we have one of her essays in the book, and she talks exactly about this, "Don't let anyone tell you that you can't speak up and be angry." She's essentially telling women, "Own this. Use it. Work together." And that's the message of this book.Suzy Chase: In terms of your #RageBakers, I feel like you inadvertently started a movement to rebrand the word rage.Kathy Gunst: You see references to rage and rage baking, particularly as early as 2012, I think it was originally an offshoot of the #MeToo movement, of the women's movement. I can't own it, nor can anybody, it's really about... you can find references to rage baking as early as 2012 in literature, in journalism, on social media. And historically women and rage, we wouldn't be voting today if women didn't have rage and were angry and said, "We are equal to men. We have every right to get out there and vote." So it has a long, long history. This book, Rage Baking, has clearly touched a nerve. We've had incredible response. I keep getting emails and photos and comments on social media, from women all over the country who are showing me pictures of things they're baking, or talking about how they responded to the Kavanaugh hearings, or how they've responded to the recent impeachment trials. And for many women baking, which is a very traditional woman's activity has been grounding.Kathy Gunst: It's also really important for me to say that the message of this book is not, "Hey ladies, get back in the kitchen, start baking, and you'll feel so much better. Everything will be okay." Hell no. That is not what this book is about. This book is about empowerment. It's about creating beautiful baked goods. It's about women sharing community and voices. And ultimately, I hope by the time you look through the book, cook through the book, read that recipe, read the essays, read the interviews, you'll be left with a sense of hope.Suzy Chase: Among the ranks of the contributors are enthusiastic, amateur bakers and James Beard winners. This book has recipes for bakers of various skill levels. Tell us a little bit about the contributors.Kathy Gunst: We have the most incredible group of women in this book. When Katherine Alford and I decided we wanted to do a book, it felt really important to us that we have a diversity of women's voices. So we reached out to food writers that you've probably heard of, wonderful bakers like Dorie Greenspan, Ruth Reichl, we reached out to musician Ani DiFranco, we reached out to Jennifer Finney Boylan, a writer for the New York Times editorial page. We reached out to so many different women, and almost everybody answered our emails extremely quickly with a, "Hell yes, we want to be part of this." And the book kind of came together in a very organic way.Kathy Gunst: There's some wonderful, wonderful essays by young writers, Hali Bey Ramdene, who is based in Albany, New York, wrote this gorgeous essay, Hurricane Beulah, about her grandmother, about the drive she took as a child every year from Albany to North Carolina, and the foods that they would be greeted with by her grandmother. And how as she aged, she understood that part of putting together this meal was her grandmother just releasing the rage of various things from her life. There was another incredible essay by a writer named Osayi Endolyn, called Typing is a Kind of Fury, about being a young African American girl and watching her mother and grandmother type letters when they felt that she was being discriminated against or somehow people were taking advantage of her, they would voice their rage on the typewriter. So it's a huge variety of voices, some of whom you've heard of and some of whom you'll probably discover for the first time.Kathy Gunst: And then of course, they're the essays Alice Medrich, a great cookbook author who writes about chocolate, her chocolate pudding, it's just, there's a wide range of voices as well as recipes. And you touched this earlier, it's important to say that this is a baking book for a home baker, that you do not have to have gone to baking school or feel like, "Oh, I know how to bake anything." Ruth Reichl's oatmeal cookies are five ingredients and they take about 15 minutes to make?Suzy Chase: Eight.Kathy Gunst: Eight?Suzy Chase: Yeah, I made them over the weekend.Kathy Gunst: Aren't they great? They are these lacy, crunchy oatmeal cookies that a friend of mine made with his two and a half year old last weekend. And then there's a chocolate cake with raspberries and whipped cream that might take you an entire afternoon to make, and everything in between.Suzy Chase: Part of the proceeds from this cookbook goes to Emily's List. What is Emily's List?Kathy Gunst: Oh, it's such a great story. So we also knew that we wanted to give some of the proceeds of this book to an organization that felt relevant and that we could relate to. So we started researching Emily's List, and I'm from Maine, and what we learned is that Emily's List, I always thought it was a woman named Emily that started I, it's actually an acronym that stands for Early Money Is Like Yeast. And the woman who started Emily's List was once upon a time a baker in Maine, and it is an organization that gives money to women candidates that want to run, and help seed their campaigns so that they can move forward, everyone from small local state races up to the presidential candidates.Suzy Chase: The chapter titles are so good, one of my favorites is, Bake Down the Patriarchy Cakes. Talk a little bit about the chapter titles.Kathy Gunst: We did have fun with them. We really wanted them to say something, it felt like an opportunity. So, you picked a great one, the title of the cookie chapter is also a favorite of mine, it's called, Sugar and Spice and Done Being Nice, Cookies, Bars and Bites. We also had fun with some of the recipe titles, rage and women and activism, these are kind of heavy topics, so we wanted to have some humor and lightness in this book. There's a fabulous recipe by a Hollywood writer named Tess Rafferty, called The Revolution Will be Catered, that will have you absolutely howling. And some of the recipe titles are pretty great, we have, Don't Call me Honey Cupcakes, we have, No More Sheet Cake, and then one of my personal favorites is, Pigs in the Blanket, which I dedicated to the men of Alabama who are working so hard to take away women's rights. So we had fun with this.Suzy Chase: Yeah, what are some of the recipes that you contributed to this cookbook?Kathy Gunst: Well, let's see. Katherine and I each contributed, I would say over a dozen. My chocolate pistachio butter crunch is a perennial favorite for everybody that thinks, "Oh no, no, no. I can't make candy, that's hard." Your mind will be blown. I have chocolate raspberry rugelach, that beautiful Jewish pastry that's got cream cheese in the dough. What else are mine? Oh my favorites, the chocolate chip tahini cookies, I am not a fan of peanut butter in sweets, which I know is blasphemy to many people, but I adore tahini. And I found that if you add tahini to a chocolate chip cookie, it kind of does what peanut butter does, it adds a nutty richness and a creaminess, but I think it's better. And you make the dough and you sprinkle on white sesame seeds and bake them till they're just crisp around the edges, and then when they're still warm, you sprinkle them with coarse sea salt. Those cookies are amazing.Suzy Chase: So, did writing this cookbook influence your ideas about women and political change?Kathy Gunst: When I started the book, I really think I was coming from a place of rage and anger, and I really ended up by reading the essays these women wrote by making these recipes, by interviewing various women from Ani DiFranco, the musician, to Marti Noxon, the Hollywood producer who wrote Sharp Objects and many other brilliant TV and movie scripts, I came away with a sense of hope about how when women pull together, create a community, and use their voices, how powerful and hopeful that can be. So, I think it energized me. I feel deeply passionate about the book, about the recipes in the book, but even more so about the voices in the book and the power that these women's voices have, particularly when they're all pulled together.Suzy Chase: As an avid, avid, avid, NPR listener, I have WNYC on all day long in my kitchen, and I've been dying to talk to you about NPR. So for the last 20 years you've been with WBUR's, Here and Now in Boston, and I'm curious to hear about that.Kathy Gunst: Well, it is the joy of my life. Talking on the radio about food is one of the most challenging and fulfilling things that I've ever done. Challenging because of the obvious, that food is such a visual medium, it is so much about how it looks, how it tastes, how it presents on the plate, the textures of it. And there you are on the radio with only one sensory element going on, which is audio and sound. And so, my job is to weave stories and talk about food in a descriptive way where you almost feel like you can taste it and see it. And one of the most rewarding things over the years are getting letters from listeners who say, "I was in my car, I was headed to run errands. I heard you talk about this dish. I made a U turn, I went straight to the store, bought the ingredients and we're having it for dinner tonight."Kathy Gunst: And I thought that's what it's all about. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to get people back into the kitchen, back at the family dinner table, and getting excited about seasonal foods and regional foods, and the joy of shopping and the joy of cooking and trying to get rid of this constant refrain of, "I don't have time to cook." I hear that from so many people, particularly people with young children, and I just have kind of made it my life's work to try to motivate people that in the time it takes for you to get out the menu for the takeout, pick up the phone, put in the order, wait for the order, go pick it up or wait for them to deliver it, you could have dinner on the table. So I very much use my role as the resident chef on Here on Now as a platform to show people how simple it can be to make delicious food, and to try to educate people about ingredients that are in season and are within their region, that are going to make their taste buds awake and happy.Suzy Chase: I remember when you used to cook on the air, what happened with that?Kathy Gunst: Wow, it's so cool that you remember that. Yeah, the first few years I used to do live cooking. This is in Boston, so the host would be in the studio, I would be in what was essentially the WBUR cafeteria. We'd kick everybody out, I would start a dish at the beginning of the show live, and I always tried to pick very sound rich dishes, never boiling pasta, lots of chopping, sautéing, shallow frying, things that had a lot of sound, and then at the end of the show, before they signed off, they would run back into the kitchen, I would finish the dish and they would taste it and we would talk about it. And it was so much fun, and it got very complicated and it got very difficult to segue from wars that were going on, horrible news stories, to going back and forth into a kitchen. So now I do my best to use words and images to try to make the cooking come alive.Suzy Chase: And now you have a new female CEO and general manager at WBUR. That's exciting.Kathy Gunst: This is very exciting. I mean, and when Here and Now started, it was just heard in Boston, and then I believe it was heard on 15 networks, and now it's an NPR show that's heard on over 550 public radio stations. And I just love doing it. The host, there are now 3 hosts, Jeremy Hobson, Robin Young and Tanya in L.A. and they're just fabulous to work with and it is a great joy.Suzy Chase: Now for my segment called, My Favorite Cookbook. Aside from this cookbook, what is your all time favorite cookbook and why?Kathy Gunst: Wow, that's kind of like asking me which of my children I like better. Marcela Hazan's, The Classic Italian Cooking, the very first book she did, because she showed me how picking the right ingredients and following simple recipes was the key to having delicious food. I'd have to mention Julia Child, because I remember being a teenager and discovering that book and having my mind blown open. I did not grow up in a home where my mother loved cooking and shared the joy of food and cooking, so in a way that book, I was, "Wait, what? You can make French food in New York? You can make French food anywhere?"Kathy Gunst: Those 2 women were huge influences and I could name 5,000 others, but you asked for one. I was lucky enough to meet Marcela Hazan and go to Italy with her. And she really did have a huge influence on me for the reasons I said, for understanding how to shop, and the joy of shopping, and the joy of finding foods that are in season. So, okay, you've pushed me, I will pick Marcela Hazan's, The Classic Italian Cookbook, I believe that's the correct title. Her first book.Suzy Chase: Okay. Yay, I did it.Kathy Gunst: You did it. I did it. Wow. And the 4,000 others I love.Suzy Chase: So where can we find you on the web and social media?Kathy Gunst: Well I'm at kathygunst.com, K-A-T-H-Y-G-U-N-S-T, for this new book Rage Baking. We have a new website which is www.ragebakers.com, and you can find all our events there and find out where we'll be talking and doing cooking classes and demonstrations. And I am at mainecook, M-A-I-N-E-C-O-O-K on Twitter, and I'm on Instagram under my name, Kathy Gunst.Suzy Chase: Wonderful. Thanks so much Kathy, for coming on Cookery by the Book podcast.Kathy Gunst: Thanks so much, Suzy. This was really lovely.Outro: Subscribe over on CookerybytheBook.com, and thanks for listening to the number one cookbook podcast, Cookery by the Book.

It's Fashion Cats & Cocktails, the podcast where Dismantle Magazine editors Sara and Elise talk about the latest fashion news, cats, and what they're drinking! In episode 3, they're talking about fashion and the future. What are the issues they're concerned about? What are the important questions? What makes them hopeful? Speaking of hope, the “cats” segment includes a very special story about the magical, mysterious disappearance and return of Sara’s cat, Penelope the Great. Finally, in solidarity with the “Dry January” trend, they enjoy their favorite mocktails together and share the recipes with you.Some articles that framed the discussion:The Future of Fashion Is Circular: Why the 2020s Will Be About Making New Clothes Out of Old Ones by Emily Farra for VogueCould I go a year without buying any new clothes? By Lauren Bravo for the GuardianEvery Time You Wash Clothes, Millions Of Microfibers Are Released Into The Water by Jeremy Hobson for NPRHow Fashion Education Prevents Inclusivity by Ben Barry for The Business of FashionThe Penelope Story!! In The OregonianSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/dismantlemag)

May 2, 2019 at the Boston Athenæum. An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue-collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic—families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors’ needs—revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs. Robert W. Fiesler will be joined in conversation with Jeremy Hobson of WBUR.

Officials in Puerto Rico are warning residents to prepare for catastrophic winds and floods as Hurricane Maria bears down on the island. The storm has already devastated the island of Dominica, where the governor describes the damage as “mind-boggling.” Meteorologist Jeff Huffman (@HuffmanHeadsUp) of the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network gives Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson the latest on Maria. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

President Trump gives his first address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. NPR’s Michele Kelemen (@michelekelemen) joins Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson to discuss the speech and how it’s being received. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

Apple is set to launch its new mobile operating system, iOS 11, on Tuesday, just days before customers will be able to take home the new iPhone 8. But most of the speculation is about the new top-tier iPhone X, which will start at $999. The phone will not begin shipping until November, and even then, analysts are expecting shortages. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Dan Frommer (@fromedome), editor in chief of Recode, about skepticism over the iPhone X and what the release says about Apple’s business strategy. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

President Trump gives his first address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. NPR’s Michele Kelemen (@michelekelemen) joins Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson to discuss the speech and how it’s being received. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

President Trump has a love-hate relationship with the United Nations, but on Tuesday he’s hoping to win the organization’s support when he addresses the General Assembly. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with NPR’s Ron Elving (@NPRrelving) about Trump’s prospects there and the week ahead in politics. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

Hurricane Maria is spinning toward some of the same Caribbean islands that were destroyed earlier this month by Irma. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with meteorologist David Epstein (@growingwisdom), who is tracking the storm. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market fell 22.6 percent, the largest single-day loss in Wall Street history. Though the day became known as “Black Monday,” many of the details of what happened have been lost to history. New York Times financial reporter Diana Henriques (@dianabhenriques) examines what led up to Black Monday and what lessons can be learned from it in “A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day In Wall Street History.” She joins Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson to talk about the book. Book Excerpt: ‘A First-Class Catastrophe’ By Diana Henriques He was a towering six foot seven, his round, balding head perpetually wreathed in cigar smoke. Paul A. Volcker, the chairman of the Federal Reserve System, was formidable even when he was cheerful. On Wednesday afternoon, March 26, 1980, he was furious. Volcker, in office for barely seven months, had been pulled out of a meeting by a frantic message from Harry Jacobs, the chairman of Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, the second-largest brokerage firm on Wall Street. The Fed had almost no authority over brokerage firms, but Jacobs said he thought “it was in the national interest” that he alert Volcker to a crisis in the silver market—a market over which the Fed also had virtually no authority. Jacobs’s news was alarming. Silver prices were plummeting, and two of the firm’s biggest customers, a pair of billionaire brothers in Texas named William Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt, had told him the previous evening that they could not cover a $100 million debit in their Bache accounts, which they had used to amass millions of ounces of actual silver and paper claims on millions more. If silver prices fell further and the Hunts did indeed default on their debt to the firm, the silver they had pledged as collateral was no longer worth enough to cover their obligations. Bache was confronting a ruinous loss, possibly a threat to its financial survival. Jacobs suspected the Hunts also owed money to other major banks and Wall Street firms and may well have pledged more of their silver hoard as collateral. Volcker immediately wanted to know which banks had made loans to the Hunts. He didn’t regulate Wall Street brokers or silver speculators, but he emphatically did regulate much of the nation’s banking system. There, at least, his authority to act was clear. Indeed, Volcker had been responding to fire alarms in the banking system for weeks, as banks and savings and loans struggled with rising interest rates—themselves a consequence of Volcker’s attack on the raging inflation that had sapped the economy for nearly a decade. Confidence in America’s banks was as fragile as blown glass, and the last thing Volcker needed was a “bolt from the blue” like this. Yet, here was the head of Wall Street’s number-two firm warning him that some big banks were financing what sounded like wildly speculative silver trading by a couple of Texas plutocrats. Within minutes, Volcker had reached out to Harold Williams, the urbane and seasoned chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the primary U.S. government regulator of Bache and its fellow brokerage firms. Williams was at a conference in Colonial Williamsburg; he ducked into a side room, spoke with Volcker about Bache, and then phoned to tell his staffers to check immediately on the rest of Wall Street’s exposure to the silver speculators. Williams then hurried back to Washington. A senior Treasury Department official and the comptroller of the currency (another bank regulator) were also alerted to the potential crisis. Both headed for the Fed’s headquarters on Constitution Avenue. Together, perhaps they could cover all the financial corners of this unfamiliar crisis. To do that, the group needed a regulator with some authority over the silver markets. Volcker called the office of James M. Stone, who had been tapped less than a year earlier by President Jimmy Carter to be the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a young federal agency that regulated the market where most of this silver speculation had gone on. At age thirty-two, Jim Stone—a cousin of the notable filmmaker Oliver Stone—had already studied at the London School of Economics and earned a doctorate in economics from Harvard. His doctoral thesis had been published as a prescient book predicting how computers would revolutionize Wall Street trading, first by doing the paperwork but ultimately by sweeping away the traditional stock exchanges entirely. Stone was a slight, brilliant, and determined young man, but his view that regulation played a positive role in the markets made him deeply unpopular in the industry he regulated and put him at odds with his more laissez-faire CFTC colleagues. One grumpy board member at a leading Chicago commodity exchange privately dismissed him as a “little twerp.” Almost everyone in political circles (except Volcker, apparently) knew that young Dr. Stone had become so isolated at the CFTC that he could barely get support for approving the minutes of the last meeting. When Volcker got Stone on the phone, his question was similar to the one he had asked Harold Williams at the SEC: how big a stake did the Hunt brothers have in his market? “I can’t tell you that. It’s confidential,” Stone said. The politely delivered answer stopped Volcker cold; he was momentarily speechless. Then he let loose. Volcker conceded later that he “did not react very well” to Stone’s refusal to share the vital information, even after the CFTC chairman explained that a law passed in 1978 barred his agency from revealing customer trading positions, even to other regulators. Stone simply did not have the authority to comply with the Fed chairman’s request. Stone, like Volcker, instantly saw that the silver crisis was a danger to the financial system because of the hidden web of loans that linked the banks and the brokerage firms to the Hunts and to one another. He promptly headed for Volcker’s office. Sometime later, the SEC’s Harold Williams arrived. Aides shuttled in and out, working the telephones, checking silver prices, and pressing bankers and brokerage finance officers for straight answers. By 6 p.m., as twilight filled the deep, high windows of Volcker’s office, the ad hoc group had finally established that at least a half-dozen major Wall Street firms, including Merrill Lynch and Paine Webber, had set up trading accounts for the Hunts and that a number of major banks had been lending money to those firms, or directly to the Hunts, since at least the previous summer, transactions secured by a growing pile of rapidly depreciating silver. Eight months earlier, on August 1, 1979, silver was trading below $10 an ounce. Prices rose through Labor Day, past Thanksgiving, and into the Christmas holidays. At $20 an ounce, silver had broken out of its traditional ratio to gold. At $30 an ounce, the sky-high price prompted newlyweds to sell their sterling flatware before burglars could steal it. Printers and film manufacturers, which used silver as a raw material, started laying off workers and feared bankruptcy. Through it all, the Hunts kept buying, largely with borrowed money. Then, on January 17, 1980, silver prices paused at $50 an ounce and started to slide. At that point, the Hunts’ hoard was worth $6.6 billion. After that date, prices dropped sharply; they had fallen to $10.80 on Tuesday, March 25, the day before Harry Jacobs at Bache called Volcker. At that price, the Hunts owed far more than their silver would fetch in the cash market, and their lenders were pressing for more collateral of some kind. It was on that Tuesday evening that the brothers told Jacobs they were unable to pay anything more. The next day, they shared the same unwelcome news with their other brokers. Crisis had arrived, and panic might quickly follow if a big bank or brokerage firm failed as a result of the Hunts’ default. That’s where Paul Volcker stepped into the story. After their Wednesday war room conference, held together more by personality and mutual respect than by any clear lines of authority, Volcker and his fellow regulators sweated out Thursday’s trading day. Stone, in defiance of the CFTC’s legislative restrictions, had finally given his fellow regulators an estimate of how much money the Hunts owed in his market: $800 million. That figure, which turned out to be an understatement, was so staggering it prompted the shocked bank regulators immediately to order examiners to visit various vaults to be sure that the Hunt brothers hadn’t pledged the same silver to multiple lenders. By Thursday, the rest of Wall Street had gotten wind of the silver crisis, and the stock market had a wild day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by as much 3.5 percent before stabilizing, as traders reacted to rumors that the Hunts and some of their creditors were dumping stocks to raise desperately needed cash. Of course, it is true that every share of stock that is sold is also bought—by someone, at some price. When far more people want to sell than to buy, prices have to drop sharply before buyers will bid for even a few shares. The term heavy selling, then, means that shares can be sold only at increasingly lower prices—not that everyone is selling and no one is buying. With that caveat, “heavy selling” is what happened as the stock market reacted to fears of a default by the Hunt brothers. One Wall Street veteran said that Thursday’s trading reminded him of the frenzied response to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. A Treasury official called the leadership at the New York Stock Exchange several times that day to assess how it was faring in the storm. The fear in Washington and on Wall Street was that the Hunts’ failure to pay their creditors would mean that those creditors would default on their own debts, spreading the contagion. Infusions of cash by the owners of the most vulnerable silver trading houses prevented an immediate disaster, but t

The biggest winners at last night’s Emmy Awards were Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and HBO’s “Big Little Lies,” both shows with strong female leads. It was also a big night for people of color, and politics were front and center throughout the evening. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) about the most memorable moments, from a surprise Sean Spicer appearance to a “9 to 5” reunion to historic wins for African and Asian Americans. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

The stock market started strong this week, as experts eye the Federal Reserve’s September meeting that starts Tuesday. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with CBS News’ Jill Schlesinger (@jillonmoney), host of “Jill on Money” and the podcast “Better Off,” about what to expect from the Fed, what could happen with interest rates and whether the stock market will continue to soar. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

This week’s episode was recorded live at Hebrew College in Newton, Mass. We’re joined by three great guests to talk about the never evening presidential election. Our first Jewish guest is Jeremy Hobson, co-host of NPR’s "Here and Now," who has traveled the country to talk to voters about why they support Donald Trump. Our second Jewish guest is Boston Globe op-ed columnist Jeff Jacoby, the lone conservative voice at the newspaper. Our Gentile of the Week is General Tom Hill, a highly decorated combat infantryman and diplomat who retired from the U.S. Army after 36 years of active service to the nation, who explains why he thinks high-ranking military officers shouldn’t involve themselves in elections. We’re also treated to some new songs, performed live by our in-house Jewbadour, Jim Knable. Like listening to Unorthodox? Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes and more. Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com with comments, questions, and complaints, and we may share your letter on air! Today’s episode is brought to you by Harry’s. For a great shave at an affordable price, go to Harrys.com and use promo code UNORTHODOX at checkout to get their free trial set and post-shave balm. Today’s episode is also brought to you by Primary, offering stylish basics for babies and kids in fun colors and soft fabrics, all under $25. Go to Primary.com/unorthodox and use the promo code UNORTHODOX to save 25% off your first purchase, AND free shipping! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time once again for another edition of The Live Show.If you’re watching on TheLiveShow.TV, then you’re getting to see everything in real-time because we do broadcast live over the inter webs for all to see.I want to start off this morning with a little ethical bribe for you. What we are doing is, we are trying to build an army of conservative libertarian people.Those folks who want to be left alone, who believe in free markets and capitalism. Who believe in the idea that we should be allowed to live free and if you’re a believer in that, like if you watch this show, we want to empower you.We want to give you the tools to arm yourself against those people who suggest to you that bigger government, infringements on your freedoms and rights, are acceptable. We don’t want that to happen so what we are doing is we are putting together “The Great Knowledge Giveaway”.What we’re doing is we’ll be giving away a thousand dollars worth of great books.Now, these books are not cheap. The “Basic Economics” book by Thomas Sowell is like $30. WE’ll be giving away over a thousand dollars worth of knowledge to people who are part of The Live Show update list.So, if you go toTheLiveShow.TV right now or after the show, you’re going to see a little sign up form. Just enter your name and email address to get your regular updates of the show.Now, all you have to do is be on that list and you’ll be eligible for this thousand dollar giveaway of information. I’ll be giving away some of the very best books that I have ever read.And it’s stuff that’s easy to read. What I want to empower you with is information that’s enjoyable to read and it is pertinent in the world that we live in today.And so I’ll be giving you a list of those books to showcase them on the show over the course of next month. At the end of the month, everyone who is on the email list, we’re going to start giving away these books every single day. And, at the very end, the grand prize that you can win is an iPad 2 Air.We’re also going to see if we can get every single one of the books that we’re giving away on that iPad Air.So, not only do you get a fantastic piece of equipment made by Apple, but you’re also going to get all of the knowledge, not just a book or two.We’ll be drawing names randomly based on your email address. It doesn’t matter where you live in the world. Everybody is eligible and we want you all to participate in that. Make sure you go toTheLiveShow.TV and get on the update list so that you can be eligible for all of that awesome knowledge.I’m very excited about it. And, look, people who are not interested in knowledge are not going to be interested in being part of this. But those people are losers so we don’t really want them on the email list anyway because they are not folks interested in empowering themselves. Also, one of the best ways that you can be part of our community is by joining our private Facebook group, by invitation only.It’s a place where we can share, discuss, and have civilized arguments about some of the pressing issues of the day. One of which is the issue of gun control.Now I have not spoken about gun control since we kicked off this show. The problem with gun control is there are a lot of rejects out there that take gun control and gun ownership rights to a massive extreme. And we’ve all seen those guys wearing a pair of combat fatigues, a T-shirt that says America rocks, and a M-4 or an assault weapon strapped to their back. Or the guy who walks down the street with a loaded weapon because there’s an open carry law and just attracts police officers.And the only reason why he’s out there is to cause discontent, anger and get everybody all stirred up so that he can claim that it’s his right to carry a gun in the open. Well, it is your right but you’re an idiot. Unfortunately, you also have a right to be stupid, which you are.But, this question of gun rights and gun ownership is an important one.If you take a look at the private Facebook page, a friend of the show, Charles S. Miles, who is always interested in discussing and commenting on some of the key principles we have on the show, posted this to the Facebook page. Post & Conversation in the Facebook page.https://www.facebook.com/groups/1381131288840325/permalink/1500667460220040/Why Gun Permits & Background Checks are ILLEGAL!http://callmegav.com/2014/01/2nd-amendment-history-guns-quotes-shall-not-infringe/Now, he was posting this really to continue the conversation we had yesterday on the show about how the regulation, licensing, and oversight the government places on most institutions is not in fact designed to help or protect you.But, ultimately, it’s designed to limit competition.Charles says, well look at this. This is kind of the same thing that they’re doing with gun control and I wanted to share some comments about it.And we had a really great conversation with Uli Malsch about gun control.So I want to run through my belief systems about gun control, where it lies and what your responsibilities are and what the government’s responsibilities are in relationship to gun control.You can go to the show to read all of the comments about it and I’d love to get input from others of you who are interested on this topic. The critical question that must be asked is do you have a constitutional right protected by the government to keep and bear arms?Unequivocally, the answer to that is yes. If we take a look at the second amendment, it says very clearly a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. There is no question as to whether or not you as an American citizen has a right to own a gun.What you hear liberals and progressives say is that no, you can’t. They say, yes you can own something for self defense or for hunting but you should not be allowed to have these killing machines that’s designed for war.Here’s the problem with that. First of all, there’s only one reason that we create guns and that’s to kill.We don’t create guns for target practice, for fun and enjoyment. People use them for that but guns are designed for one thing and that’s to kill, to take life, be it the life of an animal or the life of a human being.They are a disgusting but necessary weapon in the protection of yourself.And what people also suggest is people don’t need a semi automatic weapon for home defense.But you see, the problem is that the Constitution doesn’t say that the reason you get to carry a weapon is so you get to protect your home.Or so you have the right to hunt and collect food. No, it doesn’t.You see, the framers understood something very simple. That we have certain inalienable rights. Certain rights that a government doesn’t have the right to take away from us.And if you look at our Constitution, it’s basically a list of things that the government does not have the right to do.The Bill of Rights are rights that you have. They’re not rights that the government gives to you. They’re rights that you have that the government cannot take away. So now the question becomes, what is the Federal government’s responsibility?Can they keep track of who owns guns?Can they require you to go through a background check?Can they limit what types of weapons you’re allowed to buy?Because, as we stated already, the Constitution does not specify that.But here’s the beautiful thing about the Constitution, the framers understood exactly what they were doing. So they went ahead and added the 10th amendment which says the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution or prohibited by the states are reserved by the states respectively or to the people.Therefore, states have the responsibilities to determine what that means. States have the rights to pass those kinds of laws, to require background checks, restrict what types of gun ownerships they are allowed to carry and those fights should be existing at the state level.Unfortunately, the Federal government has intruded on it’s own responsibilities as is typically the case and now is making decisions that are not constitutional. -----If you would like to discuss anything with John about the show, email him at Jason@TheLiveShow.TVYou can also use the hashtag #TheLiveShowFollow Jason on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/TheLiveShowTVFollow Us on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/TheLiveShowTV-----If you are really enjoying the show and would like to support what we're doing at The Live Show, please consider donating to our cause. 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They make all of us look like idiots, like a bunch of gun toting hillbillies who don’t really understand what it is and that’s the believes that progressives have about us.The fact is, that’s not it at all. The reason that we fight so hard and long to preserve these rights is because we understand the inherent value in them.What happens when they take away your right to protect yourself? When you stuck and forced to allow the government to do it? Look at Ferguson and what happened with that. There were certain people who stood out in the streets and armed themselves and guess what, those places didn’t get robbed.The rest of the people waiting on the government, waiting on the police force, waited on the National Guard to come and help them while their city was burning down around them. And they never showed up. The Russians during the height of the Cold War believed that they could defeat the American army. What they knew they could not defeat was the American cowboy with a 4 wheel drive and a shot gun.This is not just a bunch of people who don’t understand or what to be able to own guns above and beyond what is best for America.Gun ownership, you can look at any city with restrictive gun rights like Chicago, D.C., New York City, the crime rates are through the roof. And they have the strictest gun laws in America.Removing guns from the equation doesn’t change things. All it means is that they chase down people with hatchets. All it means is there are more killings with hammers.But the most important thing about gun ownership is the fact that you are able to protects the inalienable rights given to you by God from anyone, be it an individual or a government who seek to strip you of those rights. Whether or not you got the moxie to actually do it is up to you but gun ownership ensures that right. This Democrat Congressman, Worth Almost $20 Million, Receives Food Stamps for His Childrenhttp://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/democrat-congressman-worth-almost-20-million-receives-food-stamps-children/Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), a sleazy trial attorney and left-wing loon, was just named the 17th wealthiest member of Congress. Considering all the inherited money, lobbyists, and shady deals which happen in Washington, D.C., that is an impressive ranking.But Grayson has another dubious distinction: a dead beat dad. After being married for 29 years to Lolita Grayson, he is refusing to support her or his children. Why? Because he is shamefully arguing his wife’s first marriage was supposedly never fully ended, so Alan’s marriage to her was never legitimate.This is an incredible example of liberal hypocrisy. Grayson, who never met a tax increase or government program he wouldn’t force us all to pay for, is allowing his children to receive food stamps while he lives in a luxurious Florida mansion.I don’t know if you guys remember Alan Grayson but he is a dirtball. He use any type of sleepy tactic to get his way. He is worth about $20 million dollars, the 17th wealthiest member of Congress. When I saw this story, I immediately knew who this guy was because during the healthcare debate, this is what he said on the House floor.Alan Grayson on the GOP Health Care Plan: "Don't Get Sick! And if You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-usmvYOPfcoRepublican plan for healthcare in America is ‘die quickly’ and it was a flat out lie, it was disgusting to see him stand up and suggest that because Republicans don’t believe that somebody else ought to pay for your healthcare that somehow that means they want you to die.So when I heard this story, it turns out that he has an ex wife that he’s claiming that she was never actually divorced from her first husband but he has children with her. But because of this, he doesn’t believe that he has to pay child support to her so she now has to live on foodstamps.This is a man who won’t even take care of his own children yet, what he would have you believe on the Senate floor is that he cares so much about, that the Republicans hate you so much, that they want you to die quickly.This is a perfect example. This is what progressives do.They love taking credit for spending somebody else’s money. He won’t even spend his own to keep his own kids off foodstamps but he’s ready and willing, he’s never seen a tax increase he didn’t like or a government program that can force you to spend money on and then take credit for, he just loves doing that.People don’t like to hear the term redistribution but ladies and gentlemen, this is exactly what this is. It is a tax that benefits one group of people to the detriment of another. Google is developing cancer and heart attack detectorhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29802581Google is aiming to diagnose cancers, impending heart attacks or strokes and other diseases, at a much earlier stage than is currently possible.The company is working on technology that combines disease-detecting nanoparticles, which would enter a patient's bloodstream via a swallowed pill, with a wrist-worn sensor.The idea is to identify slight changes in the person's biochemistry that could act as an early warning system.The work is still at an early stage. Google Inc. X Lab Working on Magnetic Pill to Detect Cancerhttp://www.pfhub.com/google-inc-x-lab-working-on-magnetic-pill-to-detect-cancer-1343/Google is said to be working on magnetic pills that will not only detect cancer cells in human body, but will destroy them as well. The project was announced on Tuesday and is being looked at as a hope to improve the quality of life for people around the globe.Google X research lab’s head of life science Andrew Conrad explained that they are trying to change the medicine from reactive to proactive. That means that these pills will be able to detect the cancerous cells ahead of time and thus prevent cancer altogether. He said that they are aiming at building nanoparticles that will have the ability to detect any disease. Conrad told the audience at a Wall Street Journal conference that Nanoparticles are the union of biology and engineering, which will help in observing the human body at a cellular and molecular level.He also said that the team working on the project includes a cancer specialist along with other doctors as well as electrical and mechanical engineers, an astrophysicist is also there to guide them on how to track the particles that are present in the body.Now, here’s my question to you: if it could really detect cancer, if it could really detect a heart attack, would you swallow the pill?It is Google, after all. What else is in the pill? My first thought is i’d be really torn. What types of tracking do they have? Without a doubt there will be a 2,000 page terms of use. BOMBSHELL: N.C. Sen. Kay Hagan Campaign Workers Caught on Video Telling Illegal Aliens to VOTEhttp://toprightnews.com/?p=6966“Voter fraud does not exist.”That has been the Democrat’s Orwellian mantra for years, in a cynical attempt to defeat any and all photo ID laws.But as Top Right News has reported multiple times, Democrats commit massive organized voter fraud across the nation every election cycle. With illegal aliens, felons, even dead people. They just don’t usually get caught. Non-Citizens Are Votinghttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/391474/non-citizens-are-voting-john-fundCould non-citizen voting be a problem in next week’s elections, and perhaps even swing some very close elections?A new study by two Old Dominion University professors, based on survey data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, indicated that 6.4 percent of all non-citizens voted illegally in the 2008 presidential election, and 2.2 percent in the 2010 midterms. Given that 80 percent of non-citizens lean Democratic, they cite Al Franken ’s 312-vote win in the 2008 Minnesota U.S. Senate race as one likely tipped by non-citizen voting. As a senator, Franken cast the 60th vote needed to make Obamacare law.North Carolina features one of the closest Senate races in the country this year, between Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and Republican Thom Tillis. So what guerrilla filmmaker James O’Keefe, the man who has uncovered voter irregularities in states ranging from Colorado to New Hampshire, has learned in North Carolina is disturbing. This month, North Carolina officials found at least 145 illegal aliens, still in the country thanks to the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, registered to vote. Hundreds of other non-citizens may be on the rolls.A voter-registration card is routinely issued without any identification check, and undocumented workers can use it for many purposes, including obtaining a driver’s license and qualifying for a job. And if a non-citizen has a voter-registration card, there are plenty of campaign operatives who will encourage him or her to vote illegally.O’Keefe had a Brazilian-born immigrant investigator pose as someone who wanted to vote but was not a citizen. Greg Amick, the campaign manager for the Democrat running for sheriff in Mecklenburg County (Charlotte), was only too happy to help.Multiple NC Campaign Workers Willing to Aid Non-Citizen With Felony Kay Hagan Voteshttp://youtu.be/fhjq6y1frPQGreg Amick: Here’s a couple of things you can do. You do not have to have your driver’s license, but do you have any sort of identification?Project Veritas investigator: But I do have my driver’s license.Amick: Oh, you do. Show ’em that and you’re good.PV: But the only problem, you know, I don’t want to vote if I’m not legal. I think that’s going to be a problem. I’m not sure.Amick: It won’t be, it shouldn’t be an issue at all.PV: No?Amick: As long as you are registered to vote, you’ll be fine.So, here you have the campaign manager telling someone who clearly stated that through a government mishap that is now registered to vote and has an ID. But she is concerned because she is not a legal immigrant. The campaign manager just says it’s fine, just go, no problem.These people who are facilitating the voting, they have no respect. And the people who are looking to get elected have no respect for the process. I hope that every single one of these guys go to jail because this is one of the most important freedoms that we have. What Happens When A School Pays Teachers $125,000 A Yearhttp://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/10/27/teacher-salary-studyHigher teacher salaries may help students do better in school, according to a study by Mathmatica Policy Research. The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School in New York City pays its teachers $125,000 a year, plus bonuses.The research, which was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, shows test scores at the charter school are higher in math, science and English.The study was authored by Joshua Furgeson, Moira McCullough, Clare Wolfendale, Brian Gill.“We found that after four years of being enrolled in TEP, that students achieved about an additional 1.6 years of school in math, about 0.6 years of school in science, about 0.4 years of schooling in English language arts,” Furgeson told Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson.Unfortunately, this is not the case. The pay alone isn't not the deciding factor whether or not you're going to get good teachers.If you can't fire a teacher, if you got all kinds of rules and regulations on what a teacher can teach and how a teacher can teach it, then you don't get better teachers.What you get is more expensive teachers. You get the same crummy teachers you've always had but you get more costly ones. What the charter schools prove is that when you separate yourself from the bureaucracy, when you have the ability to be discretionary in your hiring and firing, when you hold teachers to a higher standard, and compensate them better, what happens is more good teachers comes to you. It's amazing how that works.Good teachers want to work with other good teachers. No teacher wants to work in a place where they're surrounded by terrible teachers, where they're surrounded by a school administration that doesn't care about the kids, that doesn't care about the education process, who isn't willing to listen to new ideas or think outside the box. Good teachers don't want to work at those places. So when you offer them an alternative like a private charter school, they will flood there. Charter schools really has their pick of the liter because they will pay more.And guess what, people who care about a better education for their kids will also seek out those schools, they will find the extra money that they need in order to pay for the tuition. But this is a discussion for another day and I want to touch back on this later.Until next time, be safe and be good.I will talk to you on Monday.Support the show.

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