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News Nerds explores the issues that are shaping the world around us with well known public figures. Join Ezra Graham for interviews about culture, politics, health, and science that will keep you informed about what's happening and how the world is reacting. Listen wherever you get podcasts. New epi...
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105 эпизодLibertarian Gubernatorial Candidate Kaiser Leib
This week, we continue to hear from the candidates running to be Montana’s next governor. Libertarian Kaiser Leib worked as a software developer befor...
Ryan Busse & Raph Graybill: "Get Your Montana Back"
From 1995 to 2020, Ryan Busse worked in the gun industry as the vice president of sales for Kimber America. This sparked his 2021 book, Gunfight: My B...
The Woman Who Made Me Love Cooking
During the pandemic, I learned to love cooking. I picked up a copy of the Art of Simple Cooking ad started experimenting with salad dressings, pie dou...
David Cross: Pious As Ever
Hi,
Technically we're off for the summer, but it's fun to break rules.
Today, a conversation about religion, parenting, acting, and comedy...
Forensic Pathologist Werner Spitz
Today we talk to forensic pathologist Werner Spitz. Dr. Spitz is 96 but shows no signs of retirement. As we’ll find out, he wouldn’t even want to reti...
Radio Adventurer Barbara Bogaev
This week, the search for the perfect interview. Public Radio host Barbara Bogaev will join us to talk about her experience growing up in Philadelphia...
King: A Life
I think it’s rare for a biography to be so well written that almost every aspect of a figure’s life is detailed. My guest today, Jonathan Eig, seems t...
Former Trump Lawyer Peter Ticktin
Today, a conservative view of the April 4th Trump indictment brought by Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg. My guest today, Peter Ticktin, was a lawyer for Don...
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy And The Battle For Truth
When a gunman killed 20 first graders and 6 educators on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, many called for bipartisan action. My gues...
Global Cooking With My Dad Year
Today we hear two interviews about youth in the limelight. First an interview with the CEO of Global Citizen Year, Erin Lewellen. She grew up in rural...
Even Mark Bittman Loves How To Cook Everything
Food royalty Mark Bittman joins us today to talk about a career spanning from the late seventies and early eighties until now. Of course he’s the auth...
Rikers
Rikers Island in New York City houses a complex of ten jails. Although some might think of the facility in terms of statistics and numbers, Reuven Bla...
Michael Kimmelman ❤s NY
Have you ever thought about what New York City was like before Europeans settled the area? This is just one of the many questions answered by Michael...
Analyzing The White House With Peter Baker
Today we’ll analyze last week’s State of the Union Address with Peter Baker. Peter is the chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. Bide...
The Fabulous Glenn Close!
Today, we’ll sit down with acclaimed actress Glenn Close. Close has won Tonys, Golden Globes, and Emmys for her work on screen. You probably know her...
A Special Food Show With Christopher Kimball And Matt Sartwell
If last week’s show was for the history buffs today is for the people that love to eat. Today we have a gargantuan show with Christopher Kimball of Mi...
The Conspiracy To Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, And Churchill
Today we have a show for the history buffs out there. Nearly eighty years ago, a historic conference took place in Tehran. The three leaders fighting...
One Of Ezra's Favorites From 2022
As the year comes to an end, I thought it would be a good opportunity to review this year in interviews. This week, you’ll hear one of my favorite int...
It's Been A Year Since The Deadly Kentucky Tornadoes
This week marks the one year anniversary of a chain of deadly tornadoes that travelled through Kentucky and the surrounding states. 80 Kentuckians die...
A New Perspective Of World War II With Matthew Delmont
The U.S. military has been racially integrated for less than a century, and the nation has fought some of the most significant wars with segregated tr...
Thanksgiving With J Kenji
I'm back from Italy with an interview with one of the great foodies of America.
You might know J Kenji Lopez Alt from his cookbooks or maybe his...
Lula And The Amazon Rainforest
This week we’ll head south, to Brazil, where voters narrowly elected Lula Da Silva as the country’s next president. Lula previously was president of B...
The Latest From Florida, Remembering Loretta Lynn, And Science Writer David Quammen
Following a slow start to the hurricane season, Hurricanes Fiona and Ian left many without electricity or even a house to return to after the storm....
Remembering Queen Elizabeth With Robert Hardman
On this week’s News Nerds, remembering England’s Queen Elizabeth who died earlier this month at 96. Journalist Robert Hardman joins us to talk about h...
National Political Correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti On His New Book, The Long Alliance
Yo, News Nerds, I'm so glad to be back! This week I (virtually) sat down with NY Mag correspondent, Gabriel Debenedetti.
The complicated relati...
Professor Mary Ziegler On Roe Vs. Wade
We'll be gone for the summer, so I thought that I would leave you with a treat. Every week day this summer we'll be posting a new mini crossword that...
Writer Kathryn Schulz On Her New Book, Lost & Found
This week on News Nerds we’ll be speaking with Pulitzer Prize winning writer Kathryn Schulz. Her new book, Lost & Found grapples with the loss and the...
Montana Congressional Candidate Tom Winter
It’s primary season! Earlier this week, 7 states held primary elections including Montana were I produce this show. Because of the 2020 census, we’ve...
An Exploration In To Yellow Rain
In the years following the so called ‘secret war’, when the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency trained the ethnic group of the Hmong to fight against th...
A Son Reflects On His Relationship With His Witty Mother
In his first memoir, novelist Brian Morton chronicles the story of his mother as she suffers from the effects of a stroke and then dementia. The book,...
The Latest On Ukraine With Mark and Caroline Cancian
As the war in Ukraine continues, the information behind the conflict continues to change rapidly. This week we’re joined by Mark Cancian. He’s a senio...
How The Iranian Revolution Of The 70s Affected A Family
When my guest this week, Neda Toloui - Semnani’s grandfather walked across the dessert to Tehran in search of work decades ago, he decided on a surnam...
The BBC's 100th Anniversary... And Our Second
It's our second year anniversary show, but do you know who’s been on the air a lot longer? It’s the British Broadcasting Corporation, or the BBC. This...
A Former State Department Official On The War In Ukraine
When Russia started its invasion of Ukraine in February, my guest this week, Michael Kimmage was watching the conflict unfold from Washington D.C. He...
How A Ukrainian Journalist Got Out Of Their Country
This week, we’re getting the latest on the war in Ukraine with journalist Maria Romanenko. She left the country on the first day of the invasion and s...
Cooking With Jacques Pepin And The Latest From Ukraine With Manny Marotta
This we’re back with another edition of the podcast. We’ll start off the show with a short summary of the latest news. Next we’ll talking to Manny Mar...
The War In Ukraine Continues
We’re starting the show this week with my interview with Natalia Melnychuk. In addition to working for PEN International, an association dedicated to...
The Latest From Ukraine With Journalist Mircea Barbu
As the war in Ukraine continues, now into its 2nd week, we have what you need to understand the Russian invasion. We’re starting off the show with the...
Joshua Prager On The Family Roe
This week we’re joined by author and journalist Joshua Prager. Joshua's latest book, The Family Roe: an American Story, chronicles the family behind R...