Ike Sriskandarajah

2 months ago | thisamericanlife.org | Ira Glass |Dana Chivvis |Ike Sriskandarajah

Note: The internet version of this episode contains un-beeped curse words. BEEPED VERSION. Kasey, a woman who prides herself on her truthfulness, tries to help host Ira Glass figure out how to stop lying about one specific thing. (10 minutes) By Ira Glass; Produced by Diane Wu Producer Dana Chivvis talks to reporter Liz Flock about a strange experience she had in 2011. (21 minutes)Liz Flock’s most recent book is The Furies. Host Ira Glass talks with M.

Oct 31, 2024 | thisamericanlife.org | Ira Glass |Zoe Chace |Nadia Reiman |Ike Sriskandarajah

Note: The internet version of this episode contains un-beeped curse words. BEEPED VERSION. Ira talks with Zoe Chace about watching Trump’s victory from an ecstatic room in Michigan. Then he checks in with a DC cop who was injured at the Capitol on January 6. (7 minutes) By Ira Glass and Zoe Chace Trump has claimed that he will be able to deport between 15 and 20 million people. But neither he nor his team have spelled out exactly how they’d do it.

Jul 29, 2023 | revealnews.org | Nathan Halverson |Michael Montgomery |Ike Sriskandarajah |Cynthia Rodriguez

A Saudi-owned farm in the middle of the Arizona desert has attracted national attention and criticism since Reveal’s Nate Halverson and Ike Sriskandarajah first broke this story eight years ago. The farm is using massive amounts of water to grow hay and export it to Saudi Arabia in the midst of a water crisis in the American West. Since then, megafarms have taken hold here. And the trend isn’t fueled just by foreign companies.

Jan 28, 2023 | revealnews.org | Ike Sriskandarajah |Brett Meyers |Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda

Dr. Gary Davis, an Ivy League-trained Black physician from Tulsa, Oklahoma, had a dream one night that the cure for AIDS would come from a goat. In the new podcast Serum, a reporting team at WHYY’s The Pulse and Local Trance Media delve into the unusual story of a Davis’ quest to develop the cure.  At the height of the AIDS epidemic in the early ’90s, Davis created a serum from goat blood that he believed could help cure HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.