Jody Avirgan

Jun 15, 2024 | 30for30podcasts.com | Jody Avirgan

Mar 29, 2024 | thisdaypod.substack.com | Jane Byrne |Jody Avirgan

Welcome to the This Day In Esoteric Political History newsletter. Each week, a member of our team (or a friend of the show) gathers together bits of America’s past and attempts to find a throughline that might add a little understanding to our current moment. Today, you’re in the steady hands of me, Jody!A quick recap of next week in American history. 1796: President GeorgeWashington cited executive privilege in refusing a request for documents from Congress.

Dec 21, 2023 | jodyavirgan.substack.com | Jody Avirgan

Welcome to Ask Roulette, the newsletter. Heading into 2024, we’re back as a regular live show; and I’m getting a jump on my New Year’s resolution to do this newsletter much more regularly. How does this work? Each newsletter you’ll see one reader’s answer to the previous question. Then you’ll see the question they have for the list, which you can respond to if you’d like. Or you can just read and enjoy. Thanks for reading Jody Avirgan! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

Nov 26, 2023 | thisdaypod.substack.com | Jody Avirgan |Donovan Ramsey |Aisha Harris |Rick Perlstein

Hey everyone, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving break. It is book-buying season. Booksellers and authors make an enormous portion of their profit in these weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. They can use your support. So, in that spirit I just put together a booklist of all the authors we featured on the show in 2023. (Plus Niki and Kellie’s latest books of course) I used bookshop.org, but you can of course go track it down at your favorite bookseller, online or in the real world.

Aug 29, 2023 | jodyavirgan.substack.com | Jody Avirgan

Some thoughts below but the gist of this email is that there’s an Ask Roulette live show on September 20th in NYC and I’d love to see you there!I worked at WNYC, on The Brian Lehrer Show, for about seven years. One of the best things about Brian (there are so many great things) is his willingness to have fun with the live call-in format, so one day I cooked up an idea to have callers just call in with a question they wanted to ask a stranger.