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5 days ago | 
nhpr.org | Mia Venkat |Scott Detrow |Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Ashley Brown
As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we're also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides the connective tissue for spirited interactions and growing deeper bonds with each other. What are you going to bring up at the dinner table to get the conversation flowing? Did you read that article everybody has been talking about, too? Who is it?
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5 days ago | 
kwit.org | Mia Venkat |Scott Detrow |Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Ashley Brown
As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we're also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides the connective tissue for spirited interactions and growing deeper bonds with each other. What are you going to bring up at the dinner table to get the conversation flowing? Did you read that article everybody has been talking about, too? Who is it?
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5 days ago | 
ideastream.org | Mia Venkat |Scott Detrow |Ashley Brown
The likelihood that the newly elected pope has consumed a Chicago style hot dog is not zero. And that means something.
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5 days ago | 
wusf.org | Mia Venkat |Scott Detrow |Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Ashley Brown
As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we're also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides the connective tissue for spirited interactions and growing deeper bonds with each other. What are you going to bring up at the dinner table to get the conversation flowing? Did you read that article everybody has been talking about, too? Who is it?
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1 week ago | 
wesa.fm | Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Mia Venkat |Ailsa Chang |William Troop
As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we're also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides the connective tissue for spirited interactions and growing deeper bonds with each other. What are you going to bring up at the dinner table to get the conversation flowing? Did you read that article everybody has been talking about, too? Who is it? This week's main character is not a person, dear reader.
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2 weeks ago | 
npr.org | Courtney Dorning |Patrick Jarenwattananon |Mary Kelly |Kat Lonsdorf |Mia Venkat
Autism community advocate reacts to RFK Jr. autism announcement Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5377346/nx-s1-5438998-1" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jill Escher, president of the National Council on Severe Autism, about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's remarks this month on autism. Sponsor Message
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2 weeks ago | 
wfdd.org | Jordan-Marie Smith |Mia Venkat |Rhitu Chatterjee
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2 weeks ago | 
kpbs.org | Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Mia Venkat |Ari Shapiro
Do you recall the prime early days of YouTube? When a video making the rounds was so strange, remarkable or unbelievable that it soon became ubiquitous in meme culture? This week proved that those specks of stranger-than-fiction internet magic are still here, a reminder that David Lynch's spirit can still be found all around if you look hard enough. Who are they? The Twinnies, gosh darn it! Their names are Bridgette and Paula Powers, identical twins from Queensland, Australia.
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3 weeks ago | 
kpbs.org | Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Mia Venkat |Ailsa Chang
This week, in the wake of widespread confusion about Trump's tariffs on China, a certain kind of video started going viral on TikTok, and then on other corners of the internet. What is it? Why, it's the Chinese luxury goods conspiracy, Charlie Brown! If you don't already know what we're talking about, the videos in question feature a pretty standard format: A supposed Chinese manufacturer or factory owner informs the viewer that they are going to be "spilling the tea." The alleged secret?
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1 month ago | 
wesa.fm | Mia Venkat |Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Ari Shapiro
His Hollywood career as a character actor spans decades, but this The White Lotus and The Righteous Gemstones star has decidedly become the internet's guy du jour — for more than one reason. Who is it? Walton Goggins. He is an award-winning actor whose notable roles include Fallout, Justified, Sons of Anarchy, The Shield, The Hateful Eight and Django Unchained. He's well known for portraying dark, eccentric and sometimes unhinged characters.
