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Director Tom Donahue: Hollywood’s labor problem is a gender bias problem

Patt Morrison Asks - August 27, 2019 17:03 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with film director and producer Tom Donahue on his latest documentary "This Changes Everything" about systemic gender bias and discrimination against women in Hollywood and entertainment.

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Conspiracy analysts Joseph Uscinski: 21stcentury American fears trade on “invasion, white genocide”

Patt Morrison Asks - August 13, 2019 18:28 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Joseph Uscinski and American political scientist who specializes in the study of conspiracy theories. He is co-author of the book American Conspiracy Theories.

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Author Susan Phillips: A century-long fight for public space and recognition in Los Angeles graffiti

Patt Morrison Asks - August 06, 2019 17:42 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Author Susan Phillips about her latest book "The City Beneath: A  Century of Los Angeles Graffiti".

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Theane Evangelis: Asking the Supreme Court what’s constitutional in fixing homelessness homeless

Patt Morrison Asks - July 30, 2019 18:55 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with constitutional lawyer Theane Evangelis with Gibson Dunn, and Crutcher. Boise, Idaho asks the Supreme Court to reverse the Ninth Circuit's ruling on homelessness issues.  Theane Evangelis is partnering with renowned lawyer Theodore Olson to take on this case that could ra...

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Author David Runciman: a century of surviving crises leaves democracy too confident-and vulnerable

Patt Morrison Asks - July 16, 2019 17:53 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Professor David Runciman who teaches politics and history at Cambridge University. David talks about his book "How Democracy Ends". 

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Author Douglas Brinkley: JFK and America’s grand, improbable race to put men on the moon

Patt Morrison Asks - July 09, 2019 17:05 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with author Douglas Brinkley on his latest book, "American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race".

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Citlali Fabian: using old equipment, a Oaxacan photographer records her even older culture

Patt Morrison Asks - June 25, 2019 17:04 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Citlali Fabian a Oaxacan photographer.

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PETA's Ingrid Newkirk: doing whatever it takes to protect animals, ugly ones as well as cute ones

Patt Morrison Asks - June 18, 2019 18:18 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks PETA's president and cofounder Ingrid Newkirk. Ingrid has led the worlds largest organization for more than 35 years. 

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Media law prof Doreen Weisenhaus: journalism and justice in Assange and San Francisco cases

Patt Morrison Asks - June 04, 2019 17:19 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Doreen Weisenhaus Associate Professor and Director of the Media Law Project at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. 

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Trump's master fact-checker Daniel Dale: untruth and consequences

Patt Morrison Asks - May 28, 2019 17:29 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Daniel Dale the Toronto Star's Washington bureau chief, covering U.S. President Donald Trump's administration and other stories in the United States.  

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MPAA's Joan Graves : 30 years of watching three movies a day -- and assigning them parental ratings

Patt Morrison Asks - May 21, 2019 17:19 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Joan Graves Senior Vice President of the Motion Picture Association of America and Chairman of its Classification and Ratings Administration (CARA)

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Norman Mineta – Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as defining moment in a statesman’s life

Patt Morrison Asks - May 07, 2019 18:03 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks Norman Mineta an American Politician. Mineta tells legacy in his documentary, "Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American Story,” a documentary portrait of the American statesman and trailblazer. Mineta most recently served in President George Bush's Cabinet as the United Stat...

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Two documentarians introduce us to the Olympics of science fairs and its brilliant teen competitors

Patt Morrison Asks - April 30, 2019 17:29 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with film directors Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster on  their documentary SCIENCE FAIR, a National Geographic Film.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta: chasing the world’s secrets to life and happiness that often elude Americans

Patt Morrison Asks - April 23, 2019 17:27 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Dr. Sanjay Gupta an american neurosurgeon and medical reporter.  

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Scientist Adam Rutherford: for Earth Day, the paradoxical and powerful creature called homo sapiens

Patt Morrison Asks - April 16, 2019 16:48 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Adam Rutherford on his latest book Humanimal : How Homo sapiens Became Nature's most Paradoxical Creature.  

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Terry Tempest Williams: the death of a red oak and a brother, the life of the “untaintable” West

Patt Morrison Asks - April 09, 2019 18:19 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Terry Tempest Williams, an American author, conservationist, and activist.

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Shane Claiborne’s Bible-inspired weapons “meltdown” -- evangelizing for Jesus and against guns

Patt Morrison Asks - April 02, 2019 17:35 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Shane Claiborne a Christian activist and author. Claiborne is one the founding members of the intentional community, the Simple Way.

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Broad Foundation chief Gerun Riley: making 21st-century philanthropy work

Patt Morrison Asks - March 26, 2019 17:27 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Gerun Riley President of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.

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Sociologist Jerome Karabel: admissions scandal shows privileged are desperate to keep it that way

Patt Morrison Asks - March 19, 2019 18:01 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Jerome Karabel a Professor of Sociology at the University of California Berkeley. Karabel is the author of the book "The Chosen : The Hidden of Admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, Princeton".

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Thinking of un-borders: author Luis Alberto Urrea and the nature of the US-Mexico "border planet"

Patt Morrison Asks - March 12, 2019 17:33 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with author Luis Urrea a Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist.

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Thinking of un-borders: author Luis Alberto Urrea and the nature of the US-Mexico "border planet"

Patt Morrison Asks - March 12, 2019 17:33 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with author Luis Urrea a Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist.

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California water messager Niki Woodard: selling the drought after the deluge

Patt Morrison Asks - March 05, 2019 17:25 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Niki Woodard Deputy Assistant at California Department of Water Resources.   

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California water messager Niki Woodard: selling the drought after the deluge

Patt Morrison Asks - March 05, 2019 17:25 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Niki Woodard Deputy Assistant at California Department of Water Resources.   

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Tax whisperer Anne Alstott: what our tax code reveals about our national character

Patt Morrison Asks - February 26, 2019 18:02 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Anne Alstott an expert in taxation and social policy.

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Author Richard Beck: what underlies the child sexual abuse hysteria, from McMartin to Pizzagate

Patt Morrison Asks - February 19, 2019 17:22 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Richard Beck the author of We Believe the Children: The Story of a Moral Panic.

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Author Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the contradictions of “successful aging”

Patt Morrison Asks - February 12, 2019 17:48 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with American Author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich about her new book "Natural Causes". 


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Jodie Evans brings her esthetic, her politics, and her CodePink thinking to the California Arts Council

Patt Morrison Asks - January 22, 2019 17:22 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Jodie Evans a political activist, author, and documentary film producer. Jodie is the co-founder and director of CODEPINK and the co-founder of the after-school writing program826LA.

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Energy whiz Severin Borenstein: keeping the lights on and the fires out after PG&E bankruptcy

Patt Morrison Asks - January 15, 2019 18:05 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Severin Borenstein a Professor at UC Berkeley Haas School of business and Faculty Director of the Energy Institute at Haas.  

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Historian Ellen Fitzpatrick: A Hundred-Year Hurrah for Women’s Votes

Patt Morrison Asks - January 08, 2019 18:29 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Patt Morrison talks with Ellen Fitzpatrick a professor and scholar specializing in modern American political and intellectual history.

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