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Dan Barry: The genius of Jimmy Breslin

You Decide with Errol Louis - May 09, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
Few people have had more of an impact on modern journalism than Jimmy Breslin. Breslin was a Pulitzer Prize Award-winning New York journalist and author who rose to fame in the 1960s, with columns that attracted millions of readers. Breslin displayed an unrivaled mastery at deadline journalism, ...

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Episode 114: See the Music: Pictures at an Exhibition

City Ballet The Podcast - May 06, 2024 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratings
This week, NYCB Music Director Andrew Litton leads us on a promenade through the Modest Mussorgsky score to Alexei Ratmansky's 2014 ballet Pictures at an Exhibition. Beginning with a little background on the composer's short but complicated life, colored by contemporary critiques of his "disrega...

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Norman Siegel: A lifetime of protecting the First Amendment

You Decide with Errol Louis - May 02, 2024 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
Norman Siegel has been a civil right and civil liberties lawyer in New York City for over 50 years, spending a significant portion of his career defending free speech, often to his own detriment. The pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and colleges across the country have highlighted...

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MERSH'S Captive Audience - PODAWFUL EO0

Pod Awful - April 29, 2024 14:31 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 378 ratings
Nightwave Radio isn't paying the bills anymore for Mersh. The Rumble bots just aren't big enough numbers for him anymore. Maybe the views will go up if he snatches enough cats from the Circle K and forces THEM to watch. Over on The Bad Luck Boys channel, Jesse has managed to Max Headroom his way...

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MERSH'S Captive Audience - PODAWFUL EO0

BULLY THE INTERNET - April 29, 2024 14:31 - 1 hour ★★★ - 33 ratings
Nightwave Radio isn't paying the bills anymore for Mersh. The Rumble bots just aren't big enough numbers for him anymore. Maybe the views will go up if he snatches enough cats from the Circle K and forces THEM to watch. Over on The Bad Luck Boys channel, Jesse has managed to Max Headroom his way...

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Episode 113: Hear the Dance: Herman Schmerman

City Ballet The Podcast - April 29, 2024 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratings
This week, Hear the Dance host Silas Farley is joined by three dancers who know William Forsythe's 1992 ballet Herman Schmerman well: Original cast members Jeffrey Edwards and Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan, and current interpreter Tiler Peck. Edwards and Whelan recall the unique physi...

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How YOUTUBE Is Going To BAN YOU (Yes, You)

Pod Awful - April 25, 2024 12:35 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 378 ratings
Youtube banned the PODAWFUL channel for promoting paywalled content. You know, the thing that millions of users do every single day on the platform. Watch me slowly melt down in a Kafka-esque hellscape of Indian robot people trying to figure out what words mean. http://podawful.com

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How YOUTUBE Is Going To BAN YOU (Yes, You)

BULLY THE INTERNET - April 25, 2024 12:35 - 2 hours ★★★ - 33 ratings
Youtube banned the PODAWFUL channel for promoting paywalled content. You know, the thing that millions of users do every single day on the platform. Watch me slowly melt down in a Kafka-esque hellscape of Indian robot people trying to figure out what words mean. http://podawful.com

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Zephyr Teachout: Protecting kids from online danger

You Decide with Errol Louis - April 25, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
An increase in teen depression and mental health disorders over the last decade has largely been attributed to the widespread adoption of the smartphone by adolescents. Parents are obsessively worrying about screen time and the effects it could have on their children. One such parent is Zephyr...

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Episode 112: New Combinations: Amy Hall Garner

City Ballet The Podcast - April 22, 2024 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratings
As we prepare for opening night of Spring performances, Associate Artistic Director and New Combinations host Wendy Whelan catches up with sought-after choreographer Amy Hall Garner between rehearsals for her first commission for NYCB, premiering in just over a week. Garner shares the long, danc...

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Basil Seggos: New York’s environmental defender is stepping down 

You Decide with Errol Louis - April 18, 2024 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
For more than eight years, Basil Seggos had led the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, trying to help New York in its transition away from fossil fuels. Now leaving office, Seggos joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss New York’s pivotal 2019 climate law and his own tenure with two d...

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Episode 111: Hear the Dance: Law of Mosaics

City Ballet The Podcast - April 15, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratings
City Ballet The Podcast is back! In the lead up to the return of two of Pam Tanowitz's ballets to the stage this spring—Gustave le Gray No. 1, from 2019, and Law of Mosaics, which premiered in 2022—Former Principal Dancer Russell Janzen and current Soloist Miriam Miller join Hear the Dance host ...

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Harry Siegel: A column on subway crime sparks an online attack by the NYPD

You Decide with Errol Louis - April 11, 2024 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
After criticizing police strategy aimed at combatting subway crime, New York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel found himself under attack online by the NYPD. The mayor later defended police brass for going after Siegel and the police commanders doubled down on their harsh words in several interv...

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Chris Norwood: A new combat mission against diabetes

You Decide with Errol Louis - April 04, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
With diabetes continuing to disproportionately affect the poor and people of color, the Bronx nonprofit agency Health People is launching a new campaign against the disease. Chris Norwood, the group’s founder and executive director, joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss their new education effort ...

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Eric Klinenberg: Following seven lives in ‘the year that changed everything’

You Decide with Errol Louis - March 28, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
Trying to make sense of one of the most pivotal years in American history, scholar Eric Klinenberg decided to focus on 2020 by using seven New Yorkers as his lens. With social unrest, economic turbulence and a presidential election as his backdrop, Klinenberg tells a story that is still far fr...

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Cannabis at the crossroads — A live discussion

You Decide with Errol Louis - March 21, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
Recently, NY1’s Errol Louis moderated a panel discussion, hosted by Vital City and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, on New York’s rocky rollout of legalized cannabis — examining what policies and practices are needed to create a viable market moving forward.  Louis was ...

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Episode 110: The Rosin Box: Partnering

City Ballet The Podcast - March 18, 2024 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratings
This week at The Rosin Box, hosts Claire Kretzschmar and Soloist Aarón Sanz are joined by NYCB dancers and "real-life" couple Emily Kikta and Peter Walker to talk about partnering—onstage and off. Peter and Aarón share their memories of learning from legendary former Principal Dancer Jock Soto, ...

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Ghost Roast of Stuttering John w/ Tookie

Rock Bottom Podcast - March 15, 2024 19:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 197 ratings
Roast of Stuttering John Melendez of the Howard Stern shoe. John challenged Ray to a roast and the backed out.  Ray decides to roast John anyway follow Tookie on twitter at @bedabbler

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Elizabeth Holtzman: A pioneer looks back and ahead to our political future

You Decide with Errol Louis - March 14, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
Few women have had a bigger impact on New York City politics than Elizabeth Holtzman. A Brooklyn native, Holtzman embarked on a political career over 50 years ago. She was an aide to Mayor John Lindsay in the late 60s and then became the youngest woman at the time ever elected to Congress at 31 ...

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Episode 109: The Rosin Box: Wellness

City Ballet The Podcast - March 11, 2024 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratings
Hosts Claire Kretzschmar and Aarón Sanz are back at The Rosin Box, joined by Corps de Ballet Member and Get Golden founder Jenelle Manzi. Jenelle describes her journey to the stage and how struggles with injuries and food allergies inspired her to start crafting her own anti-inflammatory recipes...

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Tricia Romano: How the Village Voice revolutionized journalism

You Decide with Errol Louis - March 07, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
The Village Voice is widely considered being America’s first alt weekly newspaper. Started in 1955 by a small group of writers and editors that included Norman Mailer, the radical paper changed journalism. For six decades, the Voice covered politics, news and culture with a blend of energy and b...

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Episode 108: The Rosin Box: Costume Shop

City Ballet The Podcast - March 04, 2024 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratings
The Rosin Box returns for another round of candid conversations with hosts Claire Kretzschmar and Soloist Aarón Sanz. This week, they're joined by NYCB Director of Costumes Marc Happel to talk all things tutus and beyond. Happel shares his journey to the Company's storied costume shop, where dec...

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Terry Golway: Was La Guardia our greatest mayor?

You Decide with Errol Louis - February 29, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
Fighting for the rights of immigrants and the impoverished during the Great Depression, Fiorello La Guardia was considered “America’s mayor” by millions of New Yorkers during his 12 years in office. In a new book about La Guardia, journalist and historian Terry Golway looks at the many political...

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Michael Beschloss: What’s at stake in 2024?

You Decide with Errol Louis - February 22, 2024 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
There are a little over nine months until the 60th presidential election in November. As the primaries wrap up, it remains clear that it will be a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Michael Beschloss is an American historian specializing in the United States...

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Mandolins w/ Karl from WATP

Rock Bottom Podcast - February 18, 2024 21:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 197 ratings
Karl from WATP joins Ray and discuss the infamous Mandolin video that has surfaced. follow Karl on twitter at @whoarethesepod

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Dr. Uché Blackstock: Tackling racism in our health care system

You Decide with Errol Louis - February 15, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
Racism often ensures that Black Americans get worse results than other groups when they visit the doctor or an emergency room. It not only affects patients: only 2% of physicians in the U.S. are Black women. Dr. Uché Blackstock is trying to level the playing field. A New York-based physician, Bl...

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SVEN STOFFELS is H2BH - POD AWFUL PODCAST LF37

Pod Awful - February 12, 2024 23:09 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 378 ratings
Sven Stoffels is a talented animator, comic book artist, and streamer. I don't know him from any other thing. He is also my best friend. Sven will be drawing famous black figures from history in honor of Black History Month including Ethan Ralph, Mike David from Redbar, Tom Gulley, and Ruphio Ph...

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SVEN STOFFELS is H2BH - POD AWFUL PODCAST LF37

BULLY THE INTERNET - February 12, 2024 23:09 - 1 hour ★★★ - 33 ratings
Sven Stoffels is a talented animator, comic book artist, and streamer. I don't know him from any other thing. He is also my best friend. Sven will be drawing famous black figures from history in honor of Black History Month including Ethan Ralph, Mike David from Redbar, Tom Gulley, and Ruphio Ph...

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SALVOPANCAKES is H2BH - POD AWFUL PODCAST LF36

Pod Awful - February 11, 2024 07:17 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 378 ratings
Salvopancakes was fired by Keemstar, dumped by Redbar, and ex-communicated by Ethan Ralph, so now he's here. After losing Salvo's Spelling Bee (even though he was given a disabled child's rules), Ethan Ralph challenged Salvo to get more viewers as guest host of Podawful than Ethan did with a bet...

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SALVOPANCAKES is H2BH - POD AWFUL PODCAST LF36

BULLY THE INTERNET - February 11, 2024 07:17 - 1 hour ★★★ - 33 ratings
Salvopancakes was fired by Keemstar, dumped by Redbar, and ex-communicated by Ethan Ralph, so now he's here. After losing Salvo's Spelling Bee (even though he was given a disabled child's rules), Ethan Ralph challenged Salvo to get more viewers as guest host of Podawful than Ethan did with a bet...