Podcast

lizz winstead

How They Did It: Lizz Winstead of The Daily Show & Lady Parts Justice

Welcome to How They Did It: the podcast that gets you the real story behind the success. Host Darbi Worley interviews extraordinary people about this thing called life and how to do it better. In this episode, Darbi talks with longtime friend and creative collaborator Lizz Winstead (The Daily Show, Lady Parts Justice) to talk comedy, life, and reproductive freedom. As […]

How They Did It: Lizz Winstead of The Daily Show & Lady Parts Justice Read More »

Hiroshima

Past Present Podcast: Trump’s Tax Returns, Hiroshima, and High Heels

On this week’s Past Present podcast, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss presidential candidates and income taxes, Obama in Japan, and the history of high heels. Trump’s Tax Returns Donald Trump has refused to release his tax returns, but why do Americans care about seeing them? Neil argued that in a post-Watergate landscape, Americans want transparency

Past Present Podcast: Trump’s Tax Returns, Hiroshima, and High Heels Read More »

Hillary Clinton

Past Present Podcast: Lethal Injection, PC Culture, and Closeted Clinton Voters

On this week’s Past Present podcast, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the history of America’s death penalty, political correctness, and Hillary Clinton’s “enthusiasm gap.” Lethal Injection The last U.S. pharmaceutical company has stopped selling drugs used for lethal injections. American attitudes about the death penalty have shifted dramatically over time, Niki noted, including a significant drop

Past Present Podcast: Lethal Injection, PC Culture, and Closeted Clinton Voters Read More »

Running

Past Present Podcast: Multicultural Evangelicalism, the End of Running, and Facebook in India

On this week’s Past Present podcast, Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil Young discuss the changing racial demographics of American evangelicalism, the decline of running, and digital imperialism. Multicultural Evangelicalism Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention recently wrote in the New York Times that the white evangelical church of old is no more.

Past Present Podcast: Multicultural Evangelicalism, the End of Running, and Facebook in India Read More »

Phyllis Schlafly

Past Present Podcast: Dennis Hastert, Phyllis Schlafly, and Malia’s Gap Year

On this week’s Past Present podcast, Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil Young discuss Dennis Hastert, Phyllis Schlafly, and Malia Obama taking a gap year before entering Harvard.   Dennis Hastert Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for various crimes he committed trying to cover

Past Present Podcast: Dennis Hastert, Phyllis Schlafly, and Malia’s Gap Year Read More »

Prince

Past Present Podcast: Prince, America First, and the Degree Divide

On this week’s Past Present podcast, Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil Young discuss Prince, Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy, and educational inequality. Prince The legendary musician Prince died last month at the age of 57. Niki noted his New York Times obituary described Prince as a “songwriter, singer, one-man studio band and

Past Present Podcast: Prince, America First, and the Degree Divide Read More »

Whole Foods

Past Present Podcast: Tubman Twenties, Adult Toys, and Whole Foods Politics

On this week’s Past Present podcast, Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil Young discuss Harriet Tubman’s replacement of Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, the regulation of adult toys, and Whole Foods. Harriet Tubman The Treasury Department announced Harriet Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill. Neil noted this

Past Present Podcast: Tubman Twenties, Adult Toys, and Whole Foods Politics Read More »