Fresh Air

Have we been reading Toni Morrison all wrong?

You can spend all your time trying to prove that we are humans, that we had a civilization, that we have art, that we have culture. But it's a distraction because there's always going to be one more thing. And actually, the problem is not us. The problem is the racist who has no other way of feeling full, no other way of having integrity other than putting someone else down.

Pivot

Pollster: Trump's Approval Ratings At "Five-Alarm Fire" Level | Pivot

The MAGA movement is about a quarter to a third depending on I mean it's a it's a pretty fluid section of the Republican party, but it's not half the country.

Fresh Air

Arsenio Hall

You're going to take money out of my wallet and food off my family's plate in the middle of my job here when you don't know what you're talking about. You're going to blame me for something that is absolutely not true. And I think I was sick of being criticized by everyone because everyone wanted it to be something else.

Semafor

'Lobbyists Weren't Created in 2025,' Says DOJ Antitrust Chief

Lobbyists weren't created in 2025. They've been around for a long time. Um, and I think when you're I think the position, I don't speak for Andrew, but the position we try to take is we'll meet with anybody. If you want to come and discuss your matter, deal on the criminal side, whatever it is, we'll always give you an audience, but that doesn't entitle you to anything and certainly not entitled to outcomes.

Fresh Air

Former Infowars employee on Alex Jones' conspiracy machine

Jones wasn't necessarily explicitly telling us to lie. I think if he was doing that, he wouldn't have as many people working for him because there was this pretend idea that we were searching for the truth. He more so undermined us, made us question our own findings, made us question our own abilities, our own competence.

Fresh Air

Remembering Action Hero Chuck Norris

When there's something to say, say it. If it isn't important, then keep your mouth shut.

TBPN

Hill & Valley Gigastream, The Fastest Companies, Apple's Next CEO, OpenAI's Non-Profit

I do think interjecting with a ton of factchecking during the debate would be disruptive. I'm not a fan of that. I sort of just like having one person like the guest, the debater fact check the other person because if they know the fact and the other person who they're debating against drops something that's not factual, that's their opportunity to come in and say, "No, that's not accurate."

Hidden Brain

Group Think

How do the groups you identify with shape your sense of self? Do they influence the beer you buy? The way you vote?

Code Switch

What Trump's language has in common with cult language

Language can be used to build a following, how words can be used to divide people into an us versus them mindset, and actually shape people's perception of reality

Office Hours

Why Scott Galloway’s Paternity Leave Comment Went Viral | Office Hours

If you want to understand or put a Wonder Woman's golden lasso on them, look at their actions, not the words.

Freakonomics Radio

667. Here’s Why You Are Constantly Fighting Off Scammers

A ruthless (and ruthlessly efficient) industry is using digital tools to supercharge one of the world's oldest behaviors.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

I came out of that honeymoon realizing I had learned totally the wrong idea about negotiation. I was, first of all, a lawyer who'd been primed to think that negotiating meant competing, full stop. So you're out to win. And maybe even more than that, you're out for somebody else to lose.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships, so when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

Tell me is the biggest question you can ask, and it is the most powerful first question in any negotiation, at work or at home.

TED

How to Make an Idea Land | Mumbai | TED Idea Search

The strength of the idea, but you then have to make it land. The delivery is how well they connect with the people in the room.

Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway

Paramount Beats Netflix in Battle for Warner Bros. | Pivot

You sound smarter when you catastrophize. It sounds scarier and more interesting. And you put some bar charts around you talking about the zombie apocalypse in a downward spiral doom loop.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships. So when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

Tell me is the biggest question you can ask, and it is the most powerful first question in any negotiation at work or at home.

The New York Times

How Jeffrey Epstein Used Doctors to Control Women

The only reason you do this is if you were putting somebody else's needs first. We see again and again doctors in these files bending or breaking the rules of their profession. And often they treated Epstein as if he was the real client.

Hidden Brain

The Secret of Charisma

Charismatic leaders can inspire devotion and give people a powerful sense of meaning. They can also make us vulnerable.