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We love to talk comedy, so this week co-host/comedian Jeremy Long and your host talk comedy with Barry Rothbart. Originally from New York, Barry started doing stand up in college because he was depressed and we love, also, to talk … Continue reading

Some colleges that relied on SAT scores to accept new students have decided the tests are not the best measure of a person’s ability. The dreaded hours under the gun of those crucial tests is the tip of the iceberg … Continue reading

Life lacks one thing: continuity, that property of continuous and connected periods of time that, through perception alone, work to keep us balanced. There is not an uninterrupted connection or union of anything, if you think about it. Let’s think … Continue reading

“Sometimes I’ve believed in as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” says Alice, the delightful protagonist in Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Could one of those things have been time travel? Could the rabbit hole be the … Continue reading

Dr. Karen Wyatt, whose work with end-of-life patients is documented in her book, What Really Matters, has been on this show twice before to discuss self-analysis and suicide. Her return on Oct. 23’s show is timely, as she discusses “death … Continue reading

Singers and bands are concerned that streaming music services like YouTube, Spotify and Deezer pay too little money back to them compared to selling music—which has lost much of its value, too. But the public doesn’t care. The new technology … Continue reading

The written word is accepted, embraced, betrayed, ignored and, of course, followed to the brink of insanity. Is the medium the message or is the message just a mess? Seven authors that despised movie adaptations of their books make up … Continue reading

While political movements include equal pay for women, there could never be legislation guaranteeing equal laughs for women comedians. On our Oct. 2 show, meet Alonna Breisch, who dares stand up before both sexes of all ages to make them … Continue reading

“Hollywood,” the movie factory that gives the public what it wants, seems to be investing almost exclusively on what a single portion of the public wants, narrowing the product to a scant few types of movies. How does this affect … Continue reading

The doctor is in the house and the house panel includes Thom Savino, Jeremy Long and our host. Dr. Gary Popoli returns after a summer of beach fun and behavior acrobatics and he has a long list of studies that … Continue reading