Marc Shaiman with Nathan Lane: Never Mind the Happy — Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner
Release Date: 04/24/2026
Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov: Raging Moderates and I Disagree
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American politics has never been louder, more polarized, or more exhausting. Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov are fed up with it. For a live recording of their hit podcast Raging Moderates, Galloway and Tarlov bring their signature mix of sharp analysis, candid debate, and unapologetic frustration with the political extremes that dominate today’s discourse. Being a moderate doesn’t mean sitting on the sidelines — it means pushing back against bad ideas, wherever they come from. A professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business and founder of nine companies, Scott Galloway has become one...
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An Evening with Netflix's Fauda
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Fauda, the acclaimed Israeli action-drama, returns for a fifth season with a conversation with co-creators Lior Raz, who also stars in the series, and Avi Issacharoff. CNN’s Bianna Golodryga moderates. Two years after the October 7 massacre, the members of the Fauda unit are still grappling with a tragedy that struck Israel and transformed their lives at the most personal and painful level. What begins as an unrestrained quest for vengeance soon becomes a perilous mission to prevent a major terrorist attack emerging from an unexpected direction, one that threatens Israel at its most...
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Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan with Andrew Ross Sorkin: Regime Change
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Award-winning New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan join us for an inside look at the forces driving President Trump in his second term — and their new book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. No reporters have tracked Donald Trump more closely than Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Now, with Regime Change, they deliver their most riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and unparalleled access, their reporting shows that the indictments, the...
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Gloria Steinem with Budd Mishkin (2012)
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Gloria Steinem talks about her travels in this and other countries as an organizer, lecturer and frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality and her work organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. Recorded Feb 28, 2012 at The 92nd Street Y, New York.
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Dave Portnoy with Erika Ayers Badan: Cancel Me If You Can
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Dave Portnoy didn’t set out to be a political lightning rod — but love him or hate him, he’s here to stay. Join the Barstool Sports founder for the unfiltered story of how he created a media empire. Dave Portnoy built Barstool Sports by trusting his instincts — and refusing to soften his voice. Now, in his new memoir Cancel Me If You Can, he tells the story behind the persona: the risks, missteps, reinventions, and stubborn persistence that carried him from handing out a scrappy Boston sports paper to leading a sprawling digital brand. What does it mean to...
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Law of the Land: The Supreme Court Year in Review
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Join us for a lively conversation about the 2025–2026 Supreme Court term — one of the most consequential terms in recent memory. The Court struck down President Trump’s sweeping tariffs in a 6–3 ruling, issued an 8–1 First Amendment decision on conversion therapy, and unanimously ruled that double jeopardy prevents two gun convictions for the same act. We’ll break down these big decisions and others (e.g., transgender athlete bans, birthright citizenship, and voting rights), and discuss what it all means for American law and daily life. Join Supreme Court advocate and former...
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Erin Walsh with Gabby Bernstein: The Art of Intentional Dressing
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Celebrity stylist Erin Walsh helps dress A-list stars including Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez. Now she wants to help you dress you. She joins us with New York Times-bestselling author and renowned spiritual speaker Gabby Bernstein to talk about her new book, The Art of Intentional Dressing: Your Essential Style Guide for Manifesting a Magnetic Life. Walsh’s approach to fashion is centered on the idea that what you wear can empower you to manifest the life you want to live. Hear her talk with Bernstein about her “CREATE” method – the clarity, ritual, edit, align, truth,...
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Brian Tyler Cohen and Don Lemon: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World
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What will political power look like after the Trump era? Brian Tyler Cohen — #1 New York Times-bestselling author, MSNBC contributor, and creator of one of the most-watched independent political platforms in the country — joins us for a conversation with Don Lemon about his new book, The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World. Time and again, Donald Trump has seemingly changed the laws of political gravity — and in order to wield power in the years ahead, Brian Tyler Cohen argues, progressives and Democrats need to learn how to adapt to a new political reality....
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The Backlash: Anger, Affordability, and Corruption in the 2026 Midterms with Susan Glasser, Jane Mayer, Evan Osnos, and special guest David Remnick
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Are corruption and economic inequality becoming the defining issues in American politics — and the weapons that could drive a Democratic comeback in the 2026 midterms? From Donald Trump’s rise to Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent win in New York City, economic anger has become one of the most powerful forces in American life. The chasm between the very rich and everyone else — between billionaires buying influence and voters struggling with rent, child care, and basic stability — is no longer in the background. It may be the central political fact of the moment. But who can best channel...
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Emily Wilson with Sarah Ruhl: The Odyssey Onscreen
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“Tell me about a complicated man.” So begins Emily Wilson’s contemporary translation of Homer’s Odyssey — establishing her as the definitive Homeric translator of our time and radically transforming how we understand a cornerstone of western literature. As The Odyssey enters the pop cultural arena this summer via Christopher Nolan’s big-screen adaptation — a film inspired by Wilson’s translation — she joins us for a conversation about why the The Odyssey has endured for nearly 3,000 years. In the first English translation of The...
info_outlineAward-winning composer and co-lyricist Marc Shaiman (Hairspray, Sister Act, Smash and many others) joins fellow Tony Award winner Nathan Lane for a look behind the curtain of life on Broadway, in Hollywood and on Television, with a conversation about Shaiman’s new memoir, Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner.
Emerging from community theater in his teens, sparking a decades-long collaboration with Bette Midler in the ’70s, surviving the AIDS crisis of the ’80s and bursting into Hollywood and Broadway glory, Marc Shaiman has spent 50 years making some of the most beloved musicals and film scores of our era. Hilarious and deeply human, Shaiman’s story is a tribute to the power of music and the pull of the spotlight.
Join him with his longtime pal Nathan Lane — a decades-long musical friendship — for a candid, uproariously fun evening of backstage stories from a shared life in show business, on and offstage.