Jody Avirgan

Listen to Why You Can’t Afford to Go to Your Favorite Shows Anymore on Hark A playlist of podcast moments

I totally forgot that earlier this week I hosted a Hark rounup about the absurd price of concert tickets --> harkaudio.com/cant-afford-...

Have actually thought that this would be good territory for Mamdani.

I guess someone's going to this indie country show for $450+ per ticket, but I guess it isn't me. What the fuck are we doing here?

Once there were parking lots, now it's a peaceful oasis

31 years ago today, Krusty the Clown first mentioned saying “the quiet part loud,” an expression which has since gone on to widespread usage.

#TheSimpsons episode “A Star is Burns” first aired March 5, 1995.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS YOU ALREADY LEARNED WATCHING SPORTS Sports fans already know how to translate the language of power into the truth. They don’t, most of the time, but they can.

this has been knocking around my head for a while, but for real: Sports get people prepared for the bullshit of politics like few other things can channel-6.ghost.io/everything-y...

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

Mitski review – pop meets performance art in a masterful spectacle The Shed, New York CityAt a six-night residency, the singer creates an immersive world filled with wry humor and big emotions

i know people on here don't rly care about culture coverage but sharing because I'm proud I did it: reviewed Mitski's new residency at NYC's The Shed @us.theguardian.com

seeing her perform for the ninth time in 9 years (!), I feel confident saying that Mitski is in her triumphant era.

a few of those already been recorded, and all are on the list!

any bands/albums you'd want us to cover?

We're Coming Back! After We Celebrate Podcast Episode · Summer Album/Winter Album · March 5 · 47m

Here's that episode about Modern Vampires Of The City again, which includes a few hints at the top about what's next for Summer Album / Winter Album podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

part two is out now! I will also gently point out that if you subscribe to the newsletter, you get early access to both parts throughout the year... anyway, thanks for listening!

Ezra Koenig: Happy "Listen To Modern Vampires Of The City Day"! #podcast #vampireweekend YouTube video by Summer Album / Winter Album

It's March 5th. Happy "Modern Vampires Of The City Day!" This is the day that Ezra from Vampire Weekend pinned as the perfect day to listen. Also happy to use this ocassion to announce that my music debate show "Summer Album / Winter Album" is coming back soon! www.youtube.com/shorts/oLgj_...

"It's a very odd kind of speech to hear from a president, of all people." @jamellebouie.net on Lincoln's Second Inaugural address

Part 1 of this @thisdaypod.com's great discussion of Lincoln's greatest speech

Ezra Koenig: Happy "Listen To Modern Vampires Of The City Day"! #podcast #vampireweekend YouTube video by Summer Album / Winter Album

As it happens, tomorrow is "Modern Vampires Of The City Day" (per Ezra per my show Summer Album / Winter Album) so maybe it's a good time to come home... youtube.com/shorts/oLgj_...

fwiw, this past weekend, a fleet of sanitation trucks and mini bulldozers rolled down 4th avenue crushing every big dirty snow pile. Was very fun to watch, and hopefully they're going neighborhood by neighborhood.

I was a journalist once and writing stories I didn’t feel passionate about is how I got good at it

Also, full, ad-free video of both parts of our conversation with @jamellebouie.net about Lincoln's Second Inaugural speech is up now for our newsletter subscribers. thisdaypod.substack.com/p/abraham-li...

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Stupid excited to listen to this. Lincoln's Second Inaugural is one of the foundational texts for Braver Angels and I have recited lines from it at nearly every BA event I've moderated.

this happened with Harvard, too
- Trump admin makes big show of picking the fight
- If the institution doesn't immediately capitulate, it goes into negotiations/courts
- It dies out
- NYT writes about how it died out
- Trump admin reads NYT headline, gets pissed, cycle starts over

this happened with Harvard, too
- Trump admin makes big show of picking the fight
- If the institution doesn't immediately capitulate, it goes into negotiations/courts
- It dies out
- NYT writes about how it died out
- Trump admin reads NYT headline, gets pissed, cycle starts over

Also, full, ad-free video of both parts of our conversation with @jamellebouie.net about Lincoln's Second Inaugural speech is up now for our newsletter subscribers. thisdaypod.substack.com/p/abraham-li...

Lincoln's Second Inaugural w/ Jamelle Bouie (1865) [Part 1] Podcast Episode · This Day · March 3 · 41m

My sense of the discourse is that everyone on this site recognizes that @jamellebouie.net is a very smart, funny, good-natured thinker. Well, good news, he's our guest on @thisdaypod.com to talk about Lincoln's Second Inaugural. Part one is up in the feed now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A shortage of large passenger charter planes due to DHS paying 10x the usual rates to ferry kidnapped migrants is threatening NCAA Tournament travel plans

MUTINY AFTER MIDNIGHT YouTube video by Johnny Blue Skies

Here's one good thing that happened yesterday. The new Sturgill got dropped in full on youtube, it's as if Waylon Jennings got together with Earth, Wind and Fire. If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. youtu.be/QKHGmFvzjJ4?...

not "Yo." On "Yo," if memory serves, all you could do was say the word "Yo" to other people. In retrospect, they were onto something.

Up next in "50 Weeks That Shaped America" -- a close reading of Lincoln's second inaugural speech. With special guest @jamellebouie.net. In the podcast feed this week, but early, ad-free video and audio will go out to our newsletter subscribers this afternoon! More info --> thisdaypod.com

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have you seen this guy's stuff?

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