Ranked #1
#37: "This is the Last Thing I'm Going to Say About Jason Whitlock." (October 18 2015)
#37: "This is the Last Thing I'm Going to Say About Jason Whitlock." (October 18 2015)
We were originally planning to have Deadspin’s Greg Howard on the podcast to talk about race and sports journalism — wi... Read more
19 Oct 2015
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53mins
Ranked #2
#29: Ben Carson At The Barbershop. (March 20 2015)
#29: Ben Carson At The Barbershop. (March 20 2015)
Joel Anderson (BuzzFeed) and Jenée Desmond-Harris (Vox) join Gene and Terryn to discuss their recent reporting on Dr. Be... Read more
21 Mar 2015
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44mins
Ranked #3
Digging In The Crates: #20: Losing Football And A Language. (May 28 2012)
Digging In The Crates: #20: Losing Football And A Language. (May 28 2012)
It's the beginning of football season, so we decided to re-up a favorite old episode of ours where we spoke to Ta-Nehisi... Read more
12 Sep 2015
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #4
#30: Dyson Vs. West. (May 8 2015)
#30: Dyson Vs. West. (May 8 2015)
Jamil Smith, senior editor at the New Republic, joins Gene, Terryn and Jamelle to discuss That Michael Eric Dyson Articl... Read more
9 May 2015
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45mins
Ranked #5
#35: 'Straight Outta Compton' And the Unkillable Biopic Genre. (August 23 2015)
#35: 'Straight Outta Compton' And the Unkillable Biopic Genre. (August 23 2015)
The N.W.A. movie "Straight Outta Compton" is the latest entrant into the anemic hip-hop biopic genre. It's crushing at t... Read more
24 Aug 2015
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23mins
Ranked #6
#31: Attica Locke, from this little show 'Empire.' (May 11 2015)
#31: Attica Locke, from this little show 'Empire.' (May 11 2015)
The novelist and screenwriter Attica Locke joins Gene and Terryn to explain why she left Hollywood to write novels — he... Read more
11 May 2015
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38mins
Ranked #7
#34: 'How The $%*!& Is That Good Enough?' (August 15 2015)
#34: 'How The $%*!& Is That Good Enough?' (August 15 2015)
On a recent two-part story on This American Life, Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times Magazine went to Normandy Hi... Read more
15 Aug 2015
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33mins
Ranked #8
#36: What It Means To Lose A School. (September 20 2015)
#36: What It Means To Lose A School. (September 20 2015)
G.D. and Terryn talk to Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker, who went back to his former high school in Queens, which was rece... Read more
20 Sep 2015
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46mins
Ranked #9
#33: Detroit vs. Everybody. (July 26 2015)
#33: Detroit vs. Everybody. (July 26 2015)
Terryn is packing up and moving to the D for a new gig! To help get her ready, we convened some folks who have Big Thou... Read more
26 Jul 2015
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37mins
Ranked #10
#32: #GrowingUpSouthern. (July 15 2015)
#32: #GrowingUpSouthern. (July 15 2015)
Gene and Terryn discuss Gene's recent reporting for NPR on those Southerners, black and white, for whom the Confederate ... Read more
15 Jul 2015
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34mins