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Bobby Finger
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co-host of Who? Weekly | author of The Old Place and Four Squares
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Today: Dr. Jessica B. Harris on the history of American food; @vulture.com's @alisonwillmore.bsky.social on 2025's hottest summer films; @ztameez.bsky.social on Senator Charles Sumner; @bobbyfinger.bsky.social's latest novel in paperback

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July 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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inhaled Selling The City because these shows are my most humiliating addiction and while the cast is mostly underwhelming and the drama is often inscrutable at least it has the iconically bizarre musical choices of the rest of the franchise
January 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The occasional live TV event always reminds me that American pharmaceutical ads are some of the most uniquely troubling and deranged things created by anyone ever. Why's a CGI turtle asking me to talk to my doctor?
January 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
oh no they replaced Jennifer Aniston with Meta AI :(
January 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
reading Justin Baldoni's entire lawsuit against the NYT, and this text from Blake Lively is more "Celebrities Are Just Like Us!" than 99% of entries in Us Weekly's "Celebrities Are Just Like Us!"
January 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The funniest part of 2024 was every single time Cole Escola said, "The south of WHAT," in Oh, Mary.
January 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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December 31, 2024 at 3:26 PM
It’s so, so beautiful that the best Christmas song of all time includes the line “you scumbag, you maggot, you cheap, lousy faggot.”
December 21, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Finally watching The Americans and it’s triggering that Bourne Response in me where every time I watch or read something about spies I think, “I’d be so good at that.”

Anyway here’s me at the beginning and, 30 seconds later, the end of my interview at any intelligence agency:
December 19, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Radioactive, the podcast about Karen Silkwood’s death, released its finale today. A major revelation never comes, but in its place is a statement from Karen’s daughter—a moving and eloquent condemnation of true crime obsessions—that I found pretty stunning! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
The Phantom Vehicle
Podcast Episode · Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery · EP5 · 48m
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December 17, 2024 at 7:55 PM
"ok girlie" - kate winslet
December 17, 2024 at 6:32 PM
about a year ago I started a running list of the "best original songs not nominated for the best original song oscar," which I update each time I remember one. I'm prepared to add all of these 2024 tracks to that list when (based on current predictions) they're ignored. really good stuff this year!
December 17, 2024 at 4:58 PM
incredible video. she's showing rolling stone her song like a child showing their parents a drawing of a house underneath a smiling sun with glasses on.
December 13, 2024 at 8:55 PM
The Daily Mail describing The Cut as a "Pro-Sussex Magazine" is a fun one
December 13, 2024 at 7:14 PM
hi yes, mr kahn, i don't mean to split hairs but that's a photo of *Carrie Bradshaw* not *Sarah Jessica Parker*. mr kahn? hello? mr. kahn?
December 11, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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An absurdly deep dive on the question on everybody's minds—or at least ours: Are Luigi and Chuck Mangione related?
The Smooth Jazz Angle
Are Luigi and Chuck Mangione related?
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December 10, 2024 at 9:31 PM
arriving home from a Tuesday morning 10th anniversary Interstellar screening in IMAX and seeing signs from other dimensions everywhere… what could it mean, and how could it save us…
December 10, 2024 at 7:45 PM
A few months ago I had the idea to set iconic movie endings to "You Got the Love" a la Sex and the City's series finale in an effort to prove, I'm not quite sure... Anyway, here's the first and only one I've made. (BlueSky's 60-second limit hurts this but... oh well.)
December 5, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Hot Frosty has a very confusing understanding of both temperature and Christmas.
December 4, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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All five of the fiction titles on the list are from PRH. That seems bad.
December 3, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Thank you @npr.org for naming @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @bobbyfinger.bsky.social, and @leemandelo.bsky.social's latest books as among the Books We Love this year!!

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Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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November 25, 2024 at 3:54 PM