We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing — calls about grammar, gardening, long-distance dialing, autotune. Anything. Everything.

These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we’re doing another one.

In other words: Give us a call during the 1 p.m. EST hour about whatever you want to talk about. 888-720-9677.‌

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Don’t Let The World Pass You By – Jean-Luc Ponty
• S’posin’ – Champian Fulton, Bria Skonberg
• Easy to Love – Jordan Rakei, Tom McFarland
• Beat Yourself Up – Charlie Puth
• Hard to Say – Chris Morrissey, Norah Jones
• Oh Qué Será? – Willie Colon
• We’re Still Here – Alan Doyle

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This hour, we look at what rights individuals and protesters have. And we ask: are our rights changing? And what can we do about that?

Plus, we take a look at what rights we have online, and what we should know about digital surveillance and privacy.

GUESTS:

• Dan Barrett: American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut's legal director
• Dahlia Lithwick: Writes about the courts and the law for Slate and hosts the podcast "Amicus". She is the author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
• Cindy Cohn: Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Her forthcoming book is Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Cálice – Chico Buarque & Milton Nascimento
• Student Demonstration Time – The Beach Boys
• Is It Because I’m Black – Syl Johnson
• What’s Goin’ On – Marvin Gaye
• The People Have the Power – Patti Smith
• The Veil – Peter Gabriel

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This hour, author and film critic Alissa Wilkinson joins us to talk about Joan Didion, Hollywood, and how we make sense of our politics.

GUEST:

• Alissa Wilkinson: Movie critic at The New York Times. Her latest book is We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

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Colin McEnroe and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show, which originally aired on July 10, 2025.

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