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.

This hour, the conversation winds around to the Iran war, what to do with the old stuff of deceased parents, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Lowell Weicker, our Mary show, whether or not you can tell time by a cat’s eye … Anything. (Seemingly) everything.

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

Music featured (in order):

• Can I Believe You – Fleet Foxes
• Joy Spring – Karrin Allyson
• I’m In Trouble – Alessia Cara, Norah Jones
• A Brother (Just Like You) – Nnenna Freelon
• Both Can Be True – Trousdale
• Anyone in Love – Jalen Ngonda
• June It’s Gonna Happen – Rumer

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Josephine Riesman, author of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, argues that understanding WWE can help us understand President Donald Trump and his politics. This hour, we learn about WWE and its impact on Trump, and discuss the experience and appeal of watching wrestling.

GUESTS:

• Josephine Riesman: Author of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

• Tim Kail: Creator of “The Work of Wrestling” website and podcast. He is also the host and producer of “The Sarah Lawrence College Podcast”

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Colin McEnroe, Meg Dalton, and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show, which originally aired on March 7, 2025.

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How do we begin to understand the full economic, human, and environmental impacts of war? This hour we talk with someone who is doing that math.

Plus, a look at the opportunity costs of spending on war. And, the costs of The American Revolution.

GUESTS:

• Neta Crawford: Professor of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor at The Costs of War Project. She is also author of books including The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions

• Joseph Ellis: Author of fourteen books, including the Pulitzer Prize winning Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, and National Book Award winning American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. His newest book is The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding

Music featured (in order):

• The World Is A Ghetto – War
• Loose Ends – Sergio Mendes, Justin Timberlake, Pharoahe Monch
• The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar – Bob Dylan
• When the War Came – The Decemberists
• Hiway 9 – Eliza Gilkyson
• Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) – Hamilton Original Broadway Cast

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