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20 of 237 episodes235. Neil Gaiman (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – and then it gets darker
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
234. Robert MacFarlane (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – deep time rising
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
233. Terry Gilliam (Jason Plays Favorites #5) – the impossible dream
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
232. Anaïs Mitchell (Jason Plays Favorites #4) – sometimes the god speaks through you
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
231. Marlon James (Jason Plays Favorites #3) – don't get too comfortable
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
230. Eve Ensler (Jason Plays Favorites #2) – no way out but through
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
229. David Sedaris (Jason Plays Favorites #1) – Sir David of the Spotless Roadways
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
228. Sharon Salzberg (meditation and mindfulness teacher) – on balance
Since 1976, Sharon Salzberg has been sharing ancient meditation and mindfulness practices in a voice the contemporary West can understand. H...
227. Roz Chast and Patricia Marx (cartoons, words, ukuleles) – The Beatles stole everything from us
Thelma and Louise, Ponch and John, Pancho and Lefty, Quixote and Sancho Panza, Marx and Engels, Marx and Chast…history and literature are fu...
226. Joseph Goldstein (dharma teacher) – doubt comes masquerading as wisdom
Freedom. Everyone wants it, but knowing where to look for it is another matter. And to make matters worse, the world is full of things that...
225. Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America) – American Multiverse
If you’d told me a couple months ago that a podcast about Dolly Parton could move me deeply and raise all kinds of questions that go straigh...
224. Norman Fischer (zen priest, poet) – the only way out of the catastrophe we’re in
The other day on social media a friend asked what the heck is up with this Mr. Rogers revival. Why does everyone suddenly love this guy so m...
223. Karen Armstrong (theologian) – the art of getting outside of yourself
I’ve spent more of my life than most people I know immersed by choice in what my guest today would call “scripture”. I was never much of a R...
222. Deborah Levy (writer) – it's those thoughts that are slightly awkward that need an airing
While reading Deborah Levy’s novel THE MAN WHO SAW EVERYTHING and her recent “working autobiography” THE COST OF LIVING I often found myself...
221. Yancey Strickler (Kickstarter co-founder) – you, me, us: now and in the future
The phrase “common sense” can be misleading. The way we use it in casual conversation, it means something like “that which is obvious to any...
220. Elif Shafak (writer) – the cemetery of the companionless
“Maybe the opposite of goodness is not evil. Maybe the opposite of goodness is, in fact, numbness.” There are so many questions we never ask...
219. Reginald Dwayne Betts (poet) – nothing to resurrect after prison
Some experiences change you so completely that you’re left with a choice: either spend your life running from them or spend your life turnin...
218. Bill Bryson (writer) – the most extraordinary machine
Do you have a body? I do, but I was mostly unaware of this fact until somewhere in my mid-30s, when my life strategy of living like a bourbo...
217. Ibram X. Kendi (author, activist) – Antiracism 101
I grew up in the almost entirely white suburbs of 1980’s Bethesda, Maryland thinking of myself and my world as 100% not racist. It’s hard to...