Episodes

  • Ted Danson & Woody Harrelson Are Reunited!
    Jun 12 2024

    Ted and Woody are back together to bring you a brand new podcast from Team Coco! It’s called “Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (Sometimes)" and it’s out right now! They’re talking to guests like Conan O’Brien, Will Arnett, Jane Fonda, Billy Eichner, Kristen Bell, and so many more. Head over to “Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (Sometimes)" to subscribe and listen now!

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    2 mins
  • Daron Acemoglu on Marxism and AI
    Apr 4 2024

    Are we, in fact, living in a time of revolution? What it means and what you can do about it, according to one of MIT’s greatest thinkers.

    Power and Progress: Our 1,000-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity

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    28 mins
  • The Marxes
    Apr 3 2024

    A man who looms as large as Karl Marx needed multiple Significant Others (although when it came to wives, he only had one).

    Starring Ted Danson as Karl Marx, Maddie Ogden as Jenny von Westphalen, and Patton Oswalt as Friedrich Engels.

    Also featuring Katie Sharer and Matt O’Brien.

    Source List:

    Love and Captial: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel, ©2011, Hachette Book Group

    Engels by Terrell Carver, ©2011, Oxford University Press

    Revolutions Podcast, Season 10

    Reason.org, Don’t Blame Karl Marx for ‘Cultural Marxism’

    The Washington Post, “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution,” by Mary Gabriel

    National Library of Medicine, Friedrich Engels: Businessman and Revolutionary

    Britannica, Young Hegelians

    CCSNA.org, Duke of Argyll

    Marxist.org, Yearning: A Romance, The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl Marx 1852

    History.com, Paris Commune of 1871

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    44 mins
  • Claire Dederer on Reckoning with Problematic Artists
    Mar 28 2024

    What is a fan to do with unsavory intel on their idol? Is it possible to separate the art from the artist? Should we even try?

    Claire’s book, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma is out now.

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    40 mins
  • Gala Dalí
    Mar 27 2024

    Lover and muse to multiple artists, Gala notoriously spit on people she didn’t like—or worse. Her marriage to the renowned artist Salvador Dalí was as surreal as his paintings, which he signed with both of their names even though she never held a brush.

    Starring Laura Ramoso as Gala Dalí and José Arroyo as Salvador Dalí

    Also featuring Stephen K. Amos, Nigel Daly, Neve O’Brien, and Tavis Doucette

    Source List:

    MUSE: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History’s Masterpieces by Ruth Millington, ©2022, Pegasus Books, Ltd.

    The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose, ©2002, Harper Collins E-books

    The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali, Trans. By Haakom M. Chevalier, ©1993, Dover Publications

    Biography.com, The Surreal Romance of Salvador and Gala Dalí

    The Paris Review, When Your Muse is Also a Demonic Dominatrix

    The Art Story, Gala Dalí: Russian-Spanish Art Patron and Muse

    Wikipedia, Gala Dalí

    Fahrenheit Magazine, Anna María and Salvador Dalí, Different Paths for the Same Blood

    The Dalí Org, Gala Dalí

    Poetry Foundation, Paul Éluard

    The Art Story, Salvador Dalí

    Briannica, Salvador Dalí

    El País, Dalí and Lorca’s Games of Seduction

    Gazette du Bon Ton, The Surreal Life of Salvador Dalí

    Art Hive, Love Story in Pictures: Salvador Dalí and Gala

    Time, Salvador Dalí

    The New York Times, Gala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange

    Yang Gallery, Dalí & Gala: The Love Story

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    45 mins
  • Sandra Newman on her Retelling of 1984
    Mar 21 2024

    Sandra Newman was given one assignment by the Orwell Estate: Re-write 1984 from the point of view of the character Julia.

    Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984

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    26 mins
  • Eileen Blair
    Mar 20 2024

    George Orwell has never been accused of being a feminist. And yet his wife Eileen left her mark on his most important works.

    Starring Sally Drexler as Eileen Blair and Nigel Daly as George Orwell

    Also featuring: Ben Partridge, Luke Millington-Drake, Thom Wickes, Amelia Chappelow, and Colin Anderson.

    Source List:

    Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp, © 2020

    Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder, © 2023

    Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2003, Published 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media

    Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2023, Published by Pegasus Books, Ltd

    1984 & Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, © 2021 by True Sign

    1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell, © 2022, Sanage Publishing

    The Guardian, Looking for Eileen: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story

    The New York Times, One Biography Questions Orwell’s Image, and Another Brings His First Wife Into Focus

    New Humanist, Eric, Eileen and Norah

    The American Scholar, Down and Out

    The Guardian, Orwell by DJ Taylor Review - A Very English Socialist

    The Orwell Foundation, Remembering Eileen: An Interview with George Orwell’s Son, Richard Blair

    The New York Times, How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult

    Online Etymology Dictionary, Orwellian

    The Sydney Morning Herald, The Mysterious Absence of George Orwell’s First Wife

    The Guardian, Another Piece of the Puzzle

    The Orwell Society, Eileen - and Orwell’s Shifting Attitudes on Gender Issues

    The New Yorker, Honest, Decent, Wrong

    The Article, In Defense of George Orwell

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    38 mins
  • Fernando Arroyo on Musical Collaboration
    Mar 14 2024

    The one who does the work is not always the one who gets the glory. Also… what is an orchestrator, anyway?

    Find Fernando’s work on his Instagram here

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    37 mins