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The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum
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Author, essayist and journalist Meghan Daum has spent decades giving voice—and bringing nuance, humor and surprising perspectives—to things that lots of people are thinking but are afraid to say out loud. Now, she brings her observations to the realm of conversation. In candid, free-ranging interviews, Meghan talks with artists, entertainers, journalists, scientists, scholars, and anyone else who'... more

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This week I interview journalist and author Olga Khazan about her new book on personality change, Me, But Better. We talk about the Big Five traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion/introversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism—and how they pl... more

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Novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner returns to discuss his exceptionally timely new novel Amputation—a strange, exuberant, and ultra meta work set against a topic I've talked about a lot this year, the January LA wildfires. Bruce, an L.A. native a... more

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Recent Guests

Helen Andrews
Writer and commentator, former senior editor at the American Conservative, author of 'Boomers, The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster'
American Conservative
Episode: Have Women Ruined The World? Helen Andrews on The Great Feminization
Olga Khazan
Writer for The Atlantic and author of 'Me, But Better, The Science and Promise of Personality Change'
The Atlantic
Episode: Does Your Personality Stink? There's Hope!
Bruce Wagner
Novelist and screenwriter with a prolific career in dark Hollywood satire and author of Amputation
Episode: The Los Angeles Wildfires In Fiction
Katie Herzog
Journalist and podcaster, author of Drink Your Way Sober
Blocked and Reported
Episode: How To Quit Drinking Without Quitting Drinking
Jeremy Lee Quinn
Photojournalist who has spent five years documenting protests.
Episode: Street Protesters: Who Are They, Really? with Jeremy Lee Quinn
Andrew Hartz
Psychologist and founder of the Open Therapy Institute
Open Therapy Institute
Episode: Are Therapists Crazy? Andrew Hartz's quest for sanity in clinical psychology
Alana Newhouse
Editor of Tablet Magazine
Tablet Magazine
Episode: Is Everything Terrible? Tablet editor Alana Newhouse on the problem with burning it all down.
Rob Henderson
Social psychologist and political and cultural commentator, best known for coining the term luxury beliefs
Episode: How Are Those Luxury Beliefs Working Out? Rob Henderson and the coinage that keeps on giving.
Kelsey Osgood
Author of "Godstruck, Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys To Religious Conversion" and previously "How to Disappear Completely," focusing on eating disorders.
Episode: Extreme Religious Conversion - Kelsey Osgood on women, religious transformations, and what anorexia has to do with it (PREVIEW)

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Meghan Daum
Host of conversations exploring cultural perspectives with humor and nuance.

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4.7 out of 5 stars from 1.3k ratings
  • By far…

    Still hate listening. Lionel Shriver. Where do I start. What a horrible horrible dude. Cheering on Stephen Miller policies. Gross. Not nuanced. You pushed back——a little bit I guess. Please have it.s pat back. I can’t stop thinking about how much it made me furious

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    EchoparkJimmy
    United States3 months ago
  • Good show

    Thanks so much for the Sherman Alexi update. Been reading him for decades and really liked his podcast with Jess Walter. Really hope he can get published again

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    SouthernBaker
    United States6 months ago
  • Moon Zappa

    Awesome episode, fantastic interview and discussion, relatable for us GenXers, boundarylessly raised, would love more of this!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    1pumpkin1pie1eater1
    United States6 months ago
  • Interesting POV…

    … and this is, like, good for finding, like, different perspectives,but, like, please, like, listen to some of your guests. iI is hard to, like, take someone seriously when they, like, usie the word “like“ about five times in one sentence.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    TheDudeAbided
    United States8 months ago
  • Keep being “unspeakable”

    Your curiosity of all points of view is needed. May we listen to others, perhaps even read them. Thank you for your Shriver (she’s a brilliant author who is going to speak her mind) interview and a truly important conversation on sports betting.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Beth Taska
    United Statesa year ago

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Does Your Personality Stink? There's Hope!
Q: What are the five big personality traits you discuss in your book?
The five big personality traits are openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, introversion, and neuroticism, which are central to understanding personality change.
Does Your Personality Stink? There's Hope!
Q: How did you get the idea for writing about personality change?
Olga explains that she wrote something short about the concept of personality change, which caught the attention of her editor at The Atlantic, inviting her to explore it further for a magazine article.
The Los Angeles Wildfires In Fiction
Q: Did you send them a copy of the book? What if you run into them in Erewhon or something?
Wagner mentions he doesn't know Colbert or Winger, and feels that people generally want to be part of his narratives rather than be offended by them.
The Los Angeles Wildfires In Fiction
Q: What was your experience with the fires in January?
Wagner was not in immediate danger as someone close to him managed the situation well, but he was astonished by the destruction he observed afterward.
The Los Angeles Wildfires In Fiction
Q: Do you still consider yourself an insider?
Wagner describes himself as always being an outsider, even though he has a long career in Hollywood.

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2. Olga Khazan
3. Bruce Wagner
4. Katie Herzog
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7. Alana Newhouse
8. Rob Henderson

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