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BETA is the weekend arts and pop culture broad(pod)cast from @WPR, hosted by @DouglasMGordon. Proud contributor to @PRX's #PRXRemix
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Catch the latest (and all of your favorite) BETA segments at wpr.org/beta Find the BETA podcast at wpr.org/podcasts Follow your favorite public radio host at: @DouglasMGordon Follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/wisconsinpubli…
"I think writing essays, especially when they are earnest, there's a vulnerability to it and I think that exposes you a little bit more. Whereas like with a joke, you can hide behind it." @JenaFriedman #NotFunny drops today. @simonschusteer Audio interview and article drop Fri.
Thank you @jonstewart @mrbobodenkirk @pattonoswalt @reggiewatts @JimGaffigan and @FREDARMISEN5 for letting me interview you for my book!
“Do you think men can be sexy AND funny?”@JenaFriedman asks her favorite male comedians—Jon Stewart, Reggie Watts, and Bob Odenkirk among them—some of the inane questions she gets as a “woman in comedy.” lithub.com/jena-friedman-…
"It (@SSTRecords ) became the coolest, most sought-after, most respected indie label in America. But as time went on, its practices became increasingly corporate." @JimVermin #CorporateRockSucks @hatchette #relistenability wpr.org/sst-records-wa…
![wprBETA's tweet card. Magician Penn Jillette talks about his novel, “Random.” It’s about a young man who uses his lucky dice to make his life decisions. Also, novelist Ling Ma on her debut […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2007892484534288384/Y1joaIGo?format=jpg&name=orig)
"I suppose if there's any unifying theme through the stories, often it's the relationships between family members and friends and ex-boyfriends." #LingMa #BlissMontage #relistenability @fsgbooks wpr.org/100-ex-boyfrie…
"I rolled the dice so that all the rolls that you see in the story are rolls that I actually made, and then I engineered the decisions and so on to fit the arc of the story I wanted to do." @pennjillette #Random @AkashicBooks #relistenability wpr.org/master-magicia…
With rumors of a second Fyre Festival circulating, refresh your memory on the foibles of Fyre Festival 1 wpr.org/dumpster-fyre-…
![wprBETA's tweet card. Fasten your seat belts and put your tray tables in the upright position. Jim Abrahams joins us to talk about one of the most influential comedy movies of all time, […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2007892481786904576/HZVe_TNH?format=jpg&name=orig)
.@TigNotaro Congratulations on your excellent work directing @AtsukoComedy's @HBOMax special, #TheIntruder. It's cool how Atsuko went from imitating your delivery in her early standup work to having you direct this fantastic special. #FullCircle wpr.org/beta-atsuko-ok…
![wprBETA's tweet card. Bangles co-founder, Susanna Hoffs, joins us to talk about writing her debut novel and recording a new album. Also, comedian Atsuko Okatsuka intrudes on us to tell us about her […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2009963043749502976/FPbjrrl1?format=jpg&name=orig)
"You can do a lot without having papers. So I like to normalize it by saying undocumented folks are just Americans without papers. They're able to go to public school. They're your friends. They're your neighbors." @AtsukoComedy #TheIntruder @hbomax wpr.org/beta-atsuko-ok…
Thanks to @ndewey for making our conversation with @SusannaHoffs happen! Such an honor to talk to Susanna about her excellent debut novel #ThisBirdHasFlown and her new album, #TheDeepEnd. wpr.org/susanna-hoffs-…
Congratulations to @AtsukoComedy for winning the #GracieAward (@AllWomeninMedia) for her very funny very smart @hbomax special, #TheIntruder. wpr.org/beta-atsuko-ok…
.@SusannaHoffs: "I say don't wait around for permission. Just dive in ... because if you wait for permission, you may never get it." #ThisBirdHasFlown @littlebrown #TheDeepEnd wpr.org/susanna-hoffs-…
"For me, living in a rural town in the '90s, there was a kind of isolation that I think made you get weird if you wanted something that you couldn't have." #KevinWilson #NowIsNottheTimetoPanic @eccobooks wpr.org/beta-kevin-wil…
"And he (#PeterAsher) just shared that song with me and I just felt like I was floored by that song. I thought it was one of the most beautiful songs I'd ever heard." @SusannaHoffs on @HolHumberstone's #DeepEnd. wpr.org/susanna-hoffs-…
"Everything led me to this moment of feeling threatened in my own home that I was afraid even to call my home for the longest time. Because in the special, I joke that I am just renting, so it's not my home." @AtsukoComedy @hbomax #TheIntruder wpr.org/beta-atsuko-ok…
"I thought, 'Oh, it's time, in this decade that we're in... and this time period that we're all living in, to maybe do a little gender flip here. And empower the ladies.'" @SusannaHoffs on covering @RollingStones' #UnderMyThumb on new album, #TheDeepEnd. wpr.org/susanna-hoffs-…
"It was quite a dramatic shift, but unexpectedly joyful, freeing, exhilarating experience to take on this lifelong dream of writing fiction and writing a novel....It was unexpectedly pleasurable." @SusannaHoffs #ThisBirdHasFlown @littlebrown wpr.org/susanna-hoffs-…
Need weekend plans? @isthmus & #WiBookFest have you covered! Catch @Jbrekkie TOMORROW (04/07) at 7pm! We’ll be at the @barrymorelive & doors open at 6pm 🎤📚
A @WIBookFestival talk by @Jbrekkie; @maesimpsonmusic at @HighNoonMadison; plus more Isthmus Picks for April 6-9. isthmus.com/arts/isthmus-m…
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'The Monkees' Producer Says 1 Song Was 'Critical' to the Film 'Head' cheatsheet.com/entertainment/…
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