Nataki Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, on getting the theater industry the support it deserves during the pandemic.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nataki Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, on getting the theater industry the support it deserves during the pandemic.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Case for a New Federal Theater Project

Mike Nichols

The author of "Mike Nichols: A Life," Mark Harris, on the director's life and influential work -- and the dramas behind the scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The author of "Mike Nichols: A Life," Mark Harris, on the director's life and influential work -- and the dramas behind the scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Broadway Gave Mike Nichols His Juiciest Backstage Stories

How John Ridley ("12 Years a Slave," "American Crime") and theater veteran Scott Elliott got together for the starry "grand experiment" of The New Group Off Stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How John Ridley ("12 Years a Slave," "American Crime") and theater veteran Scott Elliott got together for the starry "grand experiment" of The New Group Off Stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Oscar Winner Helping Off Broadway Find Life on Screen

"WandaVision" actor Teyonah Parris on moving from an Off Broadway buzzmagnet into one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"WandaVision" actor Teyonah Parris on moving from an Off Broadway buzzmagnet into one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

From 'Slave Play' to Marvel Superhero

Writer Kemp Powers on adapting his play "One Night in Miami" into a buzzy new film, and why L.A. was more welcoming to his work than New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer Kemp Powers on adapting his play "One Night in Miami" into a buzzy new film, and why L.A. was more welcoming to his work than New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The New York Native Who Found Playwriting Success in L.A.

August Wilson

One of the foremost interpreters of Wilson's work, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, on how he crafted his screenplay for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the foremost interpreters of Wilson's work, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, on how he crafted his screenplay for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The August Wilson Expert Who Brought 'Ma Rainey' to the Screen

Ariana DeBose

The Tony-nominated actor ("Hamilton," "West Side Story") is having a screen moment with stage musicals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tony-nominated actor ("Hamilton," "West Side Story") is having a screen moment with stage musicals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Ariana DeBose Has a Date With "The Prom"

Sarah Bellamy, the artistic director of Penumbra in St. Paul, Minn., on making theater the centerpiece of a new center for racial healing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Bellamy, the artistic director of Penumbra in St. Paul, Minn., on making theater the centerpiece of a new center for racial healing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Legacy Black Theater Transforming to Meet the Times

Writer-director-actor Arian Moayed on how the theater community turned out for his starry screen thriller, “The Accidental Wolf.” "The Accidental Wolf” on Topic: http://go.topic.com/varietytaw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer-director-actor Arian Moayed on how the theater community turned out for his starry screen thriller, “The Accidental Wolf.” "The Accidental Wolf” on Topic: <a href="http://go.topic.com/varietytaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://go.topic.com/varietytaw</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

This Dramatic Thriller Stars Half of Broadway 

Baz Luhrmann

Luhrmann and the creators of the stage musical talk putting the show together, shutting it all down, and why its message feels more relevant than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Luhrmann and the creators of the stage musical talk putting the show together, shutting it all down, and why its message feels more relevant than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Baz Luhrmann & His Broadway Team on Making 'Moulin Rouge'

Behind the scenes with the biggest stars on Broadway, Off Broadway and beyond.

Darren Star

The "Mean Girls" Tony nominee talks "Emily in Paris" and how she'll help make "Thoroughly Modern Millie" a musical for everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The "Mean Girls" Tony nominee talks "Emily in Paris" and how she'll help make "Thoroughly Modern Millie" a musical for everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Why Ashley Park Calls Darren Star the Sondheim of TV

How playwrights Katori Hall, Jeremy O. Harris and Matthew López think about shaping the future of Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How playwrights Katori Hall, Jeremy O. Harris and Matthew López think about shaping the future of Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The New Voices of Broadway

ChiChi Anyanwu braved the pandemic to launch a management company focused on diverse talent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ChiChi Anyanwu braved the pandemic to launch a management company focused on diverse talent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

How One Entrepreneur is Making the Change She Wants to See

Kenny Ortega

How to craft dances for screens, with the director of “High School Musical” and Netflix’s upcoming “Julie and the Phantoms.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to craft dances for screens, with the director of “High School Musical” and Netflix’s upcoming “Julie and the Phantoms.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Theater Laid the Foundation for Kenny Ortega’s Hollywood Success

Lynette Linton, artistic director of the Bush Theatre, on reopening, responding and why now is the time for new work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lynette Linton, artistic director of the Bush Theatre, on reopening, responding and why now is the time for new work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

How One London Theater is Thriving During the Pandemic

Bella Abzug

Harvey Fierstein

The Broadway favorite reveals how his work, including new Audible release “Bella Bella,” speaks to the current moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Broadway favorite reveals how his work, including new Audible release “Bella Bella,” speaks to the current moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Harvey Fierstein on the Timely Lessons of AIDS, Gay Rights and Bella Abzug

Co-founders Adrienne Warren and Zhailon Levingston on BAC's work at the intersection of arts and activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Co-founders Adrienne Warren and Zhailon Levingston on BAC's work at the intersection of arts and activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

How Theater Meets Activism With the Broadway Advocacy Coalition

Sarah Jones

The writer-performer gets both personal and political on her new Instagram Live show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writer-performer gets both personal and political on her new Instagram Live show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Sarah Jones' New Theater is Instagram

Baltimore Center Stage artistic director Stephanie Ybarra on her ongoing anti-racism work, at her own theater and in the industry at large.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Baltimore Center Stage artistic director Stephanie Ybarra on her ongoing anti-racism work, at her own theater and in the industry at large.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

How One Theater Leader Practices Anti-Racism

Shaina Taub and Kris Kukul on "The Liz Swados Project," the starry new album celebrating Swados' work and influence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shaina Taub and Kris Kukul on "The Liz Swados Project," the starry new album celebrating Swados' work and influence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Overlooked Composer Who Inspired Broadway's Rising Stars

﻿I have listened to only a couple of episodes (Laura Linney and Lois Smith) so far, but at this point I’m very favorably impressed with Gordon Cox as an interviewer. He isn’t afraid to let a silence go on for several seconds, while an interviewee ponders how to answer a question, instead of talking over her. More interviewers like him, please!

Kudos to an unobtrusive interviewer

Great conversations without dry academic pretense or over-the-top fan enthusiasm.

A real pleasure.

Well done!

Stagecraft with Gordon Cox

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The "Fleabag" and "Killing Eve" creator revisits her breakout stage role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The "Fleabag" and "Killing Eve" creator revisits her breakout stage role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

How Phoebe Waller-Bridge Shocked Herself

Michael C. Hall

The actor talks "Thom Pain," queer roles and more "Dexter." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The actor talks "Thom Pain," queer roles and more "Dexter." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jake Gyllenhaal

Behind the scenes at Broadway's "Sea Wall/A Life,' with Gyllenhaal and director Carrie Cracknell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Behind the scenes at Broadway's "Sea Wall/A Life,' with Gyllenhaal and director Carrie Cracknell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jake Gyllenhaal is his 'Best Self' in the Theater

Tom Hiddleston

Hiddleston and his co-stars in "Betrayal," Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox, talk Pinter, dick-swinging and superheroes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hiddleston and his co-stars in "Betrayal," Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox, talk Pinter, dick-swinging and superheroes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Why Tom Hiddleston Thinks Everyone Should Play Hamlet

Glenn Close

Her new play, her recent movie and what "Fatal Attraction" means in the #MeToo era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Her new play, her recent movie and what "Fatal Attraction" means in the #MeToo era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Santino Fontana

The Tony-nominated actor on fighting the good fight, and why it’s “like a war movie” backstage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tony-nominated actor on fighting the good fight, and why it’s “like a war movie” backstage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Santino Fontana's 'Tootsie' For Our Time

James Corden

Get a backstage glimpse at the Tony Awards from this year's host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get a backstage glimpse at the Tony Awards from this year's host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Why Tony Rehearsals Make James Corden Cry

The former "Key and Peele" star talks about his stage gigs in Broadway's "Meteor Shower" (opposite Amy Schumer), Off Broadways' "Hamlet" (opposite Oscar Isaac), his theater background, his "19-year detour into sketch comedy" and why he just can't stop craving the green lights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The former "Key and Peele" star talks about his stage gigs in Broadway's "Meteor Shower" (opposite Amy Schumer), Off Broadways' "Hamlet" (opposite Oscar Isaac), his theater background, his "19-year detour into sketch comedy" and why he just can't stop craving the green lights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Ep14 - Keegan-Michael Key

Laura Benanti

The Tony winner reveals her most challenging role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tony winner reveals her most challenging role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Aaron Sorkin

The "West Wing" writer killed his darlings to make his Broadway "Mockingbird" work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The "West Wing" writer killed his darlings to make his Broadway "Mockingbird" work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Why Aaron Sorkin Cut His Favorite Scene From 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

Bryan Cranston

The award-winning actor spills backstage secrets behind his Tony-nominated turn in “Network.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The award-winning actor spills backstage secrets behind his Tony-nominated turn in “Network.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Bryan Cranston on the Exhausting Joys of Broadway

Andrew Rannells

Matt Bomer

Two stars of the big-name revival of the landmark gay drama "The Boys in the Band" talk Broadway debuts, Tony parties, Rannells' new book and why Bomer's next Broadway show should be a musical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two stars of the big-name revival of the landmark gay drama "The Boys in the Band" talk Broadway debuts, Tony parties, Rannells' new book and why Bomer's next Broadway show should be a musical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Ep36 - Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells / The Boys in the Band

Meet the creators and producers bringing Alanis to Broadway. Recorded at Variety's Business of Broadway breakfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet the creators and producers bringing Alanis to Broadway. Recorded at Variety's Business of Broadway breakfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

How 'Jagged Little Pill' Will Rock Broadway

How Anaïs Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin created their buzzy, Broadway-bound musical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Anaïs Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin created their buzzy, Broadway-bound musical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Building 'Hadestown'

Rachel Bloom

The creator of the CW musical comedy series "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," Rachel Bloom is a theater geek at heart. She spills on her favorite musicals, the stage roles she'd like to play and recent events on "Crazy Ex" -- and sings a tune from the unproduced full-length musical she wrote, "Broadway Crazy." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The creator of the CW musical comedy series "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," Rachel Bloom is a theater geek at heart. She spills on her favorite musicals, the stage roles she'd like to play and recent events on "Crazy Ex" -- and sings a tune from the unproduced full-length musical she wrote, "Broadway Crazy." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Ep12 - Rachel Bloom / Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Zachary Quinto

The "Star Trek" actor talks Broadway, gay rights and his dream role.      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The "Star Trek" actor talks Broadway, gay rights and his dream role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Set during the Golden Age of Broadway, Emily Neuberger's new novel "A Tender Thing" reminds us musicals were made to push boundaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Set during the Golden Age of Broadway, Emily Neuberger's new novel "A Tender Thing" reminds us musicals were made to push boundaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Broadway's Always Been Edgy

Tatiana Maslany

The Emmy winner on an “Orphan Black” reunion and her timely new stage role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Emmy winner on an “Orphan Black” reunion and her timely new stage role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Tatiana Maslany

Top execs talk the business of Broadway at Variety's power breakfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Top execs talk the business of Broadway at Variety's power breakfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Power of Broadway

Lois Smith

The actress, now in "The Inheritance," on the lessons of Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The actress, now in "The Inheritance," on the lessons of Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

What Lois Smith Learned From the Greats

The Best Multi-Part Documentaries, with documentaries on Obama, Federer vs Nadal, the making of Star Wars, Netflix vs Blockbuster and more. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!

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"It all started around 1997, with a guy named Marc Randolph and his mathematician friend Reed Hastings. Randolph and Hastings knew they’d have to take on Blockbuster, but what they didn’t anticipate was that their business model would take on network television and eventually change the entire movie industry.
This was an 8-year total war that left innumerable casualties in its wake: thousands of hollowed out buildings and economic losses in the billions."

An 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster, and later HBO.

This is Episode 1 of an 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster, and later HBO.It all started around 1997, with a guy named Marc Randolph and his mathematician friend Reed Hastings. Randolph and Hastings knew they’d have to take on Blockbuster, but what they didn’t anticipate was that their business model would take on network television and eventually change the entire movie industry.This was an 8-year total war that left innumerable casualties in its wake: thousands of hollowed out buildings and economic losses in the billions.Support us by supporting our sponsors!

Business Wars

This is Episode 1 of an 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster, and later HBO.It all started around 1997, with a guy named Marc Randolph and his mathematician friend Reed Hastings. Randolph and Hastings knew they’d have to take on Blockbuster, but what they didn’t anticipate was that their business model would take on network television and eventually change the entire movie industry.This was an 8-year total war that left innumerable casualties in its wake: thousands of hollowed out buildings and economic losses in the billions. Support us by supporting our sponsors!

Netflix vs Blockbuster - Sudden Death | 1

You don't have to like tennis to like this. There is so much to learn from how this rivalry made each player better. This series explores the unique tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal-- two very different players, both exceptional, in pursuit of perfection. Swiss-born Roger Federer was seemingly born with a racquet in his hand and at a young age he quickly masters the game, but what he needs to reach the top is to learn how to master his emotions. Meanwhile, Spaniard Rafael Nadal learns the game under the tutelage of his uncle Toni on the clay courts of Mallorca, where the decision to make him a left-handed player separates him early from his competition.

A 7 part series on Federer and Nadal

In this series we explore the unique tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal-- two very different players, both exceptional, in pursuit of perfection. Swiss-born Roger Federer was seemingly born with a racquet in his hand and at a young age he quickly masters the game, but what he needs to reach the top is to learn how to master his emotions. Meanwhile, Spaniard Rafael Nadal learns the game under the tutelage of his uncle Toni on the clay courts of Mallorca, where the decision to make him a left-handed player separates him early from his competition. Support us by supporting our sponsors!

Sports Wars

In this series we explore the unique tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal-- two very different players, both exceptional, in pursuit of perfection. Swiss-born Roger Federer was seemingly born with a racquet in his hand and at a young age he quickly masters the game, but what he needs to reach the top is to learn how to master his emotions. Meanwhile, Spaniard Rafael Nadal learns the game under the tutelage of his uncle Toni on the clay courts of Mallorca, where the decision to make him a left-handed player separates him early from his competition.  Support us by supporting our sponsors!

Federer vs Nadal - The Hothead | 1

Best Multi-Part Documentaries

What is this?
1 quote, 3 ideas & 1 question from a carefully curated podcast episode.
Every Monday & Wednesday.

Want a 3rd insight and episode every week? Email me at curation@owltail.com.

How our mind explains things:[topic-start]
“The way that the mind works, very frequently, is that we start from a decision, or we start from a belief, and then the stories that explain it come to our mind. Conclusions come first, and rationalizations come later.”[topic-end]
How we come to believe things:[topic-start]
"The real cause of your belief in a political position, the real causes are rooted in your personal history. They’re rooted in who are the people that you trusted and what they seemed to believe in, and it has very little to do with the reasons that come to your mind, why your position is correct and the position of the other side is nonsensical."[topic-end]
Who is Daniel Kahneman:[topic-start]
Nobel prize winning psychologist and economist who helped created the field of behavioural economics.

The Nobel Prize-winning psychologist on why we think and act the way we do — and why facts matter less than we think in forming our beliefs.
With his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman emerged as one of the most intriguing voices on the complexity of human thought and behavior. He is a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics for helping to create the field of behavioral economics — and is a self-described “constant worrier.” It’s fun, helpful, and more than a little unnerving to apply his insights into why we think and act the way we do in this moment of social and political tumult.
Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

On Being with Krista Tippett

Daniel Kahneman — Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other

Real scenarios of a hospital during a war:[topic-start]
“... we were hand squeezing his ventilator as we ran out of oxygen" and when we finally found the physician to get more oxygen, he said "We don't have any oxygen left, you're going to have to let him go"[topic-end]
Who is Sheri Fink:[topic-start]
An investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Memorial Hospital (the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina).

Sheri Fink on the tragedy of being forced to choose who's life to save

When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the names in a hat and pick at random. Would your answer change if a sick person was standing right in front of you? In this episode, we follow New York Times reporter Sheri Fink as she searches for the answer. In a warzone, a hurricane, a church basement, and an earthquake, the question remains the same. What happens, what should happen, when humans are forced to play god? Produced by Simon Adler and Annie McEwen. Reported by Sheri Fink.  In the book that inspired this episode you can find more about what transpired at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina, Sheri Fink’s exhaustively reported Five Days at Memorial You can find more about the work going on in Maryland at: www.nytimes.com/triage Very special thanks to Lilly Sullivan.  Special thanks also to: Pat Walters and Jim McCutcheon and Todd Menesses from WWL in New Orleans, the researchers for the allocation of scarce resources project in Maryland - Dr. Lee Daugherty Biddison from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Howie Gwon from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Emergency Management, Alan Regenberg of the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Dr. Eric Toner of the UPMC Center for Health Security.  Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.    

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When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the names in a hat and pick at random. Would your answer change if a sick person was standing right in front of you? In this episode, we follow New York Times reporter Sheri Fink as she searches for the answer. In a warzone, a hurricane, a church basement, and an earthquake, the question remains the same. What happens, what should happen, when humans are forced to play god? Produced by Simon Adler and Annie McEwen. Reported by Sheri Fink.  In the book that inspired this episode you can find more about what transpired at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina, <a href="http://www.sherifink.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sheri Fink’s</a> exhaustively reported <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718972/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1471783956&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=five+days+at+memorial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Five Days at Memorial</a> You can find more about the work going on in Maryland at: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/triage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.nytimes.com/triage</a> Very special thanks to Lilly Sullivan.  Special thanks also to: Pat Walters and Jim McCutcheon and Todd Menesses from WWL in New Orleans, the researchers for the allocation of scarce resources project in Maryland - Dr. Lee Daugherty Biddison from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Howie Gwon from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Emergency Management, Alan Regenberg of the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Dr. Eric Toner of the UPMC Center for Health Security. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at <a href="https://pledge3.wnyc.org/donate/radiolab-it/onestep/?utm_source=wnyc&amp;utm_medium=radiolab-redirect&amp;utm_campaign=pledge&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Radiolab.org/donate</a>.

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