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Best of 2016: Chuck Klosterman Thinks About the Present As If It Were the Past

Doug here. I thought there was good back-and-forth between Chuck and myself in this conversation. I like how the interview went “meta” at the end, with Chuck speculating that if I’m right about his book being hailed as the “Moby Dick" of non-fiction in 300 years time. This interview belongs in a time capsule.  At the very least, a “Best of” show. I also really enjoyed the fact that we heard the musical stylings of John Philip Sousa, Chuck Berry, KISS and Veruca Salt.  Of course, if Chuck’s book taught me anything (and it actually taught me many things), I could be wrong.

 

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Butch Vig on Music Industry Trends

He's produced albums for Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and Foo Fighters. After decades in the business, Butch Vig says that new technologies are changing the music industry.

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Frederic Whitehurst on "Last Night I Dreamed of Peace"

In 1969, Frederic Whitehurst was in Viet Nam, burning captured enemy documents.  He saved the diary of a young woman, and many years later returned it to her mother.

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Dangerous Idea: Reclaim Time

Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff's Dangerous Idea?  We need to reclaim time.

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BookMark - Gary Shteyngart on "Jernigan"

 Novelist Gary Shteyngart recommends one of his favorite reads:  "Jernigan" by David Gates.

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David Toomey on the Physics of Time Travel

Research and experiments on time travel being done by some of the world's leading theoretical physicists and David Toomey is here to tell us about it.

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Doug Quin on His Round-the-World Listening Expedition

Doug Quin is trying to help us tune certain sounds in, sounds we don't consider worth hearing -- from the sound of a spider sucking blood from an insect to the sound of a tree falling in a forest.

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Christopher O'Riley on Young People and Classical Music

Christopher O'Riley chats with Jim Fleming about classical music's image problem among young people and how he makes the music seem cool.

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