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This week on Audio Files: Trending.
Stories of leading, following, and jumping on the bandwagon. We’ll take a look into the bizarre world of viral web videos, and hear from a group of New Yorkers who are trying to change the tide on how we think about—well… changing tides.
We’ll challenge the long-held wisdom that young voters are always the “hopey-changey” crowd in politics. Then, Greg Young of the Bowery Boys Podcast joins us in the studio to share some strange fads from New York City’s history.
Finally, we’ll hear some live traditional West African music that’s sure to outlast even the biggest Taylor Swift single.
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This week’s episode is all about horror. We explore the world of horror films and the music that goes in them. We have stories about a fictional sport brought to real-life, a recreated eugenics lab in New York City and a father who is looking for the ghost of his daughter. New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman talks to us about the culture of horror while Glynn Washington of SNAP Judgement shows us how best to tell a ghost story. The band Radio Jarocho joins us live with some music inspired by Mexican and Afro-Caribbean beats.
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This week’s episode is all about living well, dying well, and the people who are trying to make things a little better for us along the way. We have stories about keeping the faith with spies in your midst, entrepreneurs fighting crime with coffee, and a town that thinks we might all be better off with a bit of lithium in the water. Jets beat reporter Dom Consentino and Huffington Post columnist Sarah Beauchamp talk feminism beyond the NFL scandal, and the band IndigeSoul joins us live with some ethnic global grooves. What a way to live.
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This week’s show was inspired by the film In & Out, the 1997 movie about a man in denial about his sexuality. We talk to actor Kevin Kline about what that film meant to him.
We have stories about people in flux, high school dropouts, the politics of banks and plastic bags, and what’s trending in tech.
Lafayette Stokely joins us for a live set in the studio and Andrew Hawkins, a politics and business reporter of Crain’s New York drops by for a live Q+A.
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This installment of our podcast looks at folks who make the hard work of getting laughs look easy.
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We’ve all been there. The hill is high and the stone is heavy. And we are Sisyphus. This week’s show is about longshots. Stories about impossible tasks and the people that still try. Kathleen Culliton has a story about one bobsledder’s journey to qualify for the Winter Olympics. A year after Sandy, a Bronx bar has yet to reopen. It’s seen setback after setback. Alex Eidman reports. And a college football team known for failure is undefeated this season. Ronald Chavez takes you to the game. The band Our Guys perform.
Episode 6: A Place Called Home
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What makes the place you live more than just the place you live? This week, the show takes us to a tender place – A Place Called Home. A radio station based outside Atlanta helps inform far-flung communities. Elly Yu reports. Maryeileen Croke tells us how one creative millennial copes with moving back into their parents’ house. We take a visit to Harlem – Kathleen Culliton is our guide. And for the first installment of City in Demand, we hear from AnnMarie Awad about one woman’s struggle to find a place to call home. Singer-songwriter Amy Regan performs some tunes. Alex Eidman hosts.
Episode 5: Agreeing to Disagree
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This week, AudioFiles explores the spirit of inevitable conflict with stories of people Agreeing to Disagree. Reporter Christine Streich delves into the world of New York City school reform, while Tom DiChristopher explores the complicated policy behind home foreclosure in the United States. “Educational” rapper Larry Lak Henderson joins us for a live performance in studio. Mary Shell hosts.
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With guests like Neil deGrasse Tyson and a group of British scientists we travel from the farthest reaches of the earth to the greatest extremities of the universe. Also, the AudioFiles crew gets a tour of some of New York’s most polluted areas. The band The Slack Tide also joined us in studio for a live performance. Adam Warner hosts.
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This week Audiofiles explores the worlds of boys. Or, well, places one would commonly associate with boys. From women boxing in Brooklyn to a native-Missourian accepting with her families love of guns, the Audiofiles team looked at people challenging, or coming to terms with masculinity. Also, a social club in Brooklyn struggles in a changing neighborhood. Live musical guest Justin King. Adam Warner hosts.
Episode 2: Making It Up As You Go
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This show focuses on stories of adaptation, improvisation, and people learning to deal on the fly during tough times. Our reporters visited communities dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Brooklyn, and we had a New Jersey business owner in our studios to discuss how he and his neighbors dealt with the storm. We also looked at the city’s plan (or lack of one) as its numbers of homeless increase. On Long Island, we visited the abandoned laboratory where the 19th century inventor Nikola Tesla envisioned the modern world. We also traveled to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to talk to Syrian-Americans on opposite sides of a growing political conflict. Plus performances from rappers Art and LeDoubleNY.
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It’s official: Fall is in the air, and here at AudioFiles we’re celebrating the season. In this episode, we’ll travel to an apple orchard on Long Island where old traditions die hard, and reporters Eli Chen and Sean Carlson will help us understand why some people aren’t so happy about the changing seasons. We’ll also kick off our ongoing series about folk music from around the world. It’s called Local Music Worldwide. Later in the program, local band The Narrative joins us for a LIVE set in the studio.