Podcast of interesting conversations. Hosted by former @nytimes Jayson Blair @jaysonblair7 | Twitter account is snarkier than the podcast | Just barely
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The Brewers and Rays opened the season with less payroll combined than the Dodgers had alone. Now they're playing for a title neither has ever won, weeks before owners push for a salary cap.
Moneyball is still winning an unfair game. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/s…
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There are some things in life that cannot be bought with money. There is a lesson for all of sports — and all of us — in this year's World Series.
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Same town. Same detective unit. A federal trial over the death of a young woman who joined a police youth program at 12.
The Sandra Birchmore case has drawn a fraction of Karen Read's audience. Why, and what we can still do in her name. Read our latest. bit.ly/4i0UVWB
Fear fills the gaps where facts are missing. In The Architecture of Dread — Part 2, horror author @ProsecutorsPod host Brett Talley joins me to explore how panic, myth, and conspiracy form when uncertainty takes over — from ancient plagues to modern online chaos.
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We build stories to survive fear.
In Part 1 of The Architecture of Dread, horror writer & @ProsecutorsPod host Brett Talley joins me to explore how folklore, myth, and horror, from guests to Lovecraft, help us impose meaning on chaos. Listen:** bit.ly/4i0nh1W
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Toforest Johnson’s death sentence was commuted in Alabama today.
Gov. Kay Ivey acknowledged concerns about the evidence that led to his 1998 conviction.
Johnson’s case is the subject of @bshelburne’s Bone Valley Season 4, Earwitness.
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The smallest scene in You Can See Everything is the one I can't shake: Billy Evans taking a whisk out of Elizabeth Holmes's hands, and the two very different explanations for why.
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Nathan Fielder shows Elizabeth Holmes Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" She laughs along. Then she admits she didn't get it.
That scene turned out to be the whole movie.
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Theranos founder @ElizabethHolmes comes off far better than I expected in You Can See Everything. And she’s certainly not — by more than a country mile — the craziest person in the film. It's a must see. I have never seen anything like this in my life.
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Ukrainians spend nights in hallways during air raids. Then thousands watch hour-long videos about serial killers.
Why watch murder shows when death is imminent? Oleksandra Poda reports, with The Counteroffensive
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Did a dog do this study?🤨
A surprising new study finds that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…
We build stories to survive fear. In Part 1 of The Architecture of Dread, horror writer and @ProsecutorsPod co-host Brett Talley joins me to explore how folklore, myth, and horror help us impose meaning on chaos — from ancient guest‑rights to Cropsey to Lovecraft.
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“Whatever your belief is, challenge it.”
Christian Kenny joins me to talk curiosity, compulsion, and the courage to question everything — from tarot to psychology to art.
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Justice Alito once joked that a grand jury refusing to indict was about as common as an eclipse. Curtis Flowers was tried six times for the same crime. He died Wednesday at fifty-six. For twenty-two years, he was the ham sandwich.
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In the wake of the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, here’s an op-ed I wrote in 2008 about the 1946 botched execution of Willie Francis in Louisiana.
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Six trials. Four death sentences. Two hung juries. Every conviction reversed. Curtis Flowers, whose case In the Dark spent a year unraveling, died Wednesday at fifty-six. For twenty-two years, he was the ham sandwich. Read our latest essay.
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@jaysonblair7 with a great piece on the Christa Pike case and the history of botched executions in the US.
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The Execution of Willie Francis is a book that anyone interested in the Christa Pike should read.
@jaysonblair7 with a great piece on the Christa Pike case and the history of botched executions in the US.
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Christian Kenny didn’t choose the occult — it chose him. We dig into Jung, tarot, numerology, criminal psychology, and the shadow we all carry. A conversation about curiosity, discomfort, and purpose-driven creation.
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Part 2 explores how courts evaluate wrongfulness and intent when postpartum psychosis is involved — and why juries struggle with these cases. Clara S. Lewis and I also look at the broader maternal‑mental‑health landscape and the politics of sympathy shaping public reaction.
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