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Too Much Information is the sober hangover after the digital party has run out of memes, apps and schemes. Host Benjamen Walker finds out that, in a world where everyone overshares the truth 140 characters at a time, telling tales might be the most honest thing to do.
Benjamen Walker - "Interview with Susan Mcgregor" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/55711
Out Of Office [Programmer David Heinemeier Hansson tells us about his Out Of Office experience, David is a partner at 37signals and a co-author (with Jason Fried) of REMOTE: Office Not Required. We also meet Ignacio Uriarte, he left his cubicle for a career in Office Art. And Ravenna Koenig, TOE’s newest correspondent, explains the difference between Facebook-Work & Work-Work.]
"Chris" [D.C. correspondent ”Chris” who tells us about the NSA’s desire to install backdoors in Podcasts]
Waiting in Line [About a year ago I travelled across America for the BBC. I visited Airports, Amusement parks, Highways and Community Colleges in order to understand how the priority queue is changing the American experience of waiting in line. A version of this piece aired on the BBC World Service, part of their “Real America” series produced in conjunction with PRX.]
Admissions of Defeat [Peter Choyce is one of my oldest friends and a listener favorite, but he has a secret we’ve never addressed until now.]
Benjamen Walker [More about these stories on Soundcloud] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/53241
Jehane Noujaim - "The Square"
Laurie Jo Reynolds - "Tamms year 10" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52950
Beex - "Beat Beat" [Get it on the Free Music Archive]
Grandma Phyllis [She met my Grandpa Sol on Classifieds2000.com in 1998. This is what she looks like:]
Podington Bear - "Wind Up Toy" [Get it on the Free Music Archive]
Chiara Atik [She's the author of Modern Dating: A Field Guide from the Experts at HowAboutWe. This is what she looks like:]
Jim the Poet [He called in to ask me on a date, which will be the subject of next week's show. This what he looks like:]
Riz Ortolani - "Cannibal Holocaust Theme" [Thank you for listening! Join me as I guest host for the next 2 weeks. Let me know if you have any stories for the show about love, dating or technology by sending a note to andrea at freemusicarchive.org or tweeting @andreasilenzi] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51799
Peter Maass - "Surveillance"
Starlee Kine - "Native Advertising"
Starlee Kine - "Dr. Phil"
Jonathan Goldstein - "Why Travel: A journey to Bali" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52756
Jia Zhangke - "Touch of Sin"
Alexis Ohanian - "Without their permission" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52665
Balthus: Cats & Girls
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
Short Films at NYFF
Fighting for Life by S. Josephine Baker, Introduction by Helen Epstein https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52570
The Happy Atheist ["The Happy Atheist" by PZ Myers] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52286
Thomas Doherty [Hollywood and Hitler]
Hollywood and Hitler [Film Clip #1]
Hollywood and Hitler [
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Hollywood and Hitler [
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Hollywood and Hitler [
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Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis - "All watched over by machines of loving grace - Episodio 1: Love and power (Adam Curtis)" [ All watched over by machines of loving grace from mayo11 on Vimeo.]
Adam Curtis - "This is a documentary series made by the BBC, and broadcasted between October 20th, 2004 to November 3rd, 2004. It is made up of three episodes." [Get it on Archive.org]
Adam Curtis - "Adam Curtis: The Century of the Self" [ Adam Curtis: The Century of the Self from therebel.org on Vimeo.]
Adam Curtis [“What am I?” Adam Curtis asks, on @WFMU. “I’m an essay writer who uses television.” #MAVAC— Park Avenue Armory (@ParkAveArmory) September 23, 2013
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Adam Curtis [“@RobertDelNaja and I sat down like two boys in a bedroom comparing records, and created a setlist for #MAVAC.” —Adam Curtis— Park Avenue Armory (@ParkAveArmory) September 23, 2013
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Barbara London - "Sound Art"
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin - "the holy bible"
Nick Brandt - "Across The Ravaged Land"
Lisa-ann Gershwin - "Stung! Jellyfish..." https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52382
BW is back - "Thanks Andrea"
- "Republic of Outsiders with Alissa Quart" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52098
Andrea Silenzi [On the ending of this show]
Grandma Phyllis [On the ending of her relationship with Zilch]
Andrea and Matt [On how they'll maybe someday breakup, and how that should go down]
Grandma Phyllis [On the day her husband Sol died]
KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race [Oh, and this is one of the guys we started messaging:]
KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race
KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race
KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race
Laura Griffin, Laura Mayer and Andrea Silenzi [Our entry in the contest titled First Date, Last Night] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52003
Jim the Poet - "Asks me out on live radio..."
Laura Mayer - ""That's how you build chemistry. You get it on the record.""
Jim the Poet - "Gets us hot dogs at Rudy's"
Jim the Poet - "Tells me why he became a poet" [Jim]
Jim the Poet - "On why men fake orgasms"
Jim the Poet - "Should you give everyone a chance?" [Jim]
Family Vacation - "As heard on TMI in 2010" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51902
Beex - "Beat, Beat" [Free Music Archive]
Grandma Phyllis - "Advice for meeting people: Be yourself, though she cautions, "I still don't know who I am. I know who I'm trying to be!""
Laura Mayer - "Advice for meeting people: go to a bar that's exactly 307 paces from your mouse-infested apartment." [Follow Laura on Twitter.]
Podington Bear - "By Grace" [Free Music Archive]
Apes of God - "Advice for meeting girls: go to a paint store." [via Music for Maniacs]
Dr. Robert Glover - "Advice for meeting women: tell them to do something for you" [Dr. Glover, author of No More Mr. Nice Guy& WFMU's Brett W. Thompson]
Andrea Silenzi + Anonymous Ex Roommate - "Advice for meeting people: make sure they won't steal your laptop and sea salt shaker" [RIP Sea Salt Shaker]
Riz Ortolani - "Cannibal Holocaust Theme" [Thank you for listening! Join me as I guest host for the next 3 weeks. Let me know if you have any stories for the show about love, dating or technology by sending a note to andrea at free music archive dot org.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51709
Ethan Zuckerman [Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51610
Fred Ritchin [Bending the Frame]
Ivan Sigal [White Road] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51321
Joshua Oppenheimer [Joshua Oppenheimer on the The Act of Killing]
"The Act of Killing"
Alix Lambert [Alix Lambert on Crime: The Animated Series]
Crime: The Animated Series https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51411
Lisa Hanawalt [Author of "My Dirty Dumb Eyes"]
Tim Kreider [NYT Contributor, Author of "We Learn Nothing."] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51222
Brendan I. Koerner [The Skies Belong to Us]
Stuart Jeffries [Is being ungoogleable the new black?] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51123
Annalee Newitz [Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction]
Pharmakon - "Milkweed/It Hangs Heavy"
Annalee Newitz [Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51029
Olivier Assayas - "Something in the Air"
Kio Stark - "Don't go back to school" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50540
Richard Hell - "talks about his book "I dreamed I was a very clean tramp"" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50354
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"Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq by Peter Maass" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50160
Rob Walker - "As Real As It Gets"
Kathleen Foster - "The Rescue"
Holly Pyne Connor - "Angels and Tomboys" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/48263
Daniel Heller-Roazen - "Pythagoras and the Fifth Hammer"
your host - "The Inner Voice (i)"
Nina Mitchell - "Mind Pop"
Quintan Ana Wikswo - "Voices from the Past"
Paola Antonelli - "Talk to Me"
your host - "The Inner Voice (ii)"
Daniel Heller-Roazen - "Pythagoras, Kepler and the Disharmony of All Things" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/42310
your host - "Intro"
Adrian Tomine - "New York Drawings"
Silvain Gire - "Mitt Romney: The France Years"
Scott Carrier - "Jesus... my neighbor?"
TMI's "Chris" - "Poll Fighting" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/48058
TMI's "Chris" - "Doin it for the lulz"
Weev - "Lulz: The Beginning"
Gabriella Coleman - "LULZ Theory (i)"
Brian Knappenberger - "Moral Fags"
Daniel Hernandez, Shauna Dillavou - "Narco Lulz"
Molly Sauter, Gabriella Coleman, Weev - "LULZ Theory (ii)"
Jón Gnarr - "The Mayor of Lulz" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/44638
Peter Choyce - "There is this thing called..."
Margaret Atwood - "We are in this together"
Tim Kreider - "krazy Lazy"
Lowell Handler - "Crazy and Proud"
your host - "Humility"
TMI's "Chris" - "Captivated" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/46444
your host - "The Lehrer, Blair and Miller Show"
Aaron Bobrow Strain - "White Bread"
Zoë Sheehan Saldaña - "Matches"
Josh Glenn - "White Skin"
Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe - "Stray Light Grey"
Chris - "White Horse" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47799
gary panter - "Dal Tokyo: Texas fundamentalism, Japanese Cultural mash ups and LSD 9-11 insanity" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47702
your host, Andrew Simms, Madeline Bunting, and Brian Ulrich - "small is beautiful"
your host, Eamonn Butler, Polly Toynbee, Marianne Johnson, and John Gray - "the invisible hand"
your host, Paul Audi, Anne Daneys tuney, Guy Deman - "Man is born free..."
your host + Avital Ronnell Tom Mccarthy Stuart Jeffries - "Kittler's technology" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47424
Bill McKibben - "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math (i)"
Chris Haley, Curt Thompson, Clint Keely - "Atlanta's HOT lanes"
Josh Glenn - "HOT Codes"
Laura Mayer - "HOT Bikes"
TMI's "Chris" - "HOT Topic"
Bill McKibben - "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math (ii)" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/46832
your host - "TMILY (i)"
L.R.Mayer - "TMILY's Marketing Plans"
Tim Hwang - "Hype Up Weekend"
your host - "the wastelands of nothingness"
your host - "TMILY (ii)"
T.R.G - "TMILY's Financials"
your host/C.B - "TMILY's Technology"
Michael Wolff - "Facebook’s Marketing and Financials"
your host - "AD supported"
your host - "TMILY (iii)" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45305
Peter Choyce - "To glee or not to glee"
Conrad Ventur - "Screen Test: Ivy Nicholson"
Peter Choyce - "Hollywood 2005 (i)"
Damien Macdonald - "Moebius Summer"
your host - "the way it goes..."
Peter Choyce - "Hollywood 2005 (ii)"
your host + J.P. - "the way it went..."
Herbert G - "Conan O'Brien Memories" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45116
Mitch Epstein - "American Power"
Nichola Raihani - "Fish Power"
Sara Marcus - "Girrrl Power"
"David" - "Foucault Power"
Valterri Viljanen - "Spinoza's Geometry of Power"
Joseph Turow - "Advertising Power" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/44169
Bruce Gilden - "Siberian Bad Guys"
Ivan Boiko - "Old Believers in Siberia"
Julia Tulovsky - "Nonconformist Soviet Art"
Your Host - "Russian Photo Books"
"chris" - "Red Dawn II: China's Revenge"
Your Host - "Hitler/Goebbels/Benjamin" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/37036
Nurangiz Khodzharova - "Lost In Translation"
Sonya S - "Andrei Platonov (part I)"
Your Host - "Ugly American"
Sonya S - "Andrei Platonov (part II)"
Alina Rudnitskaya - "Bitch Academy"
"chris" - "Red Dawn II: Russia's Revenge"
Sonya S - "Andrei Platonov (part III)" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36523
Wisdom Of Harry - "Sports Pod"
Anonymous Lady - "Experimental Revenge Novel"
Kathryn Schulz - "Being Wrong (part I)"
Mishka Shubaly - "Wicked Hot"
Kathryn Schulz - "Being Wrong (part II)"
William Kleinknecht - "Ronald Reagan's Mistakes"
Cheryl Rogers - "Absence of Time"
Kathryn Schulz - "Being Wrong (part III)" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36255
your host - "Doing It Wrong"
your host - "Social Media Workshop"
your host - "Face Control"
your host - "Social Media Workshop (ii)"
your host - "Occupy Siberia"
social media expert (Sean Cole) - "the Truth about Social Media" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/42876
Tim Kreider - "Errol Flynn/In Like Me"
David Cálek/Somali Pirate - "Escape From Somalia"
Adrian Johns - "The Pirate Listener"
Olga Sezneva - "Piracy, Russian Style"
Adrian Johns - "Death of a Pirate"
Mzwakhe Mbuli - "Shoot the Pirate!"
Jérémie Zimmermann - "The War on Sharing" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/42137
Douglas Rushkoff - "Not Dead Yet"
Hefner - "Dead Media"
Jeff Lemire - "Dead Comics (i)"
Jeff Ayers - "Dead Comics (ii)"
Heidi Macdonald - "Dead Comics (iii)"
Rich Johnston - "Dead Comics (iv)"
STEAM - "Dead Comics (v)"
Alex Beam - "Dead Columnist"
Jake Dobkin - "Dead Media Conference"
"chris" - "Operation Pravda" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34002
Jillian York, Andy Carvin, and Meg Worley - "Nymwars!"
Carmela Ciuraru - "Nom de Plume"
Laura Mayer - "@MayorEmanuel and Dan Sinker"
Chris Collins - "Tyepilot and Luzy"
TMi's Man in DC "Chris" - "reBranding" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/41969
your host - "the man without a country (v)"
Gene Atwood - "Fort Awesome"
Patri Friedman - "Seasteading"
Laura Mayer - "The Man without a Country Remix"
your host - "the man without a country (vi)" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/41237
your host - "the man without a country (i)"
Howard Zinn - "American Exceptionalism"
Dave Dudley + Dave Isreal - "1814!"
Energumino Garcia - "Operation Faster and Furiouser"
your host - "the man without a country (ii)" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/40977
Anonymous - "Greatest Hits (Vol I.)"
Jaron Lanier - "Anonymous Sucks!"
Cindy Cohn - "Defending Anonymous"
Anonymous - "Greatest Hits (Vol II.)"
Peter Choyce - "Anonymous Donor"
Anonymous - "Voice Mail"
Anonymous - "Greatest Hits (Vol III.)" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34745
Johnny Angel - "Electric Crosses"
Andrea Silenzi/Lenore - "Gold"
Ed Burtynsky - "Oil" [
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Desmond Ayim-Aboagye - "A Cure For War"
"John" - "DDT"
David Feng - "iPhone"
"Tracy" - ""SoBro"" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34264
Stacey Chillemi - "The Power of Positive Thinking"
Peter Choyce - "Couchsurfing!"
Andre Owl - "Hot Chicks Smiling at Ground Zero"
The Coon Sanders Nighthawks - "Little Orphan Annie Radio Song (1928)"
Jeet Heer - "The Real Little Orphan Annie"
Barbara Ehrenreich - "Bright Sided!"
Tom Ziglar son of Zig - "Positive Tweeting" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/33923
Paul Ford - "WWIC"
your host - "SXSWi"
Annalee Newitz - "What can Science Fiction tell us about Social Media?"
Greg Marra - "Twitter Bots"
Brian Cuban - "Viral Hate Speech"
your host+ Matt Di Paola, Pawan Deshpande, Gary Kim, Evan Jones, Jonty Kelt, and Tricia Han - "Brands, Coupons and the Future of Media"
Tricia Wang - "the next 300 million"
"Chris" - "Operation Persona" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/39639
Andrew Keen - "The Cult of Sharing"
Ada Calhoun - "I Can Find So Much About You"
Alex Morris - "They know what Boys want"
Didier Bigo - "Data Doubles"
Matthew Battles - "Scratching Your Tech Id"
Nick van der Kolk - "OK Cupid"
Your Host + Others - "TV Party" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/39223
Your Host/Jeremy Goldkorn/Isaac Mao - "What Would China Do?"
Bill Bowen reports - "PDF Conference"
Joe Alterio/Christopher Beam - "Journalistic Value"
Daniel Ellsberg - "Bradley Manning"
Jillian York - "Person of the Year"
Evgeny Morozov - "Wikileaks - 18 hours a day"
Ethan Zuckerman - "the Future?"
Gabriella Coleman - "Operation Leakspin" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38513
Wisdom Of Harry - "Sports Pod"
your host - "the island"
Kevin Wallen - "Being Selfish (from 2005)"
"MG" - "Voice of the Revolution (from 2002)"
Christina Xu - "The Island/First Time"
Wayne Marshall - "Island Rhythm"
"john" - "Island for Sale" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36167
bill bowen, laura mayer - "the news!"
Jason Hartley - "the advanced genius theory" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/35913
Your Host - "Quest for Kierkegaard's Religious Stage"
Susan Anderson - "Beauty Pagent Kids Take the Stage"
Barry Gifford - "Sailor and Lula Exit the Stage"
Michael Holmes - "The Final Stage?" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34341
Laura Mayer - "the Internet: IRL (part one)"
Tim Hwang - "ROFLcon"
April Winchell - "Regretsy"
Aaron Peckham - "How To Speak IRL"
Ben Huh - "I Can Has Cheezburger Empire?"
moot - "(not) Being That Guy"
Laura Mayer - "the Internet: IRL (part two)"
Brad O'farrell - "Being That (Keyboard Cat) Guy"
Charlie Schmidt - "A Cat, A Camera, A Keyboard, and No Job"
Ethan Zuckerman - "Sharing The lulz" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/35653
G.S. - "Bad Karma (part I)"
Robert Brockway - "Everything is Going to Kill Everybody"
Matt Jarvis - "Be A Prepper!"
Pamela Walt - "Bad Vibes"
"Chris" - "April 19th (teabaggaz4eva)"
G.S. - "April 23rd, 1990 (Bad Karma part 2)"
Chris Impey - "Dark Energy" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/35384
Hal Niedzviecki - "Are My Facebook Friends Real?"
Peter Choyce - "www.Peterchoyce.com"
Jessica Schroeder - "Look at me, but in a nice way please"
Jon - "baby twitter"
Eddie Campbell - "How to tell true stories"
Chris - "Metzitzim Beach"
Hal Niedzviecki - "Peep Culture" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34420
Jennifer, Michael, Traci, and Sandra - "tmI the band"
benjamEn Walker - "rants about having the best name (this is supposed to be an introduction!)"
Neil Warhurst - "tmI the BBC radio Comedy"
Lindsay Drucker - "tmI the College Grad"
"Chris" - "the Office of Information"
tmI the band - "Cross Dressed Man"
Andy Odenhal - "tmI the Web Comic" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/33836