Tamsen and Dan Read the Paper

Episode 422: Wake Up Sleepy Owl

The many contributions of Bell Labs.  Coders wrangle their AI Agents.  Artists, their estates, and their estranged families.  Hyrox.  Angelika Saleh.  Alan Trustman. An Owl wakes up in a Gift Shop...

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 421: Stained Glass And Friendly Taverns

Beautiful window to see at the Met!  Hanging out at the local tavern.  Putin' on the Shvitz!  Updating the American Girl Doll. Bloomies is Back.  How about Jordan Stolz on a bike? Say good bye to Mr. Clean.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 420: Olympic Fever

Watching the Winter Olympics.  The end of Mass Market Paperbacks.  House Burping.  Rough Times for Female Tortoises in Macedonia.  Jo Ann Bass and Joe's Stone Crab.  Freedom House Ambulance Service. Football by Chuck Klosterman.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 419: One Meal After Another

Hunkered down but getting out anyway.  High Spirits in NYC.  The Testament of Ann Lee at the movie theater.  One Battle After Another on the small screen.  More Inspiration from Kpop Demon Hunters.  Mourning the demise of the Department Store.  Metrocard Artists losing their supply.  Ellen Hughes: more than your average hockey mom.  New Restaurant models - loving The Dutchess (Ojai!). Amor Towles - stepping into the Jazz Age via Cole Porter and Ella (Fitzgerald).

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 418: A Very Snowy Day

We're having a REAL WINTER.  Hunkered down watching movies and reading the newspaper.  Lots to think about:  Kpop Demon Hunters bringing Korean culture to the world.  A World in the Making: The Shakers (exhibition) and The Testament of Ann Lee (movie).  A big book about Bennett Cerf by Gayle Feldman.  Wilbur Wood.  John Brody.  How Green Was My Valley. Songs by Sondheim.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 417: Beans and More

Rancho Gordo.  Yum.  Fun in NYC.  The Plague. Discovering Ted Chapin's Everything Was Possible. Making Oboes.  The New Princeton University Art Museum.  Give Well.  

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 416: Welcome 2026!

Summing up the Holidays. Merchants of Joy, Xmas tree sellers documentary.  Marty Supreme. World's Largest Apron Museum.  Phyllis Lee Levin. Redwing Boots.  Remembering Annette, the last of the Dionne Quintuplets.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 415: Where are the Snails?

Another shocking French Heist.  Remembering Mel Leipzig. Colds at night.  Mary Ann Patten: first female captain of a merchant clipper ship.  Pizza business ups and downs.  Stewart Brand and The Maintenance of Everything.  The Family Bond of the NY Giants.  Self Driving Cars.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 414: Thanksgiving 2025

Looking back over a tasty time.  Musing on Broadway favorites, Tom Stoppard, Mary Poppins.  Pride and Pleasure by Amanda Vaille (Schuyler sisters). Bob Trumpy.  David Lerner (Tekserve).  Terry Martin Hekker (Disregard First Book).  Repair Cafés.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 413: Once in a Blue Moon

Looking at Lorenz Hart through Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater.  The Dodgers do it again.  A Stuff Lending Library.  The Louvre Heist.  Paying your legal bills with your museum collection.  Playbill edges toward URL.  Wasp Nest decor.  Shelly Fireman.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff