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Up First from NPR: IndyCar in DC; Fresh Tariffs on Canadian Goods; National Debt Hits $40 Trillion
The IndyCar Grand Prix comes to the nation's capital. And, Canada's prime minister suspended trade talks with the U.S., bringing new 50 percent tariffs on a host of Canadian imports. Plus, we'll look at the national debt, which hit $40 trillion earlier this week.<br><br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>
Talk and Interview
Fresh Air: Best Of: Colman Domingo / Writer Leïla Slimani
Colman Domingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards this year, for two very different roles: in the Netflix comedy<em> The Four Seasons</em> and in the final season of HBO's <em>Euphoria</em>. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about the transition from dramatic roles to comedy, and guest hosting <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!</em> for a week. <br/><br/>Award-winning writer Leïla Slimani grew up in Morocco, where women were second-class citizens, but inside her home and with her family, she was free to speak her mind. Her mother, a doctor, pushed her to go to France to study. Slimani spoke with Terry Gross about her trilogy of novels inspired by her own French-Moroccan roots.<br/><br/>Rock critic Ken Tucker looks back on the soundtrack of the 1976 film <em>Sparkle</em>,<em> </em>sung by Aretha Franklin. <br/><br/>Subscribe to our free weekly <a href="https://support.whyy.org/page/39306/subscribe/1"target="_blank" >newsletter</a> <br>Follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nprfreshair/"target="_blank" >Instagram</a> <br>Subscribe to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@thisisfreshair"target="_blank" >YouTube channel</a> <br>Check out the <a href="https://freshairarchive.org/"target="_blank" >Fresh Air Archives</a><br><br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>
Science Friday: Could we live in a dinosaur world?
<p>In the new movie “The End Of Oak Street,” bits of a suburban Michigan neighborhood get sucked back through time to a prehistoric world of dinosaurs. It made us wonder, aside from the danger of getting snacked on by an allosaurus, what other challenges would modern humans <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/people-live-dinosaur-world/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">face in that ancient world?</a></p> <p>Flora talks with paleontologist Steve Brusatte about the conditions of the late Cretaceous era.</p> <p>Guest:</p> <p>Dr. Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist and author of “The Story of Birds: A New History from their Dinosaur Origins to the Present.”</p> <p><i>Transcript will be available after the show airs on </i><a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/people-live-dinosaur-world/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>sciencefriday.com.</i></a></p> <p><p><a href="https://pod.link/73329284" target="_blank"><i>Subscribe to this podcast.</i></a><i> Follow our show on </i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/scifri/" target="_blank"><i>Instagram</i></a><i>, </i><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@scifri" target="_blank"><i>TikTok</i></a><i>, </i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/scifri" target="_blank"><i>Facebook</i></a><i>, and </i><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/scifri.bsky.social" target="_blank"><i>Bluesky</i></a><i> @scifri and </i><a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/newsletters/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank"><i>sign up for our newsletters</i></a><i>. Got a science question that’s keeping you up at night? Call us: </i><a href="tel:+18774724374"><i>877-472-4374</i></a></p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>
Music
Fresh Air: Best Of: Colman Domingo / Writer Leïla Slimani
Colman Domingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards this year, for two very different roles: in the Netflix comedy<em> The Four Seasons</em> and in the final season of HBO's <em>Euphoria</em>. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about the transition from dramatic roles to comedy, and guest hosting <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!</em> for a week. <br/><br/>Award-winning writer Leïla Slimani grew up in Morocco, where women were second-class citizens, but inside her home and with her family, she was free to speak her mind. Her mother, a doctor, pushed her to go to France to study. Slimani spoke with Terry Gross about her trilogy of novels inspired by her own French-Moroccan roots.<br/><br/>Rock critic Ken Tucker looks back on the soundtrack of the 1976 film <em>Sparkle</em>,<em> </em>sung by Aretha Franklin. <br/><br/>Subscribe to our free weekly <a href="https://support.whyy.org/page/39306/subscribe/1"target="_blank" >newsletter</a> <br>Follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nprfreshair/"target="_blank" >Instagram</a> <br>Subscribe to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@thisisfreshair"target="_blank" >YouTube channel</a> <br>Check out the <a href="https://freshairarchive.org/"target="_blank" >Fresh Air Archives</a><br><br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>
Fun and Sports
Fresh Air: Best Of: Colman Domingo / Writer Leïla Slimani
Colman Domingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards this year, for two very different roles: in the Netflix comedy<em> The Four Seasons</em> and in the final season of HBO's <em>Euphoria</em>. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about the transition from dramatic roles to comedy, and guest hosting <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!</em> for a week. <br/><br/>Award-winning writer Leïla Slimani grew up in Morocco, where women were second-class citizens, but inside her home and with her family, she was free to speak her mind. Her mother, a doctor, pushed her to go to France to study. Slimani spoke with Terry Gross about her trilogy of novels inspired by her own French-Moroccan roots.<br/><br/>Rock critic Ken Tucker looks back on the soundtrack of the 1976 film <em>Sparkle</em>,<em> </em>sung by Aretha Franklin. <br/><br/>Subscribe to our free weekly <a href="https://support.whyy.org/page/39306/subscribe/1"target="_blank" >newsletter</a> <br>Follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nprfreshair/"target="_blank" >Instagram</a> <br>Subscribe to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@thisisfreshair"target="_blank" >YouTube channel</a> <br>Check out the <a href="https://freshairarchive.org/"target="_blank" >Fresh Air Archives</a><br><br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>
The Best of Car Talk: #2667: Witless Intimidation
Laraine’s Acura is making a weird fricative noise that seems to be coming from impossible locations within the engine compartment. And Click & Clack have to resort to ditching their ‘nice guy’ personas in an attempt to make Laraine’s answers fit their desperate guesses on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.<br>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. Car Talk's perks include full archive access, new call-in bonus episodes with Ray, and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href="http://plus.npr.org/"target="_blank" >plus.npr.org</a>.<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>