240 episodes
With Friends Like These Crooked Media
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4.2 • 17 Ratings
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On this season of With Friends Like These, Forgiveness and Reconciliation, host Ana Marie Cox looks at post-Trump America and tries to find models for how we forgive people, and if we should.
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Friend Goals: W/ Rhett Miller and Murry Hammond
Old 97’s band members and old time friends, Rhett Miller and Murray Hammond, join us for a conversation about songwriting, falling into friendship love and how a band is like an open marriage.
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The Sound of Nashville
Rising artist, Ciara Rae shares her experience of living in Nashville as a songwriter and musician. She tells us about the ups and downs of surviving in a forever evolving industry, staying true to her music and how songwriting helped her into recovery from an eating disorder.
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What Was Going on with the Go-Go's with Kathy Valentine
The Go-Go's made history as one of the most successful all-female bands ever. Bassist Kathy Valentine's new memoir puts their story in context and highlights her own rocky path to recovery, success, and serenity.. The author of ‘All I Ever Wanted’ joins us to talk songwriting, booze, and sex.
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Is a bar a bar without booze? On sober socializing with Chris Marshall
The creator of Sans Bar, the bar without booze, Chris Marshall joins us for a conversation on recovery, community and how to make the perfect mocktail.
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Why you eat what you eat on Thanksgiving
This week is the 400th anniversary of what America knows as Thanksgiving. Join us as food historian Linda Civitello takes us through how the traditional meal has evolved through the decades and what items we love to indulge in owe their existence to indigenous people. We explore the good, the bad and ugly that comes along with this beloved holiday. From the food racism to legacy of the indigenous people and everything in between!
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Andrew Zimmern: The Road to Recovery
Emmy and James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, writer and teacher, Andrew Zimmern joins the show to talk about Food politics, the restaurant industry post pandemic, and his journey with sobriety.
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/withfriendslikethese.
Customer Reviews
Considered and real conversation
I’ve long been tired of nearly all public discussion being purely oppositional. Each week Ana wades into difficult conversations with an open mind and searches for common ground. And she doesn’t do this at the expense of her principles. She knows where she stands but is looking for ways to move forward. The discussions are generous and heart full. I’ve yet to come across any other podcast, tv show, radio show etc that does this so well.
Lost it's way
I was so excited when I heard the concept for this podcast. A place where difficult topics are debated by rational people with opposing views is something we all need today and after listening to the first episode I was all in.
Unfortunately, the podcast totally lost sight of this in following episodes and has become simply another show where important topics are discussed but by people who agree with each other and spend the whole time talking about everything they agree on. The opposing opinion is rarely represented by someone who believes it and is instead just outlined, mentioned, misrepresented or even just sneered at.
I gave five stars because I wish Ana and the podcast every success but unless It goes back to the feel of the first episode I won't be listening anymore. I don't need or have time for another podcast where all my views and opinions are just echoed back to me, I'd love to hear guests that understand how the cop who lie about the kid doing donuts thinks, or believe the a.c.a should be repealed, or that abortion should be illegal or that it is ok to only date specific races. To hear these different arguments and have them rationally debated is what I think is really missing in media today.
I really hope Ana can steer the show back to this.
Don't Stop!
Look: there's just this KCRW's Left, Right and Centre and THIS Podcast: that's it - the only two intelligent, discerning modern American examinations of the post-earthquake, deeply fractured political landscape. And the first episode was superb: respectful, two-sided but still very vigorous. Please keep it up!