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Terry was on Colbert last night and it was really special. youtube.com/watch?v=WCkgi-…

thank you @nprfreshair. "In his new book, Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster, Soboroff offers a minute-by-minute account of the catastrophe... He says covering the wildfires was [his] most important assignment." npr.org/2026/01/05/nx-…

Rob Reiner told Terry Gross he asked to change his name when he was 8 years old...

Just this past September Rob Reiner spoke with Terry Gross about supporting Nick through his struggle with addiction. npr.org/2025/12/16/nx-…

"If you are young and feel like you cannot rent an apartment, you cannot make your life, you cannot buy a house, you cannot start an apprenticeship, you cannot get a job — why would you not look above you and say 'F- you'? That makes complete sense to me." -Zadie Smith npr.org/2025/12/15/nx-…

"My son went to Halloween this year dressed as Batman, which is a character I played — famously the worst Batman in the history of the franchise," George Clooney says. "And I literally said to him, 'You know, I was Batman,' and he was like, 'Yeah, not really.'" npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-…

"[When] I'm in a situation where I'm interviewing someone, capturing their story, making pictures, I feel most like myself," @lynseyaddario tells contributor @SamFragoso. npr.org/2025/12/02/nx-…

Review: Sarah Snook plays a mother desperately trying to locate her 5-year-old son in this gripping Peacock miniseries. The psychological thriller is adapted from Andrea Mara's novel All Her Fault. npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-…

Watch Judd Apatow's full interview now on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=2APAOS…

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI | @nprfreshair npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-…

Cameron Crowe talks with Terry Gross about his teen years on the road and backstage as a rock journalist for Rolling Stone. npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-…

"AI, particularly generative AI — I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak." -Guillermo del Toro npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-…

Terry Gross with Jane Goodall in 1993. youtube.com/watch?v=teXnfo…

Icelandic jazz-pop star Laufey spoke with Terry Gross about her classical training in cello, breaking out online during COVID, and her first arena tour. npr.org/2025/10/08/nx-…

@pocketcasts @jeffsantilli We had a glitch and that episode didn't publish. Sorry about that. You can listen online: tinyurl.com/yc2r3ha6

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@pocketcasts Yesterday’s @nprfreshair still has yet to populate in my feed. Could you please look into this?

For the first seven years of her life, comic ​Cristela Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. She talks about it in her new special, 'Upper Classy.' npr.org/2025/09/29/nx-…

Our film critic @JustinCChang calls 'One Battle After Another' "a prescient, mesmerizing, frequently hilarious and fearlessly political piece of work." 👇His review. npr.org/2025/09/26/nx-…

Terry Gross doesn't do many interviews in person, let alone on video. Our special episode of @TalkEasyPod celebrating half a century of @nprfreshair. youtube.com/watch?v=4c-5rd…

This Friday we'll do an obit show for the great Robert Redford, but here are some highlights from Terry's interviews with the Sundance Kid over the years. npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-…

Hearing Terry laugh like this... amazing. @TalkEasyPod's @SamFragoso riffing with the 🐐 npr.org/2025/09/16/nx-…