Ep 12 – Hi, It's Mom

08/17/21 • 65 min

New Yorker Magazine Aug 16, 2021

Hi, It's Willie and Yianni. This week your hosts discuss a wide range of topics such as people who just want to look out into space real bad, Jason Reynold's books, Harry Potter and the Return of a Lost Cayon, and Donald Antrim's insightful time in a psychiatric ward. Plus all the usual bits and bobs along the way. No, nothing is wrong, we're just saying hi!
0:00 Cover by Roz Chast
1:23 Mail
4:03 Talk of the Town
17:21 Cartoon by Asher Perlman
18:15 The Youthful Universe by Rivka Galchen
27:57 E-Mail Escalation by Seth Reiss
32:10 Mirror Writing by Rumaan Alam
45:48 The Lost Canyon by Elizabeth Kolbert
54:21 The Hospital by Donald Antrim
1:03:09 DL Recommends by Willie and Yianni

New Yorker Issues original artwork by Willie Page
You can find Willie and Yianni on all good and evil social media apps @_williepage_ and @yiannisines or you can find their websites at williepage.com and yiannisines.com.

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Ep 11 – A Very Special Issue

Discussion Aug 10, 2021
This week Yianni and Willie go off the rails and discuss whatever the heck they want, which, as it turns out, is Wendy Williams, Drag Queens, Mushrooms, and Bison. So switch us on and enjoy this very special episode.
0:00 Beginning Banter
1:51 Missing Issue
3:25 Cartoon Spots
7:38 Wendy Williams
13:48 Drag Queens
17:45 Fantastic Fungi
25:34 Truffle Hunters/Pig
31:35 Bison
42:33 How Are You?
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Ep 13 – Summer's Lease

New Yorker Magazine Aug 23, 2021
This week Willie and Yianni discuss a wide range of topics such as the ugly world of mass incarceration, is being rational rational?, racist houses, and evil lava . Plus all the usual bits and bobs along the way. And summer's lease hath all too short a date!
0:00 Cover by Gayle Kabaker
2:53 Mail
4:46 The Talk of the Town
9:24 Dying Behind Bars by Eyal Press
21:24 A History of Alt-Milk by Henry Alford
23:16 Thinking It Through by Joshua Rothman
31:32 Cartoon by Roz Chast
32:19 Home Truth by Sam Knight
41:57 The Fire Geyser by Heidi Julavits
48:55 DL Recommends by Willie and Yianni
New Yorker Issues original artwork by Willie Page
You can find Willie and Yianni on all good and evil social media apps @_williepage_ and @yiannisines or you can find their websites at williepage.com and yiannisines.com.