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David Greene: "Obsession Is a Window Into the Human Soul"

2/2/2026 • 29 min

David Greene joins us to talk about his new podcast, David Greene Is Obsessed, where opera singers map public restrooms, pizza-tour guys chase the perfect slice, and even David Arquette turns Bozo the Clown into an intellectual-property saga. We get into why an obsession can unlock a different kind of interview, plus Greene's own confessions, from the Hay-Adams … Play episode

Charlie Sykes on the "Little Platoons" that Humbled Trump
Paul D. Miller: "International Law Is Not the Same Thing as Justice"
Not Even Mad: Ruy Teixeira and Jesse Adams
"Chaos Isn't Enforcement": Minnesota Exposes ICE's Political Miscalculation
Thomas Goetz: "Medicine works by helping some people a lot and most people…
Elliot Williams: "We'll get the girls from Annie to even things out"
Michelle Tafoya on the "Complete and Utter Ambush"
Kenneth Vogel on the "Sh*tbag Business"
Jason Guriel: Why Culture Got Nicer—and Much Less Useful
Trump Weaves His Way Through Davos
Chuck Klosterman: Football Isn't a Game—It's the Last American Monoculture
Jeremy Hobson on the "Rally Around the Flag" Risk in Iran
Funny You Should Mention: Liza Treyger
Charles Duhigg: "Looping for Understanding" and Other Supercommunicator Tr…
David McCloskey on Why Real-World Spying is "Too Crazy for Fiction"
Reese Gorman on Congress's Vanishing Backbone — and Dexter Filkins' Rubio …
Séamus McElearney on the End of Omertà as a Business Model
Fact-Checking the Maduro Raid—and the Art of F*****g Around
Ezekiel Emanuel: "Don't Be a Schmuck"—and Yes, Eat Your Ice Cream.
Not Even Mad: Michael A. Cohen & Charles Fain Lehman
Brad Meltzer on Plot Twists, Product Placement, and Violating Rules on Pur…
Andy Mills: "Acceleration Is Salvation" — and Why AI Might Be the Last Inv…
Quico Toro: Venezuela was never a one-man show
Dan Soder & Moshe Kasher: A Lighthouse for the Mentally Ill
Rosebud Baker: We're Raising Her Autistic
Robby Hoffman: Zero Personality Disorder
Chris Turner: Possession is 9/10 of the Word
Michelle Buteau: An Achievable Beyonce
T.J. Miller: You'll Do Better in Toledo
Sarah Silverman & Kyle Kinane: Comedy, Cancel Culture, and Conspiracies
Alex Edelman: "The Hardest Thing to Talk About in a Joke is Israel."
Roy Wood Jr.: "People Just Want to Feel Good."
Django Gold: The Comedian Who Wants to Dim Your Shine
Thomas Chatterton Williams: Why the Summer of 2020 Wasn't Inevitable
Quico Toro: "Charlatans Burrow Into Your Life and Don't Leave."
Rob Reiner: "I Just Viewed My Child in Pain"
Jay Jurden: High Profundities Per Minute
Nicholas Wright: When Ancient Brains Meet Modern War
James Clyburn: "The World Would Much Rather See a Sermon Than Hear One."
Mikhail Zygar: From Glasnost Whiplash to Social-Media Smog
Chris Dalla Riva: "Billboard's become a Christmas chart."
Finding the Next Terry Gross with Daniel Oppenheimer
Shadi Hamid: The Left Should Learn to Love American Power
Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner & John Ketcham
Holiday Suicides: Is That BS? with Sadie Dingfelder
Mark Rowlands on Memory and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Daniel Zoughbie: The Mightiest Turns an Enemy into a Friend
Mike Pesca on the Vig, the Fix, and the John Goodman Thumb
Funny You Should Mention: Mohanad Elshieky

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