Time To Say Goodbye

Time To Say Goodbye episodes:

• 06.12.2024

  VICTIM, a hilarious new novel by Andrew Boryga. Plus Caitlin Clark takes and James by Percival Everett

  Hello! Today, we have a great conversation with Andrew Boryga, the author of VICTIM, a truly subversive and funny novel about a young writer who hustles his way through the media world by just giving it what it wants from...

  
• 06.05.2024

  What are Children For? A talk with Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman about their new book

  Hello! Today’s show is a talk about an exciting new book by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman titled “What are Children For?” (Release date: June 11) We talked about “slow love,” the common complaint from millennials that they do...

  
• 05.29.2024

  Biden's Disappointing Black Voter Agenda and RIP Bill Walton

  Hello! Today, we talk about Biden’s speech at Morehouse College which should be seen as a preview for his message to Black voters amidst polling results that show he has lost a significant percentage of both the Black and Latino...

  
• 05.22.2024

  The Coddling of the Far Right. A Conversation with David Austin Walsh

  Hello! This week, we have on David Austin Walsh, author of “Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right,” a new book that tracks the development and coddling of far right political figures and their co-dependent relationship...

  
• 05.15.2024

  Macklemore and Biden's polling problems

  Hello! This week we talk about something we meant to discuss last week — Macklemore’s new song “Hind’s Hall,” and politics in music and literature. There’s some Immortal Technique, the Coup, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young thrown in...

  
• 05.08.2024

  How the media has handled the protests and the lessons of the 2010s with Vincent Bevins

  Hello! This week we are happy to present one of our most requested guests, Vincent Bevins. He is a longtime foreign correspondent and the author of two books, The Jakarta Method and If We Burn. We talked about the...

  
• 05.01.2024

  MAILBAG TIME! Momala, Extreme fishing, the SATs, the protests and much more.

  Hello! This week we revived a TTSG tradition of answering your questions on the air. Topics covered range from why Tyler puts on a wetsuit and swims out to rocks to fish for striped bass, the rise in extreme sports,...

  
• 04.24.2024

  Campus Crackdown and an Assessment of Leaderless Activism post Occupy

  Hello! Today, we talk about everything that’s happening on campus from Columbia to NYU to Berkeley. Tyler talks about the responsibilities of faculty in these moments and what he thinks is driving a surprisingly strong faculty response to the arrests...

  
• 04.17.2024

  A Trauma Surgeon's Account of a Hospital in Gaza. Our conversation with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa.

  Hello, Today’s episode is our conversation with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who traveled to European Hospital in Gaza in late March. He talks to us about what he saw there and the massive humanitarian toll, particularly on children....

  
• 04.10.2024

  Rural Rage Debunked and the other side of the fascism debate w Danny Bessner

  Hello! Today, we have a packed show with our guest Danny Bessner of the American Prestige podcast. Danny argued the other side of the fascism debate and expressed why he and others believe the word is not appropriate to describe...

  
• 04.03.2024

  In Defense of Normie Liberals and the F Word Debate with John Ganz

  Hello! Today’s guest is the John Ganz, author of the Unpopular Front substack and the upcoming book “When The Clock Broke.” We talk about the now years-long debate about whether what’s happening among the right wing in American should be...

  
• 03.27.2024

  The Kang School for Luddite Teens and Yelling about Kate Middleton

  Hello! Tyler is back for today’s episode in which we talk about open container laws in New Jersey, the discourse about the discourse on Kate Middleton and the Royals, and some thoughts on how to get children off their phones...

  
• 03.20.2024

  Why Can't Women's Coaches Also be Bad People? with Jane Coaston

  Hello! Today a very special March Madness episode with New York Times and CNN contributor Jane Coaston. We talk about the recent ascent of women’s basketball, the gendered ways in which we always expect good, progressive behavior from women’s coaches...

  
• 03.13.2024

  GREAT EXPECTATIONS -- TTSG legend Vinson Cunningham talks about Obama, Paul Pierce, and his new novel

  Hello! Today’s episode is a talk with Vinson Cunningham about his new novel GREAT EXPECTATIONS which came out yesterday and is in bookstores everywhere. It’s everything you would expect from Vinson: beautiful sentences, long meditations on hoops, the church,...

  
• 03.06.2024

  AI is still a bit disappointing but at least it uses a lot of energy. A talk with Karen Hao and Ben Recht

  Hello! Today, we talk to two people who have been thinking about reporting about AI for quite a long time: Repeat guest Ben Recht, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Berkeley and Karen Hao, a journalist who...

  
• 02.28.2024

  How We Talk about Self Immolation

  Hello! On today’s episode, we talk about Aaron Bushnell, the active-duty Air Force twenty-five year old who self-immolated in Washington, D.C., the history of the act and how it has been seen in different eras and different contexts. We compare,...

  
• 02.21.2024

  Will Minorities Actually Vote for Trump?

  Hello! Today, we talked about a topic that we’ve been circling around for a while — the minority vote. We now have months of polls all pointing towards the same trends in terms of Black, Latino and Asian voters all...

  
• 02.14.2024

  What It's Like to Work at a Hedge Fund -- a talk with Carrie Sun, author of the new memoir PRIVATE EQUITY

  Hello! Today’s episode is an interview with Carrie Sun, whose memoir PRIVATE EQUITY came out yesterday. (Buy it here!) The book is a memoir about the time Carrie spent working as the right hand for one of the country’s most...

  
• 02.07.2024

  Virtual Insanity and Heavy Ass Ski Goggles

  Hello! Today, we talk about the Apple Vision Pro and its grim vision for how you should be spending your time. Also, we talk a lot about Jaron Lanier’s most recent essay about the Virtual Reality in the New Yorker,...

  
• 01.31.2024

  The Kids Are Not the Problem! A talk with Musa Al-Gharbi

  Hello! This week we have on Musa Al-Gharbi, a professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. We talk a lot about “kids these days” and the tendency for all sorts of reactionaries to blame them for everything that’s wrong...

  
• 01.24.2024

  Polyamory is Not Political, Solarpunk, and Fishing at Night in a Wetsuit

  Hello! This week, we talk about the big Polyamory article in New York Magazine and the proposition that breaking the bonds of monogamy might be a political statement, one that frees both sides from the constraints of marriage. Are we...

  
• 01.17.2024

  Octavia Butler's Grim Vision of a Post Climate Change World, Apocalypse Cliches, and Black Quarterbacks

  Hello! In today’s episode, we talk about Octavia Butler’s “The Parable of the Sower,” a science fiction novel from 1992 that unexpectedly found itself on the best seller’s list in 2020. The novel imagines a violent and grim future...

  
• 01.10.2024

  A New Co-Host, the True Crime podcast wave, and a Final Word on All That Harvard Crap

  Hello! I’m very excited to announce that Tyler Austin Harper will be our co-host for the next month or so. Tyler was on the show last month and introduced himself then, but for those who missed it, he’s a...

  
• 01.03.2024

  Housing, Homelessness, and the L.A. Political Machine with L.A. Councilmember Nithya Raman

  Hello! Today we have a great interview with Nithya Raman, the City Councilmember for Los Angeles’s District 4. We talk about housing, the despair around the homelessness problem in California’s biggest cities, and whether there might be a different...

  
• 12.20.2023

  Does politics have a place in sports anymore with Bradford William Davis

  Hello! In our Discord server, which you can access by subscribing to the show for a measly $5 a month, a user asked me to not do shows about sports. I took this request seriously as I generally aim to...

  
• 12.13.2023

  Extinction Talk and All That College Stuff with Tyler Austin Harper

  Hello! Today on the show, we have Tyler Austin Harper, a literary scholar and an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. We talk about the history of extinction literature, the books that tech moguls read and the vision...

  
• 12.06.2023

  Tammy and Mai’s last hurrah!

  Hello from the “White Projects”!  For Tammy’s final ep as co-host, we answer questions from our beloved subscribers. Thank you for asking us to ponder:  * Vice, Jezebel, and the loss of irreverent digital media * What makes podcasting so...

  
• 12.03.2023

  BOOK TIME with Jillian Tamaki

  For Tammy’s last TTSG book club as pod host (!), we welcome Jillian Tamaki, award-winning author and a key member of our early-COVID Discord crew. Jillian’s new graphic novel, Roaming, published with her cousin and co-author, Mariko Tamaki, follows three...

  
• 11.29.2023

  “Everything is collapsing around the world,” with Andy Liu

  Hello from Philly!  This week, Andy joins us for one of Tammy’s last eps as a host of TTSG.

  
• 11.22.2023

  A crackdown on campus

  Hello!  This week, Jay talks to a student organizer for Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of seventy five student organizations who have been organizing and putting on protests on campus. Last week, the administration of Columbia University suspended two...

  
• 11.15.2023

  Free speech and contingent labor, with Jamie Lauren Keiles

  This week, we’re joined by our friend Jamie Lauren Keiles, a former contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine who is working on a book about nonbinary identity in America and posting at the archival Instagram account @sexchange.tbt. [4:45]...

  
• 11.08.2023

  What can be questioned within Israel, with Tania Hary

  This week, we are joined by Tania Hary, the executive director of Gisha (“access”), an Israeli legal organization that fights for the freedom of movement of Palestinians. [2:25] We discuss the restrictive status quo that was in place long before...

  
• 10.25.2023

  Responding to the responses to Gaza, with Rozina Ali

  Hello!  This week, New York Times Magazine contributing writer and repeat guest Rozina Ali talks with us about media coverage of the war in Israel and Gaza as well as the challenges faced by journalists, more than twenty of whom...

  
• 10.18.2023

  The siege in Gaza and Israel’s end game, with Amjad Iraqi

  This week, we’re joined by Amjad Iraqi, a senior editor at +972 Magazine and a policy analyst at the think tank Al-Shabaka. Since Hamas’s brutal attack and Israel’s declaration of war, thousands of people in Gaza, the West Bank, and...

  
• 10.11.2023

  Judging Laphonza Butler and the Democrats’ record on labor

  Hello from yet another devastating news week!  [0:30] We begin by addressing Hamas’s recent attack on Israel, to which Netanyahu responded with a declaration of war. (We’ll have an area expert on the show next week to talk about all...

  
• 10.04.2023

  Ozempic and body positivity, with Samhita Mukhopadhyay

  Hello from the Condé cafeteria!  This week, our guest is Samhita Mukhopadhyay, a writer and editor and the former executive editor at Teen Vogue. [5:30] Samhita’s personal essay in The Cut explores how being prescribed the new weight-loss drug Mounjaro,...

  
• 09.27.2023

  More labor power—and the Biden of it all

  Hello from the negotiating table!  This week, it’s just us, talking more hot labor summer and a bit about poetry (Tammy recommends the work of Mai Der Vang!). [9:00] After 146 days on strike, the Writers Guild of America, which...

  
• 09.20.2023

  Olivia Rodrigo + Pinay pop, with Karen Tongson

  Hello from karaoke!  This week, we bring you more Olivia Rodrigo content–with Karen Tongson, USC professor, podcast co-host, and lover of all singable musics! [28:50] Jay and Tammy* go deep with Karen on her childhood with musician parents, AzNs in...

  
• 09.06.2023

  Testing our politics through K-fine dining and “The Retrievals”

  Hello from British Columbia!  This week, [4:15] we start with the latest concerning video of Mitch McConnell and whether the conversation around fitness for office can (and should) cut across party lines. [21:45] Next, we talk about the Korean fine-dining...

  
• 08.30.2023

  Wake us up when Trump goes to jail, with Vinson Cunningham

  Hello from three far-flung cities!  This week, we’re joined by our pal Vinson Cunningham, staff writer and theatre critic for The New Yorker.  After briefly interrogating Jay’s recent pivot to dad-hiker fashion (pic for subscribers only), we hear Vinson’s take...

  
• 08.23.2023

  Notes from Martha’s Vineyard, North Korea, and K-reality TV

  Hello from a Cessna!  This week, it’s just us, on a grab-bag anthropological journey. [2:55] First, Jay unpacks his recent trip to Martha’s Vineyard and what he learned about the academic elite on a panel about affirmative action. [23:35] Next,...

  
• 08.16.2023

  The Maui fires were inevitable, with Kaniela Ing

  Hello again from the ongoing climate crisis!  Kaniela Ing is a Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) organizer and former state legislator who now works as the national director of the Green New Deal Network. Kaniela joins us just days after a...

  
• 08.09.2023

  ’90s nostalgia, Ninja Turtles, and a red-baiting revival

  Hello from an East Bay movie theatre!  This week, it’s just us, trying to dodge yet another COVID surge. (A note from our producer, Mai: Lots of people are getting sick, and testing is hard to come by and not...

  
• 08.02.2023

  Embracing U.F.O.s and rejecting Zionism, with Arielle Angel

  Hello from a freezer full of “non-human biologics”!  This week, we speak with Arielle Angel, editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents and known alien stan. (3:30) We get her thoughts on last week’s Congressional hearings (nothing a true believer like Arielle didn’t...

  
• 07.26.2023

  Listener Qs: Barbenheimer, hot labor summer, & white-Asian relationships in film

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit goodbye.substack.com Hello from Jay’s final week in paradise!  In this bonus episode, we answer questions from subscribers. 

  
• 07.19.2023

  Modi’s India, with Anjali Kamat

  Hello from the diasporic battleground!  This week, we’re joined by investigative journalist and filmmaker Anjali Kamat to discuss Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s red-carpet state dinner and the spread of his Islamophobic, anti-democratic Hindutva ideology. (1:45) We start with a short...

  
• 07.12.2023

  Fukushima’s toxic tail and Ramaswamy’s media blitz

  Hello from Honolulu!  It’s just us this week, trading places: Tammy is home in humid Brooklyn, and Jay is on the road, visiting family in Hawaii! (6:00) First, we discuss the planned release of 500 swimming pools’ worth of radioactive(?)...

  
• 07.05.2023

  K-content spectacular, with Jenny Wang Medina

  Hello from the South Korean Ministry of Culture’s Brooklyn satellite office!  This week, Tammy welcomes back Jenny Wang Medina, our resident scholar of Korean cultural exports and semiotics, for a record-tying fourth appearance on TTSG / third-anniversary spectacular! We talk...

  
• 06.28.2023

  Seeking clarity in Cali’s homelessness crisis, with Darrell Owens

  Hello from the East Bay!  It’s just Jay this week, chatting with friend of the pod Darrell Owens, a Berkeley-based housing expert. We discuss a new study from the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at UCSF on the causes and...

  
• 06.21.2023

  How NYC delivery workers won a minimum wage, with Ligia Guallpa

  Hello from the Hill!  This week, we’re joined by Ligia Guallpa, executive director of Workers Justice Project (WJP), a group that organizes low-wage, immigrant workers in New York City, including the app-based delivery workers who call themselves Los Deliveristas Unidos....