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'Zillow Gone Wild' brings wacky real estate listings to HGTV

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'Zillow Gone Wild' brings wacky real estate listings to HGTV

Zillow Gone Wild started in 2020 as an Instagram account devoted to eccentric property listings. The show focuses on homes that defy everyday expectations in some way.

'Zillow Gone Wild' brings wacky real estate listings to HGTV

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Lyndon Barrois talks making art from gum wrappers and "Karate Dog"
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Lyndon Barrois talks making art from gum wrappers and "Karate Dog"

This week, artist Lyndon Barrois Sr. joins us to talk about his beautifully detailed gum wrapper sculptures, working in movies, and why he's Hollywood's go-to animator of animals who know karate. Plus, Josh Gondelman and Joyelle Nicole Johnson welcome new panelist River Butcher!

Lyndon Barrois talks making art from gum wrappers and "Karate Dog"

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'Wait Wait' for May 4, 2024: With Not My Job guest Lyndon Barrois
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'Wait Wait' for May 4, 2024: With Not My Job guest Lyndon Barrois

Lyndon Barrois is artist and animator who's found fame making beautifully detailed sculptures out of gum wrappers. He sculpts in miniature, but what does he know about GIANT sculptures?

'Wait Wait' for May 4, 2024: With Not My Job guest Lyndon Barrois

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming

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What's Making Us Happy: Recommendations From 'Pop Culture Happy Hour'

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Nice Guys, Vanessa Williams' song "Legs," Arooj Aftab's album Night Reign, and the game Planet Zoo.

Larry Demeritte will be the first Black trainer in the Kentucky Derby in decades

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Larry Demeritte will be the first Black trainer in the Kentucky Derby in decades

Larry Demeritte is the first Black trainer participating in the Kentucky Derby in 35 years. And while the betting-books have his colt West Saratoga running at long odds, Demeritte, who is battling chronic illness and cancer, is feeling confident.

Larry Demeritte will be the first Black trainer in the Kentucky Derby in decades

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Bearing witness, celebrating strength: How poetry has changed lives for NPR's audience

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Bearing witness, celebrating strength: How poetry has changed lives for NPR's audience

From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

Trisha Fountain reads "Epitaph"

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An inside look at the campus protests; plus, Israel at Eurovision

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An inside look at the campus protests; plus, Israel at Eurovision

Pro-Palestinian protests have been popping up at universities around the world, and in the last few days things have escalated at a number of those campuses. Columbia University called on police to shutdown the encampment on their university lawn and 300 people were arrested. At University of California Los Angeles, about 200 pro-Israel counter-protestors raided a pro-Palestinian encampment. To get first hand accounts of the protests, Brittany talks to two student journalists: Shaanth Nanguneri, an undergraduate reporter at UCLA, and Claire Davenport, a graduate reporter at Columbia University in New York.

An inside look at the campus protests; plus, Israel at Eurovision

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Black lawmakers reintroduce federal CROWN Act legislation to ban hair discrimination

A number of Democratic lawmakers have reintroduced the CROWN Act, legislation that would ban discrimination based on one's hairstyle or hair texture. Here, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs Crown Act legislation on June 15, 2023 in Lansing, Mich. that will outlaw race-based hairstyle discrimination in workplaces and schools. Joey Cappelletti/AP hide caption

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Black lawmakers reintroduce federal CROWN Act legislation to ban hair discrimination

The bill which was previously passed in the House in 2019 and 2022 but blocked in the Senate, aims to end race-based hair discrimination in schools and workplaces.

Which celebrity feud escalated this week? Find out in the news quiz

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Which celebrity feud escalated this week? Find out in the news quiz

Where's the beef? What's the deal with marijuana? Why does this read like a '90s stand-up script? The answer to at least some of these questions can be found in the quiz. Were you paying attention?

Fall for 'The Fall Guy' and its truly amazing stunts

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Fall for 'The Fall Guy' and its truly amazing stunts

In the entertaining new film The Fall Guy, Ryan Gosling plays a down-on-his-luck stunt performer who gets a big new opportunity to get his career on track. And maybe get back the woman (Emily Blunt) whose heart he broke. Directed by David Leitch, it's a knowing comedy about action movies, and a character study of a man who likes to think he's invincible. And the movie has amazing stunts.

Fall for 'The Fall Guy' and its truly amazing stunts

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Ryan Gosling is 'The Fall Guy' in this cheerfully nonsensical stuntman thriller

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Ryan Gosling is 'The Fall Guy' in this cheerfully nonsensical stuntman thriller

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Though it might have benefited from tighter editing, there's no denying the pleasure of this gloriously overwrought film.

Ryan Gosling is 'The Fall Guy' in this cheerfully nonsensical stuntman thriller

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