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92NY Talks

For nearly 150 years The 92nd Street Y, New York has harnessed the power of arts and ideas to enrich, enlighten and change lives. This weekly podcast series features many of the fascinating people and conversations from our stage, both recent as well as treasures from the past.

Feb 26, 2015

Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer, science educator and CEO of the Planetary Society, who hosted the Emmy award-winning show "Bill Nye the Science Guy." After a widely viewed debate in Kentucky with an avowed Bible literalist, Nye has written a primer on the fundamentals of evolution. Emmy-award winning journalist...


Feb 19, 2015

A full-fledged star by the age of 16, Lesley Gore recorded smash hits that served as anthems for young Americans in the 1960s. In this episode of 92Y Talks, Gore offers both talk and song in an evening with Rolling Stone's Anthony DeCurtis. Recorded February 28, 2006 at 92nd Street Y.


Feb 12, 2015

He's been called a "Swiftian satirist" (The Wall Street Journal), "America's satire king" (the Daily Beast), "the funniest human on Twitter" (The New York Times), and "one of the funniest people in America" (CBS News Sunday Morning). Join the award-winning creator of the eponymous satirical news column as he takes a...


Feb 5, 2015

Amid a popular debate over whether today’s young women embrace or reject the word feminist, bestselling author and trans women’s rights activist Janet Mock, Joy Reid, host of MSNBC’s The Reid Report, and Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and head of Lady Parts Justice, join Mic senior editor Elizabeth...