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What are the Renner files?
The Renner Files. Celebrities do all kinds of crazy things as part of the complex business of being a celebrity: They start lifestyle brands, moonlight as bourbon peddlers, become Happy Meals, and, of course, make vanity apps. Tom Hanks has one, a typewriter app (natch).
Who hosts the Open World podcast?
There’s a new short-run fiction anthology podcast hosted by Keisha “TK” Dutes and Rose Eveleth called Open World that just dropped this week, and the first episode features a reading of The City We Became, by N.K. Jemisin, which is a great book if you haven’t already picked it up.
Does Tom Hanks have an app?
Tom Hanks has one, a typewriter app (natch). Aaron Paul once launched a Yo knockoff called Yo B*tch (again, natch). And then there’s Jeremy Renner. In 2017, the actor rolled out the Jeremy Renner Official app, pitched as a way to foster a more direct connection with his fans.
Is Radiolab still a podcast?
Radiolab, nowadays a podcast institution, has gone through a lot of change, both recently and over the years. Last week, the show announced that it was adding Invisibilia ’s Lulu Miller and longtime staffer Latif Nasser as co-hosts, taking over the spot left open by the retiring Robert Krulwich, and more broadly, the show — historically associated with stories about science and philosophy — has been steadily integrating stories from the harsher, earthier, and murkier territory of society and the law into the mix. This shift is most clearly marked by the launch of its 2016 spinoff, More Perfect, though it can perhaps be traced as far back as “ 60 Words ,” an episode originally produced in 2014. The show hasn’t completely abandoned its whimsical whiz-bang aesthetics in this transition — preserving it in ways I tend to find really distracting — but it is, in many ways, more capable of darkness these days, more willing to sit with our worst selves.
