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In Defense of the NYT's 'Greatest Songwriters' List
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/7/26 | ![]() In Defense of the NYT's 'Greatest Songwriters' List✨ | music criticismsongwriters+3 | Sasha WeissJon Caramanica+1 | The New York Times MagazinePopcast | — | greatest songwritersNew York Times+3 | — | 1h 01m 38s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() ‘Michael’ Is Pure Propaganda✨ | Michael Jackson biopicfilm review+4 | Eric Hynes | Michael | — | Michael Jacksonbiopic+5 | — | 47m 44s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Does 'The Drama' Know Zendaya Is Black?✨ | Hollywood castingrace in film+4 | Gina Cherelus | HBOThe New York Times | — | ZendayaThe Drama+5 | — | 41m 51s | |
| 4/16/26 | ![]() ‘Popcast’: Jack Harlow Talks Race and Ego✨ | raceego+4 | Jack Harlow | CannonballPopcast+1 | — | Jack HarlowR&B+5 | — | 1h 12m 14s | |
| 4/9/26 | ![]() ‘Modern Love’: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson on Marriage and Secrets✨ | relationshipsfilm+3 | ZendayaRobert Pattinson | Modern LoveThe Drama | — | ZendayaRobert Pattinson+4 | — | 33m 42s | |
| 4/2/26 | ![]() Harry Styles Is the Sound of Spring✨ | musicHarry Styles+3 | — | Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.The New York Times+2 | — | Harry StylesKiss All the Time+3 | — | 8m 23s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() 'Love Story' Is Actually a Horror Story✨ | television90s nostalgia+3 | — | Ryan MurphyThe New York Times | — | Love StoryRyan Murphy+5 | — | 35m 04s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() What the Oscars Got Right✨ | Oscarsfilm analysis+4 | Sasha Weiss | The New York TimesOne Battle After Another+5 | — | OscarsWesley Morris+6 | — | 37m 54s | |
| 3/12/26 | ![]() The Complicated Oscars Night Feelings Over ‘One Battle After Another’✨ | Oscarsfilm analysis+3 | Daphne A. Brooks | Paul Thomas AndersonThe New York Times+2 | — | OscarsBlack feminism+4 | — | 43m 41s | |
| 3/5/26 | ![]() Tyra Banks Is (Kinda) Sorry✨ | reality TVaccountability+3 | Michaela angela Davis | NetflixReality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model+1 | — | Tyra BanksAmerica’s Next Top Model+3 | — | 40m 22s | |
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| 2/26/26 | ![]() Don't Make a Saint Out of Toni Morrison✨ | Toni Morrisonliterary criticism+3 | Parul SehgalSasha Weiss | Beloved | — | Toni MorrisonBeloved+5 | — | 55m 37s | |
| 2/19/26 | ![]() There’s Nothing Sexy About ‘Wuthering Heights’✨ | film adaptationWuthering Heights+3 | Sasha Weiss | Emerald FennellThe New York Times+1 | — | Wuthering HeightsEmerald Fennell+3 | — | 43m 03s | |
| 2/12/26 | ![]() Bad Bunny and the Art of Protest | “We’re living in protest-y times! Where are all the protest songs?” That was a question that Wesley Morris was asking in the time leading up to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show. He thinks the scarcity of direct protest art in this moment contributed to the intense speculation and anticipation about what Bad Bunny would do on that stage. Would it be a protest? And if so, what kind of protest? Well, now the show’s over. So what did it turn out to be? To discuss, Wesley Morris sits back down with his friend Sasha Weiss, culture editor at The New York Times Magazine. They also think about the role of protest music more broadly. When does a song need to hit us over the head? And when is subtlety useful — or called for? | — | ||||||
| 2/5/26 | ![]() ‘The Pitt’ Is Giving a Dose of Humanity | “The Pitt” is back for a second season, and it’s appointment viewing for Wesley Morris. Every Thursday at 9 p.m., the show serves up an emergency room’s worth of maladies and realities — sparing us none of the naked truths about being a human in a vulnerable body. Sasha Weiss, the culture editor at The New York Times Magazine, joins Wesley to talk about how the show is making an old-school television genre feel not just contemporary, but vital. Plus, a conversation with the writer and novelist Taffy Brodesser-Akner about when loving a work of art becomes an obsession. And Wesley has an unexpected reaction to the Grammys. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. | — | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | ![]() Dear Haters of 'Marty Supreme'... | “Marty Supreme” is a box office and critical hit. The film just received nominations in many of the most coveted Oscar categories — best picture, director and actor. And Wesley is glad about all of it. He loved the movie and its shameless protagonist, Marty Mauser. But it turns out that a lot of people going to see this movie don’t share his feelings. In fact, a lot of them hate it. And much of that seems to have to do with a hatred of Marty himself. Wesley’s friend and a culture editor at The New York Times Magazine, Sasha Weiss, thinks people may be missing the point. Which, to her, has a lot to do with the Jewishness of the film. She joins Wesley to talk it out. | — | ||||||
| 1/8/26 | ![]() My Evening With Michelle Obama | Last November, Wesley spent an evening with Michelle Obama to celebrate the release of “The Look,” her new book about fashion and the power of style. It’s a heavy text – weighing in at about 4.12 pounds (Wesley checked). That makes it great for coffee tables. But it also reflects the weight of what it meant to Michelle Obama, as First Lady, to be looked at. Every outfit carried meaning and significance, and she knew it. Together, Wesley and Michelle reflect on her approach to fashion from day one in the White House, her time in the East Wing, and some of her most memorable looks. | — | ||||||
| 1/1/26 | ![]() The Sexy, Multi-Dimensional Genius of Roberta Flack | Wesley has a practice as a new year begins of saying goodbye to those who won’t be coming with us. He could have easily done an episode on any number of household names. He could have done the same with people who weren’t the biggest names, yet still loomed large for many. But out of all the artists who passed in 2025, Wesley decides to dedicate time to Roberta Flack. The critic and scholar Daphne A. Brooks, a friend of Wesley’s, joins him to reflect on treasured moments in Flack’s music. They reminisce on the powerful range of her discography, the quiet it kept and the fire it sparked in others. | — | ||||||
| 12/25/25 | ![]() Our Last Chance to Talk ‘Gatsby’ | When a book publisher asked Wesley to write an introduction for a new edition of “The Great Gatsby,” he was confused. So many people had already written about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel since it was first published in 1925. What could he add? And why him? But eventually, he realized he does in fact have a special relationship with this book. He has read it in three different phases of life, and each time, it seemed profound in an entirely new way. So in the final week of the book’s 100th anniversary, Wesley talks to the novelist Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, about why all three of them have found themselves in a decades-long relationship with this book. | — | ||||||
| 12/18/25 | ![]() Rob Reiner Made Your Favorite Movie | Wesley has been thinking a lot this week about what Rob Reiner gave us. Not the best movies. But our favorite ones. He wanted us to feel good. And for Wesley, no movie hit that pleasure center more than “When Harry Met Sally.” He watched it over and over as a teenager. It’s probably why he moved to New York. He wanted what they were having. This week, Wesley reflects on the impact Reiner had on his life, and shares a conversation he had on The Daily — involving a very extended appreciation of that famous diner scene. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. | — | ||||||
| 12/11/25 | ![]() My Favorite Performances of the Year | On today’s show, Wesley reveals his favorite film performances of the year — but his list is not an ordinary best-of list. He zeroes in on the specific details that make a performance great. Like, who did the best acting in a helmet this year? Who were the most convincing on-screen best friends? And who refused to play it safe? Find out in our first annual Cannonball Great Performers special. | — | ||||||
| 12/4/25 | ![]() D’Angelo and the Power of Last Albums | The world is different once an artist dies. The same goes for their music. Since D’Angelo’s death, Wesley keeps returning to “Black Messiah” — to him, a perfect final album. What makes an artist’s last record resonate with us long after they’re gone? Wesley invites his friend Alex Pappademas, a senior culture editor at GQ Magazine, to listen back to some last albums that have haunted them both. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. | — | ||||||
| 11/27/25 | ![]() I Love This Eddie Murphy Interview | Cannonball is off this week for the holiday. But I wanted to share something with you from our friends over at The Interview. It’s a conversation that my colleague David Marchese had awhile back with one of our biggest stars, Eddie Murphy. I've been thinking about it recently because there's a new documentary about Murphy that just came out on Netflix -- and I highly recommend this conversation as a kind of companion listen over your long weekend. Murphy reveals a surprising side of himself that I hadn’t heard before. Hope you enjoy it, and see you back here next week! | — | ||||||
| 11/20/25 | ![]() 'The Perfect Neighbor' Is an American Nightmare | Netflix has a hit in “The Perfect Neighbor,” a documentary attracting a lot of attention for both its subject and its form. Using police camera footage, the film shows the events leading up to the killing of a Black mother of four by her white neighbor. It’s unquestionably powerful and difficult viewing. But for Wesley and his fellow Times critic Parul Sehgal, it raises all kinds of moral and ethical questions. What does it mean to watch these events through the lens of the police officers involved? Is the movie the filmmakers thought they were making the one that the audience is actually receiving? And should we even be allowed to see this? | — | ||||||
| 11/13/25 | ![]() Where Have All the Covers Gone? | Every December, Wesley’s hometown radio station, 88.5 WXPN, does some kind of end-of-year countdown, as voted on by listeners. This year, it’s the 885 greatest cover songs. This was exciting news for Wesley, who loves himself a good cover — and considers their near disappearance from pop music to be a kind of national tragedy. He talks all things covers with one of his favorite reinterpreters of music, the Grammy-nominated jazz singer Cécile McLorin-Salvant, who also happens to have done a cover that landed at No. 7 on the list he agonized over for WXPN. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. | — | ||||||
| 11/6/25 | ![]() When Did Music Critics Get So Nice? | For Wesley, the most interesting thing about Taylor Swift’s latest album didn’t have much to do with the music. It was the critical response. Sure, there was plenty of enthusiasm. But there was also some exasperation and weariness. And to Wesley, that felt like a needed shift in pop music criticism. Which has gotten awfully nice lately. A little too nice. That idea — that pop music criticism has lost its edge — was explored in a recent New Yorker essay by Wesley’s buddy and fellow critic, Kelefa Sanneh. The two get together to trace the history of the form and think about what’s lost when critical punches are pulled. | — | ||||||
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