Live Wire with Luke Burbank

Timothy Egan Grapples with the KKK and Rapper/Poet Dessa Spars with AI

Jun 16, 2023

51:57

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Episode notes

Introduction

4min

The Most Ridiculous Challenge You've Ever Accepted

4min

The Battle of Brackenwett

2min

The Klan in the 1920s

2min

The Grand Dragon: The Music Man of Hate

5min

Madge Overholts Her

5min

The Klan's Legacy

1min

The Dark Side of the American Revolution

5min

How to Stage Dive

2min

10.

How to Stage Dive

4min

11.

The Fear of Stage Dive

2min

12.

Bits on the Moon

2min

13.

Chatbots and Non-Living Experiences

3min

14.

The Intersection of Technology and Poetry

4min

15.

How to Make It in Hollywood

4min

16.

How to Be a Better Betty Than a Betty White

4min

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and acclaimed author Timothy Egan unpacks his newest book A Fever in the Heartland, which traces the Ku Klux Klan's expansion across America in the 1920s and one woman's crusade to stop them; rapper and poet proves she's more talented than AI by performing a poem she penned backstage using popular search terms. Plus, host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello reveal the most ridiculous challenges our listeners have accepted.