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Think is a daily, topic-driven interview and call-in program hosted by Krys Boyd covering a wide variety of topics ranging from history, politics, current events, science, technology and emerging trends to food and wine, travel, adventure, and entertainment.

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  • 65 episodes
  • daily
  • Avg 46 min
  • English

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  • August 20 · 45 min

    Wrongful conviction harms victims, too

    For every exonerated individual in the criminal justice system, there is another forgotten victim: the original victim’s family. Barbara Bradley Hagerty joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a case involving a man, Ben Spencer, who was wrongfully convicted of a crime.

  • August 19 · 46 min

    The IRS isn’t getting its work done

    Stephanie Mencimer joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why 7 million people are waiting to hear back from the IRS about correspondence.

  • August 17 · 46 min

    Gen Z’s work-life balance looks different

    Journalist Emi Nietfeld joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her disillusionment with her “millennial values” where hard work and dreaming big would pay off in the corporate world why Gen Z doesn’t have a sense of optimism for their futures.

  • August 14 · 47 min

    Trump’s three paths out of the Iran war

    David E. Sanger joins host Krys Boyd to discuss Trump’s options for ending the war, which include military escalation, economic crackdown or simply declaring victory and walking away.

  • August 11 · 45 min

    Is California overdue for the Big One?

    Rong-Gong Lin II joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what has scientists on edge about a massive fault line that hasn’t had an earthquake in more than a century. Read more

  • August 10 · 45 min

    The high-tech weapons changing how we fight wars

    Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why billions invested in new tanks, planes and warships might be better spent on cheap drones.adscf

  • August 7 · 46 min

    Colombia’s counterfeit cartel

    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how Colombian authorities are trying to track down criminal enterprises counterfeiting dollar bills.

  • August 6 · 45 min

    Your grandparents had skills. Do you?

    Joshua Habgood-Coote joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the centuries-old longing to get back to the “good old days” of craftsmanship.

  • August 5 · 47 min

    What it’s like to fight a wildfire

    Jordan Thomas is a former Los Padres hotshot wildland firefighter and currently an anthropologist and chancellor’s fellow at the University of California, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why climate change doesn’t tell the whole story.

  • August 4 · 46 min

    The demise of the open casket funeral

    John Semley joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the history, culture and economics of morticians, why their particular trade is quickly going out of fashion.

  • August 3 · 46 min

    Ugly is a four letter word

    Stephanie Fairyington is a journalist who writes on gender, sexuality, family and parenting. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her perception that she didn’t live up to modern standards of pretty.

  • July 31 · 46 min

    Marco Rubio is pulling the strings in Caracas

    Tyler Pager, White House correspondent for The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how and why Rubio is making big economic and political decisions for the country.

  • July 30 · 46 min

    Bad parents need elder care, too

    Katie Engelhart, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the children who must decide whether to care for aging parents who abused them.

  • July 27 · 46 min

    How to live with uncertainty (you don’t have a choice)

    Simone Stolzoff joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why striving for certainty cuts off creative thinking, why building tolerance for uncertainty helps prepares us for life’s pitfalls, and why someone who claims to know it all might actually be dangerous.

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