Best Tiny Studio Production Podcasts (2025)

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Let The Hens Out With Me, Why Growing Cut Flowers Is Just A Tiny Part of the Business & Confidence-Boosting Tips 24:35

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Hello and welcome to Friday 10 October 2025. Today's episode starts bright and early on the plot this morning as you're joining me letting the hens out and serving breakfasts. Great news - my poorly hen Mo has made an incredible recovery and has now rejoined the plot. In this episode I talk about my thoughts on confidence (or lack of) and how I rea…

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649. Should Ohio State (and Michigan, and Clemson) Join the N.F.L.? 55:21

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Soccer leagues around the world use a promotion-and-relegation system to reward the best teams and punish the worst. We ask whether American sports fans would enjoy a similar system. (Part two of a two-part series.) SOURCES: Domonique Foxworth, sports analyst and former N.F.L. player. Stefan Szymanski, professor of sport management at the Universit…

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Perennial Plugs Start To Arrive, Laying Homemade Compost, and Flirting With Retail: Getting Brave 16:41

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Perennials, Shrubs & Roses I've Just Bought for 2026: All The Details, Plus Lost Keys On The Plot 24:45

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Hello. It's a rainy and windy Friday 3 October 2025. You're joining me from a car park outside my vet where I'm waiting for my dog's teeth to be cleaned and for my little hen, Mo, to have some surgery. This week the podcast is celebrating 10k downloads which is amazing and very surprising. Thank you if you have contributed to this number - you're v…

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648. The Merger You Never Knew You Wanted 1:06:02

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The N.F.L. is a powerful cartel with imperial desires. College football is about to undergo a financial reckoning. So maybe they should team up? (Part one of a two-part series.) SOURCES: DeMaurice Smith, former executive director of the National Football League Players Association. Domonique Foxworth, sports analyst and former N.F.L. player. Jeffre…

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Busy, Busy, Busy: The Studio Is Nearly Finished, The New Beds Are Nearly Ready & What I've Just Bought To Grow in 2026 21:55

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Hello. It's Tuesday 30 September 2025. Welcome to the episode! Lots of activity on the plot to share with you: weeding beds 3 & 4, adding bark to bed 1, more cutting back and weeding, and mulching some of the perennials. Many of the zinnias have been cleared away because they've gone really mouldy, even though some of the flowers are ok. With some …

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Number Crunching: Data Reconciliation Results Are Here, Most Profitable Cut Flowers Revealed & an Incredible (Improbable?) Net Profit Margin 20:42

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Hello and welcome to tonight's episode on Friday 26 September 2025. It's spreadsheet time! I simply couldn't wait to do a reconciliation with all the data I've been collecting in 2025 so I've done an interim report this week and I'm excited to share my findings with you in this episode. I'm afraid I'm quite geeky so I took great pleasure in creatin…

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Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China? (Update) 57:34

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In this episode we first published in 2021, the political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang argues that different forms of government create different styles of corruption — and that the U.S. and China have more in common than we’d like to admit. SOURCES: Yuen Yuen Ang, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. RESOURCES: "China’s Anti-Graf…

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Astrantia Finally Ready! Autumn Bed Prep Gets Underway, Soil Blocking & Winning Prizes at My Local Dahlia Show 22:38

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Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 23 September 2025. Lots of news to share with you in this episode including my astrantia finally being ready, hub sales, connecting with a new florist, and making a website for the cut flowers. Also real progress is being made on the new beds on the plot, which is excellent. I've been adding lots of lovely chicken ma…

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All About Dahlias: Everything I've Learnt in 2025, Plus What's Looking Good Now & The Hens Help Out 25:00

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Hello, it's Saturday 20 September 2025. Welcome to today's episode. In this first part of today's episode I'll fill you in on all the activity on the plot including rediscovering my cephalaria, harvesting seed, removing stakes and support string, planning new paths, and mapping out the new beds using my road pins. I chat about what's still flowerin…

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647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers. 1:01:50

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In his new book “Breakneck,” Dan Wang argues that the U.S. has a lot to learn from China. He also says that “no two peoples are more alike.” We have questions. SOURCES: Dan Wang, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future. RESOURCES: Breakneck: China's Quest to Enginee…

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Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? (Update) 36:02

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A lot of jobs in the modern economy don’t pay a living wage, and some of those jobs may be wiped out by new technologies. So what’s to be done? We revisit an episode from 2016 for a potential solution. SOURCES: Erik Brynjolfsson, professor of economics at Stanford University. Evelyn Forget, professor of economics and community health sciences at th…

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Very Exciting Hub News, Making Connections on Insta & Why I Really Value Knowing My Florists 20:03

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Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 16 September 2025. It's been a glorious autumn day today - just beautiful. This week I have been "testing" the local flower hub that I've joined. I say testing, because it turned out that it was actually live and I was actually selling to areal florists - scary stuff! The majority of this episode is me chatting about…

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My Absolute Best Performing Cut Flower of 2025, How I'm Saving & Storing Seed, and Balancing Things to Reduce Chaos 18:36

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Hello and welcome to Friday 12 September 2025. It's feeling quite autumnal tonight: the nights are drawing in quickly and there's a little bit of a chill to the air. My two wedding orders have gone out and I hope the brides enjoy seeing them. I managed to cut the flowers in the dry (one order by torchlight which is not ideal) but the foliage ended …

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646. An Air Traffic Controller Walks Into a Radio Studio ... 1:01:10

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What does it take to “play 3D chess at 250 miles an hour”? And how far will $12.5 billion of “Big, Beautiful” funding go toward modernizing the F.A.A.? (Part two of a two-part series.) SOURCES: David Strayer, professor of cognition and neural science at the University of Utah. Dorothy Robyn, senior fellow at I.T.I.F. Ed Bastian, C.E.O. of Delta Air…

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Problems Galore, Hormone Chaos, Poorly Hens, Over-Selling Hydrangeas & Baffling Sales Figures 20:41

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Hello. It's Tuesday 9 September 2025. Well it's been a weekend of bad stuff: an attempted fraud on my bank card, a cancelled bank card, failed card payments which meant no phone contract renewal (which meant no working phone), together with hormone dramas, plus poorly chickens and sadly one of them, Florence, passed away unexpectedly yesterday. So …

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Two New Florists Visit & Buy My Cut Flowers! Working Out My USP, Eucalyptus & Setting Up A Studio 15:19

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Hello and welcome to Friday 5 September 2025. Where has the week gone?!? I have no idea. Time is just flying by. I've been busy on the plot deadheading, cutting things back and collecting seeds, in between the heavy rain showers. I can't wait to do a big tidy up and let the chickens enjoy rummaging around and fertilise the soil. I've had two new fl…

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645. Is the Air Traffic Control System Broken? 1:02:37

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Flying in the U.S. is still exceptionally safe, but the system relies on outdated tech and is under tremendous strain. Six experts tell us how it got this way and how it can (maybe) be fixed. (Part one of a two-part series.) SOURCES: Dorothy Robyn, senior fellow at I.T.I.F. Ed Bastian, C.E.O. of Delta Airlines. John Strong, professor of finance and…

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Cutting Foliage in the Rain, Visiting The National Dahlia Society Show Today & Did My Flowers Survive the Flower Festival? 27:07

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Hello and welcome to the latest episode: it's Tuesday 2 September 2025. Lots to tell you in this episode and I've divided it into two parts with a tiny bit of music in between so please don't switch off when you hear the music and think the episode has ended! I've been cutting flower stems and foliage for two florist collections tomorrow. These are…

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Rain Stops Play, Shattering Dahlias, Learning Where I'm Going Wrong & the Fabulous Flower Festival 14:42

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Hello and welcome! It's a wet Friday 29 August 2025. Good news: my electrics are fixed, yippee! We've had a lot of rain this week which has caused some issues on the plot by flattening things and adversely affecting the quality of some of my cut flower stems. I was up on the plot super early on Thursday to cut for the local Flower Festival in a nea…

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644. Has America Lost Its Appetite for the Common Good? 1:16:42

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Patrick Deneen, a political philosopher at Notre Dame, says yes. He was a Democrat for years, and has now come to be seen as an “ideological guru” of the Trump administration. But that only tells half the story ... SOURCES: Patrick Deneen, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. RESOURCES: "The Ideological Gurus Battling for…

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Extra: A Modern Whaler Speaks Up (Update) 26:47

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Bjørn Andersen has killed hundreds of minke whales. He tells us how he does it, why he does it, and what he thinks would happen if whale-hunting ever stopped. (This bonus episode is a follow-up to our series “Everything You Never Knew About Whaling.”) SOURCES: Bjørn Andersen, Norwegian whaler. RESOURCES: "Digestive physiology of minke whales," by S…

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Selling Restarts, How To Pronounce 'Dahlia' & Plant Spacings: How Many per Square Metre? 22:32

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Hello and welcome! It's a warm evening on Tuesday 26 August 2025. Tonight I share with you all the latest news from my plot and also talk through the seeds I've just received for 2026 including stunning Orlaya and some (hopefully) pastel Zinnias. Selling stems has restarted after a short break and it feels great, the batch cooking has restarted and…

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Let the Hens Out WIth Me, De-Mystifying Cool-Season Annuals & Prepping for Multiple Orders Next Week 20:03

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Hello and welcome to today's episode: it's Saturday 23 August 2025 (not the 22nd like I say on the podcast). Join me on on the plot this morning as we let the chickens and ducks out together. It's been another busy week although somewhat quiet on the flower selling front. Still lots of watering to be done as we remain in drought conditions and lots…

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What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life? (Update) 48:08

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In the final episode of our whale series, we learn about fecal plumes, shipping noise, and why Moby-Dick is still worth reading. (Part 3 of "Everything You Never Knew About Whaling.") SOURCES: Michele Baggio, professor of economics at the University of Connecticut. Mary K. Bercaw-Edwards, professor of maritime English at the University of Connectic…

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Eye-Opening Flower Farming Books, Fence Panels are Up, Electrical Problems & Enormous Dahlias 23:07

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Hello and welcome to today's episode: it's Tuesday 19 August 2025. Lots of successes over the weekend: the fat hose worked brilliantly to transfer water from the back of the van to IBC1; the fence panels are up around the newly-cleared area and they're secure; there is now a skirt of chicken wire around the fence panels to keep unwanted creatures o…

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It's Time to Learn Some Business Skills, Fat Hose, Press Releases & My Top Tips for Setting Out a Cut Flower Plot 32:28

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Hello and welcome to tonight's episode on Friday 15 August 2025. Lots to tell you! No more navel gazing about how badly I feel I'm doing! This week I was sent a message by a very kind listener from the USA with a book recommendation: Flower Farming for Profit by Lennie Larkin. I ordered the book, it arrived today and it looks brilliant and just wha…

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Why Do People Still Hunt Whales? (Update) 37:32

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For years, whale oil was used as lighting fuel, industrial lubricant, and the main ingredient in (yum!) margarine. Whale meat was also on a few menus. But today, demand for whale products is at a historic low. And yet some countries still have a whaling industry. We find out why. (Part 2 of “Everything You Never Knew About Whaling.”) SOURCES: Jay A…

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Heatwave Hell (Again), Doubts About Everything, The Key Colours I'm Growing in 2026 & Being Brave 21:26

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Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 11 August 2025 and it's really hot (yet again). We're in the midst of heatwave no. 4 right now and so I've been busy watering and mulching with bark to keep the moisture locked into the soil and try to slow the weeds down. In many places on the plot I have the healthiest and best-looking nettles in the world right no…

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Made It Through Another Week, Dahlia Dis-Budding, Emergency Staking & Bracing for (Yet) Another Heatwave 16:48

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Hello, it's Friday 8 August 2025. You're joining me for this episode on the plot: it's a truly beautiful evening and at one point a bat actually flies right over my head. This week has been good in terms of the cut flowers and my lovely event florist collected an order from me this morning. I have also got my car back from the mechanic and my cold …

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The First Great American Industry (Update) 45:02

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Whaling was, in the words of one scholar, “early capitalism unleashed on the high seas.” How did the U.S. come to dominate the whale market? Why did whale hunting die out here — and continue to grow elsewhere? And is that whale vomit in your perfume? (Part 1 of “Everything You Never Knew About Whaling.”) SOURCES: Eric Hilt, professor of economics a…

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Why Does Tipping Still Exist? (Update) 47:25

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It’s a haphazard way of paying workers, and yet it keeps expanding. With federal tax policy shifting in a pro-tip direction, we revisit an episode from 2019 to find out why. SOURCES: John List, economist at the University of Chicago. Michael Lynn, professor of consumer behavior and marketing at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. U…

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Visiting a Fellow Grower, How My Availability List Works, Pumping Water & Shirley's Babies Have Arrived! 22:26

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Hello and welcome to a warm and sunny Tuesday 5 August 2025. I'm back to cheerful business this week. However, apologies for my voice on this episode: I have got a cold at the moment. I've topped up one of the IBCs with a new water pump, which has been great and saved a lot of effort with no spillage, although it took the same amount of time as doi…

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Rain, My Car Broke Down, Sweetpeas & Zinnias Purchased for 2026, Jobs For The Weekend & Do I Need a Niche? 17:15

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Hello and a warm welcome to Friday 1 August 2025. Bit of a meh week! After praying for rain for months, it massively disrupted all my plans yesterday so today was a bit of a rush to fit everything in - and then my car broke down! On a roundabout! Not good. I've been feeling a bit flat this week because my marketing plan is clearly failing and I'm n…

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643. Why Do Candles Still Exist? 47:22

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They should have died out when the lightbulb was invented. Instead they’re a $10 billion industry. What does it mean that we still want tiny fires inside our homes? SOURCES: Tim Cooper, professor emeritus of sustainable design and consumption at Nottingham Trent University. Gökçe Günel, professor of anthropology at Rice University. Steve Horenzi…

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A Fellow Grower Visits, Something Ate My Apples & Grasses, The Lavenders Are Coming Back & The Zinnias Are Kicking Off 17:48

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Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 29 July 2025 and I hope you had a good weekend. It's a warm and sunny evening tonight and I'm recording on the plot. I've been busy clearing thistles and watching fence posts being installed to support the fence panels that will be going up around the newly-cleared area. There's also been lots of cutting, weeding, de…

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Tiny Studio Production Podcast Episode 69 - Kayla Kouture 34:05

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Peri-Meno-ing and Cut Flowers, Most/Least Profitable Flowers & the Potted Lavenders Saga 20:57

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Hello and welcome. It's Friday 25 July 2025. How is it Friday already?!? Today's episode is a little different: the first part is me talking frankly and honestly to you about the challenges of establishing a cut flower business with peri-menopause. It has not been easy! I discuss how my debilitating symptoms impacted on me at a time when I needed e…

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642. How to Wage Peace, According to Tony Blinken 1:06:28

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The former secretary of state isn’t a flamethrower, but he certainly has strong opinions. In this wide-ranging conversation with Stephen Dubner, he gives them all: on Israel, Gaza, China, Iran, Russia, Biden, Trump — and the rest of the world. SOURCES: Antony Blinken, former Secretary of State. RESOURCES: "Evaluating the impact of two decades of US…

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Why Does One Tiny State Set the Rules for Everyone? (Update) 47:02

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Until recently, Delaware was almost universally agreed to be the best place for companies to incorporate. Now, with Elon Musk leading a corporate stampede out of the First State, we revisit an episode from 2023 that asked if Delaware’s “franchise” is wildly corrupt, wildly efficient … or both? SOURCES: John Cassara, retired Special Agent detailee t…

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Dahlias: Re-Staking & Thwarting Earwigs, Blush Flowers Needed, Dynamic Pricing, and How Intention & Values Shape Growing 32:22

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Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 22 July 2025 and I've had to put a jumper on this evening for the first time in months. So much to tell you about this evening: I've been batch cooking dinners, collecting lots of rainwater, staking dahlias (properly this time), removing dahlia leaves to discourage earwigs, and deadheading cornflowers like mad (again…

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I Have Dahlias Flowering (At Last), Lots of Cutting for Weddings, Unwelcome Earwigs, and Rain Arrives At Last (Phew) 15:48

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Hello and welcome to warm evening on Friday 18 July 2025. Tonight I'm sharing all my news about cutting and selling my flowers: this week I've been cutting and conditioning for a Thursday morning collection to my wedding florist, as well as securing a (very) last-minute order for a client that I delivered to a marina this morning. I'll also be talk…

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641. What Does It Cost to Lead a Creative Life? 46:22

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For years, the playwright David Adjmi was considered “polarizing and difficult.” But creating Stereophonic seems to have healed him. Stephen Dubner gets the story — and sorts out what Adjmi has in common with Richard Wagner. SOURCES: David Adjmi, author and playwright. RESOURCES: "The West End is enjoying a theatre revival. Can Broadway keep up?" b…

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Pricing: I Don't Know What I'm Doing, Oversharing (Am I?), & Challenges When Prepping For Upcoming Weddings 20:46

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Hello and welcome to a windy and cloudy Tuesday 15 July 2025. Today's episode includes a chat about the challenges of prepping for supplying the weddings that I have coming up and the problems I'm having with pricing: it's really hard. I'm not sure I'm getting it right yet, which bothers me. It's also challenging for me to ensure that all the cut f…

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Big Problem: The Greenfly Are Back, Ridiculously Wrong Plant Spacings, Dahlia Labelling Disaster & My First Florist Plot Visit 25:45

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Hello and welcome! It's the evening of Friday 11 July 2025 and I'm recording from the plot so the audio quality is a little bit up and down. I hope it doesn't bother you too much. It's so much nicer talking amongst the flowers than at home. Today's episode is a gentle evening walk-round of the plot and a chat about what's going on with everything I…

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640. Why Governments Are Betting Big on Sports 50:12

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The Gulf States and China are spending billions to build stadiums and buy up teams — but what are they really buying? And can an entrepreneur from Cincinnati make his own billions by bringing baseball to Dubai? SOURCES: Simon Chadwick, professor of afroeurasian sport at Emlyon Business School. Derek Fisher, high school basketball coach, former N.B.…

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How to Make Your Own Luck (Update) 58:07

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Before she decided to become a poker pro, Maria Konnikova didn’t know how many cards are in a deck. But she did have a Ph.D. in psychology, a brilliant coach, and a burning desire to know whether life is driven more by skill or chance. She found some answers in poker — and she’s willing to tell us everything she learned. SOURCES: Maria Konnikova, a…

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Heatwave No. 3 is Here, My Shower is Full of Annabelles, Difficult Growing Conditions Mean Difficult Choices & Why I Don't Want to Sell my Nigella 19:00

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Hello and welcome to this episode. It's a hot Tuesday 8 July 2025. I've been very busy on the field with dahlia staking (thanks to my birthday present of road pins), deadheading, staking and weeding. I really must sort the staking out earlier next year as it's a nightmare trying to do it when the plants are big and flowering. No dahlia flowers yet …

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Selling Has Finally Started, Nigella Finally Flowering, Zinnias Driving Me Mad, No Rain Yet, and It's My Birthday! 23:48

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Hello and welcome! It's Friday 4 July 2025 and it's my birthday! And Happy American Independence Day if you're celebrating that today! I'm on a massive high after selling 100 stems of cut flowers to my lovely event florist, Jo, so I chat about this and how I managed to get everything delivered without breaking anything or spilling any water (a mira…

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639. “This Country Kicks My Ass All the Time” 53:46

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Cory Booker on the politics of fear, the politics of hope, and how to split the difference. SOURCES: Cory Booker, senior United States Senator from New Jersey. RESOURCES: "'When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?'" by The New Yorker Radio Hour (2025). "Cory Booker’s Marathon Floor Speech," (2025). "Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girl…