In December, The Royal Caribbean Ultimate World Cruise set off for a 9 month voyage, visiting 60 countries. The cheapest ticket was $59,999. The ship's passengers have taken to TikTok, with users following along, racking up hundreds of millions of views. However, cruises can divide opinion, some love them, some wouldn't dare be stuck on a boat for more than an hour. For the next installment of our Small Stakes, Big Opinions series, we take your calls about experiences and thoughts on cruises with comedian Josh Gondelman.
The New York Videogame Critic Circle is an organization that teaches underserved kids journalism skills through video games, and their annual New York Game Awards will be held next week. Founder Harold Goldberg joins to talk about his organization's work, along with longtime youth participant Kimari Rennis, who started with NYVGCC's Playing with Purpose program when she was 14, and is now studying game design at NYU. Plus, Harold and Kimari take listener calls about the best games released in 2023, and the most anticipated titles of 2024.
Ava DuVernay wrote and directed the new film, "Origin," which has been called "one of a kind," "powerful" and "ambitious." The story is based around the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and follows Wilkerson as she writes her book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Published in 2020, the book argues for considering racism as an aspect of a caste system like those in India or Nazi Germany. DuVernay and Ellis-Taylor join us to discuss the film, which is in theaters now.
[REBROADCAST FROM October 3, 2023] "Job" is a play that centers on the relationship between a crisis therapist, played by "Succession" actor Peter Friedman, and his client, a tech employee played by Sydney Lemmon whose recent workplace breakdown has become a viral video. Friedman and Lemmon join us with the playwright Max Wolf Friedlich. "Job" is running another limited engagement at Connelly Theater through March 3.