Since the day Gennaro Lombardi made the fortuitous decision to flatten day-old bread and add chesse and sauce, pizza has been a New York staple. New York pizza is a breed apart, different from New Haven and Chicago varieties, and from its Neopolitan buffalo milk ancestor. Also on the show, while Bruce Sterling is primarily known for his science fiction, the line between fiction and real life isn't always so clear. But one of his predictions for the next half century is quite down-to-earth: we won't be cloning ourselves. We also discuss the poindextering of Poindexter, and of course all of the sunday talk shows.
What Say, Jay?
Jay Carney, White House correspondent, Time Magazine on the US’ confused policy toward North Korea.
Too Big to Swallow
New York City Councilman Alan Gerson, (D-1) on the recent EPA report that the air in lower Manhattan isn’t as bad as many think.
The Slice of Life
Ed Levine, host of WNYC's "Dish" and regular contributor for the Dining Section in the New York Times on the history of the New York pizza slice
Hitting Back at Big Brother
Matt Smith, staff writer for the SF Weekly on how retired Admiral John Poindexter, head of the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness Office got a taste of his own medicine
The Future is Now!
Science fiction writer, Bruce Sterling on his book, Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next Fifty Years (Random House, 2002)
Open Phones
Listeners' comments on what they'd want to see less of for the new year