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The one and only Mel Brooks discusses the play Squeeze Box (produced by his wife Anne Bancroft), and life since The Producers”. We’ll talk to Utah State archaeologist Kevin Jones and David Hurst Thomas, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, about the significance of the Fremont ruins at Range Creek in Utah. Kept under wraps on land owned by a 74-year-old cowboy, the ruins—which researchers are saying are some of the most important archeological remains in the country—were recently sold to the federal government. Then editor and contributor Tim McLoughlin and contributors Kenji Jasper and Ellen Miller join us to discuss the short story collection Brooklyn Noir. Finally, sports writer Alan Schwarz offers insight on the allure of baseball statistics in his new book The Numbers Game.