Road Trip With Wnyc

Yillah Natalie grew up studying ballet. But when her family couldn’t afford classes anymore, she had to quit. Later, Yillah was mesmerized by the belly dancer in the video for U2's 1991 hit "Mysterious Ways" — both with the way she moved and the power she seemed to possess. Twenty years later, Yillah is a professional belly dancer.  Subscribe to Studio 360.

Jerry Seinfeld was just 27 when he first appeared on Johnny Carson in 1981. His unique comedy style eventually led him to create his namesake show with Larry David. After Seinfeld ran for nine seasons, he decided to go back to stand-up, and to his audience.   Subscribe to Here's The Thing.

You pick up your phone to send an email. You see a notification for a text message. All of a sudden, you're on Instagram debating whether or not to like an old high school classmate's engagement picture, Pinterest-ing the photographer, and contemplating the ice cream options within range. Note To Self talks with two people who work in the digital marketing worlds, who are worried about the consequences of their attention-grabbing tactics.  Subscribe to Note To Self.

Are we there yet? Radiolab explores the strange, subjective nature of time—from a sped-up spin through childhood, to a really, really slowed-down Beethoven symphony.  Subscribe to Radiolab.

Alec Baldwin sits down with fellow Long Islander Billy Joel—at the piano—for a conversation about life, and the musical choices he’s made. Subscribe to Here's The Thing.

Death Sex & Money talks to the best-selling author of The Color of Water about a life divided between his BMW days and his pickup truck days. (He loves the latter.) Subscribe to Death Sex & Money.

Will Knight covers artificial intelligence and robotics for MIT Technology Review. He traveled to Germany and got a taste for what it feels like to take your hands off the wheel, remove your feet from the pedals and let the car take over while zipping across Germany at 80 miles per hour. Subscribe to Money Talking.

For almost six decades, Jack Kerouac’s classic novel has been a totem for anyone who crawls behind the wheel in search of adventure. Studio 360 wanted to find out whether the book still speaks to readers—and provoked a little marital tension in the process. Subscribe to Studio 360.

Note to Self talks to someone who says his technology will be the first fundamental evolution in mass transit since subway tracks were laid. Subscribe to Note To Self. 

The Fishko Files explores the backstory of one of classical music's most frenetic songs.  Subscribe to The Fishko Files.

Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck took a road trip across America with his dog and published a non-fiction book about it. But as On The Media finds out, it’s mostly a fabrication. Subscribe to On The Media.

A father writes in to Movie Date to ask for suggestions on what to show his 8-year-old daughter while on a road trip. Also, Jack Black’s new movie, “The D Train,” focuses on a man traveling from his small town to LA to get the BMOC to come back for the high school reunion. Finally, the Sofia Vergara/Reese Witherspoon film “Hot Pursuit” is about a criminal and cop on an unlikely road trip. Subscribe to Movie Date.

Radiolab tells the story of the night a group of paranormal investigators showed up at Dennis Conrow's door in Kansas and made him realize what it really means for a house, or a man, to be haunted. Subscribe to Radiolab.

Studio 360 explains why William F. Cody was the most famous American in the world—a showman and spin artist who presented a new creation myth for America, bringing cowboys, Indians, settlers, and sharpshooters to audiences who had only read about the West in dime novels.  Subscribe to Studio 360.

Dan Pashman talks to the curator of the Moist Towelette Museum about the best way to use them and what makes an especially great one. Then Dan and his friend Mark Garrison debate cloth vs. paper napkins, whether napkin color affects meal enjoyment, and whether restaurants should be banned from using scented hand soap. Subscribe to The Sporkful.

There's a neighborhood in Austin, Texas, where the refrigerators tell stories. The roofs are paved in solar panels. There are more electric cars per capita here in the Muëller community than in any residential neighborhood in America. It's a kind of paradise. And it could drive you nuts. Subscribe to Note to Self.

On The Media tells the story of one Pennsylvania paper that stopped using the word "Redskin" when referring to Washington's pro football team.  Subscribe to On The Media.

The Replacements were famously hard-living and raucous during their mid-to-late 1980s heyday. Recently, another of Minnesota's favorite musical sons, Craig Finn of the Hold Steady, found himself sharing a stage with his childhood heroes. He walks Soundcheck through a playlist of his favorite tunes.  Subscribe to Soundcheck.