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  • “Anxiety Club” offers an insightful and humorous exploration of anxiety through the lens of some of today’s most brilliant comedians: Tiffany Jenkins, Marc Maron, Aparna Nancherla, Mark Normand, Joe List, Eva Victor and Baron Vaughn. With a mix of stand-up performances, sketch videos, exclusive interviews, and relatable everyday life experiences, they share their personal struggles with anxiety, the world’s most prevalent mental health condition. The documentary has been screening at film festivals around the country and, as of today, is available on jolt.film.
  • (Airs 04/24/26 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: President Trump makes an endorsement in New York’s 21st Congressional district race, Elise Stefanik sits down for an interview with the New York Public News Network’s Jimmy Vielkind, and we’ll look at how some Hudson Valley counties are integrating artificial intelligence into daily operations.
  • (Airs 04/10/26 @ 3 p.m. & 04/12/26 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of The Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and David Lombardo, host of The Capitol Pressroom on WCNY and WAMC. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy and David talk about whether the model for non-profit journalism sustains news coverage, consolidation of the broadcast industry, maintaining fairness during interviews, and much more.
  • Well-known insurers are selling new sorts of health plans outside the Affordable Care Act exchanges that may sound cheaper but aren't necessarily. Some, for example, charge extra for common surgeries.
  • Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people comprising a broad cross section of lives touched by New York City’s Rikers Island prison complex. The portrait that emerges calls into question the very nature of justice in America. The new book is "Rikers: An Oral History."
  • Musician Robert Burke Warren has just edited the book, "Cash on Cash," which offers insight into one of the most significant American cultural figures of the twentieth century. It is a comprehensive collection of Johnny Cash interviews and feature stories, some widely published and others never previously transcribed, culled from the 1950s through the early days of the new millennium.
  • NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Lin-Manuel Miranda and screenwriter Quiara Alegría Hudes about their new film In the Heights, based off the Tony-award winning musical Miranda created and starred in.
  • NYS OPWDD Commissioner Willow Baer talks agency goals, regional disability health clinic funding, Medicaid cuts, and workforce pay in an exclusive Disabilities Beat interview with Emyle Watkins.
  • President Obama is trying to win congressional support for a limited military strike on Syria. Democrat Rep. Joe Manchin of W. Va. says Washington must "exhaust all diplomatic options" before it acts. Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken tells Steve Inskeep he believes all options have been exhausted.
  • Northern New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is on the shortlist to join former President Donald Trump’s ticket as he runs to return to the White House. But before defending Trump during his impeachments and emerging as a high-profile surrogate on the campaign trail and in conservative media, the representative from the 21st district kept her distance.
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