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854 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Alan Alda

   Alan Alda, Podcaster · Jun 2022

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   John Carpenter

   John Carpenter Picks Three Favorite Film Scores · Oct 2025

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   David Simon

   David Simon’s “The Deuce” Charts the Rise of Pornography · 2 episodes

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   Richard Linklater

   Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague” · Oct 2025

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   Daniel Radcliffe

   Daniel Radcliffe Gets His Facts Straight, and Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Politics · Oct 2018

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   Elvis Costello

   From the Archive: Elvis Costello Talks with David Remnick · 2 episodes

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   James Taylor

   From the Archive: James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar · 3 episodes

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   John Ridley

   John Ridley on Charlottesville and the Legacy of Racism · Aug 2017

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   Terry Gross

   Terry Gross Talks with David Remnick · Jan 2020

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    David Byrne
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    Harry Shearer

    Derek Smalls—Harry Shearer’s Character in “Spinal Tap”—Returns with His Solo Début · Nov 2018

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    St. Vincent

    From the Archive: St. Vincent’s Seduction · 2 episodes

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    Larry Wilmore

    Episode 31: Larry Wilmore on Presidential Comedians, and James O’Keefe’s Blunder · May 2016

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    Ai Weiwei

    Ai Weiwei, and Doing Business with China · Jun 2017

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    Thelma Golden

    Rewriting Art History at the Studio Museum in Harlem · Nov 2025

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    Anita Hill

    Anita Hill and Jane Mayer on Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the State of the Supreme Court · Apr 2022

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    Roz Chast

    Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, Ukelele Superstars; Jennifer Egan on Cops and Robbers · Oct 2017

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    Miranda July

    Miranda July’s New Novel Takes on Marriage, Desire, and Perimenopause · 2 episodes

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    Barry Blitt

    Barry Blitt’s Rogues’ Gallery of Presidents · Dec 2017

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    Alison Bechdel
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    Andrew Ross Sorkin

    Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025 · Nov 2025

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    Anthony Hopkins

    Anthony Hopkins on “The Father,” and Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel · Feb 2021

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    Keegan-Michael Key
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    Ilana Glazer

    Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen · May 2024

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    Kevin Costner

    Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures · Jun 2024

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    James Comey

    James Comey Makes His Case to America · Apr 2018

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    Kelly Slater

    Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads · 2 episodes

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    Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Virtual Reality, and the Politics of Genetics · 2 episodes

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    George Saunders

    Episode 39: The Gawker Sex-Tape Blowup, and George Saunders on Trump · 2 episodes

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    Hillary Clinton

    Hillary Clinton on How Donald Trump Lost the Iran War · 2 episodes

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    Isabel Wilkerson

    Isabel Wilkerson on America’s Caste System · 2 episodes

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    Bob Woodward

    Bob Woodward on His Trump Tapes · Jan 2023

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    Sara Bareilles

    Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme · Jan 2025

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    Atul Gawande

    Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw” · 7 episodes

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    Jon Meacham

    Jon Meacham on How the Trump Fever Breaks · Mar 2023

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    Emilia Clarke

    Emilia Clarke on a Near-Death Experience Scarier than “Game of Thrones” · Mar 2019

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    Antony Blinken

    Antony Blinken’s Exit Interview · Jan 2025

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    Ariel Levy
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    Brooke Gladstone

    From “On the Media”: David Remnick Talks with Brooke Gladstone About Reporting in Israel · Nov 2023

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    Clare Malone

    R.F.K., Jr., and the Central Park Bear, with Clare Malone · 2 episodes

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