@iancoss.bsky.social
Creator of podcasts: The Big Dig, Forever is a Long Time, NEWTS!, Movement with Meklit Hadero
In a seasons collide moment: Carmen DeNunzio was forced out of the numbers racket by the state lottery, only to get busted on a bribe for a Big Dig contract. DeNunzio died this week at 68 -- 'the last nice wise guy' in Boston -- lovely obit by Kevin Cullen.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...
"We're Doing the Wiz" is coming home to Western MA -- Saturday Oct 4 at @nepublicmedia.bsky.social in Springfield. Sakina and I will be there w behind the scenes details, special guests, and of course...live music. Tickets & details:
www.nepm.org/nepm-events/...
You can find me at the @museumofscience.bsky.social tonight at 7pm playing immersive surround sound stories. DM me for a ticket discount...
24.09.2025 19:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Join me at the @museumofscience.bsky.social next week for a live show in the Mugar Omni theatre -- the only show to use that space without using the screen! It’s audio only, with the room blacked out, in 5.1 sorooooouuuuuund. And come get ice cream at Toscanini's after...
www.mos.org/events/subsp...
Feels like so long ago now that 'Scratch & Win' came out, but wow, that too was 2025! If you missed this one, come find out how a mischievous state treasurer and a bottle of Fanta gave the world the first scratch ticket...https://podcasts.apple.com/us/room/6748038412
05.08.2025 19:22 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Does this mean podcasting is over now?
23.07.2025 21:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Scratch & Win is so good!!
16.07.2025 04:11 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I think this is my new litmus test for whether or not someone is an old school Boston pol: how do they pronounce "patronage"?
12.07.2025 13:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A strong, if belated, recommendation for @iancoss.bsky.social 's podcast Scratch & Win about the rise of the Mass. Lottery. A total joy with a keen sense of how the old politics actually got played. I found myself talking back to the audio in a Boston accent: www.wgbh.org/podcasts/scr...
11.07.2025 00:29 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Down in DC doing interviews for a new WGBH series. This one should be interesting.
08.07.2025 13:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I got the horse right here!
04.07.2025 12:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And Yale too!
30.06.2025 11:10 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It's a twofer on the Apple homepage today, get it while you can...
23.06.2025 20:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The secret is to go to sleep 8 hours every night and walk the dog first thing in the morning. That's when the best thinking happens, for me at least!
17.06.2025 15:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This show has been blessed with so much support from Radiotopia, PRX, Tribeca Audio, Mass Humanities, and the friends/collaborators who pushed it along, especially my fabulous co-creator and co-host Sakina Ibrahim, and the many folks from our school who shared their stories.
17.06.2025 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This project started when the 2020 racial justice energy was hot, but it feels right to release in this moment. In many ways this show is about the afterword -- after the crisis, after the rallies and big gestures -- what has changed and what has not? Listen, share, and let us know what you think!
17.06.2025 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's 🚀 Day for "WE'RE DOING THE WIZ": the story of a small-town high school trying to stage an iconic Black musical in the midst of bussing, racial integration, and general theater kid drama. Did I mention it was my high school?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
We're doin' it!
Trailer is out. Premiere at Tribeca Fest is today. Episode one next week. Welcome to the world of my performing arts high school. @masshumanities.bsky.social @prx.org
Hah, that's amazing. Do you have any idea when it formally
changed over from the NH Sweepstakes to the NH Lottery?
"It’s like an entire political science course in one series" -- thanks @debbiejsr.bsky.social, that's exactly what we were going for! Come for the mafia bookies, stay for the tax revolt.
31.05.2025 13:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Backup Roman Mars, I can live with that
14.05.2025 14:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very cool -- have heard of these but never seen an image. Thanks for sharing!
09.05.2025 21:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I always welcome story ideas. I've got more of them than I can probably get around to producing, but hopefully I'll be able to keep at this for a while. I recall that story, is there a deeper history there you'd point me towards?
27.04.2025 18:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0It only took 3 years...
25.04.2025 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This idea has been on a low simmer for several years, waiting for the right combination of people and partners to do it right. So excited to say that in June of this year...We're Doing The Wiz.
25.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2@iancoss.bsky.social Just finished Scratch and
win. Bravo! Loved The Big Dig as well. 👊🏻
Thanks Jim!
11.04.2025 11:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Only the finest.
07.04.2025 12:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This was a great conversation, and both of these two seasons are must listens
06.04.2025 00:21 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
