Nick Keppler

Episode 5: Nanci Griffith and Elliott Smith

Episode 5 of Listen or Die! Stacey and I review the careers and supposed best albums of two artists who came closer to the limelight than they ever expected as Nanci Griffith tries to make folkabilly happen and Elliott Smith finds himself backing up Madonna, literally. We're also on Apple Podcasts.

The cover page of today's @startribune.com is incredible

Excellent

Episode 4: The Wall by Pink Floyd and I Should Coco by Supergrass

Bored at home? In transit? Laying around in a post-Christmas food coma? All reasons to listen to episode 4 of our podcast, Listen or Die! Stacey and I discuss the exuberant debut of Supergrass, England's it band of 1995, and several iterations of The Wall, the moody magnum opus of Pink Floyd!

For anyone who does not know how journalism works, you do the reporting and try to get comment from anyone implicated. They may not respond for a variety of reasons. You're asking for comment, not permission. The head of CBS News does not know how journalism works or hopes that you do not.

Hi Natalie, I spoke to people whose Medicare accounts were charged for services they didn't receive or need or ask for from companies that don't seem to exist. In some cases, secondary insurers were charged too.

Medicare Scammers Are Calling Seniors 50 Times a Day, Trying to Trap Them

I wrote this for the @nytimes.com: Scammers are calling seniors more than 50 times a day. Some who get scammed wind up with weird charges on their Medicare and mysterious packages on their porches

Episode 3: Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis and Arrival by ABBA

Traveling today? Entertain yourself with episode three of Listen or Die! We're talking about Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis and Arrival by ABBA. Includes brief and somewhat informed discussions of early jazz subgenres and the Eurovision song contest!

Hey all, for a New York Times story, I am looking to speak to people who are getting inundated with Medicare enrollment scam calls, to the point that the calls themselves are a quality of life issue. If you know someone in this situation, hit me up here or nickkeppler@yahoo.com. Thanks

Special Halloween episode of Listen or Die! Stacey and I tackle (What's the Story) Morning Glory by #Oasis and the Marshall Mathers LP by #Eminem. We also talk about Wonderwall as a meme, the ongoing crisis with men, lessons about healthily playing the villain learned from acting at a haunted house

Episode 1: White Light/White Heat by the Velvet Underground and Slayed? by Slate

Stacey Federoff and I have a new podcast! We are second-guessing the book 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, doing deep dives on two albums at a time. Episode 1: The Velvet Underground and Slade. Please check it out and like and subscribe.

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I'm sorry, Kat, both about the layoff and the end (in all but name) of Mental Floss. It was great working with you.

Starbucks, why silent all these years?

The big iron memes are still a thing?

KERA's Think There’s a cottage industry of self-help books for dealing with a narcissist. But what if you are the narcissist? Nick Keppler joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how narcissistic personality disorder is d...

You can listen to me on Dallas's public radio station @kera.org And also watch me shuffle my notes on their YouTube page.

It’s the Most Hated Personality Trait in the World. The People Who Have It Think You Should Listen to Them. The diagnosable illness is also the internet’s punching bag. These narcissists have had enough.

Have you noticed that everyone who's bad is labeled a narcissist now? Unbearable parents, shitty exes, the president. Some people with actual narcissistic personality disorder would like a word on that. My latest for @slate.com
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I did the two-week free trial of Ancestry.com. I always wondered if I was related to Johannes Kepler, the astronomer and mathematician. Nope. I am a descendent of someone who lived at the same time with kinda the same name, the era's equivalent of an Autozone manager named Steven Hawkin.

Journalism crowd source: Are you or do you know someone who has been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder and are trying to work through it? Real names are always preferable. Thanks!

AP PHOTOS: Cat wanders onto the White House grounds and joins the press corps WASHINGTON (AP) — A gray cat wearing a collar and a name tag that said “Sophie" wandered into the White House grounds.

The only good news story this week: A grey cat named Sophie briefly joined the White House Press Corps.

Far me be it for one health journalist to counter the HHS secretary, but I have interviewed several people on the spectrum about their jobs and social lives

Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.

They marked 6,000 immigrants who are not dead as dead

The Financial Fallout of Being Deactivated from Delivery Work Millions of Americans earn money finding gig work through platforms like Uber, Lyft or DoorDash. Many see their financial lives upended when their account is suddenly blocked for unclear reasons.

New one I wrote for the @nytimes.com: They Were Deactivated From Delivering. Their Finances Were Devastated. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/b...

Palestinian protester arrested by ICE despite green card, lawyer says Mahmoud Khalil is being detained as his lawyer fights for his release.

Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student who was a leader in talks between demonstrators and Columbia University officials last spring, was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents Saturday night despite having a green card, his attorney said.

These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

Some of these are new terms associated with movements and pushes towards greater sensitivity. And many others, like "disability", "victims" "at risk", "sex", "women" are just common words for things.

Fix your awful website

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It finally happened. Someone found a use for LinkedIn

The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Hey if any editor out there wants like 1500 words on Paul Ingrassia and his stolen charity, groyper associations, Mar-a-Lago adventures, friendship with DC’s US attorney Ed Martin, and his vast connections to Andrew Tate, I can write it in my sleep.