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Adam Felber

Adam Felber

American satirist and author

May 9, 2026

6:03
Heated, stirred, and heated again?
6:05
Yes, [laughs] it's Reheated.
6:07
He is an award-winning journalist and podcast host whose work spans public radio, print, and television.
6:13
He has guest hosted NPR's All Things Considered and Wait Wait...
6:17
Don't Tell Me!, and his reporting has been featured on This American Life, Radiolab, and Planet Money.
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He's appeared on MSNBC, CNN, Real Time with Bill Maher, and PBS NewsHour, and his writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, the Free Press, The Guardian, and many other publications.
6:32
He's also the creator and host of The Gist, which is awesome, and it is the longest-running daily news podcast in the history of podcasts.

15 MINS LATER

21:18
All right, back to the Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone podcast.
24:05
So do you suffer from Felber drift? And do you know the etymology of hang fire?
24:11
Wow.
24:12
I'm going to say no and no. I've never heard of Felber Drift.
24:17
I've never heard my colleagues say that there was such a thing as Felber Drift.
24:20
I do get kind of obsessed.
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I will go down rabbit holes.
24:24
Hang Fire, I probably did look it up at one point because I did own the Rolling Stones early 80s album Tattoo You, which features the song Hang Fire, which I think was a hit.
29:11
This is great.

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