Podcasts Recorded in the Great Hall

POSTED ON: April 15, 2025

Kara Swisher and Preet Bharara podcasts

Two recent Great Hall public programs are available to stream as episodes of the podcasts On with Kara Swisher and Stay Tuned with Preet.

Award-winning journalist Kara Swisher was joined on April 7, 2025, for a conversation with Emmy-nominated writer, stand-up comic, and actor Josh Johnson. The program, taped live in the Great Hall for an episode of Swisher’s podcast, explores Johnson’s entrepreneurial approach to distributing and owning his work, how to make dry political topics like tariffs funny and relatable, what Elon Musk should really be doing with his money, and how the ultimate antidote to fear is community.

The Honorable Stephen Breyer, retired associate justice of the Supreme Court, spoke with former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara on April 4, 2025 for an episode of Bharara's podcast, also recorded live in the Great Hall. Justice Breyer discusses his latest book, Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism, and shares his reflections on judicial integrity and political pressure, how the Court deliberates and decides cases, and whether judges should be impeached based on their rulings.

You can listen to On with Kara Swisher here and Stay Tuned with Preet here.

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