The Art of Asking Everything
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The Art of Asking Everything
Amanda Palmer is a rock star, best-selling author, TED speaker and community leader who does everything on her own terms simply by asking. Now, she turns the tables on her colleagues and heroes to find out how they create art, love difficult people, work for change, and survive the worst moments of...
Recent Episodes
25 episodesSusan Cain: Longing for The Beautiful World
Amanda sits down to discuss art, life, why goth matters, and the process behind star TED speaker and author Susan Cain's new #1 Bestseller, "Bitterswe...
Highlights of The First Season or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Podcast
A crowdsourced episode! You asked, we answered with this episode: A collage of the best moments so far.
From New Zealand to Portland, London to...
Sherry Turkle: Is Technology Killing Our Hearts?
Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Socie...
Dr. Rola Hallam: The Fuckery of Philanthropy
Dr. Rola Hallam is a punk rock doctor. She is the founder of CanDo; a crowdfunding platform that puts resources in the hands of the frontline healthca...
Clare Bowditch: Putting Hope into The World
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Clare Bowditch, recorded March 6th, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia.
Clare Bowditch is...
Madison Young: Can Porn Be Feminist? (Spoiler alert: Yes it can)
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Madison Young, recorded June 11, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
Madison Young is an erotic artis...
Rachel Jayson: I Want The Thing
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Rachel Jayson, recorded September 10, 2019 in Woodstock, NY.
Rachel Jayson is musician, edu...
Wayne Muller: A Chat with my Therapist
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Wayne Muller, recorded July 15, 2019 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.
Wayne Muller...
Fred Leone: Song Man
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Fred Leone, recorded March 6, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia.
Fred Leone is a musici...
Masarat Daud: I Am Not Responsible for your Ignorance
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Masarat Daud, recorded October 29, 2019 in London, England.
Masarat Daud is an alumnus of C...
Tim Flannery: The Need for Drawdown
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Tim Flannery, recorded July 23, 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Tim Flannery is an Aus...
Tim Minchin: Accidentally Brave
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Tim Minchin, recorded February 20, 2020, in Sydney, AUS.
Tim Minchin is a world-renounded A...
Dan Savage: Sex Rules Us
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Dan Savage, recorded June 4, 2019 in Seattle, WA.
Dan Savage is an author, media pundit, jo...
Tim Ferriss: The Fear of No
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Tim Ferriss, recorded March 15, 2019 in Austin, TX.
Tim Ferriss is a best-selling author, s...
Storm Large: Know Who You Are Not
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Storm Large, recorded June 11, 2019 in Portland, OR.
Born in Southborough, M...
KT Tunstall: The Land of I Don’t Give a Fuck
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with KT Tunstall, recorded October 15, 2019 in London.
KT Tunstall is a Scottis...
Jamil Zaki: Tuning Your Empathy Fork
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Jamil Zaki, recorded remotely on April 11, 2019 in Woodstock, NY and Stanford, CA.
J...
Nadya Tolokonnikova: Pussy Rioting Now
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Nadya Tolokonnikova. Recorded October 4th, 2020.
Nadya Tolokonnikova is a Russian co...
Leslie Salmon Jones: The Heart Doesn’t Lie
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Leslie Salmon Jones, recorded July 5, 2019 at The Omega Institute.
Leslie Salmon Jo...
Eli Pariser: How We Can Actually Use the Internet for Good Things
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Eli Pariser, recorded July 24, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Eli Pariser wants to ma...
Laura Jane Grace: Punk Guilt
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Laura Jane Grace. Recorded March 15, 2019 in Austin, TX.
Laura Jane Grace is the fo...
BJ Miller: An Expert on Death Talks About Life
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with BJ Miller. Recorded May 9th, 2019 in Marin, CA.
BJ currently sees patients and fami...
Lenny Henry: Humor, Trauma, and Flipping the Cosmic Spatula
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Lenny Henry, recorded December 17, 2019 in London.
Lenny Henry is one of the most s...
Elizabeth Lesser: Bullshit is Everywhere
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Elizabeth Lesser. Recorded Aug 14, 2019 in Woodstock, NY.
Elizabeth Lesser is an au...
Introducing... Everything
One day in my early forties I looked around and realized that I occupied a very strange social space: I was good friends with both doctors and porn ac...