Typos and misprints are as old as writing and printing. This hour, we take a look at them from the "Wicked Bible" to National Park signs and your email inbox. And: the changing status of human typos in the age of AI.

GUESTS:

• Rachel Churner: Art critic, editor, and professor. She is a co-curator with Geoff Kaplan of the exhibit “Beauties of My Style: Errata and the Printed Mistake” at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library. She is the co-founder of no place press and currently serves as the director of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation

• Jeff Deck: Writer, writing coach and co-author with Benjamin D. Herson of The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

• Katie Notopoulos: Senior correspondent at Business Insider who writes about technology, business, and culture

Music featured (in order):

• The Typewriter – Leroy Anderson and “His” Orchestra

• Typos – The Incredible Casuals

• Oops!... I Did It Again – Britney Spears

• Apostrophe – The Doubleclicks

• S-E-X-X-Y – They Might Be Giants

• To Make a Mistake Is Human – Ella Fitzgerald

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Is it possible to live forever? And if so, should we even want to? This hour, we discuss the search for immortality, from ancient philosophers to the elixir of life. Plus, a look at immortalizing public figures through obituaries.

GUESTS:

• Tushar Irani is a Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University studying Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

• Philip Ball is a freelance science writer and the author of Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

• William McDonald recently retired as the obituaries editor for The New York Times, a position that he held for the past 20 years

Music featured (in order):

• Galahad – Aoife O’Donovan

• You Only Live Twice – Nancy Sinatra

• If We Were Vampires – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

• Alchemy – Cam

• Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) – Ellen McIlwaine

• Fame – Irene Cara

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Primetime is the fourth feature film — and the first narrative feature film — directed by Lance Oppenheim. It is the second feature directed by Oppenheim that The Nose has covered in the last 15 days (and the other one is currently the No. 1 movie in the country). It stars Robert Pattinson as a heightened version of Chris Hansen during the production of To Catch a Predator.

And: Phony is a high school comedy-mystery series from Hulu. It stars Sam Nivola as a teenager who is convinced that his mother, played by Connie Britton, has been replaced by an impostor.

GUESTS:

• Shawn Murray: A stand-up comedian and writer; he claims to be the rightful heir to the Murray’s Hair Pomade fortune
• Irene Papoulis: Taught writing for a long time at Trinity College
• Lindsay Lee Wallace: A writer and a noted chiropterology journalist, among other things

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