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Song Exploder - Key Change: Baz Luhrmann on “Time After Time.”

My guest today is Baz Luhrmann, the award-winning director whose films include Moulin Rouge!, Strictly Ballroom, The Great Gatsby, Elvis, and Romeo + Juliet.  His newest film is  EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, a critically acclaimed documentary about Elvis that’s playing right now in theaters and in IMAX. Before becoming a massively successful film director, Baz began his showbiz career as an actor, and as a ballroom dancer, in Australia. His first film was Strictly Ballroom, which came out in 1992, and became one of the highest-grossing Australian films of all time. It was originally a play, and there’s a song in the film that was part of the story all the way back when it was first performed on stage. And that’s what Baz and I talked about for this episode.

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Native America Calling - Wednesday, March 18, 2026 – States, philanthropy help keep tribal clean energy projects going

Washington State awarded a number of tribes almost $18 million for clean energy projects — from solar installations to electric fishing and research boat conversions. It is one of the alternative funding sources as tribes and tribal economic development ventures scramble to fill a void following the withdrawal of some $1.5 billion in federal dollars. We’ll get an update on where clean energy infrastructure and development trends are headed in the absence of any new federal money.

GUESTS

David Harper (Mojave from the Colorado River Indian Tribes), CEO of Huurav Energy

John Lewis (Gila River Indian Community), managing director for Native American Energy at Avant Energy

Miacel Spotted Elk (Navajo and Northern Cheyenne), Indigenous affairs reporter at Grist

Shaun Tsabetsaye (Zuni), head of tribal technical assistance and project development for the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy

 

Break 1 Music: Lightning Scarred Heart (song) Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Friends (artist) Why the Caged Bird Sings (album)

Break 2 Music: Lowlands (song) Blue Moon Marquee (artist) Scream, Holler, and Howl (album)

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Marketplace All-in-One - Do we need quarterly earnings reports?

Why not report earnings twice a year? The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing a proposal to eliminate the requirement for publicly traded companies to report quarterly earnings, according to The Wall Street Journal. It's a move that companies are cheering, but it also means less transparency for investors. Also on this morning's show: a preliminary deal between the WNBA and its players' union, and what older adults should keep in mind this tax season.

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60 Songs That Explain the '90s - Kelis — “Milkshake”

Today, Rob talks about the song that left him speechless upon his first listen—“Milkshake”. He retraces his steps back to the beginning of Kelis’s career when she was screaming at a Glastonbury crowd. He analyzes the trend of not being able to place Black women into neat and separate genres, as rock, rap, punk, pop, and R&B start to blur lines. He is blissfully confused, and that is okay. Later, he is joined by music critic Leslie Gray Streeter to discuss the art of balancing humor and anger in a song and the empowerment of “Milkshake” as Kelis makes fun of the men who lust after her.


Host: Rob Harvilla

Producers: Justin Sayles and Olivia Crerie

Additional Video Editing: Kevin Pooler and Chris Sutton

Guest: Leslie Gray Streeter

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WSJ Minute Briefing - Gulf States Call on U.S. to Crush Iran’s Ability to Harm Them

Plus: Amazon is planning a major cut in packages sent through the already cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service. And chips stocks help U.S. futures rise after Nvidia says it has restarted manufacturing H200 processors for China. Luke Vargas hosts.


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WSJ What’s News - Why War Isn’t Spooking Wall Street—Yet

A.M. Edition for Mar. 18. Gulf leaders insist on crippling Iran’s regime before ending the war, marking a major pivot from a region that once courted Tehran. Plus, as fighting drags on, Barclays’ Emmanuel Cau discusses why the mood in U.S. equity markets has remained largely upbeat. And bad news for the struggling U.S. Postal Service, as Amazon plans to take its business elsewhere. Luke Vargas hosts.


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Curious City - Chicago came under martial law after the Great Fire. Did it help?

The mayor of Chicago declared martial law after the Great Fire in 1871. The military occupation ended days later, after the death of a civilian. We look back at that history and get the help of legal experts to answer these questions: Was Operation Midway Blitz — the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement campaign in Chicago — an example of martial law? What is martial law, anyway?