Monday Morning Politics; The LIRR's Big Miscalculation; How to Learn 'New Tricks'; Vinyl Records Are Back

4 segments
Passengers wait for a Long Island Rail Road train to depart for its inaugural trip from Jamaica station towards Grand Central Terminal, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in the Queens borough of New York.

Coming up on today's show:

  • Molly Ball, national political correspondent for TIME and the author of Pelosi (Henry Holt and Co., 2020), talks about the banking backstop, Pres. Biden's budget proposals, and other national political news.
  • Since the Long Island Railroad introduced new schedules last month to coincide with full service to Grand Central Madison, commuters have been complaining of packed trains and chaotic transfers at Jamaica. Alfonso Castillo, Newsday transit reporter, explains how the LIRR is tweaking schedules to try to fix the problems, and commuters weigh in on how it's going and if they've noticed any improvements so far.
  • Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker, talks about his new book The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery (Liveright, 2023) which relates what he discovered in trying to acquire new skills as a middle-aged adult.
  • Vinyl records sold more units than CDs in the U.S. last year -- for the first time since 1987. Larry Miller, clinical professor and director of Music Business Program at NYU Steinhardt, discusses what's behind the revival of vinyl and vinyl fanatics weigh in on why they covet the medium.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.