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In <em>Louie</em>, Louis C.K. plays a comic who finds comedy in uncomfortable, touchy topics.

Fresh Air Weekend: Louis C.K., Miles Davis And A Military Dog

The comic's show, Louie, is now in its fourth season; Davis' performances at New York's Fillmore East are now out in full; and a Marine dog adjusts to civilian life.

Paul Greenberg says the decline of local fish markets, and the resulting sequestration of seafood to a corner of our supermarkets, has contributed to "the facelessness and comodification of seafood."

Fresh Air Weekend: Joel McHale, 'Friendship,' And 'The Great Fish Swap'

Comedian Joel McHale talks bad TV and filming a thriller; Maureen Corrigan says Friendship is a startlingly nice novel; and author Paul Greenberg discusses why most of the fish we eat is imported.

Fresh Air Weekend: Nicole Maines; Sober For The Holidays; Novelist Maria Semple

Transgender activist Maines stars in a new HBO documentary. Sarah Hepola struggles to get through the holiday season without alcohol. Semple's new comic novel is about a stressed-out wife and mother.

Fresh Air Weekend: School Segregation; A Return To Prayer; Actress Rachel Bloom

Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones says "individual choices" contribute to school segregation. Muslim comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh turned to prayer after Trump's election. Bloom discusses Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Reflecting on one year since the deadly air collision over the Potomac River

An American Airlines jet collided in midair with an Army Black Hawk helicopter, out on a training exercise.

<em>The Daily Beast</em> listed Marc Maron's Netflix special <em>End Times Fun</em> as one of the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-best-stand-up-specials-to-stream-under-coronavirus-quarantine" data-key="21541">10 best</a> stand-up specials to stream while under coronavirus quarantine.

Fresh Air Weekend: Marc Maron; 'Simpsons' Voice Actor Hank Azaria

Maron's new Netflix stand-up special, End Times Fun, was named before the coronavirus pandemic. Azaria reflects on his IFC comedy series Brockmire and why he no longer performs Apu on The Simpsons.

Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says President Biden told him from the outset: "We're going to make some mistakes along the way. We're going to stumble a bit. And when that happens, we're not going to blame anybody. We're just going to fix it." "Boy, was that refreshing," Fauci says.

Fresh Air Weekend: Dr. Anthony Fauci; How Women Police Differently

Dr. Fauci reflects on battling the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Women in Blue filmmaker Deirdre Fishel and Sgt. Alice White talk about how gender factors into policing.

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan star as Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison in <em>Ammonite.</em>

Fresh Air Weekend: Kate Winslet; Loudon Wainwright III And Vince Giordano

Winslet says she wanted to portrays a same-sex love story "wtihtout fear or secrecy" in Ammonite. Loudon Wainwright III and Vince Giordano play from the "Great American Songbook."

Ta-Nehisi Coates' 2014 <em>Atlantic Magazine</em> cover story, "<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/">The Case for Reparations</a>," led to a national conversation about how to reckon with injustices resulting from years of slavery. He won a National Book Award in 2015 for <em>Between the World and Me.</em>

Fresh Air Weekend: Ta-Nehisi Coates; Music Duo Tegan And Sara

Coates' new novel infuses the Underground Railroad with teleportation power. Justin Chang reviews Judy. Identical twins Tegan and Sara revisit their teen years and their early music in a new memoir.

Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as a sex worker who gets off the streets by becoming an actress in — and then a director of — porn films in HBO's<em> The Deuce. </em>She's also a producer on the series.<em> </em>

Fresh Air Weekend: Maggie Gyllenhaal; Breaking Free From The Purity Movement

Gyllenhaal takes on the power imbalance of sex work in The Deuce. Critic Justin Chang reviews The Sisters Brothers. Linda Kay Klein reflects on the shame caused by the Evangelical purity movement.

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