John Hodgman

Biographer Brad Gooch reveals that he traveled 2500 miles to trace Rumi's footsteps, learned Persian and spent eight years to write “Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love.”

Kim Masters and Matt Belloni offer a fresh banter about the current awkwardness at WarnerMedia.

In Hollywood, merger mania continues, this time with a tech twist. Amazon is buying the storied MGM Studios, and the library of 4,000 movies and TV shows that comes with it.

Actor and director David Oyelowo on the layers of a family film.

Warner Bros. was hoping for a big summer hit with its movie adaptation of the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical “In the Heights.”

Usually the simplest part of reviewing a movie is designating its genre.

Actor Kenan Thompson on taking comedy very seriously.

Domenico Ingenito speaks about his book, “Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry.”

Today’s entire show looks deeply at the Boyle Heights neighborhood of LA.