The Lowdown with Ira Wood on WOMR-FM

The Lowdown is a weekly talk show on Pacifica Radio Network affiliate WOMR-FM, Provincetown, MA, focusing on books, science, politics, the arts, and social trends. From nationally known authors, politicians, and entertainers to local activists, artists, and eccentrics, The Lowdown reaches listeners throughout Cape Cod and the Boston suburbs with informed and lively conversation.

The Lowdown with Ira Wood on WOMR-FM is a society podcast hosted by Ira Wood, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Ira Wood hosts The Lowdown with Ira Wood on WOMR-FM, a society show with 25 episodes published.

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  Episode #23

  How Corporations Warp the Truth and Destroy Democracy

  Sep 30, 202631 minS2026

  With the daily avalanche of headlines, alerts and updates, it’s never been harder to know or easier to doubt the what’s real. And that’s no accident. For over a hundred years, big industry has been trying to shape modern culture, diet, healthcare, and consumer habits by altering public perception, often without the public realizing a campaign is even taking place. Whether its calling climate change a hoax, pushing a war to save us from weapons of mass destruction, or trotting out bogus experts to question the link between smoking and lung cancer, it’s all a part of a polluted information eco-system created by PR firms, think tanks, lobbyists, and university research. Award-winning journalist lays it all out in our discussion of her book Brought to You By.

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  Episode #21

  How the US Military Creates Toxic Masculinity

  Sep 8, 202630 minS2026

  For over 250 years, the American military has tried to define what a man is supposed to be: tough, aggressive, and dominant. Those ideals have traveled beyond the battlefield, shaping schools, politics, pop culture, and expectations of boys and men. In journalist Jasper Craven's new book, God Forgives, Brothers Don't , he examines how military academies, ROTC programs, and other institutions have popularized that narrow model of masculinity, revealing a culture built around hierarchy, discipline, and service, but also marked by hazing, misogyny, racism, violence, and the suppression of vulnerability.

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  Episode #20

  Richard Pryor's Daughter and the N-word

  Aug 18, 202631 minS2026

  The N-word is the filthiest, dirtiest, nastiest word in the English language. But how can a word used to dehumanize Black people be a used by the Black community to express affection, humor, and defiance? That's one complicated word. But it all gets explained by Richard Pryor's daughter, now a history professor at Smith College, who unpacks the N-word's long ugly story and talks about growing up with the man who pioneered its use on stage.

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  Episode #19

  Intense Pleasure in a Year Without Sex

  Aug 11, 202630 minS2026

  Overwhelmed by 20 years of back-to-back unsatisfying sexual relationships, queer, award-winning memoirist Melissa Febos decides to go cold turkey to see what she can find out about life, sex, and love.

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  Episode #15

  The Search for a Father Who Hides Behind His Fame

  Aug 4, 202630 minS2026

  Justin Kaplan was an award winning biographer, a literary icon, and one of the most famous writers of his time. To his daughter, however, he was a complete mystery. In her new memoir biography, Hester Kaplan attempts to find the father who would never even let her call him 'dad.' Where to begin? In his Pulitzer prize winning biography of Mark Twain...an iconic writer whose history of loss and emotional pain mirrors Kaplan's own.

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