In 2018, I created An Arm and a Leg, a podcast about why health care costs so freaking much, and what we can maybe do about it.
Before An Arm and a Leg, I was a staff reporter for public radio’s Marketplace and Chicago’s WBEZ, and freelanced to outlets like 99 Percent Invisible and Reveal. So here are a few of those stories.
For 99 Percent Invisible
Chicago made its river run backwards, to save the city from its own poop.
The sex club that became a church
(or tried to)…
For Reveal
A swingers club sought the First Amendment’s religious-freedom protections… to avoid a wicked zoning problem.
For Marketplace
To start with, very little of America’s biggest crop is grown for humans to eat.
What happens when a state doesn’t have a budget?
For WBEZ
Nothing good. Illinois spent more than a year without one. A listener asked, “So what happens to my tax dollars?”
The poetry of failure comes to life at Chicago’s ‘Baudelaire in a Box’
For NPR’s All Things Considered
Chicago’s Theater Oobleck celebrates the bard of ‘spleen,’ adapting every poem from Baudelaire’s ‘Fleurs du Mal.’
Want more Dan?
An Arm and a Leg
The podcast. Taking on one of the most enraging, terrifying, depressing parts of American life — and making a show that’s entertaining, empowering and useful. It’s pretty good!
Find me / get in touch
I’m on BlueSky sometimes, and can get DMs there.
LinkedIn is a good spot to see my resume, but not a great way to get in touch with me, tbh.
The contact form at An Arm and a Leg sends mail directly to my inbox.
First Aid Kit
A newsletter from An Arm and a Leg, with practical lessons about surviving the health care system.
Also good!
Dan Weissmann 