society
Hosted by The New York Times · society · EN
Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artists about the moment we’re in. Surprisingly personal and never obvious, new episodes drop Thursdays.Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
Required Pod Score for this podcast. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.
Contact path
Verified email
Booking probability
33%
Guest openness
Selective
Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for Cannonball with Wesley Morris.
Signup to Generate a PitchConversations about the culture that moves us, the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artists about the moment we’re in. Surprisingly personal and never obvious, new episodes drop Thursdays.
Cannonball with Wesley Morris is hosted by The New York Times. The show has published 64 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Best TV of This Century?" (25 September 2026, 56 minutes), "Cannonball Will Be Back Tomorrow!" (24 September 2026, 1 minute), and "Who Keeps On Choosin’ Texas?" (17 September 2026, 45 minutes).
Cannonball with Wesley Morris publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 64 episodes.
Booking probability for Cannonball with Wesley Morris is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Cannonball with Wesley Morris requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Cannonball with Wesley Morris's contact route on record: verified email.
The New York Times hosts Cannonball with Wesley Morris, a society podcast with 64 episodes published.
Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
The New York Times asked more than 500 TV insiders and experts to select their 10 favorite shows that premiered in the 21st century. That survey of the 100 best TV shows published this week. There’s lots of golden age...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
This week’s episode will be about the New York Times list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century (full list here) . See you tomorrow! Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
Singer-songwriter Ella Langley’s country tune “Choosin’ Texas” entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart last November, and it hasn’t left. It’s just tied the record for the most nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1: 22 . (Sorry...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
It has been 25 years since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and Wesley has been reflecting on what has changed since then — particularly when it comes to comedy. The first film he saw in theaters after the attacks was...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
This year’s summer movie season proved that the “Toy Story” franchise still has some juice, that “The Odyssey” can spark endless debates, and that “The Invite” might be the sleeper film of the year. But according to...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
Anita Baker’s second album, “Rapture,” was released in 1986 and became a breakout hit for the R & B singer from Detroit, winning two Grammys and selling eight million copies worldwide. The album’s eight tracks defined...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
What did we get for our country’s 250th birthday, a.k.a. the semi-quincentennial? An Ultimate Fighting Championship cage match on the White House lawn? A sparsely attended Great American State Fair? An underwhelming...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
When Madonna’s new album, “Confessions II,” dropped in early July, it went straight to the top of the Billboard 200 ( her 10th No. 1 album ). Many of the 16 tracks plumb her own history for lessons learned along the...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
If you haven’t seen Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” yet, good luck. The hit of the summer is selling out showtimes around the country. Wesley Morris initially thought he didn’t need this adaptation. Then, Matt Damon...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
After five weeks of action, the World Cup is finally coming to an end, a tournament that will be remembered as much for its feats of athleticism — the precision passes and laserlike goals — as for the passionate fans...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
Olivia Rodrigo’s third record, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” is a 13-song concept album that imagines the arc of a young relationship from desperate yearning, to domestic coupling, to eventual dissolution...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
Forget the hot dogs and apple pie. Wesley has one thing on his mind this Fourth of July — potato salad! The moment has stirred up some really strong feelings for this classic summer staple and how it lives up to the...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
A few weeks ago, “Cannonball” hosted its first live show at the 2026 Tribeca Festival. Wesley Morris thought to himself, “What could we talk about in front of a bunch of New Yorkers that would be interesting to them?”...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
It’s no secret that Steven Spielberg is fascinated with the cosmos. His latest aliens-are-among-us action thriller, “Disclosure Day,” follows a TV weatherperson (Emily Blunt) and an encryption specialist (Josh O’Connor)...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
“Obsession” is about a guy who makes a wish for a girl to love him “more than anyone in the entire world.” What follows is a classic horror movie trope: the girlfriend from hell. One of the movie’s tag lines is “be...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
Each spring, in the months leading up to the Tony Awards, Wesley Morris tries to see as many Broadway shows as he can. And this season’s spree (including “Ragtime,” “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” “Proof,” “Dog Day...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
A list, according to The Times’s co-chief restaurant critic Ligaya Mishan, can be a way “to make sense of chaos” and to also “destabilize the current order.” Her list of “the 100 Best Restaurants in New York City in...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
The “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” ends this week. When CBS announced the show’s cancellation last summer, the network said in a statement that it was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris liked “The Devil Wears Prada 2” more than he thought he would. He didn’t need this sequel, but it captures the spirit of the original well enough. Miranda and Andy, played by Meryl Streep and Anne...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
The public outrage was inevitable. The New York Times Magazine published a list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Two hundred and fifty music insiders submitted ballots. Six Times music critics and writers...
Recent guests on Cannonball with Wesley Morris. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
former Lululemon Mirror trainer and founder of the Chris Ryan Fitness app, Universal Preservation Hall
Editor-in-Chief, Chief Content Officer, Podcaster, The Big Picture
Host of "Pablo Torre Finds Out" and MS NOW Contributor, Meadowlark Media
pop music editor, The New York Times
Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this podcast is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the podcast's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.
Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ
