Culture Episodes:
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ICYMI: How Can We Show Up For Mutual Aid? with Dean Spade
This holiday season, we’re inviting Getting Curious listeners to reflect on what it means to be in community. In that spirit, we’re re-releasing a conversation about mutual aid …
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Can You Say Cheese? with Carlos Yescas and Lee Hennessy
This week we’re learning all about the culture of cheese, and literal cheese cultures, with Carlos Yescas and Lee Hennessy. They join Jonathan to discuss how cheese is …
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How Did You Become An All-Around Legend? with Jordan Chiles
This week’s episode is a gymnastics EVENT! Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles joins Jonathan to discuss how she’s taking the sport to new heights at both the elite …
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What’s At The Heart Of Black Disability Politics? with Professor Sami Schalk
In 1977 more than 100 disabled activists in San Francisco took over a federal building for 25 days. It was the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building …
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How Do Cults Fashion Themselves? with Sarah C. Byrd
Let’s say you pass a group of people dressed identically. Are they a) following a trend, b) wearing uniforms, or c) in a cult? And who’s to say …
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How Diverse Was The Ancient Mediterranean? with Professors Sarah Derbew and Nandini Pandey
This week, we’re traveling back to one of our favorite sites for curiosity: the ancient Mediterranean. Professors Sarah Derbew and Nandini Pandey join Jonathan to discuss how people …
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What’s It Like To Style A More Inclusive Fashion World? with Edward Enninful, OBE
If Getting Curious were a magazine, this week’s episode would be the “September Issue,” and this week’s guest would be the cover star of our dreams. British Vogue’s …
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ICYMI: How Did You Develop Such Amazing Taste? with Sohla El-Waylly
We’re spending this week cooking up some incredible fall programming. To tide you over, here’s a re-air of our episode with Sohla El-Waylly, all about cooking basics, ancient …
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What’s The Meaning Of “Raizado”? with Mónica Ramírez
There are more than 62 million Latine people living in the United States. Some are US-born, others are recent immigrants, and still more have had family members here …
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What Stories Do America’s Monuments Tell? with Dr. Elizabeth Alexander
You’re planning an afternoon with friends, just east of Atlanta, Georgia. A picnic, maybe a scenic walk, some fireworks as the sun goes down. You find a park …
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