When Kids Carry Their Identities In Their Lunchboxes

July 13, 2021 Culture, Education, Race/Identity

Jaya Saxena is a staff writer at Eater, and she joins us to talk about what it’s like to feel like an outsider simply because of what your well-meaning parents packed you for lunch.

How A Girl Becomes A Woman

July 13, 2021 Culture, Education, Health, History, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Melissa Febos joins us to talk about the flawed ways we ask children to shape their identities from puberty and her own coming-of-age story as she worked to find her voice and set boundaries.

The Rich Skip The Line While The Rest Of Us Wait

July 12, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Global Issues

New York Times business reporter Nelson Schwartz joins us to talk about how easy for some it is to buy convenience – and about how corporations have shifted strategies to cater to the wealthy in order to increase the bottom line.

Image of an elderly woman and baby hands.

When Mom Left, Thank God For Grandma

July 8, 2021 Culture, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Danielle Henderson, TV writer and cohost of the film podcast “I Saw What You Did,” joins us to discuss her experience being raised by her grandmother after her mother abandoned her – and about how her love of horror movies taught her to have faith in herself.

A Plan For Piecing America Back Together

July 7, 2021 Culture, Education, Politics

George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss what he sees as four separate narratives dividing the country, and what each story says about the health of our nation as a whole.

New To America? Here’s Where To Start

July 5, 2021 Culture, Education, History, Politics, Race/Identity

Roya Hakakian joins us to talk about her instruction manual for newcomers to this country, acting as tour operator for all the wonder of American sights and sounds.

McDonald’s and Black America

July 5, 2021 Culture, Race/Identity

Marcia Chatelain, an associate professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown, joins us to talk about the relationship between McDonalds and black business owners.

Your Personality Isn’t Set In Stone

July 1, 2021 Culture, Health, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Christian Jarrett, a cognitive neuroscientist and deputy editor of Psyche, joins us to talk about the five types of personalities and how we can become a better version of our current selves.

Hakeem Oluseyi performs at the I F-ing Love Science Channel event

The Cosmologist Who Left The Streets Behind

July 1, 2021 Culture, Education, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Hakeem Oluseyi joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his early life, when he struggled with inequality, poverty and addiction, and how he found his way out by studying the stars.

A researcher holds six vape pens in a lab at Portland State University in Portland.

The Unintended Consequences Of Vaping

June 29, 2021 Culture, Health, Science and Technology

Health and science journalist Laura Beil joins us to talk about how a pair of graduate students created the Juul vape pen in hopes to end smoking. Instead, they created another health hazard more attractive to teenagers than the one they were trying to end.

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Imagine If Every Weekend Was A Three-Day Weekend

June 28, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Mental Health

Joe Pinsker, staff writer for The Atlantic, joins us to discuss why productivity needn’t rely on a traditional five days of work — and how some companies have cut office hours and found a boost in output and morale.

Is There Room For Queer People In The Catholic Church?

June 22, 2021 Culture, Race/Identity

Eder Díaz Santillan, creator and producer of the podcast “De Pueblo, Católico y Gay” joins us to discuss the intersection of homosexuality, Latinx culture, family and religion, and the lessons he’s learned through interviews with people from all walks of life.