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Episode 523: Legacy and Loss (with Kaila Merrill)
Season 11 Episode 523
Today we explore a story of one woman whose family legacy—in particular her close relationship with her mother whom she lost suddenly to cancer—broug…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 522: The Case Against Travel, Part 2
Season 11 Episode 522
What if travel doesn't actually change you?
A few weeks ago, we discussed this controversial idea, a conversation inspired by an essay in The New Yor…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 521: Road Trips (with John Roderick)
Season 11 Episode 521
What makes a song a good road trip song? This is something Katy has been musing over for several years now.
What better person to ask than a musi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 520: The Case Against Travel
Season 11 Episode 520
Tell me about that trip that changed your life... and I'll tell you how you're lying to yourself.
So claims a recent essay in The New Yorker titled …
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 519: Martyr! (with Kaveh Akbar)
Season 11 Episode 519
What makes a life meaningful? Can a meaningful death transform an otherwise meaningless life into a meaningful one?
These are just a few of the many …
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 518: The Limitations of Language
Season 11 Episode 518
A line from a new book by poet Kaveh Akbar sparks the idea for this episode: in a nutshell, does language have the capacity to truly express what we …
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 517: Could You Miss Discovering Your Passion?
Season 11 Episode 517
How do we discover our passions? Is it a given that we will discover them at all?
And where do they come from? Are they something we are born with an…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 516: Post-Covid Social Woes
Season 11 Episode 516
Is it Covid or are we just getting older?
This week we discuss how the social world seems to have changed drastically in recent years—but is it due t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 515: The Story Behind the Crow Gifts Photo
Season 11 Episode 515
A little girl feeds crows and gets gifts in return. It's a wonderful true story that's gone viral again and again. But where did it come from? As it …
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 514: Did We Keep our New Year's Resolutions?
Season 11 Episode 514
It's our annual New Year's Resoultion Recap! Did we do what we promised to do last year? This is always a cringe-worthy moment for us both as we go b…
2 years, 5 months ago