Best Jean Mitchell Podcasts (2026)

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124. Deaf, Bi, & Deliciously Unfiltered with Dakota Hendrix 1:11:50

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Hi, my sweets 😘 welcome back! I'm finally home in my new Charleston cozy spot (hello, new couch and studio vibes!). After the big cross-country move and a much-needed pause to catch my breath, thank you for waiting so patiently. You mean the absolute world to me. We're kicking things off with the stunning Dakota Hendrix in this unfiltered, heart-fl…

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Paul J. Gutacker, "The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past" (Oxford UP, 2023) 43:40

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Conventional wisdom holds that tradition and history meant little to nineteenth-century American Protestants, who relied on common sense and "the Bible alone." The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past (Oxford UP, 2023) challenges this portrayal by recovering evangelical engagement with the Christian past. Even when…

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Ep. 73: Inside Kokomo w/ Ria and Kevol Graham on Caribbean Food and Hospitality 20:29

4h ago20:29

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Ria and Kevol Graham join Chrystal Genesis for cocktails and conversation at Kokomo, their family-run, acclaimed Caribbean restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Partners in life and work, the couple talk about opening Kokomo just before the Covid pandemic and building a hospitality business while raising three children in New York City. They discus…

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Destiny: Graham Phillips, The Original Zodiac 1:14:25

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Discover the world’s earliest known system of astrology • Explores ancient Mesopotamian astrology, which originated with those who created Göbekli Tepe, and details the system’s eighteen zodiac signs • Shares the author’s decades-long research to decipher the meanings and characteristics behind each of the original eighteen signs • Shows how the or…

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Let's Get Real about Staying Ahead of the Technology Curve with Sharon Yeary 26:16

4h ago26:16

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Welcome to The REAL in Real Estate Podcast, your go-to show for real estate success. In this cutting-edge episode, we are joined by Sharon Yeary, a veteran Broker with over 24 years of experience and an instructor at Champions Real Estate School. Sharon dispels the pervasive myth that AI is here to replace agents, describing it instead as the "worl…

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W. Ralph Eubanks, "When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land" (Beacon Press, 2026) 1:04:39

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Once the powerhouse of a fledgling country’s economy, the Mississippi Delta has been consigned to a narrative of destitution. It is often faulted for the sins of the South, portrayed as a regional backwater that willfully cleaved itself from the modern world. But buried beneath the weight of good ol’ boy politics and white-washed histories lies the…

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Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023) 43:20

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In this interview, she discusses her book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxford UP, 2023), which inserts successive Irish-American identities--forcibly transported Irish, Scots-Irish, and post-Famine Irish--into American histories and representations of race. Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish …

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#151 - Mark Hulsewe - The Real Reason School Violence Happens: How unresolved pain, bullying, and disconnection turn into harm—and what we can do 55:45

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Scarlett’s guest is Mark Hulsewe—a filmmaker, speaker, and advocate who is working to change the way we think about bullying, violence, and school safety. Drawing from his own lived experience as a victim of bullying, Mark focuses on proactive, human-centered solutions. He speaks about leadership, empathy, and practical frameworks like the HERO Pro…

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Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:09:36

3d ago1:09:36

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How can we—jazz fans, musicians, writers, and historians—understand the legacy and impact of a musician like Dave Brubeck? It is undeniable that Brubeck leveraged his fame as a jazz musician and status as a composer for social justice causes, and in doing so, held to a belief system that, during the civil rights movement, modeled a progressive appr…

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Episode 197: Preserving Memories & Building Networks that Last with Andrew Darlow 51:50

18h ago51:50

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Andrew Darlow's BIO: Andrew Darlow is a New Jersey–based photographer, inventor, and author who's spent 20+ years at the intersection of imaging, printing, and digital backup. He got his start in the high school darkroom, studied business at The College of New Jersey, and lived/studied in Japan and Heidelberg, Germany. Early in his career he helped…

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Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023) 45:42

4d ago45:42

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From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first African American to win titles at the French Open, Wimble…

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Matthew Davis, "A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore" (St. Martin's Press, 2025) 1:06:05

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Mount Rushmore is something of an American Rorschach test. Some look at the monument and see American patriotic ideals carved into a mountainside. Others see only the rank hypocrisy of American presidents blasted into an Indigenous sacred site. In A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore, writer and journalist Matthew Dav…

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Observations and Insights on Maya Ruins in Guatemala 51:12

6d ago51:12

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GUATEMALA: Temple Energy ActivationAncient Sites, Sacred Traditions, and Hidden WisdomA private tour with the host of Earth Ancients, Cliff Dunning. Organized by Geophilia, Dr. Lydia & Arturo de León.December 1 – 12, 2025Embark on a Transformative Journey into the Heart of Ancient Mesoamerica Join Earth Ancients’ host Cliff Dunning and Geophilia’s …

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Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023) 49:37

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To achieve legitimate self-government in America's extended Republic, the U.S. Constitution depends on Congress harmonizing the country's factions through a process of conflict and accommodation. Why Congress (Oxford University Press, 2023) demonstrates the value of this activity by showing the legislature's distinctive contributions in two crucial…

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Ep. 308 - Maniac Number One w/ Josh Francis pt. 1 1:05:58

4d ago1:05:58

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Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023) 58:52

7d ago58:52

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Scott A. Mitchell is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He teaches and writes about Buddhism in the West, Pure Land Buddhism, and Buddhist modernism. As of 2010, there were approximately 3-4 million Buddhists in the United States, and that figur…

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Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023) 54:34

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California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives--the first slaves transported into California--and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Ru…

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Destiny: Ellen Evert Hopman, Ancestral Celebrations, New Year's Eve 1:17:02

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• Explores in depth the medicinal and magical properties of the many herbs, barks, and berries associated with the Christmas and Yuletide season • Looks at the origins of the Christmas tree and Santa Claus, as well as female gift bringers, holiday Spirits, and Yuletide animals • Shares crafts such as how to make a Yule Log, practices such as Winter…

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Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 38:24

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From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moments in the history of the United States, this book takes readers from before European colonization to the present, narrating major turning points along the way, with food as a guide. US H…

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Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023) 58:52

10d ago58:52

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Scott A. Mitchell is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He teaches and writes about Buddhism in the West, Pure Land Buddhism, and Buddhist modernism. As of 2010, there were approximately 3-4 million Buddhists in the United States, and that figur…

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Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023) 1:07:58

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Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Kathryn Dolan presents the long, distinguished and surprising history of breakfast cereal. Simple, healthy and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished and surprising history – around 10,000 years ago, wit…

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Episode 196: Getting Yourself Unstuck with Dr. Dee Trudeau Poskas 41:34

8d ago41:34

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Dr. Dee Trudeau Poskas's BIO: Dr. Denise Adele Trudeau Poskas—known widely as Dr. Dee—is a scientist at heart, a coach by craft, and a catalyst by nature. With a background in biological sciences and neuroscience, paired with advanced degrees in leadership and team empowerment, Dr. Dee has spent her career decoding what truly drives human potential…

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Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023) 57:23

8d ago57:23

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In Sesame Street: A Transnational History (Oxford UP, 2023), author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show became a global brand. Jensen argues that because the show's domestic production was not financially viable from the beginning, Sesame Street became a commodity that its producers assertively marketed all …

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Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023) 54:34

11d ago54:34

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California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives--the first slaves transported into California--and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Ru…

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Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 1:12:09

11d ago1:12:09

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Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.The Naked and the Dead was acclaimed not so much for its intrinsic qualit…

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Andrew Porwancher, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews" (Princeton UP, 2025) 30:31

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A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis Island. Yet from his earliest years he forged ties with Jews never before witnessed in a president. American Maccabee traces Roosevelt’s deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his daz…

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Jack Z. Bratich, "On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death" (Common Notions, 2022) 1:05:45

9d ago1:05:45

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In On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death (Common Notions, 2022) Dr. Jack Z. Bratich explores the cultural elements in American society that support fascism. Microfascism appears in many aspects of culture engaging consumers to think of others and their own self in ways that extend fascism into everyday life while constantly adapting to cultural a…

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Jack R. Bialik: Lost in Time 1:15:35

13d ago1:15:35

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What if the knowledge we depend on today... disappeared tomorrow? Have you ever wondered how much of humanity's greatest achievements have already been lost to time? Do you suspect that ancient civilizations knew things we are only now beginning to rediscover? Do you worry that our own digital civilization might be far more fragile than we think? I…

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Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 57:54

13d ago57:54

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In Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (U Chicago Press, 2025) historian Ruby Oram tells the story of how middle-class, white women reformers lobbied the state to implement various public education reforms to shape the lives of girls and women in industrial cities between 1870 and 1930. Women such as …

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Ep. 307 - Live Your Mania w/ Matthew Mitchell pt. 1 1:05:46

14d ago1:05:46

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Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025) 31:15

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Faith in the American Dream—the idea that anyone who works hard can achieve success—has waned in the 21st century. Decreases in economic mobility, increases in the wealth gap, and other economic shifts have undoubtedly influenced this decline. Politics, however, are an overlooked contributor to confidence, or lack of confidence, in the American Dre…

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Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea" (Yale UP, 2025) 49:23

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After nearly four decades of negotiations, sanctions, summits, threats, and backdoor channels, the United States has failed to stop North Korea's nuclear program which now has the capability to strike American cities with weapons of mass destruction. In Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea (Yale UP, 2025), Joel S. Wi…

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Trymaine Lee, "A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America" (St. Martins, 2025) 52:30

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A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked her daddy why, he realized that to answer her honestly, he had to confront what almost killed him—the weight of being a Black man in America; of bearing witness, as a journalist, to relentless Black death; and of a…

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Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025) 51:40

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What do technical renderings of plant cells in trees have to do with Disney’s animated opus Fantasia? Quite a bit, as it turns out: such emergent scientific models and ideas about nature were an important inspiration for Disney’s groundbreaking animated realism. In Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science (University of Minnesota P…

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Sustainability, Identity, Artisans and Designers 55:40

12d ago55:40

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Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for “slow fashion,” a husband-and-wife design duo were working to create handcrafted leather-goods and functional women’s sportswear that could be worn for decades. Active from the 1940s to the late 1960s, the Phelps quickly won acclaim, attracting a broad…

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Destiny: Tammy Billups: Your Animal Your Soul Mirror 1:15:12

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Your Animal - Your Soul Mirror is an extraordinary resource on fostering emotional wellness for animals and their people. Tammy’s newest book provides animal lovers with ways to identify which emotional wound pattern - The Scared One, Needy One, Sensitive One, Protector, or Perfect One - is operating within their companion and how to expedite the h…

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Let's Get Real about Building Wealth with $0 Minimums with Kamela Scarbeck & Duane Wagner 23:16

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Episode Summary: Welcome to The REAL in Real Estate Podcast, your go-to show for real estate success. In this powerful episode, host Jean Mitchell is joined by wealth advisors Kamela Scarbeck and Duane Wagener from the Fitzpatrick Group to bridge the gap between real estate and holistic financial planning. In a world filled with misleading financia…

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Brittany Michelle Friedman, "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:04:30

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It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist intent in the prison system that culminates in what Brittany Friedman terms "carceral apartheid." Prisons are a microcosm of how carceral apartheid operates as a larger governing strategy to de…

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Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore 56:18

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Wednesday, December 17—“The best play I’ve seen this season,” says New York Magazine’s Sara Holdren about Liberation, Bess Wohl’s moving exploration of the women’s movement through the story of an Ohio consciousness-raising group in the early 1970s and a daughter who yearns to understand her mother’s life and her own. To discuss this timely play an…

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Adrianna Mitchell - The Holiday’s with a Crutch 52:01

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Adrianna Mitchell - The Holiday’s with a Crutch We welcome Adrianna Mitchell to The Frogs podcast, currently starring opposite Tracy Morgan and Kecia Lewis in Crutch on Paramount+. Adrianna talks about craft, discipline, Spelman, and the body of work she’s been building. We get into process: how grit, presence, and being ready to move from drama to…

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Episode 195: It's The Bottom Line That Matters with Jennifer Glass 42:03

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Jennifer's BIO: Jennifer Glass is an award-winning business growth architect, international best-selling author, speaker, trainer, and TV show producer. She is also the CEO of Business Growth Strategies International, the only company to offer business growth coaching along with smart payment processing solutions, review management services, market…

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Christian Smith, "Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America" (Oxford UP, 2025) 36:52

18d ago36:52

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Is traditional American religion doomed? Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Americans identifying as "not religious" has increased remarkably. Religious affiliation, service attendance, and belief in God have declined. More and more people claim to be "spiritual but not religious." Re…

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David Fleming, "A Big Mess in Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History" (St. Martin's Press, 2025) 52:17

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Today we are joined by David Fleming, Peabody-nominated correspondent for Meadowlark Media, longtime ESPN senior writer, and author of A Big Mess in Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and The Craziest Untold Story in NFL History (St. Martin’s Press, 2025). In our conversation, we discussed the origins of the infamous (but also sur…

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Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025) 1:13:42

19d ago1:13:42

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News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both US-born and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the American way of life. Leo R. Chavez challenges the basic tenets of this assumption and other myths of the "Latino threat," providing a critical investigation into the fears and prejudices that are used …

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Adam Young: Out-of-Place Artifacts from Ancient Egypt 1:29:52

20d ago1:29:52

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The Artifact Research Foundation conducts archaeological, metrological, and historical research to explore the technological capabilities of prehistoric human cultures.Human evolution is long and mysterious. Today, we know very little about our ancient ancestors, save for stories passed down through time. Physical remains of archaic human civiliza…

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Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024) 52:03

20d ago52:03

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The Newsmongers unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first printed ‘Strange Newes’ sheets of the sixteenth century to the sensationalism of today’s digital age. The narrative weaves from Regency gossip writers through New York’s ‘yellow journalism’ battles to the ‘sex and sleaze’ Sun of the 1970s; and from the Brexit-backing po…

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Ep. 306 - Zest Hall Of Fame w/ Nate Marshall pt. 1 1:12:04

20d ago1:12:04

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Amy Erdman Farrell, "Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA" (UNC Press, 2025) 57:52

21d ago57:52

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When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days at school. But a few years later, Farrell found an escape from bullying, the promise of sisterhood, a rising sense of confidence, adventure, and—be…

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Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025) 1:20:52

20d ago1:20:52

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American conservatism as we know it today is a West Texas export, argues College of Wooster professor Jeff Roche in The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right (U Texas Press, 2025). Tracing the roots of the state's conservative movement back to the giant cattle ranches and tycoons of the nineteenth century, Roche argues that …

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Destiny: Dr. Matt McKay, Seeking Your Loved One on the Other Side 1:14:51

23d ago1:14:51

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Shares a proven process that has worked for the author as well as thousands of others to communicate with deceased loved ones Explores the use of mediums, past-life and between-life hypnotic regressions, a technique called Induced After-Death Communication, and channeled writing Presents revelations about the soul’s life after death, the structure …

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