Best Thepeople Podcasts (2024)

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A Conversation with Marie - Resilience in the Face of Grief | Episode 14 49:15

3+ y ago49:15

49:15

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Marie whose husband passed away years ago. Hear her experiences in discovering resilience and hope in the face of grief.

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A Conversation with Scott - Japanese-American in Post-WWII Era | Episode 13 45:27

3+ y ago45:27

45:27

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Scott who is a Japanese-American born in post-WWII-era. Hear his experiences and unique outlook on life.

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When Jill Biden Rallied Kingsborough Grads 10:21

3+ y ago10:21

10:21

Citing President Obama's intent to strengthen community colleges, "second lady" Jill Biden told the 2009 graduates of Kingsborough Community College the two-year schools are "one of America's best-kept secrets," and "the education gained on campuses like this one will provide the knowledge that will power the 21st century." Dr. Biden, an adjunct pr…

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A Conversation with Brandon Stanton - Humans of New York | Episode 11 40:13

3+ y ago40:13

40:13

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Brandon Stanton who is the founder of Humans of New York. Hear his experiences and unique outlook on life.

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A Conversation with Robert Woodrow Wilson - Nobel Prize Laurette | Episode 10 12:00

3+ y ago12:00

12:00

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today's episode is a continuation of the last episode. Over the course of 8 months, I tracked down a Nobel Prize Laurette who found evidence for the beginning of our universe in my hometown, Holmdel, NJ. Listen to his…

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A Conversation with Robert Woodrow Wilson - Nobel Prize Laurette | Episode 9 5:00

4y ago5:00

5:00

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today's episode is a bit different. Over the course of 8 months, I tracked down a Nobel Prize Laurette who found evidence for the beginning of our universe in my hometown, Holmdel, NJ. Hear his experiences and unique …

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A Moment of Silence for the World | Episode 8 1:33

4y ago1:33

1:33

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we take a moment of silence for those who have perished in the hands of the unjust.

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A Conversation with Chris - A Visitor of North Korea | Episode 7 1:00:14

4y ago1:00:14

1:00:14

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Chris who visited North Korea just 2 years ago. Hear his experiences and unique outlook on life.

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A Conversation with Neil - A Father Who Lost His Child at 28 Weeks | Episode 6 44:32

4y ago44:32

44:32

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Neil who lost his child at 28 weeks just 2 years ago. Hear his experiences and unique outlook on life.

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A Conversation with Jeremiah - Organ Donor to a Stranger | Episode 5 41:15

4+ y ago41:15

41:15

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Jeremiah who donated his kidney to a complete stranger just a year ago. Hear his experiences and unique outlook on life.

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A Conversation with Khalil - Homeless at 19 and a Child of CPS | Episode 4 40:04

4+ y ago40:04

40:04

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Khalil who became homeless at 19 years old and was a child of Child Protective Services. Hear his experiences and unique outlook on life.…

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A Conversation with Mick - A Survivor of the Boston Marathon Bombing Terrorist Attack | Episode 3 21:32

4+ y ago21:32

21:32

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Mick who was a victim of the Boston Marathon Bombing Terrorist Attack in 2013. Hear his experiences and unique outlook on life.…

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A Conversation with Paolo - Traveling Across the World on a Motorcycle | Episode 2 33:15

4+ y ago33:15

33:15

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Paolo who is currently travelling across the world on his motorcycle. Hear his experiences and unique outlook on life.

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A Conversation with Dimitri - A Volunteer at Ground Zero During the 9/11 Attack | Episode 1 36:30

4+ y ago36:30

36:30

Welcome to Imagine all the People podcast where we learn to appreciate our experiences and cherish the bond we have as human beings. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Dimitri who was a volunteer at Ground Zero during the 9/11 attacks in New York City. Hear his experiences and unique outlook on life.…

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Introduction to Imagine all the People | Trailer 1:06

4+ y ago1:06

1:06

Welcome to Imagine all the People. Have you ever walked down a busy street and noticed all the people? All these different people, each with their own individual story, bumping into each other at a single time and place. All these different people, each made up of unique hopes and regrets and desires and experiences. You never know which story has …

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Bad Test Taker? Good News 51:02

7+ y ago51:02

51:02

Since 1963, U.S. students have been “very bad at tests and very good at life,” Fareed Zakaria says, noting that during the same period of time the United States has “dominated the world of science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, economic growth.” The U.S. tradition of students receiving “a broad general education that prepares you not fo…

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Why You Wanted Your MTV 58:04

7+ y ago58:04

58:04

In this message-oversatuartion era, marketers have to “pick an audience and superserve them,” says branding guru Alan Goodman, who teaches a marketing master class at Macaulay Honors College. At MTV, where he developed the logo and the iconic animation IDs, Goodman says he saw the network as more than just a music video channel, and identified the …

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#ThePeople Raise Their Voice 46:50

7+ y ago46:50

46:50

Hashtag politics gives people who don’t have big money to donate to candidates a way to compete with big donors, or so says social media guru Alan Rosenblatt in a talk at Baruch. Hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter aggregate conversation and opinion, creating “powerful social capital” to compete with financial capital, Rosenblatt says. The hashtag has …

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What’s a Bitcoin? 30:53

7+ y ago30:53

30:53

The cyber currency created in 2009 as “a plaything for hackers,” will be used by governments by 2023 and consumers by 2027 by some estimates, Nathaniel Popper, author of Digital Gold: Bitcoin and theInside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, tells a Baruch audience. The digital dough wasn’t worth anything until 2011, add…

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U.N. Chief to Youth: “Rise Up” 32:11

8y ago32:11

32:11

Young people can agitate against injustice better than the leader of the United Nations can, or so he says. “I as secretary-general have constraints sometimes, political constraints,” Ban Ki-moon tells his audience at Lehman College, which was the U.N.’s home for five months in 1946. “But young people, you don’t have a limit,” Ban says. “You just r…

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Hello Young Writers 24:12

8y ago24:12

24:12

Colum McCann’s advice to aspiring writers? Write. The Hunter College creative writing MFA professor reads “A Letter to a Young Writer” and his short story “What Time Is It Where You Are” at the Writing Center. Going against the common advice to write what you know, McCann urges young writers to “write toward that which you want to know. Better stil…

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Novelizing Naples 52:24

8y ago52:24

52:24

Who is the Neapolitan novelist writing as Elena Ferrante? The world doesn’t know, yet the world has taken notice of such books as The Days of Abandonment and The Story of the Lost Child, the final story of her (or his?) Neapolitan quartet, which place Naples at the center of the universe. Ferrante’s translator Ann Goldstein and publisher Kent Carro…

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up (But He Can) 58:10

8y ago58:10

58:10

Donald Trump is the only pol “who screws up and his poll numbers go up,” says Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, and he seems willing to say anything. “It’s funny how when you’re president of the United States,” says Politico chief political correspondent and Brooklyn College alum Glenn Thrush, that “stuff you say has a tendency to actually hap…

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The Sugar Wasn’t Sweet 52:24

8y ago52:24

52:24

They could starve in India or work like slaves on the sugarcane plantations of British Guiana; that was the choice for thousands of Indians who left home from 1838-1917. One was journalist Gaiutra Bahadur’s great-grandmother Sajuria, who, pregnant and alone, immigrated in 1903. Bahadur seeks her story in Coolie Woman: An Odyssey of Indenture. Inden…

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A Conversation with Marie - Resilience in the Face of Grief | Episode 14 49:15

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A Conversation with Scott - Japanese-American in Post-WWII Era | Episode 13 45:27

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When Jill Biden Rallied Kingsborough Grads 10:21

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A Conversation with Brandon Stanton - Humans of New York | Episode 11 40:13

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A Conversation with Robert Woodrow Wilson - Nobel Prize Laurette | Episode 10 12:00

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A Conversation with Robert Woodrow Wilson - Nobel Prize Laurette | Episode 9 5:00

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A Moment of Silence for the World | Episode 8 1:33

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A Conversation with Chris - A Visitor of North Korea | Episode 7 1:00:14

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A Conversation with Neil - A Father Who Lost His Child at 28 Weeks | Episode 6 44:32

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A Conversation with Jeremiah - Organ Donor to a Stranger | Episode 5 41:15

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A Conversation with Khalil - Homeless at 19 and a Child of CPS | Episode 4 40:04

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A Conversation with Mick - A Survivor of the Boston Marathon Bombing Terrorist Attack | Episode 3 21:32

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A Conversation with Paolo - Traveling Across the World on a Motorcycle | Episode 2 33:15

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A Conversation with Dimitri - A Volunteer at Ground Zero During the 9/11 Attack | Episode 1 36:30

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Introduction to Imagine all the People | Trailer 1:06

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Bad Test Taker? Good News 51:02

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Why You Wanted Your MTV 58:04

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#ThePeople Raise Their Voice 46:50

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What’s a Bitcoin? 30:53

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U.N. Chief to Youth: “Rise Up” 32:11

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Hello Young Writers 24:12

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Novelizing Naples 52:24

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up (But He Can) 58:10

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The Sugar Wasn’t Sweet 52:24

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