UNPICK is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, what they like to wear, aaand lots of other tangential banter...
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Lorraine DeGraffenreidt is a black person! Sarah Isaacson is a Jewish person! As it turns out, there's a lot of black and Jewish stuff that they don't know anything about -- and that makes them feel guilty! So now, they're getting learnt up. Join Lorraine and Sarah as they discover classic movies everyone's already seen (Schindler's List anyone???), conquer basic ethnic foods (chicken and waffles!!!) and generally improve as adult people, all while making their black and Jewish dads proud.
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As The Gleaner celebrates its 160th anniversary in 2023, our team is taking the opportunity to look back at various facets of the history of the Chateauguay Valley in southwestern Quebec. Join us in listening to the voices of the Valley!
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10. Irish music in the Chateauguay Valley with Patricia Mageean Martin, Kathleen Hackett Mueller and Callan Forrester
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In this, the final episode of the inaugural season of The Gleaner podcast, Callan Forrester speaks to Patricia Mageean Martin and Kathleen Hackett Mueller about Irish music in the Chateauguay Valley and the upcoming Irish Music afternoon to be held on March 16. To learn more about The Gleaner, or to explore other local content, please visit our web…
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9. Undertaking the family business: The history of the Rodrigue Montpetit et Fils Funeral Home with Jacques Montpetit, Claudie Remillard, and Sarah Rennie
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In this, the ninth episode of this season of The Gleaner Podcast, Sarah Rennie speaks to Jacques Montpetit and Claudie Remillard of the Rodrigue Montpetit et Fils Funeral Home about the 70-year history of their family business. To learn more about The Gleaner, or to explore other local content, please visit our website at www.the-gleaner.com.…
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8. Two centuries of curling in Riverfield with Scott Templeton and Callan Forrester
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In this, the eighth episode of The Gleaner Podcast, The Gleaner's Callan Forrester speaks to Scott Templeton about the long history of the Riverfield Curling Club. To learn more about The Gleaner, or to explore other local content, please visit our website at www.the-gleaner.com.By The Gleaner Team
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7. A half-century of the Ormstown Saracens with Dave Hardy, Phylicia Brunette and Sarah Rennie
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In this, the seventh episode of the first season of The Gleaner Podcast, Sarah Rennie is joined by Dave Hardy and Phylicia Brunette to look back at the history of the Ormstown Saracens Rugby Club, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. To learn more about The Gleaner, or to explore other local content, please visit our website at www.the-g…
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6. The WI's vitality in the Valley with Linda Janes and Chantal Hortop
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In this, the sixth episode of The Gleaner Podcast, Chantal Hortop speaks to Linda Janes, who has long led the Chateauguay Huntingdon County Women's Institute and has recently become the president of the organization for the province of Quebec. She speaks about how strong the organization remains in the Valley, and some of the history of the organiz…
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5. Environmental activism in the Chateauguay Valley with Holly Dressel and Sarah Rennie
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In this, the fifth episode in this season of The Gleaner Podcast, The Gleaner's Sarah Rennie speaks to Holly Dressel about the legacy of environmental activism in the Valley and the ways in which residents of the area have stood up against projects that threatened the land and water around them. To learn more about The Gleaner, or to explore other …
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4. Filing a family history with Murray McEwen and Callan Forrester
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In this, the fourth episode in this season of The Gleaner Podcast, Callan Forrester speaks to Murray McEwen, who put into motion a project documenting the history of the McEwen family in Ormstown. The documentary was presented at a family reunion in 2023, and Callan speaks to Mr McEwen about the process and the family. To learn more about The Glean…
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3. The keepers of history in the Chateauguay Valley with Ken Dolphin, Carolyn Cameron, Connie McClintock, Myrna Paquette, and Chantal Hortop
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In this, the third episode of The Gleaner Podcast, Chantal Hortop speaks to those who help to run two of the historical societies in the Chateauguay Valley. From the Chateauguay Valley Historical Society, you'll hear from Ken Dolphin, Carolyn Cameron and Connie McClintock; and then Myrna Paquette of Archives Hemmingford will speak about that organi…
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2. A century of farming on Covey Hill with Garth Waddell, Oscar Maynard and Chantal Hortop
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In the second episode of The Gleaner Podcast, we will listen in on a conversation between two gentlemen who spent nearly a century living and farming on Covey Hill. Garth Waddell and Oscar Maynard share some of their memories and a lot of laughter in this interview with Chantal Hortop. To learn more about The Gleaner, or to explore other local cont…
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1. The Nutcracker in the Chateauguay Valley with Neva Shelton and Erika Rosenbaum
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Join us for the inaugural episode of The Gleaner podcast! In this episode, Erika Rosenbaum will be speaking to Neva Shelton of École de Danse Neva Shelton about the history of The Nutcracker as a ballet production in the Chateauguay Valley and beyond. To learn more about The Gleaner, or to explore other local content, please visit our website at ww…
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Exciting things are coming in December – The Gleaner’s brand new podcast will be launched in the coming weeks! While The Gleaner has always been the voice for the Chateauguay Valley, we wanted to offer a medium that would let you actually hear those voices. You may know that the newspaper is celebrating its 160th anniversary in 2023, so even as we …
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. For the season one finale, Scout from episode one returns to point the mic back in my direction. It's a long one folks, because it turns out I h…
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. To close up the nonbinary power hour cycle, I'm interviewing my final guest of this series, Seumas the Red. We talk about colours, textures, and…
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. Every day that we wake up and decide to dress ourselves, it's a performance for the rest of the world. In this week's interview with artist and …
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. Y'all ever watch sex and the city? This episode is just like that. JUST like it. It's time for some Drama with Alex!…
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. Remember last week when we talked about shorts for literally 20 minutes well in the EXACT POLAR OPPOSITE of that please allow me to introduce Sa…
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. You may not have thought it was possible to talk about different kinds of shorts but get ready because this week we have our first straight whit…
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. It's been a while, huh? Apologies for the two-week hiatus, I've had no less than TWO jobs on theatre shows, and Chloe, who I interview here, wor…
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. It took 6 episodes but we finally have a Cis Het person on the podcast. This is Christina, she's here to represent Autism and stan Rush with me.…
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. Everyone say hello to MJ, as they introduce me to aspects of their life that I've L I T E R A L L Y never heard about, despite knowing them for …
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Ciao for now / Afrofuturism and Rosalind Franklin
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Get ready for a super-special yet bittersweet ep that will leave you yearning for answers. Is Lorraine really going away to military school? Has Sarah really not peeped the Drake album yet? If a British Jew falls in a science lab and nobody else is there, does it make a sound? (No; British Jews don’t exist.) For today’s homework, Sarah and Lorraine…
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Happy summer of sports!!! To celebrate, Learnt Up is flexin on ‘em with another sports episode!!! Sarah reports current sports news that is hot hot hot off the presses and then she presents a list of hot hot hot boys from the 2018 World Cup soccer field. Meanwhile, Lorraine brags about her fancy, soccer star brothers and she gets learnt up on baske…
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. This week I spoke to Iris; model, cosplayer, space nerd and all around Slayer of Looks about their quest for unique pieces of clothing, and thei…
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Todd McClintock invites Sarah and Lorraine to join him in getting learnt up on a bleak topic - The Potato Famine - and the conversation is disturbingly delightful.
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. Caroline is here! Talking about Texas heat, the iconic David Sylvian, basketball queerness, and confessing to Dio paypal crimes...…
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You have the incredible podcast hosts of 2 Jews Talking to thank for this one! That's right! Friends of the podcast, Joshua Heller & Erika Brooks Adickman invite Sarah and Lorraine to share a fun night of live podcasting at The Pico.
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. This week, please welcome Sally and Emilly from Everybody Hates Rand, a Wheel of Time discussion podcast, while we talk about our cartoon outfit…
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Sarah & Lorraine are comin’ at ya with part two of their Drake learnts!!! And just like in Drake pt. 1, your hosts take a moment to spotlight Cardi B & all her glory. Before Sarah & Lorraine discuss the current Drake/Pusha T beef, they must settle an unrelated rap feud that has been building up in the podcast studio. Once they put the emotional stu…
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. I talk to Scout about her cosplays, D&D characters, and how these fictional characters percolate into everyday life…
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Sharing the Shame with Dana Bell: Albert Einstein
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Dear friend of the podcast, Dana Bell comes through to get learnt up on Albert Einstein’s life and many of his discoveries in math and science. Behind Einstein’s wild hair and crazy face, he kept a beautiful brain filled with complex thoughts on our universe. Dana tells us all about how - in addition to being a brilliant scientist - Einstein was al…
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Unpick is a podcast about clothing, culture, and how each affects the other. Each week, costume designer Sarah McClintock brings on a different guest to talk about who they are, and what they like to wear. In this pilot episode I talk to Collin, nonbinary adventurer, about their coats, pins, and the influence of tabletop role-playing games on the d…
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Sarah Isaacson is mysteriously absent from this episode while Carl Tart (Brockmire, MAD TV, White Women, UCB) stops by to discuss the band Zapp aka Zapp & Roger. Throughout this ep, Carl talks and sings about the electro funk moment that Zapp helped create and Carl gets so learnt on the talk-box, he decides to buy one. He also exposes this bone chi…
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Kanye’s Pomeranian and Jared Kushner’s Eyebrow Lady
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Special ep alert! Sarah and Lorraine are busy ladies so this week Learnt Up is hosted by their friends: Kanye West’s genetically-engineered Pomeranian Sushi, and Lynette Goldman — Jared Kushner’s eyebrow lady. The two work out their issues with their respective famous owner and prized client, chat plastic surgery and microblading, unpack some backw…
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Lorraine and Sarah take a break from their usual programming to discuss the much-buzzed-about This is America music video from Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover aka future EGOT 4 shore -- watch out Barbra Streisand. Lots to unpack in this vid: Black culture. Guns. Charleston. Jim Crow symbolism. Horses? Also, Sarah and Lorraine shout out their inc…
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Jew The Right Thing & When Harry Black Sally
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Time for a switcheroo! Sarah and Lorraine pause from learning about their respective cultures to take the other gal’s culture for a spin. What does this mean? Movies! Lorraine watched When Harry Met Sally (which Sarah will defend to the death as a “Jewish movie”) and Sarah watched Do The Right Thing (an undeniably black movie).…
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Sharing the Shame with Inside the Disney Vault
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Lorraine and Sarah welcome Rachel Chapman and Oscar Montoya, of the Inside the Disney Vault podcast, to share some shame! The Disney kids got learnt up on all things anime, and they cover a wide swath -- talking everything from Dragon Ball Z to Miyazaki’s greatest hits to Sailor Moon to a scandal that will change the way you look at The Lion King.…
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Did you guys know cults are super trendy right now? For this culty ep, Sarah gets learnt up on the ultra-Orthodox sect Lev Tahor, aka the “Jewish Taliban” and its shady leader Shlomo Helbrans, who moved the group all around the world to evade various criminal charges like kidnapping and child abuse. Lorraine discusses the Black Hebrew Israelites, s…
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Calling all nerds, dorks, and geeks! This is your episode, babies. Katelyn Hempstead -- writer / comedian / Trekkie -- swings by the pod to chat about Jews in science fiction! Katelyn got learnt up on sci-fi pioneer Isaac Asimov and “bad boy” nihilist Harlan Ellison. Fun fact: Asimov coined the word “robotics”! Another fun fact: there was an early …
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Gather round, children -- it’s time for a spooky episode of Learnt Up! Lorraine tells us all about zombies -- tracking their roots in Haiti and West Africa, connection to voodoo, and superstitions among slaves. Did you know that being a walking corpse is a fate worse than death? Btw, stay away from Devil’s Weed and toads, y’all. Sarah gets learnt o…
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Lorraine and Sarah welcome writer/performer/tall person Zora Bikangaga on to share some shame! Zora got learnt up on Nollywood (Nigerian Hollywood) and comes bearing lots of movie recs, along with thoughts on colorism, Hollywood’s fetishizing of Africa, and Jennifer Lawrence’s career trajectory/emotional maturity. Trigger warning for diehard Lawren…
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In 1850, a census reported 8 Jews and 12 black people living in Los Angeles. The next year, thrown by the traffic and bad pizza, they all left. Just kidding, they stayed and built the city we know today! Join Lorraine and Sarah as they get learnt up on some of LA’s black and Jewish pioneers and their lasting contributions. Find out the origin story…
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Have you ever seen two black people doing an elaborate yet effortless series of hand gestures/hugs and felt embarrassed that you don’t know how they know what to do? Have you ever seen a Jewish person swaying back and forth with a prayer book and been like *shruggy emoji*? And hey! What the hell are the Spice Girls singing about? Do not fear! Lorra…
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Welcome to Blackface & Jewface: Minstrel Shows and Media Representations, a seminar at Vassar College taught by Professor DeGraffenreidt and Adjunct Professor Isaacson. Prepare to get your young little mind blown by seemingly benign bits of American culture (Mickey Mouse! That song “Do Your Ears Hang Low?”!) that actually have super racist origins.…
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Lorraine & Sarah are women (not girls!) who happen to run this shit. Happy Women’s History Month, by the way!!! On today’s ep everybody gets learnt up on black & Jewish feminists. Sarah honors the life and legacy of visual artist and community leader Judy Chicago while Lorraine learnts about the feminist work and messy private-life-turned-public-li…
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Get ready to party cuz it’s Purim, babies! Sarah tries to remember the story of Judaism’s littest holiday aka Jewish Halloween. The hosts phone a couple friends for help, and -- spoiler alert -- somebody was paying alllll the attention in Hebrew school. Lorraine gets inspired by a YouTube Rabbi and finds her drag queen alias, and Sarah explains why…
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Lorraine and Sarah are givin’ the people what they want, with another episode all about food! They’re having a cross-cultural potluck! The hosts invite comedians Betsy Stover and Marian Yesufu, and hostess-with-the-mostest Grace Kountzhouse, to bring dishes from their respective cultures and chat about the intersections of food and family. If you l…
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A lotta lotta folks recommend a lotta lotta movies as Learnt Up homework for your hosts. For this episode, Lorraine and Sarah are discussing two filmmakers whose films they have been sleepin’ on despite them having been recommended time and time again.
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Sharing the Shame with 2 Jews Talking Podcast
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As far as Learnt Up is concerned, 2 Jews Talking is a varsity podcast team and their hosts, Joshua Heller and Erika Brooks-Adickman, are a couple of heavy hitters. On this episode, Josh and Erika swing by to share the shame with Lorraine and Sarah.
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Lorraine and Sarah get learnt up on board games! Some people are visual learnters, some learnt by hearing, some learnt by acts of service....oh wait, that’s the 5 love languages. Anyway the point is, the gals invited their friends to come over and play Secret Hitler and now they understand fascism!
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The “N” Word, The “K” Word & The “Y” Word
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The Standards and Practices department at Learnt Up Podcast fainted during the recording of this episode - it’s the one where Lorraine and Sarah get learnt up on ethnic slurs!!! They explore the origins of age-old bad words like “kike,” ”yid,” and “theeeee ennnnnn worrrrrrd.”
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