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What's In A Name
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- Nov 15th, 2022Host Ahmed Ali Akbar has always had trouble getting people to say his name “correctly.” Why? This episode explores how second generation immigrants choose names, and how a name can impact our lives in more ways than we’d think.
- Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer/podcaster Andrew Ti (‘Yo, Is This Racist?’, Sub-Optimal Pods) for a look at why surnames are secretly incredibly fascinating.Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episodeMaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get...
- Mar 4th, 2022Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/Countries, like people, have names. Sometimes those names are long and they have a shorter version of it for common use. There are some countries, however, that often have multiple names, and the names can be radically different from each other. ...
- Oct 8th, 2018“It’s the word that you use the most often and the soonest to describe yourself, and yet nobody’s really ever talked about how it kind of makes me feel like this.” Until Duana Taha, who, after a lifetime of feelings about her own unique name, became the Name Therapist. Duana offers advice on how to name your baby/futur...
Guests
- Nov 4th, 2018Why did you change your name? And why did you choose the name you chose? Listeners answer these two questions. Hear their stories of gender identity, family fallouts, marriages, divorces, doxxing, cults, and…just not liking your given name very much. Find more about this episode at http://theallusionist.org/name-change...
- Species are hard to define, as they don’t fit neatly into the categories that science wants to put them into. But increasingly, people are naming new species without enough evidence to suggest they are indeed a separate taxon. Graihagh Jackson investigates why so-called taxonomic vandalism is on the rise and what we ca...
- Sep 1st, 2020After the 1970s oil crisis, the global economy went into a recession. American unemployment hit 11 percent. And suddenly, middle-class families didn’t have money for name brands like Coke or Kellogg’s. Consumers wanted cheaper food. In response, supermarkets had to figure out how to make their store brands more appeali...
- Today we dive into the subject of pseudonyms. Corinne has a recent news item and Becca plays a game. Next time we will be in Non-Fiction November reading Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford. You can find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us. Get two months for the price of one at Libro.fm with...
- Jul 31st, 2014A kid's name can tell us something about his parents -- their race, social standing, even their politics. But is your name really your destiny?
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SocietyCultureDocumentary - The Karen, a white woman who surveys, inconveniences, and terrorizes, service workers and people of color is a relatively new term in the culture, but her character type has been with us for centuries. In this episode of Decoder Ring we explore the history of this type, from the code-names used during enslavement, to t...
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SocietyCultureDocumentary - Jul 28th, 2021When Amrou Al-Kadhi steps into a pair of heels and takes the stage, they step into another world, another persona where they can be whatever they want. In this episode of Sideways, Matthew Syed asks whether creating an alter ego is the key to finding our true self. For Amrou Al-Kadhi, performing as their drag alter-ego...
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