Best V H US Podcasts (2025)

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Greta Lynn Uehling, "Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025) 53:32

4h ago53:32

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In Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025), anthropologist Dr. Greta Lynn Uehling illuminates the untold stories of Russia’s occupation of Crimea from 2014 to the present, revealing the traumas of colonization, foreign occupation, and population displacement. Drawing upon extensive …

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POSTGAME POD: LAFC v Montreal 33:45

20h ago33:45

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The draw dreams are made of! Travis and Vince break down our 1,000th draw for the month of May and ask “just what is this team.” We talk Dolo frustrations, offensive struggles, and just what isn’t clicking right now. All while we are 4th in the west. Plus, Joey calls in from a furniture store! New Merch Available NOW. Join our Patreon and help us k…

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Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024) 1:03:20

1d ago1:03:20

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The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir (Wipf and Stock, 2024) is a narrative of a Christian family in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Based on diary entries and interviews from 2000 to 2023, the Dutch author--an anthropologist and peace activist--chronicles the spontaneous reactions of his Palestinian children and wife navigating the challen…

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Camilla Annerfeldt, "Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 30:22

1d ago30:22

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Camilla Annerfeldt joins to discuss Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome (Bloomsbury, 2025). This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods. It also challenges the notion – well-established in dress historical resea…

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Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025) 41:28

5h ago41:28

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In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments wher…

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MONTREAL MATCH PREVIEW: Club De (Happy) Foot 1:19:00

5d ago1:19:00

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After an intense week of rivalry matches against Vancouver, Seattle, and Carson, LAFC has an equally big match against our biggest rival of all: MONTREAL!!!! Travis, Darren, and Vince break down LAFC's lack of late game stability, talk all things Delgado controversy, and Travis somehow got us intel about Cengiz Under??? Plus, we take your questions…

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Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025) 46:19

5d ago46:19

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Following a group of US Midwest farmers who purchased tracts of land in the tropical savanna of eastern Brazil, Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Andrew Ofstehage investigates industrial farming in the modern developing world. Seeking adventure and profit, the transplanted f…

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M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025) 58:47

5d ago58:47

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In Transformismo, M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social transformation of the island. Once banned and censored in Cuba, transformismo, or drag performance, is now state-sponsored events. Transformismo su…

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Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians 1:27:03

6d ago1:27:03

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YERRR – the one and only Bernie Sanders sat down with us to talk the failures of the Democratic party, Elon & corporate interest upending modern democracy, and why the system’s still rigged against the working class person. From taking on billionaires to clashing with Congress, Bernie keeps it blunt: he breaks down socialized healthcare, fixing stu…

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Kai Shmushko, "Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics" (Leiden UP, 2024) 1:04:04

6d ago1:04:04

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In the past decades, various forms of Buddhism have emerged in-between, above, and beyond conventional conceptions of religious and spiritual life in China. Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics (Leiden UP, 2024) is a qualitative study exploring manifestations of the massive revival …

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POSTGAME POD: El Tráfico 2025 Vol. 1 - LAFC v Galaxy 1:10:51

7d ago1:10:51

1:10:51

Despite incredible goals from Bouanga and The Prince of Van Nuys Nathan Ordaz, a nervy LAFC blow a winnable game down in Carson. Travis, Darren, and Vince talk about what went wrong, find the silver linings, and discuss whether or not we are back. (We aren’t.) BRAND NEW MERCH AVAILABLE (Including Our Patreon Exclusive 2025 Limited Edition Scarf). C…

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POSTGAME POD: LAFC v Seattle (We Won By A Lot) 51:49

11d ago51:49

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ARE WE BACK? Yolo Dolo is in full effect as LAFC plays their best game all season. We had 1,000 callers. We have 1,000 super chats, and of course we had 1,000 memories with our friends. Lobbing Scorchers called in. Geoff Tock called in. And maybe we even saw some nipples. BRAND NEW MERCH AVAILABLE (Including Our Patreon Exclusive 2025 Limited Editi…

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SEATTLE / EL TRÁFICO MATCH PREVIEW: A Team Of Rivals 1:03:17

12d ago1:03:17

1:03:17

One week, two of our biggest rivals, three of your hottest podcast hosts. Darren, Vince, and Travis answer everything you need to know: Will we be the Galaxy's first loss? How tall is the average polar bear on it's hind legs? And will we avenge our Seattle embarrassment? We talk Pec, Musovski, McCarthy, and then finally, the return of fan favorite …

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Bible Expert on which Christianity is TRUE, the Book of Enoch, & if Christmas is Pagan 3:15:18

12d ago3:15:18

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YERRR – the guys brought on Christian apologist and Bible expert Wesley Huff to break down faith, philosophy, and help us understand the history of the Bible. He breaks down misquoted verses, the myths about Jesus and his travels, why Christianity split so many times, and why Christmas is NOT a Pagan holiday. All that and more on this week’s episod…

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POSTGAME POD: LAFC v Vancouver 53:11

14d ago53:11

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LAFC gets a draw on the road against the best team in MLS and boy are we upset about it. Vince and Travis are here to break down just where things went wrong in the second half, whether this team is built to succeed, and decide once and for all if Bouanga is back. Plus Geoff Tock joins us to tell us saying Happy Birthday is bad?? idk, he should get…

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Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024) 49:46

16d ago49:46

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Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon (2024) is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Situated in the state of Acre, which continuously had to grapple with a complex positionality between frontier and periphery, Maron E. Greenleaf explor…

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VANCOUVER MATCH PREVIEW: Is Vancouver For Real? 55:13

18d ago55:13

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Happy Big Mothers Day everyone! Travis, Darren, and Vince are here to break down all of the storylines of this very exciting week in LAFC history, where we not only play the best team in the league but also secured a spot in a one game playoff to join the FIFA Club World Cup and potentially make our owners a bunch of money. We break down why Vancou…

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Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe 1:14:22

18d ago1:14:22

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What is the growing appeal of fascist idealism for young people? Why is radical nationalism on the rise in Europe and throughout the world? In Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton UP, 2024), Dr. Agnieszka Pasieka provides an in-depth account of the ideas and practices that are driving the varied forms of far-rig…

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Roasting Met Gala, Last of Us goes Gay, & F1 is IS America 2:08:03

18d ago2:08:03

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YERRR – no guest this week, just the boys cookin’ on everything from HBO's greatness to red carpet chaos. We’re talkin’ Last of Us theories, F1 races (and why it might be the best live event ever), recent Padel problems, Met Gala madness, and then Professor Gagnon breaks down Burkina Faso at the end. All that and way more on this week’s episode of …

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Deana Jovanović, "Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town" (Cornell UP, 2025) 1:23:24

20d ago1:23:24

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Built on the shifting grounds of post-Yugoslav transformation, Staging the Promises examines how the residents of Bor — a Serbian copper-mining town marked by both socialist prosperity and post-socialist decline — became spectators to the staged enactments of promised futures. Deana Jovanović traces how local authorities and the copper-processing c…

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Ipek A. Celik Rappas, "Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location" (Cornell UP, 2025) 44:59

22d ago44:59

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Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location (Cornell University Press, 2025) explores the effort behind creating screen production locations. Dr. Ipek A. Celik Rappas accounts the rising demand for original and affordable locations for screen projects due to the growth of streaming platforms. As a result, screen professionals are repeatedly t…

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POSTGAME POD: LAFC v Houston (Javier Bardem Was There) 55:11

22d ago55:11

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LAFC put in one of their best overall performances of the year and Darren, Vince, and Travis are here to give their INSTANT REACTION to the Black and Gold winning 2-0 over Houston. They talk Olly's Big Day Out, Erik Duenas' homecoming, and of course, give their Happy Feet and Sad Feet from the match. Did you guys know Javier Bardem was on the jumbo…

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Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024) 52:44

23d ago52:44

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The spread of democracy across the Global South has taken many different forms, but certain features are consistent: implementing a system of elections and an overarching mission of serving the will and well-being of a country's citizens. But how do we hold politicians accountable for such a mission? How are we to understand the efficacy of the pol…

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HUSTON MATCH PREVIEW: We Don't Talk About Huston 1:02:59

24d ago1:02:59

1:02:59

We don't talk about H*****n. Want to skip the banter? Storylines starts at 10:43 Join our Patreon and help us keep making this show. Merch and more at HappyFootSadFootPod.com YouTube: @happyfootsadfoot Twitter: @HaFoSaFo Instagram: @happyfootsadfoot TikTok: @happyfootsadfoot Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Lian Sinclair, "Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations" (Manchester UP, 2024) 36:47

24d ago36:47

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Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? Why are there so many different global standards in mining? Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations (Manchester UP, 2024) develop…

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Tim Grady, "Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2025) 54:30

25d ago54:30

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In Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars (Yale University Press, 2025), Tim Grady recounts here a detailed history of the fate of combatants who died on enemy soil in England and Germany in World Wars I and II. The books draws on a rich archive of personal family experiences, and describes the often touching…

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Gary Owen SWEATS talking Shannon Sharpe Allegations, Living with LA’s Most Dangerous Gangster & More 2:38:00

25d ago2:38:00

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YERRR – the guys linked up with comedian Gary Owen for a no-holds-barred convo on comedy, culture, and catching heat. Gary has wild stories from being on the road as Black America's favorite White comedian, to navigating divorce in the public eye and reacting to his viral clip about it. He talks about living with a notorious LA Gangster, being a st…

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Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 36:32

26d ago36:32

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Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (U Chicago Press, 2024), anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city a…

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Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025) 1:06:18

27d ago1:06:18

1:06:18

In this episode, Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak talk about their new co-authored book Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). This volume is part of the Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds series. Solidarity economies, characterized by di…

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Amy Zhang, "Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China" (Stanford UP, 2024) 1:07:52

28d ago1:07:52

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After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world's largest waste-generating nation, the World Economic Forum projects that by 2030, the volume of household waste in China will be double that of the United States. Starting in the early 2000s, Chinese policymakers came to see waste management as…

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Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025) 39:47

29d ago39:47

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An enthralling tour of the world’s rarest and most endangered languages Languages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique perspectives and ways of life. Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Princeton University Press, 2025) tells the stories of the w…

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Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024) 54:38

30d ago54:38

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Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Eleanor Paynter responds to the crisis framings that dominate migration debates in the global north. This capacious, interdisciplinary open-access study reformulates Europe's so-called "migrant crisis" from a sudden disaster to a site of…

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ST LOUIS MATCH PREVIEW: The Rise of Yolo Dolo 1:08:35

1M ago1:08:35

1:08:35

REMINDER: NO POST-GAME LIVESTREAM THIS WEEK! Is it time for the rise of Yolo Dolo? Travis, Darren, and Vince are here to break down the seemingly rejuvenated LAFC attack, talk about our brand new roster signings, and figure out what the hell St Louis Style Pizza really is. Plus, they create a brand new Mount Rushmore for LAFC: the worst LAFC signin…

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Pete Buttigieg on Trump Tariffs, Taxing Billionaires, and Republican Gays 2:53:01

1M ago2:53:01

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YERRR – former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg came on to talk about fixing America’s crumbling infrastructure, fixing the Democratic Party, & his political aspirations. He gets into policy, public perception, parenting, his coming out story, and what it takes to run for president. All that and more on this week’s episode of FLAGRAN…

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Season 19: Episode 8 - Wheels on Meals ( Feat. Sun Kim ) 1:10:23

1M ago1:10:23

1:10:23

Find Sun: https://www.fomochicken.com Find Us: https://vhuspodcast.threadless.com https://www.vh-us.com https://www.patreon.com/vhusBy Sun Kim, Dirk Marshall

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H-O-T-T-O-G-O: Jay Can Take Us Hot To Go! Mona Lisa, Baepsae to Bed! 1:43:59

1M ago1:43:59

1:43:59

Join Megan, Tonya, and Alison for a Deep Dive on HOPE ON THE STAGE Chicago and Oakland. Thoughts on the red leather, the flirtations, the dancing and of course being in the front row of the Baepsae Zone. NEW! Afternoona Army is now on PATREON! Join The BTS Buzz and get access to Afternoona Army's exclusive DISCORD channel, get shout outs on-air in …

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Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025) 1:08:28

1M ago1:08:28

1:08:28

CrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the people devoted to it. CrossFit claims to be many things: a business, a brand, a tremendously difficult fitness regimen, a community, a way to gain salvation, and a method to survive the apocalypse. In Th…

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POSTGAME POD: LAFC v Portland 55:07

1M ago55:07

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DOLO HAS DIED GIROUD HAS RISEN BOUANGA WILL COME AGAIN Join our Patreon and help us keep making this show. Merch and more at HappyFootSadFootPod.com YouTube: @happyfootsadfoot Twitter: @HaFoSaFo Instagram: @happyfootsadfoot TikTok: @happyfootsadfoot Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Christof Lammer, "Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China" (Berghahn, 2024) 1:42:23

1M ago1:42:23

1:42:23

On the podcast today I am joined by Christof Lammer, a social anthropologist based at the University of Klagenfurt and inherit fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin. Christof is joining me to talk about his new book, Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China published in Open Access by Berghahn Books in 2024. Th…

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EMERGENCY POD: Dolo Resigns As Head Coach 47:45

1M ago47:45

47:45

Welp, you freaks got what you wanted! Steve Cherundolo officially resigned as head coach effective the end of the season, becoming maybe the first lame duck coach in MLS history. Travis does this one solo and he talks about the weird timing of this, the implications for the roster, and of course new options. #HireGiorgio???? Join our Patreon and he…

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PORTLAND MATCH PREVIEW: Griez? Nuts. 1:09:28

1M ago1:09:28

1:09:28

Griezmann is official gone but it's fine WE NEVER WANTED HIM ANYWAYS. Darren, Vince, and Travis are here to talk Bouanga's potential renaissance, roster holes post-Antoine, and we finally find out just what Darren knows about tactics. Plus, we break down everything you need to about the Timbers and ask once and for all... is Portland ACTUALLY cool?…

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Political Mythmaking in Nepal 33:12

1M ago33:12

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How and why do local political processes in rural Nepal become an arena for political mythmaking? And, how do political myths obscure their own historical construction, thereby making hierarchical power structures appear inevitable? In this episode we discuss these questions with Ankita Shrestha whose ethnographic explorations into these issues for…

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How to Get Into ANY Restaurant, Why Michelin Stars Are Nonsense & Building a Billion Dollar Business 2:40:04

1M ago2:40:04

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YERRR – the guys sat down with Mario Carbone to chop it up about the hustle behind building a restaurant empire. From old-school red sauce joints to celeb-packed hotspots, Mario breaks down the flavors, the business, and the pressure of keeping it all fresh. He talks about Michelin stars, wild celebrity dining stories, and why good hospitality is t…

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Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024) 46:29

1M ago46:29

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Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton University Press, 2024) provides an in-depth account of the ideas and practices that are driving the varied forms of far-right activism by young people from all walks of life, revealing how these social mo…

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Sarah Saddler, "Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India" (Routledge, 2025) 1:10:32

1M ago1:10:32

1:10:32

How do corporations use theater to reconcile the crises of late capitalism? In our latest interview on Ethnographic Marginalia, we speak with Dr. Sarah Saddler about her new book Performing Corporate Bodies (Routledge, 2024), where she describes how corporations have borrowed techniques from activist theater to manage their workers in India and bey…

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Mingwei Huang, "Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:05:34

1M ago1:05:34

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In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke UP, 2024), Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Through fieldwork in one of the “China malls” that has emerged along Johannesburg’s former mining belt, Huang identifies everyday relations of power and differen…

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Season 19: Episode 7- The Unborn 2 (Feat. Tara Hall ) 56:27

1M ago56:27

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Find Tara: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4594927/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1 https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Buzzard-Hollow-Beef-Joshua-Johnson/dp/B07DL6X74H https://www.instagram.com/womanfilm/ woman film.bksy.social Find Dirk: https://www.instagram.com/dirkzaster/By dirk marshall, tara hall

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Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses 2:43:21

1M ago2:43:21

2:43:21

YERRR – the guys brought in none other than The Game himself, Triple H, to break down the wild world of professional wrestling. From getting punished by Vince and the rise of DX, Triple H opens up about everything: the business, the characters, the pain, the politics – even training Floyd Mayweather. Plus, his insane story of marrying his wife, int…

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Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven, "Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) 56:21

1M ago56:21

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How do we acquire knowledge about societies? Does how we acquire social knowledge shape what we know? How conscious must we be of our own experiences as we do our research? What does feminism add to our methods and modes of research? Now in its second edition, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities (Rowm…

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POSTGAME POD: LAFC v San Jose 1:03:27

1M ago1:03:27

1:03:27

Bouanga scored! Giroud touched the ball a bunch! We found out what Bruce Arena did! Darren, Vince, and Travis break down everything you need to know from a sloppy but successful outing against San Jose, the team that REALLY wants to have a rivalry with us but we couldn't care less. We talk Hugo's big save, Sergi's absolute laser, and Olly's ascent …

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