I migliori Head On Fire podcast (2024)

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What is German Christmas Folklore? with Ella Harrison 1:05:09

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Ella Harrison is the author of The Book of Spells. She has a degree in anthropology and uses her social media platform to educate and entertain audiences on the topics of folklore, folk magic, and the history of holiday traditions. If you've ever wondered about figures like Krampus or Perchta, this is the show for you. Email: contact@headonfirepod.…

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Is all politics local? with Gregory Royal Pratt 1:07:34

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They say all politics is local, but that's difficult to believe when every single topic of conversation at our dinner table seems to have national stakes. From the books on our kids' shelves to who reads those books to them to the statues in our parks to who is allowed in our parks, every issue large and small feels like it's operating on some gran…

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What's really in our food? with Erin the Food Science Babe 1:04:53

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Thanks to the Make America Healthy Again movement, there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation on the rise about food, "chemicals", and whether what we eat is safe. Thankfully, Erin the Food Science Babe is here to help. Subscribe to Erin's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodScienceBabe Email: contact@headonfirepod.com Social links…

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How do you walk the Witches' Road in real life? with Thorn Mooney, Courtney Weber, and Mawiyah Bomani 1:36:40

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The mantel of the witch is one that has been worn by people for all sorts of reasons. There are those who don the black hat for political purposes, as a feminist symbol, or a way for those who find themselves on the margins of society in one way or another to reach for the power they otherwise could never hope to have. Then there are the people cal…

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Why do we politicize hurricanes? with Dr. Sam Montano 1:04:59

2M ago1:04:59

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Dr. Sam Montano is no stranger to combating conspiracy theories regarding emergency management. She’s been doing it since Hurricane Katrina. She holds a BS in Psychology, as well as Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Emergency Management and teaches the subject at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Her book Disaster-ology came out in 2021. I sat down wi…

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What is expertise? with AJ Jacobs 56:31

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A.J. Jacobs is a New York Times bestselling author known for his immersive, year-long experiments, including The Year of Living Biblically, The Know-It-All, and his latest book, The Year of Living Constitutionally. Email: contact@headonfirepod.com Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonf…

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What can rejection teach you? with Victoria Aveyard 1:20:53

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By all accounts Victoria Aveyard is both an outlier and also as close to the Hollywood version of becoming an author as it gets. While the average age for a debut novelist is around 36, Victoria’s debut novel—Red Queen—was published shortly after graduating from college and went on to become a massive, runaway success. And so did all of the rest of…

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Is everywhere really queer? with Charlie Sprinkman 53:27

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Charlie Sprinkman developed the app Everywhere Is Queer, which is quickly becoming one of the best, most comprehensive lists of queer owned and operated businesses. Whether you’re looking for a travel agent, a craft store, a bakery, or a horse ranch, the Everywhere is Queer app is helping people realize that supporting queer owned and operated busi…

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What is language? with Danny Hieber, PhD 1:19:35

4M ago1:19:35

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Danny Hieber earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his B.A. in linguistics and philosophy from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. Prior to and during graduate school he worked for Rosetta Stone’s Endangered Language Program to create language-learning software with Native American com…

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What is a storyboard artist? with Chris Copeland 1:30:58

4M ago1:30:58

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Chris Copeland has worked on some of your favorite things. Invincible, The Witcher, Young Justice, and he made his directorial debut for Dreamworks on the series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. He’s had a long career that began here in Chicago as a nerd who loved superheroes and now gets to help bring them to life. We talked about how a storyboar…

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Why are MLMs a scam? with Roberta Blevins 1:27:21

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Roberta Blevins left the MLM world in 2017 and spent all of her time since then educating the public on the dangers involved in joining these barely legal pyramid schemes. She was a key witness in the case against Lularoe and was featured in the documentary LuLaRich which showcased how the billion dollar clothing company misled thousands of women. …

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How do you take satire seriously? with Clare Brown 1:05:17

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Clare Brown is a satirist and author of the new audiobook New Nigeria County. Her social media platform is famous for flipping gender and racial stereotypes while both educating and inviting her audience to laugh. Email: contact@headonfirepod.com Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfi…

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How do you bring characters to life? with Jennifer Hale 1:09:23

6M ago1:09:23

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Even if you don’t play video games, Jennifer Hale is still probably one of your favorite actors…you just didn’t know it. As of this recording she is just shy of 500 acting credits on IMDb including numerous roles in the Star Wars universe, Mortal Kombat, DC, Marvel, Disney. Even Biker Mice from Mars…remember that? She’s been in DuckTales and Rick a…

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What's the danger of censorship? with Maggie Tokuda-Hall 1:16:40

6M ago1:16:40

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall is a children’s and young adult author who writes stories that help kids of all types see themselves on the page as the main character. She also writes books that help parents and kids have age appropriate conversations about the world we live in. One of those books, Love In The Library, became the centerpoint for exposing a long…

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What is memory? with Dr. Althea Need Kaminske 1:10:23

7M ago1:10:23

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Dr. Althea Need Kaminske is a cognitive psychologist who teaches at the Indiana University school of medicine interested in the application of human memory research to educational settings. She also helps run The Learning Scientists, an international group of cognitive psychologists who engage in science communication about the science of learning.…

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What can dolls tell us about ourselves? with Matthew Keith 58:21

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Matthew Keith is a Barbie collector, photographer, and doll expert whose work has been featured in The Los Angeles Time, NewNowNext, and on a social media feed near you. Find him at https://www.dollsonthebrain.com Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfirepod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.…

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How do you make cars less scary? with Chaya Milchtein, the Mechanic Shop Femme 51:23

8M ago51:23

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Chaya Milchtein is known to the internet as the Mechanic Shop Femme. She uses her platform and her new book Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership— to make every facet of car ownership less terrifying—from the day you decide to purchase to doing your own regular maintenance and care—and she’s showing folks in the margins of society who are ty…

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Do We Need Entertainment at Strong Men's Conferences? 48:49

8M ago48:49

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The picture used for this episode's publicity image or cover, depending on where you're seeing it, comes from an attempt to use AI to generate an image for me. Using a photograph of a matapalo, or strangler fig in English, known for its distinctive characteristic of enveloping and ultimately overpowering its host, as a metaphorical foundation, I as…

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What's it like being Out in the NFL? with Kevin Maxen 46:50

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Kevin Maxen is a strength and conditioning coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He’s also the first male coach in major American men’s professional sports to publicly come out as gay. I sat down to talk to him about what it takes to train some of the world’s best athletes, divorcing yourself from outside criticism, and whether the NFL is finally bec…

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How do you fall in love with poetry? with Dr. Maya C. Popa 58:18

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Dr. Maya C. Popa is a poetry educator, a poetry critic, and a poet in her own right. She is the poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, a professor of poetry at NYU, and her most recent collection, titled Wound is the origin of wonder, was named one of the Guardian’s Best Books of Poetry and has been featured in The Washington Post, The Irish T…

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What makes good sex advice? with Dan Savage 1:18:29

9M ago1:18:29

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Dan Savage has done a lot of things in his life. He founded both the It Gets Better project and the Hump porn festival. He popularized the Campsite Rule of relationships. He made Rick Santorum’s name a dirty word. And he’s been one of the country’s foremost sex, dating, and relationship advice columnists since the creation of Savage Love in 1991. H…

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Are we cleaning everything wrong? with Melissa Pateras 1:02:08

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With spring right around the corner, many people are thinking about cleaning their homes and turning to social media for tips and tricks only to suddenly learn we all seem to be doing everything wrong. That's where Melissa Pateras, the lesbian queen of Laundrytok and author of the new book A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home, comes in. She told me all th…

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Why is drag important? with Jinkx Monsoon 53:30

10M ago53:30

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Jinkx Monsoon (she/her) is a two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, Broadway breakout star, and soon to be villain on the beloved British sci-fi series Doctor Who coming to Disney+ in 2024. The self-proclaimed “internationally tolerated” drag icon has taken over the entertainment industry as an award-winning stage actress, acclaimed vocalist, stand-up…

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Why is math a drag? with Kyne Santos 46:42

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Kyne Santos uses social media to teach math subjects that range from simple addition and subtraction to more esoteric concepts about impossible objects or quantum mechanics. And he does it in drag. Because sometimes Kyne puts on a wig, drops the surname and becomes the Canadian Drag Race superstar alum Kyne who teaches us how math can be a living, …

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Burn 2023 down! with Meg Elison 1:40:01

12M ago1:40:01

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2023 was great and terrible. There were technological marvels, horrible television, phenomenal movies, brilliant books, and more author drama than you ever thought possible. Come around the dumpster fire as Meg Elison and I build the year its funeral pyre. Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ Twitter: https://twitter.co…

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What is German Christmas Folklore? with Ella Harrison 1:05:09

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Is all politics local? with Gregory Royal Pratt 1:07:34

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What's really in our food? with Erin the Food Science Babe 1:04:53

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How do you walk the Witches' Road in real life? with Thorn Mooney, Courtney Weber, and Mawiyah Bomani 1:36:40

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Why do we politicize hurricanes? with Dr. Sam Montano 1:04:59

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What is expertise? with AJ Jacobs 56:31

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What can rejection teach you? with Victoria Aveyard 1:20:53

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Is everywhere really queer? with Charlie Sprinkman 53:27

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What is language? with Danny Hieber, PhD 1:19:35

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What is a storyboard artist? with Chris Copeland 1:30:58

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Why are MLMs a scam? with Roberta Blevins 1:27:21

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How do you take satire seriously? with Clare Brown 1:05:17

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How do you bring characters to life? with Jennifer Hale 1:09:23

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What's the danger of censorship? with Maggie Tokuda-Hall 1:16:40

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What is memory? with Dr. Althea Need Kaminske 1:10:23

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What can dolls tell us about ourselves? with Matthew Keith 58:21

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How do you make cars less scary? with Chaya Milchtein, the Mechanic Shop Femme 51:23

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Do We Need Entertainment at Strong Men's Conferences? 48:49

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What's it like being Out in the NFL? with Kevin Maxen 46:50

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How do you fall in love with poetry? with Dr. Maya C. Popa 58:18

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What makes good sex advice? with Dan Savage 1:18:29

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Are we cleaning everything wrong? with Melissa Pateras 1:02:08

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Why is drag important? with Jinkx Monsoon 53:30

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Why is math a drag? with Kyne Santos 46:42

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Burn 2023 down! with Meg Elison 1:40:01

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