The Medium Talk Podcast
1) The Taming of the Shrew: 10 Things We Hate Right Now
Today we're taking a page from the Costanza family playbook and celebrating Festivus in September with our Airing of Grievances. From bananas and birds to cable news, vauguebooking, and passive-aggres...Show More
2) Hoosier Daddy: A Defense of the Romance Novel with Leigh Kramer
Romance novels have long been a source of collective societal derision: the over-the-top covers, the euphemisms, the punny titles. However, they're also a financial boon for publishing houses ... whic...Show More
3) Just Mercy: Exploring the Intersection of Grace and Justice with Tori Petersen
With social media, 24-hour news cycles, and #cancelculture on the rise, the clamor for justice feels almost … frenetic. Suddenly grace and mercy feel like quaint notions. Tori Petersen joins us in the...Show More
Just Mercy: Exploring the Intersection of Grace and Justice with Tori Petersen
53:30 | Aug 11th, 2020
4) Sophie's Choice: The 2020 School Year Conundrum
The start of the school year is right around the corner but instead of the usual quest for pre-sharpened Ticonderogas, 2020 is upping the ante. The pandemic has altered everything about school as we k...Show More
5) Alexander Hamilton: Loving and Wrestling with a Cultural Juggernaut
If you have a pulse (and Disney+), odds are you’ve jumped on the Hamilton train. In today’s episode, we’re talking about our initial encounters with the play, what it was like watching the original ca...Show More
6) Things Fall Apart: How to Play the Hand We're Dealt with Lesley Miller
Today we're joined by our good friend Lesley Miller to talk about how to proceed when life doesn't go the way we planned. From unexpected deaths to devastating diagnoses to, well, the entirety of 2020...Show More
7) Pride and Prejudice: How Do We Do the Work?
In conversations around race, racism, and white privilege, one phrase crops up over and over: do the work. But what is "the work" and how do we do it? That's what we're talking about in today's episod...Show More
8) One Hundred Years of Solitude: Dealing with Boundary Fatigue
In today's episode, we're discussing the challenge of navigating what life looks like as things begin to open back up again after weeks of safer-at-home orders. How do we know what's safe, and how do ...Show More
9) Tuck Everlasting: Are We the Grown Ups Now?
In today's episode we're talking about the difference between being "a" grown up and "the" grown up, the times we kind of feel like we're faking it, and our kneejerk aversion to being ma'am-ed. We als...Show More
10) The Catcher in the Rye: What Do You *Really* Remember From High School?
This week, we're flashing back to the turn of the millennium and talking about high school. From our surprise at what actually stands out about those days to the things we wish we could recall, we fin...Show More