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Call Sign Condor, a podcast about the thousands of Latin Americans who are fighting in Ukraine, for Ukraine.
Meet Your Neighbors: 5 Podcasts That Help Bring Us Closer
Each issue of our newsletter is curated by a different person. This week, our curator is Jess Lin, host of Cultureful.
I absolutely love getting to know people from different cultures – up close on a human level – deeper than we get to when we travel or eat a different cuisine… not as soundbites underlining news happening in a community, but as regular people living their lives.
These five shows let us into intimate personal and family stories. They show us the human side of neighbors from cultures we might not otherwise have the privilege to know. That’s also what I’m working towards as I host Cultureful – to create a space that helps us connect and understand each other, human to human.
CULTUREFUL
Crossing Borders, Farmworker Resilience, & Mexican-American Roots | Taryn
Cultureful is an award-winning show that explores cross-cultural experiences through intimate personal stories.
In the first of a two-part interview, Taryn Cadena shares her grandparents’ journey from Mexico, tracing their lives from farmworkers to farm owners through vivid memories, an unexpected meet-cute, and reflections on her grandmothers’ legacies.
RADIO ATLAS
Have You Eaten?
Radio Atlas is an archive of audio documentaries in languages other than English, with English subtitles and gorgeous, immersive soundscapes.
In this intimate short feature, producer Qing Hu uses the familiar Chinese greeting “Have you eaten?” to draw listeners into conversations with her grandmother across space and time.
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INHERITING
Leialani & The Occupation of Guam
Inheriting explores how historical events shape families across generations.
In this episode, Leialani and her grandfather reflect on their family’s history as Indigenous Chamoru people of Guam, questioning the U.S.-centric accounts of the island’s past that they were taught.
ALL MY RELATIONS
Hope, Prayer & Indigenous Laughter
Hosted by and featuring Native people, this show speaks to Native listeners while welcoming non-Native folks in to learn.
In this episode, guest host Dallas Goldtooth interviews his mom and sister, exploring his mom’s life and activism through a conversation full of love, warmth, and humor.
THE ZARNA GARG FAMILY PODCAST
American Dreams, Indian Parents
Indian American comedian Zarna Garg sits down with her husband and three children for conversations about family life.
In this episode, the kids offer outspoken feedback on their parents’ approach to raising them. It’s a lively, witty look at immigrant parenting that makes you feel like you’ve pulled up a chair at their table.
Call Sign Condor is a podcast about the thousands of Latin American soldiers who are fighting in Ukraine — for Ukraine. Through the stories of our protagonist, Condor, and his fellow soldiers, this four-part series takes us inside the lives of Latin American men and women who’ve been fighting — some of them for years — in the war in Ukraine.
Listen to Call Sign Condor here→
Autumn flights are here
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👩💻 In this week’s issue of Podcast the Newsletter, Lauren Passell recommends Bed of Lies: Missing Debbie She writes:
We hear about Debbie Cooper…who marries Jamie Starbuck, who sounds like a real psycho dickhead who none of Debbie’s friends or family likes. They go on this honeymoon around the world.
TWO YEARS later, her friends get suspicious about their communication with her, all weird emails, and start asking questions which lead them to the discovery that they were emailing Jamie the whole time.
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