Transcripts

Laufey: Gen Z Jazz Singer & Marketing Genius

This episode is best consumed via video, which you can watch on Spotify or YouTube ! Over the course of the past year, the 25 year old singe...

Fei-Fei Li: Asking the Most Audacious Questions

In the late 1980s, in the city of Sichuan, China, Fei Fei Li’s middle school teacher accused Fei-Fei of spending too much time reading rando...

Catherine the Great: German Girl Turned Russian Tsar

In 1745, a random German girl marries the future tsar of Russia. Six months into her husband’s reign, she stages a coup to overthrow h...

Lady Bird Johnson: Attaining Power As A Supporting Figure

In this episode, we do something different: we cover a woman whose power was entirely derived from her husband. We discuss how Lady Bird ach...

Angela Merkel - Machiavellian Yet Modest Chancellor Of Germany

Angela Merkel started her life as a research scientist in East Germany. At 35, within a year of entering politics, she was elected to Parlia...

The Ascent of Anna Wintour

We analyze the motivations and machinations of the media mogul and fashion icon who inspired The Devil Wears Prada . You can also read thi...