HeyJaredThe People Who Make Us
What I’ve come to realize is we all have a central “self” at our core that is who we innately are. However, every day we meet people- some just for a moment and others that stick around for a while.
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Marjan Kamali: The Lion Women of Tehran & the Scripts We Inherit (opens the original)
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New York Times bestselling author Marjan Kamali joins Kira and me for a conversation that starts with her novel, The Lion Women of Tehran, and very quickly becomes about so much more. If you’ve listened to our book club episodes before, you might remember Kira bringing this book up during our very first one- and after finally reading it myself, I immediately understood why. At its heart, The Lion Women of Tehran is a story about friendship, but underneath that story are all of these currents abo
Why Divas Raise Us: Pop Culture, Icons & Bravo Church (feat. Matty Durkin) (opens the original)
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This week I'm switching things up. After two pretty deep-dive episodes, I brought on my friend Matty Durkin from the Pop Corner Pod. He's a self-proclaimed HISTORIAN of all things pop culture, with a focus in the Real Housewives. On paper, pop culture and Refuse to Subscribe shouldn't mix... this show is about going against the grain and pop culture is basically the opposite. Except- not always... as Matt proves in this episode. Matty made a case good enough that I'm actually considering diving
The Handmaid's Tale Made Us Spiral: From the Stanford Prison Experiment to AI Dread (opens the original)
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Kira and I sat down for what was supposed to be the Lion Women of Tehran book club episode and instead just riffed for almost an hour. I'd apologize, but the conversation was killer. First - the big news. We're not talking Lion Women of Tehran today because in a few weeks we're bringing MARJAN KAMALI, the actual author, onto the podcast. You have a few more weeks to grab a copy and read it before she's on, so go get it from your local bookstore, not some faceless website, and thank me later... t
Justin Deeley's 2AM Question in Paris: Passion or Reason? (opens the original)
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This week I have Justin Deeley on the episode. You may know him from 90210 or Geography Club, or my personal favorite, and where I know him from, Drop Dead Diva. This whole conversation started when we were at work one night at the restaurant we both work at, and he brings up this 30 hour stint he had in Paris where he found himself at two in the morning in a restaurant having dinner with his wife, with a live jazz band, and this gentleman next to him posed him with the question, passion or reas
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