ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A podcast that talks to experts about one thing that is profoundly and perhaps unexpectedly significant and that they will argue should matter to everyone. Your hosts, Sean Johnson Andrews and Madhurima Chakraborty, will need to be convinced. Join us as we talk with informed and passionate people about things that we and you may have missed, asking them, “So what?”
Update frequency:
every 4 days
Average audio length:
29 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
9 episodes
since Jan. 1, 2026
episodic
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In this episode, drawing on his current book project, podcast co-host Sean Johnson Andrews talks about concepts like safe space, cancel culture, and trigger warnings. Sean argues that these are not “merely cultural” concerns but are part of a larger, longer struggle over which subjects get to feel …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Lisa Brock, a historian, radical intellectual and activist who became known as a leader of the Chicago Anti-apartheid movement while in graduate school. She shared her account of one of the first campaigns she organized once she got here: helping coordinate the Ch…
This is a very special episode. Instead of only one boring adult expert, we have five separate interviews with kids. For a few minutes each, they talk to us about a thing that they know more than a little something about. EJ, B, Iris, Atlas, and KCS talk to us about baseball and TikTok, about Pokem…
In this episode, we speak with Debra Riley Parr about her research in scent studies and especially the cultural significance of fragrance and odors as both indexes of hierarchy and means of resistance against them. Debra is Associate Professor Emerita of Art and Design History and Theory at Columbi…
In this episode, we speak with Wailin Wong about the importance of accurate data - and the threat of its politicization in the current era. In particular, she talks about what is commonly referred to as the “jobs report,” produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
https://www.bls.gov/
Wailin is t…
In this episode, we speak with Chris Shaw, who is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Columbia College Chicago.
https://www.colum.edu/academics/faculty/detail/christopher-shaw.html
He wanted to talk about the concept of the golden ratio, which is often used as an index of perfect proportion and …
In this episode we talk with Kathalene Razzano about the history and implications of the argument that “children need fathers,” how this has been repeatedly (and especially recently) reappropriated by politicians, and how it can be seen in popular television talk show tropes where DNA tests solve p…
In this episode, Sean and Madhurima speak with the biographer and science fiction writer Alec Nevala-Lee about a short story he says has a deeper significance than even he understood for his first thirty years as a fan of it. Jorge Luis-Borges’ “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” was first published in 19…
Sean Johnson Andrews and Madhurima Chakraborty are starting a podcast where they talk to experts about one thing in their field that they will try to convince us is important. For Episode Zero, they talk about Exotica musician from the mid twentieth century, Korla Pandit, who wasn't exactly what he…
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