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Theoryish draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring theory to you in the most relevant, interesting, and accessible way. This show aims to create an inclusive community of learning and will showcase a wide variety of theory that is out there, going beyond the expected canon of theorists. This show makes a concerted effort to provide listeners with theoretical tools to hopefully enrich their day-to-day lives no matter what space they occupy.
The main podcast hosts are Paola Medina-Gonzalez and Hannah Ayres and they are often joined by guests who help bring theory to life!
Thank you for listening to Season 2 of Theoryish! In this episode we reflect on the season, give life updates, and chat about Season 3.
We will begin preparation for Season 3 soon, and have some really exciting episodes coming your way next year.
Until then, please don’t forgot to subscribe, comment, and rate our podcast 5 stars!
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In this week’s incredible episode, we got the opportunity to speak to Migueltzinta Solís about his article Embodying the postcolonial perverse: mestizXXX sadomasochist performance methodologies (2021). In this episode we discuss consent, queer and trans methdologies, perversity, creative practice, land relations and more!
Migueltzinta Solís is a trans Chicanx interdisciplinary artist, writer, educator, and Tarot practitioner. A creator of immersive site-specific experiences, his creative practice blends performance, video, installation, painting, and textile. Migueltzinta writes across multiple genres and forms, working towards a counter-institutional poetics of knowledge mobilization. Theme parks, amateur porn, Indigenous futurities, colonial imaginaries, queer materialities, and (un)belonging have been recurring themes. Migueltzinta holds an MFA in Art and a PhD in Cultural, Social and Political Thought from the University of Lethbridge/Iniskim in Treaty 7, traditional Blackfoot territory.
Sources and Media
You kind find all source material discussed in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pdAnRjpraEtM_WQDOWfbifk7bmIkeAXiXOSik7CSbIo/edit?usp=sharing
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This week we provide an overview of intersectionality, a concept that gave a name to the ways in which individuals experience intersecting oppressions that combine to create varied modes of discrimination and privilege. This introduction to intersectionality covers the history of the term, Kimberlé Crenshaw's 1989 article, and some of the critiques and issues with applying intersectionality in research and praxis.
Whether you’re new to the concept yourself, or want to offer an introductory source for your students, friends, family and loved ones, this episode offers a comprehensive overview for those who want to understand this important concept.
Sources and Media
You kind find all source material discussed in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V2fXLZDqZLfZHXe0W6z4w1tzsWuETVOlJGSREXNjVxc/edit?usp=sharing
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This week, guest Meaghan Allen joins us to discuss Julia Kristeva’s 1980 book Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Join us as we discuss abjection, the allure of horror, final girls, the body, and Carol J. Clover’s Men, Women and Chainsaws. Towards the end of the episode, we use abjection to discuss the 1973 film The Exorcist. If you’re interested in horror, this is definitely an episode you don’t want to miss!
Meaghan Allen is a PhD researcher at the University of Manchester interested in the intersections of the medieval and the modern, with a particular focus on violence against women. Her thesis uses blood to investigate the medieval inheritance of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, exploring topics like vampires and the Eucharist, virgin martyrs and horror heroines; blood and the soul.
Sources and Media
You kind find all source material discussed in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ugCD-46Dle8mR0E84islIbMEdFyyPWICKqlsloqQmBs/edit?usp=sharing
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We are back from our midseason break with an episode on Sigmund Freud’s 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In this essay Freud challenges some of his preconceived ideas about the pleasure principle through his exploration of the death drive. Join us as we break down Freudian terminology, deepen our understanding of psychoanalysis, and use the death drive to think about the Sopranos and Persona 3.
Sources and Media
You kind find all source material discussed in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O1zigSKuhQOB4ezdnqh5cn51EsfqHZAuAF6eyN5saRQ/edit?usp=sharing
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In this week’s episode, we look at Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking 1971 essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists. Join us as we investigate Nochlin’s examination of institutional and societal barriers that have prevented women’s access to artistic recognition and success. We discuss in detail who Linda Nochlin is, why this essay is so important to feminist art theory and art history and reflect on the relevance of this essay today.
Please note that we will be taking a mid-season break and will be back soon with more episodes, memes, and theory! In the meantime, catch up on our previous episodes, rate our podcast, subscribe and share.
Sources and Media
You kind find all source material discussed in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1svJEGLHikyIi0LYYBofFg5icXKDR7F9tO2tdPA68Bxg/edit?usp=sharing
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Welcome to our first ‘Introduction To...’ of the season! In this episode we introduce you to Poststructuralism, outline what this concept is, where it came from, and who the poststructuralists are (despite their insistence to the contrary).
Sources and Fan Fiction
You kind find all source material discussed in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PrI0L5dW-WKRDbMiNldAmNhATr2ZvjvTj5JUB6S3DAM/edit?usp=sharing
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Join us for our second ever author interview, in which we are joined by J. Daniel Luther and Roshan Johri to discuss Luther’s book Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only (2023). In this episode we discuss how normativity functions, and how difficult it can be to interrogate. We discuss how to find and create a queer archive, or an archive of ‘the normal’. Daniel and Roshan also discuss publishing outside of academia, and academic practices more generally.
J. Daniel Luther is Associate Programme Director at the Rhodes Trust, University of Oxford (UK). They are the co-founder of the international platform and network called ‘Queer’ Asia. They have previously taught at the Department of Gender Studies at LSE (UK) as a LSE fellow in Gender, Film and Media, and at the University of Warwick, and SOAS, University of London. Their doctoral research examined the production and reiteration of gender and sexual norms in South Asian public culture. They are the co-editor of ‘Queer’ Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Gender and Sexuality (2019).
Roshan Johri is a Masters student in English at the Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence Delhi NCR. Johri helped support with creation of the book through conceptual editing and proof reading.
Sources
You kind find all source material and fan fiction discussed in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1esxfCn7tEuDPGyTCZ8JV8FHKmkdToQOyWzbKxhsQBX8/edit?usp=sharing
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Join us as we experiment this week by looking not at academic theory, but at Sophia Amoruso’s (2014) book #GIRLBOSS. We use this text to discuss ethical work conditions, fashion, feminism under neoliberlism and girlboss feminism. Sources and Fan Fiction You kind find all source material and fan fiction discussed in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/143ZVl0Ow_vFqP9Ig6NAzo6UoRx0WQLfomY0Cu64fs84/edit?usp=sharing Contact Us You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com Socials We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod Music Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
Join us as we delve into The Seducer’s Diary, a section of writing from Søren Kierkegaard's 1843 collection Either/Or. We discuss the esthetism, ethics, religion, love, marriage, Christianity and more! For this episode we were joined by special guest Igor Ahmedov, Estonian Kierkegaard research and junior research fellow in philosophical theology. Igor is writing a doctoral thesis at the University of Tartu on Kierkegaardian theology of education. Sources You kind find all source material discussed in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ry7Zuuj3Odh-D3VhkzPcaMHtTRqm7qvvWIUtcfD0GBY/edit?usp=sharing Contact Us You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com Socials We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod Music Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
Following on from Part 1, this episode discusses the last three chapters of Eve Kosofsky Sedwick's seminal 1990 text, Epistemology of the closet. Join us as we discuss sentimentality, homosexuality in Renaissance England, and the idea of a closet made of glass.
Sources & Fan Fiction
You can find a list of all the sources and fan fiction discussed in this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ajTjlyWYI9y6NSMfc5ZCh7ZWrZTiUtHz1gZ4_dLMrgY/edit?usp=sharing
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Join us as we dive into Walter Benjamin's 1935 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. In this episode we cover the history and context of this essay; the difference between mechanical production and traditional art production; Benjamin's changing relationship to Aura; film and the production of film.
Sources
You can find any of the source material we discussed listed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MN8z6E8rGPH9QXQV728sh-FTZx5lPsZfyo7X2HaA_KI/edit?usp=sharing
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Welcome to the second season of Theoryish! This episode offers brief introduction to this season, as well as a reflection on the first season. Contact Us You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com Socials We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod Music Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
This special bonus episode was filmed live on the 6th December 2023 at 1 Mill Street Leamington Spa, UK.
In this episode, we connect Season 1 and Season 2 by talking about one of our favourite thinkers, Walter Benjamin. How has our relationship to the camera changed in the age of new technology? Artificial intelligence, digital filters, and voice changers can impact upon the way we understand ourselves through the lens of the camera. Drawing on themes raised in the first season, this discussion uses feminism, art history, and visual sociology to help unpack the question: is aura dead?
This episode formed part of the a series called Encounters, a curated series of four conversations between University of Warwick academics and guests. This event was supported by Resonate - a project by the Warwick Institute of Engagement at the University of Warwick.
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Welcome to the final episode of Theoryish Season One! We've had a really wonderful time with you all and will be back January 2024. Until then, please continue to listen, share, like, and follow - see you soon!
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In this episode, Hannah is joined once again by dipbuk Panchal to discuss Stuart Hall's 2017 text The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation. We go through the first chapter of the book titled Race - The Sliding Signifier. This is a chapter with a lot of theoretical depth and so we take you through some of the key terms of the text such as 'signified', 'discourse' and 'power'. In addition to this, we also relate the text to other source material, and dipbuk talks about their research with the police.
dipbuk is a PhD researcher in the Sociology department at the University of Warwick. They research policing through an intersectional lens, and in particular focus on the relationship between the body and the police uniform with regards to power and identity.
Paola was away for the episode due to a visit with family, but will be back for our season finale.
Sources
You can find all of the sources mentioned in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RDBeuhhcvWKB64XWhOCA3I1_c_XTrZlwLFovTgX_vTY/edit?usp=sharing
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This episode contains discussions of 19th and early 20th century American history, slavery, racism and race.
In this episode we are joined by dipbuk Panchal to discuss W. E. B. Du Bois seminal 1903 text The Souls of Black Folk. We take you through Du Bois' life, as well contextualise why this book was so important for the time. We cover some of Du Bois' main theories including the colour-line, the Veil, and double-consciousness. We finish by thinking about Du Bois' relationship with religion, and tracking the threads of his work to today.
dipbuk is a PhD researcher in the Sociology department at the University of Warwick. They research policing through an intersectional lens, and in particular focus on the relationship between the body and the police uniform with regards to power and identity.
Sources
You can find our full list of sources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PX2QdG1oob9fHnL3qwoiL_qDVrokA_lWufrA_saM9eg/edit?usp=sharing
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In this episode, me and Paola talk about Sara Ahmed's 2018 blog post titled Queer Use. Join us as we chat about queerness, Ahmed's conceptualisation of 'use' and institutional diversity.
Please note that we lightly discuss sexual harassment in this episode.
Sources
You can find our list of sources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Gg-nWmeiUDCtTHzJPxrqcWJMahB0-O_dcKm1H6Z4yk/edit?usp=sharing
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In this special episode of Theoryish, we are joined by Jennifer V. Evans to discuss her latest book The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (2023). Jennifer is Professor of History at Carleton University and author of Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin (2011). In this episode we discuss how history gets written, kinship, memorials, photography, and how historians can connect with the present. Sources You can find all of the sources we spoke about listed here. Contact Us You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com Socials We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod Music Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
For this episode we looked at bell hooks' text All About Love: New Visions and we were joined by two incredible guests: Sue Lemos and Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi. To concentrate our discussion, we looked at four chapters within the book: Chapter One Clarity - Give Love Words; Chapter Four Commitment - Let Love be Love in Me; Chapter Eight Community - Loving Communion and Chapter Thirteen Destiny - When Angels Speak of Love. Join us as we discuss love, gender, therapy, self-help, community and spirituality. We hope you enjoy!Sources You can find the sources discussed in this episode here. Contact Us You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com Socials We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod Music Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
We are trying something new for this episode of Theoryish. We wanted some of our episodes to be a little shorter and settled on providing an 'Intro to...' various theoretical fields. We decided to start with queer theory as this is something we are both familiar with, and because we have mentioned it lot this season. So, whether you are a queer theory novice or more familiar with it, we hope you enjoy!
Sources
You can find a complete list of sources here.
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Content warning: SCUM Manifesto contains discussion of transphobia, violence, murder, misogyny, ableism, domestic abuse, sexual violence and suicide.
In this episode we discuss Valerie Solanas' controversial 1967 text, the SCUM Manifesto. We use this text as a jumping off point to chat about masculinity, transphobia, biological essentialism, and female fury.
Mental health links:
- https://www.mind.org.uk
- https://mhanational.org
Sources
- Valerie Solanas (2015) SCUM Manifesto. Verso. – Free Olympia Press version available here.
- Physical: 100 (2023) (TV Show)
- Up Your Ass (2000) (play) written by Valerie Solanas
- I, a Man (1967) (film) directed by Andy Warhol
- Bike Boy (1967) (film) directed by Andy Warhol
- Riot grrrl
- Ruth Pearce, Sonja Erikainen & Ben Vincent (2020) TERF Wars: An Introduction, The Sociological Review, 68 (4). 677-698.
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2017) Let’s Generalize about Men (song)
- Book Club from Hell Podcast – Episode #9 The SCUM Manifesto
- Audition (1999) (film)
- M3GAN (2022) (film)
- SNL (2023) M3GAN 2.0 (sketch)
- SZA (2022) SOS (album)
- Ethel Cain (2022) Preacher’s Daughter (album)
- Lorde (2017) Green Light (song)
- Feminist sex wars
Spotify Playlist
You can listen to our SCUM Manifesto inspired Spotify playlist here.
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The main source for this episode is Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The chapters we discussed were Chapter 1: Rhizome and Chapter 5: 587 BC-AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs. We were joined by Veronika Epple, a PhD student at Humboldt University and Junior Curator at C/O Berlin. Join us as we discuss plateaus, French academia, assemblage, rhizomes, and psychoanalysis. Sources & Fan FictionYou can find all the sources and fan fictions discussed in the episode here.Contact Us You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com Socials We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod Music Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
The focus of this episode is Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure (2011) and we were joined by our wonderful guest, Gabriel/le du Plessis. In this episode we discussed the chapters 'Introduction: Low Theory' and Chapter 5 '"The Killer in Me is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism". Some of the topics we chatted about include failure, low theory, memory, queer history and fascism.
Sources
There were a lot of sources mentioned in this episode and you can find the full list here.
Note: In the episode Paola mentions Archive Fever by Jacques Derrida but she is actually referring to Specters of Marx.
Fan Fiction
Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion.
- eaglesflying - The Disorder of Desire
- meowclops – ghost (of a good time)
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In this episode we discuss Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's seminal 1990 text, Epistemology of the Closet. This is part one of two in which we discuss the Introduction, Chapter One: Epistemology of the Closet and Chapter Two: Some Binarisms (I): Billy Budd: After the Homosexual.
Sources
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1993) Tendencies.
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1985) Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire.
- Michel Foucault (1976) The History of Sexuality: Volume 1.
- Ned Ward (1709-1710) The Mollies Club.
- Jennifer Evans & Elissa Mailänder (2021) Cross-dressing, Male Intimacy and the Violence of Transgression in Third Reich Photography. German History, 39 (1): 54-77
- McIntosh, M. (1968) The Homosexual Role. Social Problems, 16 (2): 182-192
- Weeks, J. (2012) Queer(y)ing the “Modern Homosexual”. Journal of British Studies, 51 (3): 523-539.
- Queering the Map
- Center for Reproductive Rights, After Roe Feel: Abortion Laws by State
- Theoryish (2023) Walter Benjamin: A Short History of Photography
Fan Fiction
Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion.
- ladygrange – Reel to Reel
- Not a fan fiction but the essay Hannah discussed – Kara Hisatake (2011) “Nothing Says I Despise You Like a Blowjob”: Opening Queer Moments for Queer Spaces in Harry Potter Slash Fan Fiction
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In this episode we discuss Susan Sontag's incredible 1964 essay Notes on Camp. Join us as we cover Art Nouveau; dandyism; sexuality, gender and race; La Lupe; camp and sincerity; artistic drama; the 2019 Met Gala, memes and Karlie Kloss.
Sources
- Susan Sontag (1964) Notes on Camp.
- Walter Benjamin: A Short History of Photography (Episode 1)
- Clement Greenberg (1939) Avant-Garde and Kitsch.
- Paris Métro entrances by Hector Guimard
- Karlie Kloss Instagram post: Looking camp right in the eye
- Brennan Eberwine (2021) The campening of Karlie Kloss: The mastermind of camp
- La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul (Full Documentary)
- Oscar Wilde Epigrams
Fan Fiction
Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion.
- St. rosa and the swallows, or, “notes on camp” by SekritOMG
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For this episode of Theoryish, we looked at Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics with our first guest of the podcast, James Whitfield. As this is a bit of a longer text, we looked at Chapter 2: 17 January 1979 and Chapter 10: 21 March 1979.
Sources
- Foucault, M. (1990). The history of sexuality: An introduction, volume I. New York: Vintage.
- Foucault, M. (2007). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison: Duke University Press.
- Foucault, M. (2007). Security, territory, population: lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-78: Springer.
- Foucault, M. (2008). The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979. Chapter 2 & 10. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Foucault, M. (2013). Archaeology of knowledge. Routledge.
- Rabinow, P. (1984). The Foucault Reader. Pantheon Books, New York
- Garland, D. (1997). `Governmentality' and the Problem of Crime: Foucault, Criminology, Sociology. Theoretical Criminology, 1(2), 173-214. doi:10.1177/1362480697001002002
- Youtube (2013) Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]. Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8&t=363s
- Rose, N. (1999). Powers of freedom: Reframing political thought. Cambridge University press.
- Dean, M. (2010). Governmentality: Power and rule in modern society. Sage publications.
Fan Fiction
Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion.
- Frustrations in Late Foucault, by VersaceThong: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23900899?view_adult=true
- All Foucault, No Knickers, by chaosmanor: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13021278
- The Great Philosopher Bake Off, by starlightfury: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30140892
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For this episode we looked at the Walter Benjamin's 1931 essay 'A Short History on Photography'. This essay offers a marxist analysis of what was considered a new medium at the time, and introduced the concept of 'aura', which became very influential in the history of art circle. In this episode we discuss the crisis of capitalism; photography as art, language and expression; death and authenticity.
Sources
- Walter Benjamin (1935) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- "Point de vue du Gras" 1826, Nicéphore Niépce
- "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" 1912, Marcel Duchamp
- "Bricklayer" 1928, August Sander
- "Konditor" 1928, August Sander
- "Young Farmers" 1914 August Sander
- Siegfried Kracauer (1927) The Mass Ornament (original essay published in the Frankfurter Zeitung)
Fan fictions
Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion.
- meaculpameaculpa: (p.1) Walter Benjamin/Georg Lukács fan fic
- rebiTV: Translator Battle Royale
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Join Paola Medina-Gonzalez and Hannah Ayres as they embark into the world of theory!
Are you interested in theory but have no idea where to start, then have no fear, we are here to help guide you through. Sometimes we will look at theory we are already aware of, and sometimes we look at theory that we are brand new to - we hope you will join us along the way!
This is the first episode which introduces ourselves, why we are doing the podcast, the structure, and when we plan to release episodes.
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