The Curiosity Hour Podcast

Episode 226 - Allegra Hernandez. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Allegra Hernandez. Allegra Hernandez is a musician, guitarist, and songwriter from Des Moines, IA. Allegra lets the music speak for itself with intricate dynamics and rich, melodic, guitar on top of heartfelt vocals containing elements of alt-rock, melodic hooks, and splashes of technical skill. They tap into a realm of musical versatility, showcasing many different sides to their songwriting, instrumental composition, and live performance. Strong songwriting and vocals are combined with exceptional guitar playing, big chunky distortion, searing leads, and first-person vignettes. Allegra released their first full-length LP Gift Exchange in November 2022. Allegra plays with bandmates Vimka Nochvay on bass, Aaron Larimer on drums, and is newly joined by Ayla Billick on guitar. You can find Allegra's music on major streaming platforms and Bandcamp. @allegrahernandezmusic on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. @allegrarocks777 on Twitter. Website: allegrahernandezmusic.com Aside from being a performing musician, Allegra is also a music instructor and teaches guitar and bass lessons. They are the Music Director at School of Rock West Des Moines and oversee the school's music curriculum and programming while making sure students are receiving a great education. Allegra works seasonally with a local non-profit organization, Girls Rock! Des Moines (https://www.girlsrockdsm.org), in the summers as a guitar instructor and band coach. As a non-binary and queer individual, Allegra is passionate about uplifting, supporting, and celebrating LGBTQ+ youth. Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 225 - Traci Thomas. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Traci Thomas. Traci Thomas is an avid reader and book lover who created the acclaimed podcast, The Stacks, in order to talk about books and the ways they shape our cultural understanding of race, gender, politics, and what it means to be alive. Weekly guests range from academic thought leaders to bestselling authors, from actors to politicians and more; you'll find Ibram X. Kendi, Angelina Jolie, Brit Bennett, Desus and Mero, Quentin Tarantino, and many more on The Stacks. Traci is the creator and host of a live literary event series with LAist called One for the Books. She also writes a monthly bookish advice column on Shereads.com. Podcast Website: https://thestackspodcast.com One for the Books Website: https://laist.com/events/one-for-the-books Advice Column: https://shereads.com/author/traci-thomas/ The Stacks Best Books of 2022: https://shereads.com/the-stacks-best-books-of-2022/ Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 224 - Quinton “Yung Trybez” Nyce Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Quinton “Yung Trybez” Nyce Yung Trybez with Darren "Young D" Metz together are the duo, Snotty Nose Rez Kids. Website: https://snottynoserezkids.com/ Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language.

Episode 223 - Young D "Young D" Metz Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Young D "Young D" Metz. Young D with Quinton "Yung Trybez" Nyce together are the duo, Snotty Nose Rez Kids. Website: https://snottynoserezkids.com/ Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language.

Episode 222 Katherine Corcoran Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Katherine Corcoran. Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America. She has been an Alicia Patterson fellow, the Hewlett Fellow for Public Policy at the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame, and a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow. At the AP, she led an award-winning team that broke major stories about cartel and state violence and abuse of authority in Mexico and Central America. Her columns about Mexican politics and press freedom have appeared in the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, and Univision Online, among other publications. She was recently codirector of Cronkite Noticias, the bilingual reporting program at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and is currently the codirector of MasterLAB, an investigative editor training program in Mexico City. Website: https://www.katherinecorcoran.com In the Mouth of the Wolf (new book): https://www.katherinecorcoran.com/books Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners. Tommy and Dan requested and were provided with a review copy of the book in preparation for interviewing Katherine. Thank you to the publisher and Katherine for providing us with these books.

Episode 221 - Ex V Planis / Curiosity Hour Podcast Crossover Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are share a conversation with the host of Ex V Planis, John Killian, and Tommy Estlund As we shared last year in episode 201, John Killian is a fan of “high weirdness” and loves to explore the spooky in reality *and* in fiction. This episode is a special collaboration between the two podcasts, where John and Tommy sat down to discuss their favorite scary books, culminating in a spirited discussion of their shared love, Mark Z. Danielewski's “House of Leaves”. Ex V Planis: https://linktr.ee/Exvplanis John's original appearance on the Curiosity Hour: https://soundcloud.com/thecuriosityhourpodcast/s10-e201-john_killian Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 220 - Sav Buist and Katie Larson Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guests, Sav Buist and Katie Larson. Katie and Sav met in their public high school orchestra and became a band after witnessing an immersive workshop by two women that played the same instruments they did. Seeing the possibilities firsthand gave them the courage and empowerment to pursue music beyond the orchestra. They were inspired. They often say that music connected them to friendships and skill sets that changed the trajectory of their lives for the better. Sav and Katie met Liza Grossman, Conductor and Director of Kaboom Student Orchestra when she reached out about recording one of The Accidentals songs with her orchestra. That process allowed Sav and Katie to work with an orchestra on a whole other level. “Liza was one of the most inspirational teachers we have had the pleasure of working with, we learned more from her in a week than in any classroom we have been in.” After 10 years as a band, multiple major and indie label deals and touring over 5000 live shows and festivals, The Accidentals started their own non-profit called Play it Forward Again and Again to provide opportunities for students to experience the inspiration that launched their careers. The 40-member Kaboom Studio Orchestra, is a Hollywood-style industry ensemble that performs and records all of the music at Kaboom. Kaboom is hands-on creating with professionals, giving students the chance to learn in real time. The Accidentals have a repertoire of cinematic music just waiting to be reimagined with a full orchestra. A partnership was formed. The Accidentals would provide basic tracks and Liza's students would score, arrange and record ten Accidentals songs alongside industry professionals who would guide their creation in a supportive, encouraging way. That album would be released, and a tour would be arranged for The Accidentals with the Kaboom Student Orchestra. On that tour would be students learning tour management, sound engineering, merchandising, stage crew, hospitality, promotion, marketing, press, and more. https://www.theaccidentalsmusic.com/ https://kaboomcollective.org/ Reimagined Album: https://hypeddit.com/a89hc3 Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 219 - Elena Conis, PhD, MS, MJ Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Elena Conis, PhD, MS, MJ. She's a historian of U.S. public health and medicine, with a special focus on the history of infectious diseases, environmental health, vaccines, pesticides, scientific controversies, and the public's understanding of health and health science. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Library of Medicine, the Science History Institute, UCLA's Charles Donald O'Malley Research Fellowship, and Emory University, where she was formerly the Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow in Health and the Humanities and a faculty member in the Department of History. At Berkeley, she teaches in the Graduate School of Journalism and the Media Studies Program, and she directs the joint graduate program in Public Health and Journalism. Personal Website: http://www.elenaconis.com How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT - Book Website: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/elena-conis/how-to-sell-a-poison/9781645036746/ Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners. Thank you to the publisher and Professor Conis for providing a digital review copy of the book in preparation for interview.

Episode 218 - Beecher Reuning Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Beecher Reuning. Beecher Reuning is an award-winning, non-binary filmmaker living in East Tennessee with their wife and two daughters. They teach on the film faculty at Middle Tennessee State University as they continue to write and direct their own films. As a common theme of their work, their stories often use comedy to deconstruct oppressive ideologies in favor of living a more authentic life. You can see samples of their content and a list of accolades at beecher.media. Website: beecher.media Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 217 - April Ajoy Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, April Ajoy. April Ajoy is a content creator who uses humor to shine light on the harmful, toxic and sometimes just weird traits of American Christianity. As a preacher's kid, she was deep in conservative evangelicalism. Some of her evangelical highlights include: singing on the Jim Bakker show, working for the 700 Club and leading worship for over a decade. She now identifies as a "recovering conservative" and is navigating through her own faith deconstruction journey through a comedic lens on social media. She has been married to her partner, Beecher, for almost 8 years and they have two daughters together. They tell their marriage story in the Non-Binary Marriage podcast. She also co-hosts Evangelicalish, a podcast that talks about the good, the bad and the ugly in American Evangelicalism. Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 216 - Dr. Simran Jeet Singh Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Dr,.Simran Jeet Singh. Simran Jeet Singh is Executive Director of the Aspen Institute's Program on Religion & Society. Recognized among TIME Magazine's sixteen people fighting for a more equal America, he is a Soros Equality Fellow with the Open Society Foundations, Senior Adviser on Equity and Inclusion for YSC Consulting, and a Visiting Professor at Union Seminary. Simran is a regular contributor to The Washington Post, CNN, and TIME Magazine, a monthly columnist for Religion News Service, and the author of the bestselling children's book Fauja Singh Keeps Going. He lives with his family in New York City. Website: https://www.simranjeetsingh.org Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623324/the-light-we-give-by-simran-jeet-singh/ Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners. Tommy and Dan requested and were provided with a review copy of the book in preparation for interviewing Dr. Singh. Thank you to the publisher and Dr. Singh for providing us with these books.

Episode 215 - Emi Nietfeld. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Emi Nietfeld. Emi Nietfeld is a writer and software engineer. After graduating from Harvard College in 2015, she worked at Google and Facebook. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, Vice, and other publications. She lives in New York City with her family. Visit her website to sign-up for her newsletter and to find out how to buy her new memoir, Acceptance: https://www.eminietfeld.com Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners. Tommy and Dan requested and were provided with a review copy of the book in preparation for interviewing Emi. Thank you to Emi and the publisher for providing us with these books.

Episode 214 - Chip Scanlan. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Chip Scanlan. Chip Scanlan is a former award-winning journalist, a writer, publisher, author and writing coach. He was the director of writing programs and The National Writers' Workshops at The Poynter Institute, one of the world's top schools for professional journalists. His latest books are “Writers on Writing: Inside the lives of 55 distinguished writers and editors” and “Writers on Writing: The Journal.” His new book, “33 Ways Not to Screw Up Your Journalism” will be available on Amazon later this month. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida and tries to write and coach better every day. “Chip's Writing Lessons,” his writing advice blog is available at chipswritinglessons.com while his newsletter can be found at chipscanlan.substack.com. In March, he donated a month's royalties from his books to the Hospitallers Medical Battalion, brave Ukrainian paramedics who save lives every day and encourages contributions to https://www.hospitallers.co.uk Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners. Tommy and Dan were provided with a review copy of the books in preparation for interviewing Chip. Thank you to Chip for providing us with these books!

Episode 213 - Erica Anderson-Senter. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Erica Anderson-Senter. Erica Anderson-Senter lives and writes in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She teaches high school English and Creative Writing. Her first full length collection, Midwestern Poet's Incomplete Guide to Symbolism, is available through EastOver Press. Her work has also appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, the once CrabFat Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, Off the Coast, and Dialogist among others. Her chapbook, seven days now, was published by The Dandelion Review. Erica hosts free literary events throughout her city to bring poetry to the public. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing through the Writing Seminars at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. Buy book: Midwestern Poet's Incomplete Guide To Symbolism https://eastoverpress.com/books/poetry/a-midwestern-poets-incomplete-guide-to-symbolism/ https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781934894675 https://www.amazon.com/Midwestern-Poets-Incomplete-Guide-Symbolism/dp/1934894672 Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/ericaann/ https://www.tiktok.com/@oldladybingbong https://twitter.com/tinytoadstool Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners. Tommy and Dan requested and were provided with a review copy of the book in preparation for interviewing Erica. Thank you to the publisher and Erica for providing us with these books.

Episode 212 - Daniel Blevins Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Daniel Blevins. Daniel Blevins is a salon owner, social media influencer, LGBTQ+ advocate, activist and founder of Stand In Pride. Daniel and his husband of 22 years reside in rural East Tennessee. He's a proud father of two children and three grandchildren. Daniel founded the Facebook group Stand In Pride in early 2021, the group has since grown to over 36k members, with members in over 70 countries. The success of the group has gained national and international recognition in news publications including USA Today and People magazine as well as being featured on NBC news and The Today Show. Outside of the salon and advocacy work he enjoys spending time with his family, painting, gardening and volunteering with local charity organizations. Stand in Pride: Website: https://www.standinpride.org Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1058795144614107/ Daniel: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_zombie_dan https://www.instagram.com/the_zombie_dan/ Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 211 - Daniel Pink. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Daniel Pink. Daniel H. Pink's books have helped readers and organizations around the world rethink how they live and operate. He is the author the New York Times bestsellers A Whole New Mind, Drive, To Sell Is Human, and When. His books have sold millions of copies, been translated into forty-two languages, and have won multiple awards. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C. New Book: www.powerofregret.com Website: www.danielpink.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/danielpink Daniel headshot photo credit: Nina Subin Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners. Tommy and Dan requested and were each provided with a review copy of the book in preparation for this interview. Thank you to the publisher and Daniel Pink for providing us with these books.

Episode 210 - Jeff Nosanov Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Jeff Nosanov. Jeff Nosanov spent ten years in around NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Goddard Space Flight Center, and NASA Headquarters. He won three NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts grants and led several proposal efforts for science missions. Book URL: https://www.howthingsworkatnasa.com Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 209 - Alex Falcone Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Alex Falcone. Alex Falcone is the only comedian and writer living in Los Angeles. He recently made his late night debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and he appeared on a handful of episodes of Portlandia on IFC. In 2018, he won Portland's Funniest Person, which was big news there but he'd understand if you didn't hear about it. Trust us, it was a huge deal. He's also done a bunch of other weird stuff, including co-authoring a young-adult romance novel about a mummy called Unwrap My Heart that Publisher's Weekly called “unfortunate.” Despite these modest accomplishments, he's somehow remained down to earth and approachable. Website: https://alexfalcone.ninja/ Unwrap My Heart Book: https://unwrapmyheart.com/ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stand-Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIpsf7189Ic Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 208 - Dave Holmes. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Dave Holmes. Dave Holmes is a writer, comic, television host and radio personality based in Los Angeles. He's an editor-at-large for Esquire Magazine, a contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Decider and Runner's World, and the creator and host of the investigative podcast Waiting For Impact. He's the author of the memoir “Party of One,” one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, and has hosted shows for CBS, MTV, E!, FX, Comedy Central, and History, among others, most recently co-hosting Bravo's Play By Play with Jerry O'Connell. He has a recurring role in the Quibi reboot of Reno 911!. He hosts the World of Wonder podcast Homophilia, recently featured in Entertainment Weekly's Must List, and the Maximum Fun game show podcast Troubled Waters. He's on air at SiriusXM's music channel The Spectrum, a frequent guest on numerous podcasts including Never Not Funny, How Did This Get Made, Throwing Shade, and Comedy Bang Bang, the co-creator and -writer of the RTE comedy pilot The Godparents, and his sketch comedy game show The Friday Forty has been running at the Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles and will be again when the world comes back. * https://www.instagram.com/daveholmes/ * https://twitter.com/DaveHolmes * https://bookshop.org/books/party-of-one-a-memoir-in-21-songs/9780804187992 * https://twitter.com/homophiliapod * https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/waiting-for-impact * https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/troubled-waters Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 207 - Elizabeth Nordenholt. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Elizabeth Nordenholt. Elizabeth Nordenholt (she/her) is a podcaster, content editor, and graduate student currently pursuing a masters in psychology and eventual licensure as a marriage and family therapist. You probably know her best as the co-host of the podcast Your Fave is Problematic but she has also appeared on a variety of other podcasts and Twitch streams. She is polyamorous, bisexual, and asexual and hopes eventually to work with clients in these demographics in her therapy practice in addition to people who have left fundamentalist and authoritarian religious backgrounds. When not reading about various psychological theories, she runs her own business as a podcast and video editor, PodCat Audio. You can learn more about her editing work at podcataudio.com and find the complete list of her guest appearances at elizabethnordenholt.com Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 206 - Eric Marcus. Journalist and author Eric Marcus is the founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast, which mines his decades-old audio archive of rare interviews to bring LGBTQ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. He is also co-producer of Those Who Were There, a podcast drawn from Yale University's Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. And he is the founder and chair of the Stonewall 50 Consortium, an organization that brings together 240 nonprofit institutions and organizations committed to producing programming, exhibitions, and educational materials related to LGBTQ history and culture. He is a founding board member of the American LGBTQ+ Museum. See links for more information: Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Marcus Making Gay History Podcast: https://makinggayhistory.com Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust Podcast: https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/education/podcasts/ Stonewall 50 Consortium: https://stonewall50consortium.org History UnErased: https://unerased.org Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 205 Blair Imani Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Blair Imani. Blair Imani is a critically-acclaimed educator and author of Read This To Get Smarter, Making Our Way Home, and Modern HERstory. Blair's work centers on women, global Black communities, and the LGBTQ community. Her Instagram Reels series “Smarter in Seconds” has amassed over 50 million views and was praised by The New York Times for her unique ability to create “progressive lessons with vibrant visuals and a perky, quirky delivery.” She has presented at Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, Duke, and more. Blair is dedicated to making the world a better place and amplifying the voices and work of those fighting the good fight. Website: https://blairimani.com Order Books: https://blairimani.com/books/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blairimani/?hl=en Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners. Tommy and Dan requested and were provided with a review copy of the book in preparation for interviewing Blair Imani. Thank you to the publisher and Blair for providing us with these books!

Episode 204 Jing Tsu, Ph.D. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Jing Tsu, Ph.D. Jing Tsu is the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and the Comparative Literature Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale, specializing in modern Chinese literature and culture from the 19th century to the present. She received her doctorate in Chinese Studies from Harvard. Tsu was a Guggenheim fellow in 2016 and has held fellowships at Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton institutes. To purchase her new book, Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern, please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550748/kingdom-of-characters-by-jing-tsu/ Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners. Tommy and Dan requested and were provided with a review copy of the book in preparation for interviewing Professor Tsu. Thank you to the publisher and Professor Tsu for providing us with these books.

Episode 203 Scott Broughton. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Scott Broughton. When Scott Broughton was growing up, the term "White privilege" hadn't been coined yet. He never questioned his comfortable living - a young White boy from a well-known family in a small farming town in south Alabama - because there was almost no exposure to or interaction with the Black families that lived “across the tracks”. He had no idea that his private school was one of many post-segregation academies that cropped up in the late 60's as public schools integrated. Even when he was old enough to start recognizing the echo chamber of anti-Black sentiments, anti-diversity rhetoric and outright racism, who was he to say something? How do you address it when it comes from your peers? Your classmates? And sometimes even your own teachers and family? Forty years later, Scott has a clearer understanding of how his very skin color was a major factor in the comfortable life he led. He has realized his privilege is quantifiable and how the racist norms of just a few generations past that provided that privilege had such a catastrophic impact on the Black community today. That work became the basis for his original screenplay My Son's Voice, a film chronicling the story of two families - a Black family and a White family - as their lives intertwine in the 1960's, 1990's and 2020's in the fictional town of Racine, AL. The film is currently in pre-production and is seeking crowdfunding donors and grassroots investors through his website MySonsVoice.com as well as having open, honest dialogue about White privilege on his TikTok account @mysonsvoicethemovie (https://www.tiktok.com/@mysonsvoicethemovie) Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 202 Professor Erin A. Cech, PhD. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Professor Erin A. Cech, PhD. Erin A. Cech is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Associate Professor by courtesy in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Cech joined the University of Michigan in 2016. Before coming to UM, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and was on faculty at Rice University. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 2011 from the University of California, San Diego and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Sociology from Montana State University. Cech's research examines cultural mechanisms of inequality reproduction--specifically, how inequality is reproduced through processes that are not overtly discriminatory or coercive, but rather those that are built into seemingly innocuous cultural beliefs and practices. She investigates this puzzle through three avenues of research. First, she uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to examine inequality in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professions--specifically, the recruitment and retention of women, LGBT, and under-represented racial/ethnic minority students and practitioners and the role of professional cultures in this inequality. Second, Cech examines how cultural definitions of “good work” and “good workers” can anchor inequality in the workforce. For example, she examines the role of the “passion principle” in the reproduction of occupational inequalities: how seemingly voluntary and self-expressive career decisions help reproduce processes like occupational sex segregation. Finally, she studies how cultural understandings of the extent and origin of inequality help to uphold unequal social structures. Cech's research is funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. She is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Sociology and her research has been cited in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Time, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Forbes, Chronicle of Higher Education and the news sections of Science and Nature. Cech's first book, The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfilment at Work Fosters Inequality (University of California Press) is out Nov 9th, but it is available for preorder at the link below, or through Barnes & Noble, Amazon, etc. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520303232/the-trouble-with-passion Professor Cech's website: https://erinacech.com has information about her other research and links to talks and presentations. Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. Tommy and Dan requested and were provided with a review copy of the book in preparation for interviewing Professor Cech. Thank you to the publisher and Professor Cech for providing us with these review copies! The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 201 John Killian. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, John Killian. John Killian, known as "Flood" to friends and associates, is a musician, performance artist, and former chef turned podcaster/paranormal investigator. Through his podcast, Ex V Planis, John blends storytelling with boots-on-the-ground field research, often putting himself in the middle of high strangeness, until the high strangeness started to follow him. For the last few years he has been studying parapsychology and occult sciences, pursuing these subjects in the hopes that he can peel back layers of reality and see what lies underneath, what's beyond, and what's right in front of us but are unable to comprehend through earth-bound consciousness. Ex V Planis Podcast: https://exvplanis.podbean.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Ex-V-Planis-103059435132295/ National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255 or https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 200 - Jaimie Sherling. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Jaimie Sherling. Jaimie Sherling is a joy seeker, drag ambassador, and the founder/designer of YDY, Sweets—a clothing line created for her sister breast cancer survivors. She lives in Wisconsin with her two kids. When she's not working at her day job or trying on piles of clothes at thrift stores, you can find her screaming YAASSSS surrounded by a bunch of queens. Memoir: From Queens to QUEENS: How the Madison Drag Community Saved My Life https://www.amazon.com/Queens-QUEENS-Madison-Community-Saved-ebook/dp/B09FYMJP1R/ Clothing line/fashion blog: https://ydysweets.com/f/rebuilding-your-wardrobe-after-a-mastectomy-part-1 Social media: https://www.instagram.com/jaimiesherling/ Article featuring her clothing line: https://ydysweets.com/f/yes-governor-business-plan-contest-finalist-story Important cause Jaimie encourages you to support: The Trevor Project https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 199 Guru Shabd Khalsa. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Guru Shabd Khalsa. Guru Shabd grew up between the Midwestern US and northern India, which offered her a broad cultural experience, particularly as a woman. Growing up she knew she wanted to help people, and found some skill in listening to and understanding people. Through her podcast and her professional work she hopes to offer her own experiences as insight, encouragement and hope. She never saw the possibility of being a fat person and also being content, happy, empowered and whole. Guru Shabd is starting to see that now, and wants to continue to be part of that. She wants to be a part of the change in our society from narrow (patriarchal) definitions of beauty and success to one that is inclusive, empowering and many faceted. She hopes to be part of hope and healing and change. She wants to make sure that other young people are not burdened with the experience of feeling so wrong that they don't deserve love and happiness. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grrshubz Podcast: https://yesandbodypolitics.com Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yesandbodypolitics Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 198 Professor Eric J. Johnson. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Professor Eric J. Johnson. Eric J. Johnson is Norman Eig Professor of Business, and Director of the Center for Decision Sciences at the Columbia Business School. He has been the President of the Society for Judgment and Decision-Making and the Society for Neuroeconomics. His academic awards include the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award of the Society for Consumer Psychology, Fellow of the Association of Consumer Research, and an honorary doctorate in behavioral economics from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. To buy the book and learn more: https://www.theelementsofchoice.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/profericjohnson Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. Tommy and Dan requested and were provided with a review copy of the book in preparation for interviewing Professor Johnson. Thank you to the publisher and Professor Johnson for providing us with these books. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 197 Nancy Cárdenas Peña. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Nancy Cárdenas Peña. Nancy Cárdenas Peña is a policy expert and an organizer at heart advocating at the intersection of im/migration and reproductive healthcare with a desire to see communities exercise their full bodily autonomy. She currently works at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice (Latina Institute) as the Texas State Director for Policy and Advocacy. Born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, she lived in Mexico before returning to the United States and continuing her public education. Nancy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in political science. She worked for the City of Austin developing and promoting the passage of local level reproductive healthcare initiatives and served on the Commission for Women. She is also a part of the Texas We Testify cohort, a group of abortion storytellers seeking to advance narratives around abortion access. Nancy is a board member of the Frontera Fund, an abortion fund that exclusively serves the Rio Grande Valley with practical support and abortion needs. National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice (Latina Institute): * https://www.latinainstitute.org (Dan/Tommy Note: click the donate button on the homepage to support!) * https://twitter.com/LatinaInstitute Nancy: https://twitter.com/ncardenastx Other organizations to consider supporting/volunteering (Nancy mentioned these in episode): * Frontera Fund Rio Grande Valley: https://fronterafundrgv.org * West Fund Texas: https://www.westfund.org * The Lilith Fund: https://www.lilithfund.org * Texas Equal Access Fund (TEA Fund): https://teafund.org * The Afiya Center: https://www.theafiyacenter.org * Fund Texas Choice: https://fundtexaschoice.org * Jane's Due Process: https://janesdueprocess.org Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 196 - Stephen Kurczy. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Stephen Kurczy. Stephen Kurczy is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, and VICE, among other outlets. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a 2016-2017 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism. His fifteen-year career began as a community newspaper reporter, winning top prizes from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists and the New England Press Association. He has since reported on finance, global affairs, and mega sports events as a foreign correspondent from more than a dozen countries. He has also received recognition from Columbia University for his writing. Kurczy has lived without a cell phone for over a decade. Learn more at stephenkurczy.com or follow him on Twitter @StephenKurczy. About the book: Deep in the Appalachian Mountains lies the last truly quiet town in America. Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned: It's home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the universe using the latest technology, while schoolchildren go without WiFi or iPads. With a ban on all devices emanating radio frequencies that might interfere with the observatory's telescopes, Quiet Zone residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity. But a community that on the surface seems idyllic is a place of contradictions, where the provincial meets the seemingly supernatural and quiet can serve as a cover for something darker. * Website: http://www.stephenkurczy.com * Buy The Quiet Zone: https://hc.com/thequietzone * You can also buy signed copies here: https://www.banksquarebooks.com/signed-copies * Buy on Indiebound: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062945495 * Audiobook prologue: https://soundcloud.com/harperaudio_us/the-quiet-zone-by-stephen-kurczy Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 195 Alex Hershaft, PhD. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Alex Hershaft, PhD. Alex Hershaft began his national struggle to end the use of animals for food by launching the Vegetarian Information Service in 1976. Five years later, he founded the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), which grew into a national force opposing animal farming. Since then, Dr. Hershaft launched World Day for Farmed Animals in 1983, the Great American Meatout in 1985, and Vegan Earth Day in 1989. He also organized eight animal rights conferences between 1981 and 1991 and 20 more between 1997 and 2017. Dr. Hershaft has written hundreds of letters to the editor about the benefits of plant-based eating and the devastating impacts of animal farming. He launched The Vegan Blog in September of 2019 to offer a bi-weekly critical review of the history, accomplishments, and potential of the U.S. animal rights movement. Dr. Hershaft received his B.A. in 1955 from the University of Connecticut and his Ph.D. in inorganic and physical chemistry from Iowa State University in 1961. He spent the next 20 years teaching in Israel and working for military and environmental consulting firms in the Washington DC area. During that time, he also led several organizations advocating for religious freedom and testified at Congressional hearings about diet and health. Dr. Hershaft was born in Warsaw, Poland, and survived the Nazi regime in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1951, after five years in an Italian refugee camp. He has lectured extensively about his journey from the Warsaw Ghetto to his struggle for animal rights in Israel, in Europe, and throughout the U.S. Dr. Hershaft has been inducted into both the Vegetarian and the Animal Rights Hall of Fame. He is an honorary fellow of the International Vegetarian Union. https://farmusa.org https://neveragain.global https://theveganblog.org Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 194 - Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, JD. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Before that, he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004-2008, and from 1983-2004 was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. From 1980-1983, he was an assistant professor at DePaul College of Law. He is the author of fourteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent books are Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (Norton 2021), and The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State (with Howard Gillman) (Oxford University Press 2020). He also is the author of more than 200 law review articles. He is a contributing writer for the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times, and writes regular columns for the Sacramento Bee, the ABA Journal, and the Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court. In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States. In January 2021, he was named President-elect of the Association of American Law Schools." Buy Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781631496516 https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631496516 Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 193 Jessica Fore. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to welcome back Jessica Fore. Support Jessica's new album, “Scandalous Tales of Sordid Things”: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jessica-fore-concept-album-anti-abuse-advocacy Jessica writes on the gofundme page: “Some of y'all know my story from my blog starting here: https://jessicafore.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/i-might-get-excommunicated-for-this/ And some of y'all are familiar with my music from live gigs around Athens, Georgia, or from my first two albums, which have a couple of tracks posted here: https://www.reverbnation.com/jessicafore I was a contemporary Christian recording artist and church worship leader who got fired from a PCA church job for not reconciling and moving back in with an abusive spouse. When I started speaking up more and more about the abusive dynamics in the church, the church tried to shut me up and threatened excommunication. So I went public with my story and escalated it all the way to the floor of PCA General Assembly over the course of a couple of years, fighting procedural attempts at the church, presbytery, and General Assembly level to shut me up. This ultimately resulted in a denomination-wide committee currently studying abuse in the denomination and being advised by well known survivor advocates including Rachel Denhollander and Diane Langberg. I've been contacted by dozens of women with similar experiences, get involved advising and advocating for individuals in similar situations, and speak publicly to church leaders about abuse issues and corrupt power dynamics that underlie every form of oppression and social injustice. And I wrote a bunch of songs about all of it! Catchy, pointed, poignant, snarky, even darkly humorous songs delving into tons of different aspects of the whole experience. I've been planning a concept record about narcissism, abuse, and church injustice, tentatively entitled "Scandalous Tales of Sordid Things," for about 11 years. And I'm going into the studio to start recording it! (The subject matter is dark and explicit, and there's going to be some mild cussin' in it, so please don't be surprised when a given bop isn't tailored for the sensitive ears of kids or Baptists, or mad at me because you gave money and I said "ass.")” Listen to Jessica's previous interview on the podcast: https://soundcloud.com/thecuriosityhourpodcast/s01-e07-jessica-fore Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 14 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 192 - Cheryl Krauter. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Cheryl Krauter. Cheryl Krauter, MFT an Existential Humanistic psychotherapist with 40 years of experience in the field of depth psychology and human consciousness. With her background in theater arts, working with performing artists, visual artists and creative people has inspired her. She works with people who have been diagnosed with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, their partners, family members, and caregivers. She has published two books: Surviving the Storm: A Workbook for Telling Your Cancer Story (Oxford University Press 2017) and Psychosocial Care of Cancer Survivors: A Clinician's Guide and Workbook for Providing Wholehearted Care (Oxford University Press 2018). Her newest book is Odyssey of Ashes: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Letting Go from She Writes Press. Learn more about and order Odyssey of Ashes here: http://www.cherylkrauter.com/odyssey-of-ashes/ Website and contact information: www.cherylkrauter.com Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 191 David W. Brown. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, David W. Brown. David is a writer who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. You can find his work at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Pix.wine, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Vox, and Smithsonian, among many other places. His more recent book is titled THE MISSION, or: How a Disciple of Carl Sagan, an Ex-Motocross Racer, a Texas Tea Party Congressman, the World's Worst Typewriter Saleswoman, California Mountain People, and an Anonymous NASA Functionary Went to War with Mars, Survived an Insurgency at Saturn, Traded Blows with Washington, and Stole a Ride on an Alabama Moon Rocket to Send a Space Robot to Jupiter in Search of the Second Garden of Eden at the Bottom of an Alien Ocean Inside of an Ice World Called Europa (A True Story). It was published in 2021 by Custom House, an imprint of HarperCollins. It tells the true story of a group of scientists who studied Europa, Jupiter's ocean moon, needed to know more, and spent twenty years convincing NASA to send a spaceship there. The details are right there in the subtitle. Buy book: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062654427 Website: https://www.dwb.io Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 190 Professor Leidy Klotz. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Leidy Klotz, Ph.D. Leidy Klotz is the Copenhaver Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, where he is appointed in the Schools of Engineering, Architecture, and Business. He founded and directs the university's Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative, which engages and supports applied, interdisciplinary research. A columnist for the Behavioral Scientist, Klotz has written for venues such as Science, Nature, Fast Company, and The Daily Climate. Purchase the new book: Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250249869 Leidy's website: https://www.leidyklotz.com Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 189 - Fern Schumer Chapman. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Fern Schumer Chapman. Critically acclaimed Chicago-based writer Fern Schumer Chapman has written several award-winning books. Her recent book, Brothers, Sisters, Strangers: Sibling Estrangement and the Road to Reconciliation is part-memoir, part research. An earlier memoir, Motherland — a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and a BookSense76 pick — is a popular choice for book clubs. Two of her other books, Is It Night or Day? and Like Finding My Twin, are used in middle school classrooms. In 2004, the Illinois Association of Teachers of English (IATE) named Chapman the “Illinois Author of the Year.” Twice, Oprah Winfrey shows have featured her books. The Junior Library Guild named her two most recent books, Stumbling on History and Three Stars in the Night Sky, as August 2017 and August 2018 selections. Recently, she published two picture books, Happy Harper Thursdays and The Return of Happy Harper Thursdays. She gives dozens of presentations each year at schools and events. New book: Brothers, Sisters, Strangers: Sibling Estrangement and the Road to Reconciliation Fern understands the pain of sibling estrangement firsthand. For the better part of forty years, she had nearly no relationship with her only brother, despite many attempts at reconnection. Her grief and shame were devastating and isolating. But when she tried to turn to others for help, she found that a profound stigma still surrounded estrangement, and that very little statistical and psychological research existed to help her better understand the rift that had broken up her family. So she decided to conduct her own research, interviewing psychologists and estranged siblings as well as recording the extraordinary story of her own rift with her brother–and subsequent reconciliation. Brothers, Sisters, Strangers is the result–a thoughtfully researched memoir that illuminates both the author's own story and the greater phenomenon of estrangement. Chapman helps readers work through the challenges of rebuilding a sibling relationship that seems damaged beyond repair, as well as understand when estrangement is the best option. It is at once a detailed framework for understanding sibling estrangement, a beacon of solidarity and comfort for the estranged, and a moving memoir about family trauma, addiction, grief, and recovery. Buy book: https://www.lakeforestbookstore.com/book/9780525561699? Fern's website: https://fernschumerchapman.com/ Fern is also co-host with Ali-John Chaudhary of the Brothers, Sisters, Strangers Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrYnLlBEddg&list=PLGy0-oL_AxZ4HHNPZanWxDRYFHkvOfAm6 Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 188 - Ben Cosgrove. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Ben Cosgrove. In the spring of 2021, landscape-inspired composer and traveling pianist  Ben Cosgrove released The Trouble With Wilderness, a lush, textured, and expansive set of twelve new songs that consider the role of nature and wildness in the built environment. “I found I was spending a lot of time on stage talking about national parks and oceans and wilderness areas, and not enough about the places that people are more likely to encounter in their everyday lives,” explains Cosgrove, whose career has included artist residencies and collaborations with Acadia and Isle Royale National Parks, White Mountain National Forest, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the New England National Scenic Trail, as well as solo performances in 48 states. He assigned himself the challenge of writing a set of songs that would allow him to correct this oversight, and quickly found the decision to be eerily well-timed: almost immediately after he began writing and recording demos, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic would force virtually everyone on the planet both to find a new appreciation for the world just outside their front door and to reconsider the impermeability of whatever boundary they might have imagined to exist between the natural world and the human one. It also put Cosgrove, a musician who has traveled constantly for over a decade, in the unusual and terrifying position of having to sit still. “It really made me kind of have to walk the walk, in terms of the ideas I was trying to illustrate with this new music. Instead of driving eight hours to someplace new each morning, I was going on these daylong rambles all over the outskirts of town pretty much every day for months. I was amazed to find what strange, beautiful, and interesting things I noticed as I passed all the same ordinary-seeming places again and again and looked at them more and more closely.” The production by indie-folk maestro Dan Cardinal (Josh Ritter, Darlingside, Lula Wiles, Session Americana, The Ballroom Thieves) both emphasizes the physicality of the instruments involved and elevates the sounds to places that are uncannily gorgeous and sometimes almost surreal. The result is an uncommonly beautiful set of songs and a massive step forward in Cosgrove's idiosyncratic and increasingly mature body of work. Like the vernacular landscapes he looked to in composing it, the music on The Trouble With Wilderness sits on the narrow balancing point between order and wildness and manages to lean simultaneously into both. Check website for more information about Ben and his bio: His website: https://www.bencosgrove.com Song excerpt "The Machine in the Garden" used with permission. Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 187 - Terri Kozlowski. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Terri Kozlowski. Terri Kozlowski is a proud Native American warrior: Athabascan; Tlinglet Tribe - Raven Clan. She journeyed through the pain of child sexual abuse and utter fear of life after her mother abandoned her, at the age of 11, on the streets of Albuquerque. Rediscovering her true path in life, one of joy and love, she learned to transcend the fear that the egoic mind keeps bringing to the forefront of our lives. Terri is now a successful soul and life coach whose mission is to inspire others to master their fear. Her book, Raven Transcending Fear: a memoir about overcoming sexual abuse, abandonment, and discover your authentic self, tells her amazing story, which is available on Amazon. Terri was a stay-at-home mother until 9/11 when her husband lost his job in the airline industry. She went into the corporate environment and in less than ten years worked herself up from an executive assistant to Vice President of Operations of a medical device company. Terri earned a Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh and is a student of The Course in Miracles. She has received a certification in Life Coaching by the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology. Terri has successfully launched her blog on January 1, 2019, and is now taking her talents to podcast land. August 27, 2020 Soul Solutions launched. She shares her journey and has candid conversations about overcoming fear and limiting beliefs with the authentic people who have successfully overcome their own negative thought patterns. Look for her anywhere you find podcasts. Here are her social media links: https://www.facebook.com/KozmicSoulSolutions/ https://twitter.com/tmkozlowski https://www.pinterest.com/terrikozlowski/ https://www.instagram.com/terrikozlowski/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrikozlowski/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbT3ygWLAxEcPqOOgCflL_A Her website: http://www.TerriKozlowski.com Her book, Raven Transcending Fear: A memoir about overcoming sexual abuse, abandonment, and discover your authentic self, which is now available on Amazon or at http://www.RavenTranscendingFear.com As discussed in the podcast, here is the link for the free e-book, Blueprint to Overcoming Fear: https://page.terrikozlowski.com/ She has a podcast called Soul Solutions at http://www.SoulSolutionsPodcast.com and anywhere you listen. The show is about taking control of your life and developing successful ways to overcome your fears and limiting beliefs. We cut through the intricate thought patterns and old egoic mindsets. We will go within to find the answers and create the life you desire. Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 186 - Kelsey. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Kelsey. Kelsey is a 33 year old bookworm, social worker, coffee-drinker, and baking enthusiast. She graduated with her masters from NYU and has been working in the social work field for 8 years. Her background is in grief and bereavement, though right now she primarily supports students and their families. She has a dog named Juno and a husband named Beau. Kelsey is lucky to have a supportive group of friends who see her clearly, even when she struggles to see herself that way. In preparation for writing this bio, they've reminded her that she is able to navigate tough topics with both logic and heart. They'd like to tell you, on her behalf, that Kelsey is warm, compassionate, and intentional. She loves walks with her dog, noticing the details, and statement earrings. Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 185 - Michael Easter. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Michael Easter. Michael Easter is a contributing editor at Men's Health magazine, columnist for Outside magazine, and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His work has appeared in over 60 countries and can also be found in Men's Journal, New York, Vice, Scientific American, Esquire, and others. He lives in Las Vegas on the edge of the desert with his wife and two dogs. Website: https://eastermichael.com The book explores how modern comforts and conveniences are linked to humanity's most pressing problems—obesity, chronic disease, depression, lack of meaning, etc.—and how engaging with the forms of discomfort our ancestors experienced every day can improve our mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. Michael traveled 21,000 miles across the world and spent 33 days in the remote Arctic backcountry to report the book.Equal parts investigative reporting, travelogue, and memoir, The Comfort Crisis provides a blueprint for how we can leverage the power of discomfort in our daily lives to relieve tension, burnout, lower the risk of disease, and dramatically improve our overall health and happiness. To buy the book:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634446/the-comfort-crisis-by-michael-easter/ Buy a signed copy (until May 21, 2021): thewritersblock.org/easter Photo copyright Jay Soriano Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 184 - Andy Weir. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Andy Weir. Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California. ABOUT PROJECT HAIL MARY A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly) new science-based thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going. To purchase: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611060/project-hail-mary-by-andy-weir/ Author website: https://www.andyweirauthor.com/ Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 183 - Cara Harjes. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Cara Harjes. As a passionate artist, teacher, and coach, Cara curates safe, inspiring, cozy connections, spaces, and experiences through making and sharing original artwork, leading workshops and retreats, and engaging in empowering and healing one-one-one conversations with her coaching clients. After years of floating through life as a deeply creative being with a rich inner life, but without an expressive outlet, Cara's late husband Herb asked her to make a painting for him during the Christmas of 2010. Without much of an art background, she bought a canvas and went for it. From there, Cara was propelled into a world of color, texture, and deep feelings that she could have only dreamt existed when she was a little girl in the back of her mom's wood-paneled minivan. Once she discovered she was an artist and slipped (read: bumbled in fits and spurts) into her authentic self, the next steps became clear to Cara: empower other women to discover and rediscover their creative parts (we all have them!) and to embrace and express their truest selves! Intuitive painting became the unexpected (but now beloved) portal through which Cara teaches women to embrace every last beautiful, messy part of themselves and their one wild and precious life. Since that fateful painting of 2010, Cara has been an avid student and self-taught intuitive painter. Prior to that, Cara spent a decade working as a psychotherapist with a Master's Degree in Counseling. This season of her life instilled in her a passion for empowering, supporting, and nurturing women while challenging them to be the truest versions of themselves. In 2016, Cara lost her husband Herb to pancreatic cancer, leaving her a single mother of two young kiddos. At this point, Cara had a decision to make about what kind of life she would make for herself in the midst of loss and heartbreak. This would go on to influence Cara's outlook on life. In the nooks and crannies of all of that, Cara has spent years picking the perfect playlist, arranging on-point charcuterie boards, and hosting kickass parties where people let their hair down. All of this came together and ultimately led Cara to create Cara Harjes Art as a way of creating beauty and cheering on women. No matter her background or inspiration, Cara's art and all of her course offerings are her way of splashing color and adding joy to the world around her. Cara's website can be found at www.caraharjesart.com She also hangs out quite a bit on Instagram @cara_harjes_art Cara is now accepting clients for her coaching service, The Permission Sessions. Keep an eye out for live workshops and retreats, coming in the Fall and Winter of 2021. The best way to stay in touch is by popping on her website and signing up for the newsletter. Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 182 - Tom Kendrick. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Tom Kendrick. Tom Kendrick is a father on a journey with 2 sons. The journey began at Edwards Air Force Base, California, with stops along the way in Claremont, CA, San Antonio, TX, Cedar Rapids, IA, Cincinnati, OH and currently in Waukee, IA. At any of these stops, if you had told him where he was going to be today, he would not have believed you. Tom is an Electrical Engineer, by title not by education. He also holds an electrician's license. He's worked in lumber yards, for a lighting production company, an electrical contractor, and currently an engineering firm. Sometime around 2004, he completed a full-scale Myers-Briggs test, that revealed his type is ISTP, informally called “The Craftsman”. Tom identifies well with this designation as he loved the show “Home Improvement” and has always enjoyed working with his hands. In 2017 he designed and performed 95% of the construction on finishing his basement, which was a great joy, and he takes great pride in his work. Tom also enjoys running for both physical and mental health. Lately, He has been reading about emotional intelligence, relationships, connection, the human experience, and mental health. Being an introvert, and one always identified in school as “the quiet one”, Tom really feels vulnerable speaking his story, but his journey has given him the tools and desire to connect with others in new ways. Tom is host and producer of The Good Divorce Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/good-divorce-podcast Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 181 - Dylan Cooper. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Dylan Cooper. Dylan Cooper is a 26 year old DC native who suffered a traumatic brain injury as a junior in college. His recovery turned into a 5 year journey and would prove to be more valuable than any college degree he may have missed out on. Now he is the founder of Policrowd, a platform to crowdsource the best political ideas to help us learn, collaborate and heal. His goal is to create the scientific method for political discourse to allow for real progress. He loves startups, creative discussions, and the questions 1. What's the root cause? 2. What happens after that? And 3. Is there anything left to add, or take away? He is also rumored to make the best gluten-free waffles in DC. If you want to get involved with Policrowd or have any other thoughts for Dylan, email him: dylan@policrowd.org Dylan's Blog post, "5 Lessons From 5 Years With a Concussion": https://lebronamo.medium.com/5-lessons-from-5-years-with-a-concussion-d8ffe41d8d4e Dylan's Blog: https://lebronamo.medium.com/ Ian Cooper's book (Dylan's brother), "One and All: A Spiritual Perspective on Getting Along"): https://www.amazon.com/One-All-Spiritual-Perspective-Getting-ebook/dp/B08XVYNZH5/ Dylan referred to this article in episode: "The Relativity of Wrong" by Isaac Asimov: https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 180 - Jason Dearen Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Jason Dearen. Jason Dearen is an award-winning investigative reporter for The Associated Press currently covering the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2018-19, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Dearen's work appears regularly in hundreds of newspapers and websites around the globe, including the Washington Post, The Guardian, The Seattle Times, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune and The New York Times. He has twice been nominated by The AP for the Pulitzer Prize. Dearen grew up in California, and attended the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Buy the book, Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, A Deadly Disease, by visiting Jason's website: https://www.jasondearen.com Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 179 - Viktoria Capek. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Viktoria Capek. Viktoria Capek, from Lawrenceville, GA, has been a storyteller and creative her entire life. She pursued theatre in school but made the switch to journalism when she realized the two fields were similar. Journalism would allow her to interact with a broad spectrum of people from different backgrounds. Now 25, Viktoria is a morning news and traffic reporter for KATV in Little Rock, AR. She also hosts the station's morning lifestyle show, Good Morning Arkansas. Viktoria is outspoken and extremely transparent on social media, gaining traction on TikTok and Instagram for being an openly LGBT news-personality and encouraging other young people to be their authentic selves. She's known for combatting industry norms by wearing more androgynous clothing, occasionally baring a large tattoo on her right shoulder and calling out viewers for making negative, unnecessary comments on her and her co-workers' appearance. Viktoria dreams to host her own show highlighting the stories of everyday people. She wants everyone to know their story is incredible and worth sharing with the world. She also wants to encourage others to be bold enough to ask strangers who they are, where they come from and what gets them out of bed in the mornings. You can follow Viktoria on social media: viktoriaacapek https://www.tiktok.com/@viktoriaacapek https://twitter.com/KATVViktoria https://www.facebook.com/viktoriacapek Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to @CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 178 - Crystal Kreung. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Crystal Kreung. Crystal is a Regulatory Affairs Manager for a dietary supplement company in Moab, Utah and attends Columbia Southern University (working on BS in Occupational Safety and Health). She is a fiercely independent creature, loves her tribe hard and does everything she can to help people and animals in any capacity she is able. She was an ultra runner, but when a back injury took her out of that game she found her love of yoga and has been teaching yoga for almost 4 years. She is a Peloton junkie, loves food, adores her Chihuahuas (Queso & Mellow) and gardening and has a wickedly dark sense of humor (did you know Jeffrey Dahmer valentines day jokes get you put in Facebook jail for 30 days? Me neither.). She has been to all but 5 states in the US and has traveled and lived all over the world thanks to growing up in the military and her work in the pharmaceutical and recycling/hazardous materials fields. She is obsessed with music; she could probably tell you the story of her life through music alone. She likes to read memoirs, and has recently taken up "diamond art" in her spare time. While Crystal is working full time and attending school, she is physically back home in Atlanta GA, undergoing treatment for Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in the bone after "finding a lump" in October 2020, followed by a modified radical double mastectomy November, 2020. Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to: CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 177 - Wyatt Feeler, J.D., LL.M. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Wyatt Feeler, J.D., LL.M. Wyatt Feeler is a defense attorney with the Military Commissions Defense Organization (MCDO), where he represents Ramzi bin al Shibh, a Yemeni man being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mr. bin al Shibh is one of five defendants in the ongoing death penalty prosecution of alleged crimes related to 9/11. Prior to coming to the MCDO in 2018, Wyatt spent five years as a public defender in Baltimore, MD, representing clients convicted of felonies, including murder and other serious crimes, on appeal. Wyatt also taught for five years in a criminal appeals clinic at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. He had previously worked as a death penalty lawyer and Soros Fellow at the ACLU and clerked for a federal judge. Wyatt holds an LLM from the George Washington University Law School, a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center, and a BA in Philosophy and Religion from Truman State University. Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to @CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Episode 176 - Paul Leisen, PhD. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Paul Leisen, PhD. Paul Leisen holds a PhD in social-political philosophy (Loyola University Chicago). He has a background in theatre performance and set design (B.S., Northwestern University). Leisen flips the development story in favor of people. Strategic design thinking answers the felt conditions of fragmentation; project success closely follows the success of its makers. Person to person connection in a shared endeavor makes it happen. Leisen worked as Director of Development for Intelligentsia Coffee during its most exciting growth phase, opening shops in Venice Beach, Pasadena; relaunching multiple stores in Chicago, notably Millennium Park, and breaking ground for a coffee roastery in San Francisco. Intelligentsia was subsequently acquired by Peet's Coffee/JAB Holdings. (Andrew Barnett now owns the SF Linea Cafe Roastery on Potrero Hill!) In 2011 Leisen formed leisendesign. He led a small group of investors and managers in reinventing two-store Dollop Coffee, resulting in 17 new locations, strategic acquisitions, and a roastery. Dollop won a buy out/capitalization by Docasa, the British powerhouse responsible for London's Department of Coffee and Social Affairs. Leisen shepherded this rapid development, executing site selection, lease negotiation, design, architecture, finishes and successful shop openings. Pairing with Datascope Analytics (acquired by IDEO in 2017) Leisen reclaimed a 17th floor office suite overlooking Chicago's Millennium Park. He invented a multi colored and delightfully illuminated creative launch pad for a leading edge consultant in today's big data world. Leisen has designed theatre sets for the Curious Theatre Branch, Theatre Oobleck, and the Rhinoceros Theatre Festival. He sustains a small performance space adjacent his design studio on the South Side of Chicago. Leisen writes on Hannah Arendt and Bertolt Brecht. He has lectured on Philosophy at Loyola University. Leisen lives in Chicago with his partner KellyAnn Corcoran, and their four children: Betty, Matthias, Penelope, and Sven. Website: www.walnutspaceship.com Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/paul_leisen/ Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to @CuriosityHour (Download app here: https://venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, Overcast, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the beginning of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.