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Doomed to RepeatLooking for Direction: Adia Reid on the Work of Care in Babysitting, Teaching and the TheaterPlaywright and director Adia Reid talks to us about her family's journey from Costa Rica and Jamaica to Atlanta and her varied experiences with care work in her community and developing career in the theater.2023-11-131h 04
Doomed to RepeatThe Undefeated: Chris Springer on Ditch Digging, Nannying, Hairdressing, Art, Care & the Good LifeIn this episode we talk with LA artist Chris Springer about her journey from a traumatic family life to shutting down a dangerous childcare facility and running a hair salon, working in creative arts and design, rescuing children in need, advocating for tenants' rights, and also... vampires under the Staples Center. This conversation really contains multitudes.2023-01-1752 min
Doomed to Repeat"We Were Told Not to Say the Word 'Understaffed'": Monica Kick's Journey as a Healthcare WorkerAs a CNA, billing specialist, and medication aide, Monica Kick saw the goods and evils of the healthcare system up close -- especially during the Pandemic. She also saw a high-flying CEO piloting seniors through the skies, outrageous and systemic wage theft, and stymied attempts at unionizing her underpaid coworkers. She tells her story here.2022-12-2250 min
Doomed to RepeatThe Long Bike Ride Home: A Nurse on Surviving the Early Days of the Pandemic in NYCWe talked with Tanya Martinez about her experience surviving Pandemic Year One in the depths of NYC's crisis back in December 2020.2022-11-141h 07
Doomed to RepeatThe Story of the Beagle that Got Kicked Out of 5 StatesJeramie Rain Dreyfuss went from Charleston, WV to NYC to Hollywood and then to Sun Valley. Now she wants to go to Animal Heaven2022-05-1232 min
Required ReadingWhite Flight by Kevin KruseFirst off, let me explain the episode. When I was in graduate school, I worked on a show called Doomed to Repeat with my co-host Dr. Alex Cummings, which was in conjunction with the blog Tropics of Meta, which they were the editor of. The podcast will sound different and much more produced, with additional clips. In an era where Critical Race Theory is a topic of conversation, let's dive in.
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Doomed to RepeatCaregivers' Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Spoon TheoryMaliha Ahmed was an undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz, studying linguistics, when she began working as a caregiver. From the good moments to the bad, the experience of working with people in need in their homes taught her a lot about the complicated dynamics of care. In this installment of The Tactile World, we talk with Ahmed about how many spoons it takes to get a cell phone fixed.2021-10-1851 min
Doomed to Repeat“This is the first pandemic we’re gonna have to deal with; the next will be a psychological one”We talk with Scott Clark about life in the Navy, the Catholic Worker movement, and meeting COVID head-on in Iowa City.2021-10-031h 08
Doomed to RepeatLeaping Through Broken Windows: A Journey from the Priesthood to Medical HumanitiesThomas Lawrence Long has had a fascinating journey from the priesthood to literary studies to the School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut. Here we have an in-depth interview with the scholar and writer about queer history in America and his efforts to develop the field of medical humanities.2021-09-231h 41
Doomed to RepeatAdventures in Coordinating Clinical Research Studies with Krissy JanhkeAlex talks with clinical research coordinator Krissy Jahnke about her life and work.2021-06-2827 min
Doomed to RepeatI'm Housin': Kristin Szylvian on the Lost History of Mutual Housing in AmericaIn this interview, Alex Sayf Cummings interviews the historian Kristin Szylvian of St. John's University about her groundbreaking book The Mutual Housing Experiment at the SACRPH conference in Cleveland, Ohio.2019-09-2922 min
Doomed to RepeatTrapped in the Ivory Tower: LaDale Winling on Universities And Urban DevelopmentHow have universities reshaped the environment of American cities? How have they wielded their power, influences, and resources to transform the built environment and local economies? In this conversation at the SACRPH conference, Alex Sayf Cummings talks to Professor LaDale Winling of Virginia Tech about his new book Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century (Penn, 2017).2019-01-1522 min
Doomed to RepeatAnger, Fear, Hope, Power and the Joy of Resistance: An Oral History of the Women's March of 2017Alex and Will talk to Morna Gerrard, the librarian for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University, and hear from the oral histories that have been documented about the historic Women's March of 2017, the biggest political mobilization in American history.
You can find incredible resources collected and curated by Gerrard and others here: http://research.library.gsu.edu/atlantamarch2018-08-2352 min
Doomed to RepeatThe SACRPH Series: Andrew Kahrl on the History of Beaches and SegregationAlex talks to UVA historian Andrew Kahrl about his books The Land Was Ours and Free the Beaches, and the joys of laborious research in Hartford, Connecticut basements. Good news -- the audio quality is terrible!2018-07-2318 min
Myopia MoviesPredator (1987)This time on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, we look down the rabbit hole of the government hiding evidence of aliens! With only warrior for truth, Jesse "the Body" Ventura, there to stop it! Join two governors as they fight a hunter man and sort of the CIA.
Finally with a new year in front of us, please, rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot! If you are on the social platforms follows us on Facebook or Twitter! If you are a fan of history, we are starting season two my...2018-02-0133 minMyopia MoviesPredator (1987)This time on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, we look down the rabbit hole of the government hiding evidence of aliens! With only warrior for truth, Jesse "the Body" Ventura, there to stop it! Join two governors as they fight a hunter man and sort of the CIA.
Finally with a new year in front of us, please, rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot! If you are on the social platforms follows us on Facebook or Twitter! If you are a fan of history, we are starting season two my...2018-02-0133 min
Doomed to RepeatThe SACRPH Series: Janet Bednarek on the Invisible Politics of AirportsProfessor Janet Bednarek of the University of Dayton talks about her work on the history and politics of airport construction at the 2017 SACRPH (Society of American City and Regional Planning History) conference.2018-01-2910 min
Myopia MoviesTotal Recall (1990)This week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, we get our ass to Mars! We watched Total Recall (1990), filled with all the charisma that only Arnold Schwartenegger can bring! So crack out that third boob as we get into the world of Philip K. Dick!
Plugs! Join Larry (our founder and comedy writer forMST3K season 11), Candace of Lips Down On Dixie, and I as we tackle Flesh Gordon, on Friday, Jan 19th and then attempt to scrub off the unclean feelings!
Afterwards, join us at CO for a meet and greet and a beer! I l...2018-01-1832 minMyopia MoviesTotal Recall (1990)This week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, we get our ass to Mars! We watched Total Recall (1990), filled with all the charisma that only Arnold Schwartenegger can bring! So crack out that third boob as we get into the world of Philip K. Dick!
Plugs! Join Larry (our founder and comedy writer forMST3K season 11), Candace of Lips Down On Dixie, and I as we tackle Flesh Gordon, on Friday, Jan 19th and then attempt to scrub off the unclean feelings!
Afterwards, join us at CO for a meet and greet and a beer! I l...2018-01-1832 min
Doomed to RepeatThe SACRPH Series: Talking with Barbara Brown Wilson on Planning for Social JusticeAt the Society for American City and Regional Planning History conference in Cleveland, Alex Sayf Cummings talks with Barbara Brown Wilson, historian and planning practitioner at UVA, about the ways that disempowered communities can take control of planning decisions that affect their lives.2018-01-1722 min
Myopia MoviesThe Addams FamilyThey're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky, the Addams Family.
This week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, we have a feel good bit of fun with the Addams Family! Is it silly, yes! Is it funny, yes! Does it have a recognizable song that we try to sing despite being on Skype? You bet! Enjoy!
Join Larry (our founder and comedy writer forMST3K season 11), Candace of Lips Down On Dixie, and I tackle Flesh Gordon, and then attempt to scrub off the unclean feelings!
Afterwards, join us a...2018-01-1145 minMyopia MoviesThe Addams FamilyThey're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky, the Addams Family.
This week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, we have a feel good bit of fun with the Addams Family! Is it silly, yes! Is it funny, yes! Does it have a recognizable song that we try to sing despite being on Skype? You bet! Enjoy!
Join Larry (our founder and comedy writer forMST3K season 11), Candace of Lips Down On Dixie, and I tackle Flesh Gordon, and then attempt to scrub off the unclean feelings!
Afterwards, join us a...2018-01-1145 min
Myopia MoviesWeird ScienceThis week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, John Hughes brings us back to a time were you couldn't use computers to look at pornography, so you had to use them to just make the women! What a crazy backward era! Also, crazy backward gender politics in a movie from someone who we thought knew better after Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles. Oh, well, I guess threatening your SO's family with a gun was ok in Reagan's America.
Also, dear friends, thanks for all of you who supported Cineprov last year and I will see...2018-01-0440 minMyopia MoviesWeird ScienceThis week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, John Hughes brings us back to a time were you couldn't use computers to look at pornography, so you had to use them to just make the women! What a crazy backward era! Also, crazy backward gender politics in a movie from someone who we thought knew better after Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles. Oh, well, I guess threatening your SO's family with a gun was ok in Reagan's America.
Also, dear friends, thanks for all of you who supported Cineprov last year and I will see...2018-01-0440 min
Myopia MoviesGremlinsIt's Gremlins week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood! Have you ever tried to get the perfect gift, but it turns out to be evil? Like you possessed dolls and so forth? Well, this is nothing like that because shit goes down due to incompetence!
Please do mean a favor! Rate and review us! iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot! And if you are a fan of history, we just wrapped on season one of check out my history podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat with an episode on Sanctuary Cities; available where ever you get yo...2017-12-2158 minMyopia MoviesGremlinsIt's Gremlins week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood! Have you ever tried to get the perfect gift, but it turns out to be evil? Like you possessed dolls and so forth? Well, this is nothing like that because shit goes down due to incompetence!
Please do mean a favor! Rate and review us! iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot! And if you are a fan of history, we just wrapped on season one of check out my history podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat with an episode on Sanctuary Cities; available where ever you get yo...2017-12-2158 min
Myopia MoviesTop GunHold on to your heterosexuality, this is going to get manly. This week on Myopia: Defend Your Child, we worry whether she lost it, you know...We watched Top Gun (1986), do you feel the need?
And listen through the credits. Trust me.
Please, rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot! And if you are a fan of history, we just wrapped on season one of check out my history podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat with an episode on Sanctuary Cities; available where ever you get your podcasts...2017-11-0952 minMyopia MoviesTop GunHold on to your heterosexuality, this is going to get manly. This week on Myopia: Defend Your Child, we worry whether she lost it, you know...We watched Top Gun (1986), do you feel the need?
And listen through the credits. Trust me.
Please, rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot! And if you are a fan of history, we just wrapped on season one of check out my history podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat with an episode on Sanctuary Cities; available where ever you get your podcasts...2017-11-0952 min
Myopia MoviesThe PagemasterWhy, hello there! Thank goodness we're done with that really creepy October (unless you want one more spook, than join my comedy group Cineprov is riffing over the movie Gargoyles (1972) at the Plaza theater on 11/2! THE DAY THIS DROPS). So this November, we decided to go with a little bit more family-friendly theme. We picked a handful of films that I, in particular, saw as a kid. All of these make me think of my brothers and family. We watched them together or they were always on. With that, we begin with a real train wreck.
This week...2017-11-0239 minMyopia MoviesThe PagemasterWhy, hello there! Thank goodness we're done with that really creepy October (unless you want one more spook, than join my comedy group Cineprov is riffing over the movie Gargoyles (1972) at the Plaza theater on 11/2! THE DAY THIS DROPS). So this November, we decided to go with a little bit more family-friendly theme. We picked a handful of films that I, in particular, saw as a kid. All of these make me think of my brothers and family. We watched them together or they were always on. With that, we begin with a real train wreck.
This week...2017-11-0239 min
Myopia MoviesEvent HorizonWell there, buddy guy, Happy Tricks or Treats! Well, if you think all the peoples around deserve a treat, rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot! And if you are a fan of history, we just wrapped on season one of check out my history podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat with an episode on Sanctuary Cities; available where ever you get your podcasts!
If you prefer the live comedy, my comedy group Cineprov is riffing over the movie Gargoyles (1972) at the Plaza theater on 11/2 for all of your extra boo...2017-10-1940 minMyopia MoviesEvent HorizonWell there, buddy guy, Happy Tricks or Treats! Well, if you think all the peoples around deserve a treat, rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot! And if you are a fan of history, we just wrapped on season one of check out my history podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat with an episode on Sanctuary Cities; available where ever you get your podcasts!
If you prefer the live comedy, my comedy group Cineprov is riffing over the movie Gargoyles (1972) at the Plaza theater on 11/2 for all of your extra boo...2017-10-1940 min
Myopia MoviesArmy of DarknessHey there friend, want to help out a guy? Well, here is the ticket! Rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot! And if you are a fan of history, we just wrapped on season one of check out my history podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat with an episode on Sanctuary Cities; available where ever you get your podcasts!
If you prefer the live comedy, my comedy group Cineprov is riffing over the movie Gargoyles (1972) at the Plaza theater on 11/2!
This week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, we hail to...2017-10-1241 minMyopia MoviesArmy of DarknessHey there friend, want to help out a guy? Well, here is the ticket! Rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot! And if you are a fan of history, we just wrapped on season one of check out my history podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat with an episode on Sanctuary Cities; available where ever you get your podcasts!
If you prefer the live comedy, my comedy group Cineprov is riffing over the movie Gargoyles (1972) at the Plaza theater on 11/2!
This week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, we hail to...2017-10-1241 min
Myopia MoviesBlade RunnerFirst this! Rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot!
And if you are a fan of history, we just wrapped on season one of check out my history podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat with an episode on Sanctuary Cities; available where ever you get your podcasts!
Finally, if you want to see me in person, you should see the comedy group I am in, Cineprov, as the riff over Devil Dog on TODAY as this comes out at the Plaza Theater in Atlanta (I will riff over the s...2017-10-0546 minMyopia MoviesBlade RunnerFirst this! Rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean! Five stars helps a lot!
And if you are a fan of history, we just wrapped on season one of check out my history podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat with an episode on Sanctuary Cities; available where ever you get your podcasts!
Finally, if you want to see me in person, you should see the comedy group I am in, Cineprov, as the riff over Devil Dog on TODAY as this comes out at the Plaza Theater in Atlanta (I will riff over the s...2017-10-0546 min
Doomed to RepeatEpisode 5: Sanctuary CitiesFor our last big episode of the season, Doomed to Repeat is touching on one of the most polarizing issues in American politics: immigration and so-called "sanctuary cities." In the age of the Dreamsicle President, matters of law and migration have taken a vastly greater political, economic, cultural, and emotional valence that at any time in recent memory. In dissing Trump, we do not mean to belittle the issue at all. People are afraid. One of our two co-hosts, in fact, has family who are now unable to flee violence and disorder in Libya and come to join family in...2017-10-041h 07
Myopia MoviesThe ThingHey all! This week we admire some practical effects and love us some mustachioed Wilford Brimley and bemulleted Kurt Russell and get in the mood for some spookier and colder weather.
Some news! There is exciting things coming to Myopia and Dudeletter Podcasting, so why not follow us on Facebook or join the Facebook Group! Follow us on Twitter @myopiapodcast!
Rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean!
And if you are a fan of history, check out my History podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat; available where ever you get you...2017-09-2849 minMyopia MoviesThe ThingHey all! This week we admire some practical effects and love us some mustachioed Wilford Brimley and bemulleted Kurt Russell and get in the mood for some spookier and colder weather.
Some news! There is exciting things coming to Myopia and Dudeletter Podcasting, so why not follow us on Facebook or join the Facebook Group! Follow us on Twitter @myopiapodcast!
Rate and review us on iTunes!, Stitcher! or Podbean!
And if you are a fan of history, check out my History podcast with Alex Cummings, Doomed to Repeat; available where ever you get you...2017-09-2849 min
Doomed to RepeatJuan Guzman interviews Gary SotoIn this special mini-episode, contributor Juan Guzman interviews poet Gary Soto and talks about his museum.2017-08-2413 min
Doomed to RepeatEpisode 4: RussiaFor some reason, people keep asking us to talk about Russia; not sure why, but it turns out that there has always been an interesting history there. We have two great interviews talking about the history of Russia and the end of the Cold War. Enjoy!2017-08-041h 02
Doomed to RepeatEpisode 3: The Anti-Vaccination MovementIn this episode of Doomed to Repeat, we explore the history of the anti-vaccination movement from Victorian Britain to the modern day in America!2017-07-1057 min
Doomed to RepeatMini Episode 2: Ben Parten and The Confessions of Nat TurnerIn this mini-episode Nic Hoffmann and Ben Parten sit down and talk about the Confessions of Nat Turner, how they were assembled, published and understood in their time.2017-06-2821 min
Doomed to RepeatMini Episode 1: An Interview with William RorabaughIn this mini-episode for Doomed to Repeat, Alex interviews the father of American alcohol studies, William Rorabaugh about his work and the book that helped inspire this episode, The Alcoholic Republic.2017-06-1138 min
Doomed to RepeatEpisode 1: You gotta keep 'em separated (Segregation)Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Tropics of Meta and Dudeletter Podcasting Series Doomed to Repeat! The history podcast interviews academics, artists and writers and contextualizes their insights with a broader look at history and historiography. In the first episode, we look at the segregation that never left.2017-06-0840 min
Doomed to RepeatEpisode 2: IPA, YouPA (The Long History of Craft Beer)In this episode, we discuss the revolutionizing of drinking habits and the beer industry in modern America.
And finally, H. Robert Baker of our sister blog Tropics of Meta recently weighed in on the "end of craft beer." Some more beer history to wash down the podcast with!
https://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/the-end-of-craft-beer/2017-06-0148 min