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Making It: Pierce Wheeler

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Release Date: 01/29/2025

Brewsday: The First Taste show art Brewsday: The First Taste

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From producer Hadley Gessner: For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved beer. I’ve always wanted to share my love with a community... the origins, the taste, the brewing. And then I met Mary. We started a small Instagram account called @brewsdayswithmaryandhadley. But that simply wasn’t enough.  Brewsday is an exploration of all things brewed through the guise of female friendship: Mary and Hadley drink a beer every Tuesday and use it as a vehicle to discuss life, love, and the history of brews. Our pilot will be a discussion of FIRSTS. Our guest is David Gessner, creative...

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The Film That Found Me show art The Film That Found Me

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From Producer Vico Wei:  This podcast series focuses on those moments when films or shows unlock something emotional in me. Each episode explores a specific moment when art and my life quietly merge, revealing the ways stories shape how I move through the world. This episode centers on two memories involving my mom and my grandmother. It looks at how watching a film brought those moments back to me and helped me better understand the ways they showed love.  

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I've Heard of 'Em: Linus of Tisch show art I've Heard of 'Em: Linus of Tisch

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Produced by Melis Turkgench: There is always that one person everyone knows in some way, somehow. They are THE  “household name” at either school, work, in family, in organizations, religious groups, online, or more. Their name is mentioned in a conversation and the whole room’s ears perk up, at the least I know mine do.  Linus is an acting student, and it seems like everyone in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts knows him. He’s quickly become extremely well-known from appearing in several student films, being a brother in a fraternity, and a member of the film society....

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These Forgotten Places: Go West, Young Man! show art These Forgotten Places: Go West, Young Man!

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From producer Sara Akins: These Forgotten Places focuses on the places we left behind as we grew from adolescence to adulthood. I interviewed my close friend Devin, a couple years younger than me, who is from the same hometown. He’s trans — and when he was 15 turning 16, he left his Michigan home to attend a boarding school of sorts (first in California, then in Utah) that had therapy and gender-inclusive care worked into the schools’ structure. He’s back home now — and he has a complex relationship not only to those schools, but also to the town we were taught to call home.  

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World Literature Through the Lens of Chinese: We Fight Loneliness with the Beauty of Literature, and Embrace a Fated Defeat show art World Literature Through the Lens of Chinese: We Fight Loneliness with the Beauty of Literature, and Embrace a Fated Defeat

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In this episode, Professor Todd Foley from Asian Studies will share his perspective as an American scholar studying Chinese poetry, as well as English language poetry. We’ll hear about his journey into a foreign country’s language, what poem gave him his first impression of Chinese poetry, and which poet affects him the most. Then we’ll dive into the universality and peculiarity of poems from two different cultures. This episode was produced by QQ Xing.

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In the Soup and How to Get Out show art In the Soup and How to Get Out

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From producer Emma Parry: In the Soup and How to Get Out is a podcast about going from home cooked meals to cooking for yourself in college. In this series, we will explore college student guests' favorite, most nostalgic dishes as they try and make them for us. Learning about where the food came from and its meaning, we'll get to see how much these students really miss their private chefs. I mean, parents. In this first episode, Jacob, a student from Los Angeles is always greeted with a warm meal from his mother when he returns home. So how will his dish work out? Let's find out.

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How to Looks Maxx with Jack: Mewing show art How to Looks Maxx with Jack: Mewing

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From producer Jack Nunez: My podcast will be a deep dive exploration of the concept of “looksmaxxing,” the various techniques and principles of the practice, and whether it’s all bullshit or not. In today's episode, we're talking about "mewing". What is mewing? Mewing is a technique in which the tongue is placed on the roof of the mouth and is purported to make the jaw more square, improve sleep, and reduce mouth breathing.

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The Complexities of Being Alive: In the Red Zone show art The Complexities of Being Alive: In the Red Zone

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Harmony Jones is the host of Diaries of the Marginalized, a podcast for those preparing for the growth & experiences of twenty-something-hood. In this episode, dealing with trauma, overcoming trauma and what life looks like after trauma.

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Modest Dinners: Home Spaghetti show art Modest Dinners: Home Spaghetti

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In this podcast, producer David Feng shares stories about college students' secrets to cooking restaurant quality cuisines on a student budget, a topic of great relevance for budget-conscious students in the current inflationary economy. Each story will be told from a fellow college student's perspective, with advice from food professionals.  In the pilot episode, Ariel, who learned spaghetti in Asolo, Italy and Ed Levine, the founder of Serious Eats, share secrets on how to make the perfect budget home cooked spaghetti. The origin, cultural significance, basic recipe, ASMR, and ways to...

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Making It: Pierce Wheeler show art Making It: Pierce Wheeler

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“Making It” is a podcast series that finds people who are starting to “make it” in their specific industry.  Whether that be entrepreneurship, film, or musical theater, the series follows different stories of young people who have some sort of accomplishment in their industry, but are just starting to. In this episode, Pierce Wheeler decided to almost leave university completely after getting the life changing opportunity of being the understudy in the Dear Evan Hansen National Broadway Tour. He talks about his story and how he got the role, the tour, challenges, and inside...

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“Making It” is a podcast series that finds people who are starting to “make it” in their specific industry.  Whether that be entrepreneurship, film, or musical theater, the series follows different stories of young people who have some sort of accomplishment in their industry, but are just starting to. In this episode, Pierce Wheeler decided to almost leave university completely after getting the life changing opportunity of being the understudy in the Dear Evan Hansen National Broadway Tour. He talks about his story and how he got the role, the tour, challenges, and inside information about the musical theater industry. We also hear from journalist Jeff Lunden about the challenges around building a career in the theatre world.

 

Produced by Camila Ceballos