Smartest Person in the Room
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SubscribersIt's finally here! Our best books of the year episode. Host Laura Tremaine and her real life book club friends Stephanie Newman-Smith and Yasmin Dunn discuss their favorite books of the year and some ...
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You've probably heard Rachael MacFarlane speak at some point in her 20 year acting career. She's given voice to characters from Johnny Bravo, Tom & Jerry, Fancy Nancy, Family Guy, and she has played H...
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On today's episode, Laura is the smartest person in the room because she is the ONLY person in the room. That's right, it's a first for this podcast: a solo show! Laura shares the best books she's rea...
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This is the final episode in the BIAS series. We're sharing our thoughts on creating and releasing this series, and answering some of the questions we've received over the last few weeks. We're also m...
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Over the past several episodes, we've mentioned several times that my friend and co-host for this series Yasmin is married to a white man. Yasmin has talked about how being part of an interracial marr...
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This episode is different from any episode of Smartest Person in the Room that I've ever recorded. Months ago, when Yasmin and I were planning this series, I mentioned that though I've lived in Los An...
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This is an unplanned episode. Yasmin and Laura were talking off the record, but the mic was recording. With Yasmin's permission, we are sharing this story. The blog post we reference from Luvvie Ajay...
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Early in our friendship, Yasmin and I realized that we had pretty different perspectives on most things pop culture. So many factors (and especially our racial makeup) affects how we see everything fr...
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This episode is all about racial identity, and how it matters. I'm speaking with my friends Jason & Yvonne Lee, actors and producers here in Los Angeles. I met Jason & Yvonne through our children, an...
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Continuing our series on racial bias, a black and white conversation between friends. In this episode, Yasmin and I talk to her friend and former colleague Melissa Kaplan, the Deputy Superintendent o...
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This is the beginning of a new series and this time we're trying something a little different. I'm sitting down with my good friend Yasmin Dunn talking heart-to-heart, friend-to-friend about inherent ...
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We're talking about the best books we read in 2017! My guest is Yasmin Dunn, a friend and member of my real life book club. We cover all the best novels, self-help, memoirs, and general nonfiction tha...
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After 6 episodes, we've concluded our Mind/Body connection series. In this wrap-up episode, host Laura Tremaine and producer/editor Megan Tietz talk through the series as a whole. We discuss the origi...
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Bethany Cole is an only child born to conservative Christian parents who was assigned the gender of male at birth. By the age of five, she realized there was something different about her as compared ...
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There is no way to cover the vast topic of Mind/Body connection and not explore the issue of sexuality. We are sexual beings, and yet culture often prevents us from discussing sex in a realistic way. ...
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Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. And yet this disease is widely misunderstood and vastly under researched. But before one is diagnosed with an eating disorder, ...
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Mark Zupan is known for a lot of things: his Gold Medal for rugby in the 2008 Paralympics. As the star of the award-winning documentary Murderball. Inspiring a character on the tv show Friday Night Li...
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What is acupuncture and how does it work? Most of us have a vague idea of the ancient Chinese practice involving thin needles stuck in your skin all over your body. Acupuncture has been used for thous...
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This is the first episode in the Mind/Body series and we're getting personal. We're exploring a topic that is relevant to every human on earth: how our minds and our bodies are intrinsically connected...
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A sneak-peek of Series 4 of Smartest Person in the Room!...
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The best books of 2017 (so far) and what is on our summer To Read lists! In this special edition episode of Smartest Person in the Room, we're breaking from our series format to discuss all things boo...
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Jen Glantz is a professional bridesmaid. That's right, you can hire out the role traditionally held by best friends or sisters or cousins or old roommates. But this unique career started with a Craigs...
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This is the third episode in the VIRAL series. WARNING: This episode contains adult language and humor. Stephen Glover is known around the globe as Steve-O, a stunt performer and comedian famous for h...
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This is the second episode in the VIRAL series of Smartest Person in the Room. My conversation is with actor and producer Shane Nickerson, who knows more than a little something about VIRAL content, a...
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This is the VIRAL series, and we're looking closely at something that permeates most of our internet culture: viral content. Videos, memes, tweets, graphics, these can take over our online experience ...
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A sneak-peek of Series 3 of Smartest Person in the Room!...
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Host Laura Tremaine and producer/editor Megan Tietz break down the six episodes of the RELIGION series. They talk download statistics, listener reaction, and the surprising things that came out of mak...
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We're closing out the religion series by talking about LOSING your faith. In the last five episodes, we've talked about growing up in a faith tradition and converting to a religion out of deep convic...
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This is the 5th episode in the RELIGION series. Hinduism is the world's third largest religion, with over 1 billion followers, about 15% of the global population. It is often called the world's oldes...
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So far in the RELIGION series we've heard from people from 4 different faiths. Today's episode is a bit of a departure, as we're instead talking to someone who writes nationally about religion as thei...
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Salah Abdul-Wahid was born Daniel Hewlitt. He converted to Islam as an adult, after growing up Catholic in a large Creole family living in Los Angeles. In the 1960s when Salah was in his early twe...
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This episode is about Reformed Judaism as a cultural identity as opposed to a religion focused on worshipping God. The Reformed movement began in 19th century Germany, and today this is the dominant d...
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Welcome to the first episode in the RELIGION series of Smartest Person in the Room. For the next few weeks we'll be hearing stories about people living within their religion, defined here as a "cultur...
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A sneak-peek of Series 2 of Smartest Person in the Room!...
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The Hollywood series has concluded and host Laura Tremaine and producer/editor Megan Tietz decided to sit down to discuss the best and worst parts of making the first series of Smartest Person in the ...
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Jeff Tremaine is a producer and director best known for co-creating the cultural phenomenon Jackass, an MTV television show that was born out of a skateboarding magazine and went on to four #1 box off...
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Julie Hébert is an award-winning playwright and a television writer, director, and producer. She began her career in the San Francisco theater world, and her plays have been produced across the countr...
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Katie Doering is a film and television producer with a passion for documentaries. She started in production working for the groundbreaking and highly acclaimed PBS series POV, and has gone on to produ...
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Wayne Newton has been a bodyguard for the most high profile of celebrities, protecting Mariah Carey, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, and many more. In 25 years of private security, he has never once spoken publ...
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Shanna Zablow is an executive producer and general manager for the Gorilla Flicks Productions whose producing credits include MTV's Rob and Big, Ridiculousness, and Nitro Circus as well as feature len...
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Production designer Ethan Tobman is one of the most sought after artists in Hollywood. He designed the complicated and innovative set for the 2015 Oscar-winning film Room, and is the creative force be...
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Phil Johnston is a Disney screenwriter, producer, and director best known for his work on Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph, and the upcoming Wreck-It Ralph 2. In this episode, I talk to Phil about the years b...
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Laura Tremaine is not the smartest person in the room ... but she knows someone who is. Smartest Person in the Room launches August 23rd. ...
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Laura Tremaine is not the smartest person in the room, but she knows someone who is. Driven by her belief that we all learn, grow, and become better when we surround ourselves with people who are smarter than us, she'll take you along to meet people who are brilliant in their fields. With the casual tone of the best dinner party conversation you've ever had, Smartest Person in the Room offers fascinating, funny, and thought-provoking learning you won't want to miss!
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