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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 @brewsdaywithmaryandhadley. 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 non-fiction writer, NYT best-seller, and author of 14 books. He writes primarily about nature, but beer is a close-second favorite subject of his. He is also my father and was my first introduction to beer. 

From Producer Vico Wei: 

Why do we need films and television in our lives? For me, they make my experiences feel richer and more layered. When I watch a story unfold, I often find myself tracing it back to my own memories, noticing the parallels between a character’s choices and the paths I’ve taken. Some works also allow me to slip briefly into a more emotional state in the middle of an everyday life that usually requires clarity and practicality. They open a pathway between myself and the world, where even the smallest things—a bit of wind, the movement of water—can stir something deep in my memory and sharpen my sense of being alive.

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.

From Producer 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. Everybody knows his name… but what do they really think of him?

From producer Sara Akins:

These Forgotten Places focuses on the places we left behind as we grew from adolescence to adulthood.

“Life moves pretty fast…”

~ Ferris Bueller

This intimate, nostalgia-ridden podcast encourages us to slow down and face life’s most tender moments. By learning to part with the times we can’t get back – we learn to cherish where we are now.

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.

From episode producer QQ Xing:
I’ve loved poetry since I was little. I read mostly Chinese ones. After I came to NY, I found that it is very fun to view literature, especially poetry, in another language. For the first time, I read Chinese ancient poetry in English translation, and my feelings were so complex. It seems like something crucial was lost in translation, while another very new form of beauty was brought in. 

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.

Producer Harmony Jones is the host of The Complexities of Being Alive, 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.

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.

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.

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 level up spaghetti dinners will be discussed.