Here at Culture Study we’re launching a new series on culture of place — it could be a state, a region, a city, so long as it has place-ness. The first in the series features Josh Gondelman, one of the place-iest comedians I know, and exactly what we’re looking for when it comes to co-hosts in this series: people who love a place dearly, who are deeply intimate with its peccadilloes, but who can also generate some analytical distance from that place as we talk about insider/outsider dynamics, how race and class intersect with a place’s understanding of itself, accents, tells, code-switching, cliches, and so much more.For this episode, listeners gave us so many excellent questions — from three-way beef and the allure of Dunkin, to how a city does or does not jettison a racist reputation. And because our co-host is Josh, it’s also very funny. I can’t wait to argue (with grace) about Boston in the comments with all of you.Thank you to the sponsors of today’s episode!Get 15% off OneSkin with the code CULTURE at https://www.oneskin.co/Ancient Nutrition is offering 25% off your first order when you go to AncientNutrition.com/CULTUREShow Notes:Subscribe to Josh’s newsletter which I promise will be the best thing in your inbox every Monday:Follow Josh on InstagramThe North Shore Roast Beef Sandwich: a Scientific Study (this is WONDERFUL additional reading if Josh’s description of the three-way piqued your interest and/or you already love the three-way)I love Josh’s piece on “The Nirvana of Ben Affleck” from 2021The Dunkin Robe in questionJosh’s new pug Maggie!!!!We’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:What 2000s pop culture did to women’s understanding of themselvesWhat’s going on in AMERICAN PARENTING CULTURE (broadly conceived) right now (with Melissa Wenner Moyer!)TEXAS Culture, MONTANA Culture, and MONTREAL/Québécois Culture for our ongoing culture-of-place series (two different eps don’t worry)Evangelical Summer Camp, past and presentHow/Why Private Equity is Fucking Everything UpDark Academia (as in, the literary genre)Anything you need advice or want musings on for the AAA segment. You can ask about anything, it’s literally the name of the segment!As always, you can submit them (and ideas for future eps) hereFor this week’s discussion: How did this discussion mesh with your own experience/understanding of Boston? And the question we’re going to keep returning to throughout this series: how do clock people as insider/outsider where you’re from?