Pushkin.

What do poll dancing, AI Chappots and diet culture all have in common.

These subjects have a home on Embodied, the award-winning podcast I host from North Carolina

Public Radio W-U-N-C.

My name is Anita Rao, and you can consider me your personal guide to taking on the taboo.

Join me to explore important questions about our bodies and our society, where nothing is off limits.

So go ahead, listen to Embodied every Friday wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome to another episode of Talk Easy. A weekly podcast of intimate

interviews with the people shaping our culture today.

I'm Sam Fregoso.

Thank you for tuning in.

Just a reminder off the top that if you have listened to the show

and potentially even enjoyed the show,

it would mean the world to me if you considered giving us a review on iTunes.

Each review allows us to reach new listeners and I continue to be told that there is some algorithm

in which iTunes promotes shows where there are reviews, good or bad.

It's just about the numbers game.

So if you could do that, it would be much appreciated or even just consider doing that.

This week on the show we have the very talented writer and professor Alyssa Wilkinson.

Alyssa currently serves as the chief film critic for Christianity today, where she writes prolificly and intelligently about everything, movies, and culture.

And one recent week alone, Melissa wrote about lemonade and Beyoncé, interviewed the great Terence Davies and reviewed

Tom Hanks in that strange Dave Ager's adaptation.

When she's not writing at Christianity today, or CT as she calls it, she works as an assistant professor of English at the King's College in Manhattan, teaching criticism, postmodern theory, cultural anthropology, and more.

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