Our 300th Episode, and Something New
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
It’s March 31st. Turns out, it’s our 300th episode, and the second anniversary of the show! What better way to celebrate than by rolling out the new Radiotopia show Oprahdemics, hosted by our very own Kellie Carter Jackson. Here we feature a sneak preview, and be sure to find it wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone Jody here. We have something to celebrate here at this day. Turns out that this, what you're listening to right now, is our 300th episode and it is also basically the second anniversary of this show. |
| 0:14.0 | No one really knew this was coming into our researcher Jacob just kind of raised his hand and said, |
| 0:18.0 | you know, we've got some big anniversary's coming out. |
| 0:20.0 | So we figured we'd mark it with a special episode and as it happens something really special is taking place right now on this exact day |
| 0:28.3 | Which is that at long last the launch of Oprah Demix is here. This is a new radiotopia show and in many ways it is a |
| 0:35.9 | spin-off or part of the family of this show. Kelly is hosting it. Her co-host is |
| 0:40.8 | Leah Wright Rager, who's been a guest on this podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm producing it. It was sort of inspired by an episode that Kelly and Nicky and I did on this show. |
| 0:49.6 | Nicky's been super helpful and supportive as we've got Nick going. |
| 0:52.9 | So to my mind, this is a great way to mark two years and 300 episodes |
| 0:58.0 | with a whole new show for you to listen to that looks at American culture and politics and health and |
| 1:03.9 | media and lots more all through the lens of Oprah Oprah Winfrey treating her |
| 1:08.8 | as the incredibly influential and consequential figure that she is. |
| 1:13.4 | So coming up is a little bit of what we call the Oprah 101 episode. |
| 1:17.4 | This is the conversation with Kelly and Leah about why they think Oprah Windfree Matters |
| 1:21.4 | and what they'll try to cover in the show. |
| 1:23.4 | The first proper episode is out now as well, but this will give you a good taste of what we're up to |
| 1:28.1 | with Oprah Demics. |
| 1:30.3 | I'll also just share one other thing, which is when you are making a show particularly a new show you end up listening to the episodes a lot |
| 1:36.8 | There are dozens of edits and new edits and rough cuts and so forth and I will just say that even after listening to this stuff for like the 50th time I find myself smiling when Kelly talks or nodding when Leah makes an amazing point. |
| 1:48.2 | You know, the vibes are great on this show. It's incredibly insightful. I think you'll like it. I hope you'll like it. I think you'll like it I hope you'll like it I hope |
| 1:54.7 | you will subscribe and spread the word and of course with this show thank you for all |
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