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Sunday Pick: How to love your hometown (w/ Hanif Abdurraqib & Sarah Kay) | How to Be a Better Human

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4.111.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Loving where you live means caring for the people who make that place home, says cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib. He invites poet Sarah Kay and Chris Duffy, host of the podcast “How to Be a Better Human,” to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, to show off what makes it so special. From sneaker shops and record stores to public parks, Abdurraqib talks about how he builds community — and how anyone can learn to love their hometown


This episode is part of a series of bonus videos from "How to Be a Better Human." You can watch the extended video companion on the TED YouTube Channel and the extended interview on the TED Audio Collective YouTube Channel.



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0:00.0

Happy Sunday TED Talks Daily listeners. I'm Elise Hugh. Today we're bringing you another one of our

0:12.5

Sunday picks where we share an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective

0:17.2

handpicked by us for you. Up now, an episode of How to Be a Better Human,

0:21.9

hosted by comedian Chris Duffy. Loving where you live means caring for the people who make that

0:27.4

place home, says writer and cultural critic Hanif Abder Akeep. He invites Chris and poet Sarah Kaye

0:33.5

to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio to show off what makes it so special.

0:38.4

From sneaker shops and record stores to public parks,

0:41.9

Hanif talks about how he builds community and how home, as the saying goes,

0:46.2

really is where the heart is.

0:48.1

This episode is part of a special series,

0:50.3

the How to Be a Better Human bonus videos adapted for podcasts

0:53.9

just for our TED Talks daily listeners.

0:56.6

To watch the entire special series, head to ted.com.

0:59.7

And if you want to hear more insights like this, listen to How to Be a Better Human wherever you get your podcasts.

1:05.0

That's coming up. What is home?

1:18.9

Lately, I've been thinking about that question a lot.

1:21.9

Because home isn't just a place with familiar spots and corners.

1:25.4

It's where you feel a sense of belonging.

1:28.2

And as the world has gotten bigger and messier and lonelier,

1:32.7

I have been feeling like it is more urgent than ever

1:35.2

to have people and places that I can depend on,

1:38.2

to really call a place home.

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