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The Ripple Effect Podcast

The Ripple Effect Podcast # 41 (Cara Santa Maria)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Society & Culture, 6, Philosophy, Bryan, Carlin, Callen, Dave, Bill

4.6603 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2014

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Episode 41 with Cara Santa Maria, writer, producer, TV personality, science communicator & host of the 'Talk Nerdy' podcast. You can find her co-hosting TechKnow on Al Jazeera, senior science correspondent for Huffington Post, she a regular guest on The Young Turks, the Joe Rogan Experience & many more places.

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I'm

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I'm

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I'm a

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number of friends I'm a little bit of the What's up, everybody, another episode of RippleFek podcast. We are back.

0:52.9

Today we got a Kara Santa Maria.

0:54.5

She's a, I'm a fan of her podcast.

0:56.3

I actually found out about her, her work on the Young Turks, then saw her on Joe Rogan's

1:01.2

podcast.

1:02.2

And she, she's done a bunch of stuff.

1:03.8

She shows up on, she's done writing for Huffington Post.

1:06.9

She's actually on Adam Scorgy, my last guest's new movie at the Culture High. She's been on tons of different podcasts, shows up on different shows, just kind of supporting science and kind of waving that science flag. And I guess like we're talking about just before we start recording, just kind of, it's cool that she's making it, I guess, fashionable, I guess, in a way. And so I just, I think it's cool because even somebody like me

1:28.4

who's not that much in the science, you kind of, you make it interesting. And a lot of weird topics that I wouldn't find intriguing on my own, you know, I end up hearing a one hour conversation about it on your podcast. And I'm like, I can't move I just sat through that, you know, but, but but thanks care i really appreciate you taking your time to be with me of course thanks so much for

1:28.4

having me one thing i love about your your through that, you know, but, but thanks, Kara. I really appreciate you taking your time to be with me.

1:45.2

Of course. Thanks so much for having me. One thing I love about your, your podcast, and I think you

1:50.1

in general is how honest you are. It seems like, like Rogan and you and a lot of people who have

1:56.6

successful podcasts and people really like, I think that's one of the things that appeal to us is

2:03.0

really your honesty, because you talk about things like, you know, you've talked about depression

2:07.0

quite a bit on different shows and stuff like that. And that's something I've dealt with growing up

2:11.3

quite a bit. And it was, it was cool because like anytime I do music or whatever, I, I always like kind of it helped me kind of get

2:19.4

my emotions on paper and then it kind of helped me kind of I guess face it and then I think it made

2:24.5

it easier for me to talk to people about it because I was always like tapping into that like dark

2:28.0

you know I guess those dark moments or whatnot so it made it kind of easier because I was constantly

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