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Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

The Shame Machine w/ Cathy O'Neil

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, Science

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by mathematician Dr. Cathy O’Neil to talk about her newest book, “The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation.” They highlight the pernicious influence of America’s “shame-industrial complex” as well as shame’s role in effecting social change.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, April 4th, 2022 and I'm the

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host of the show Kara Santa Maria and before we dive into this week's episode I do want to thank those of you who continue to make talk nerdy possible week after week after week.

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Remember talk nerdy is and will always be 100% free to download. And that's

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because I rely heavily on the support of individuals just like you to help offset the costs of producing

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the show, of paying my incredible assistant Noel Dilworth and paying

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the incredible team at Pro Podcast Solutions who edit the show as well.

0:50.8

I want to give a shout out to my top patrons this week. They include Leonard Prince,

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Krister Janssen, Daniel Lang, David J. E. Smith, Mary Niva, Gabriel, F.

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Garamillo Gonzalez, Brian Holden,

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Christopher Pitts, Duda Infinitas,

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June Sappara, and Ulrika Hagman.

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If you're interested in supporting the show, all you've got to do is

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visit Patreon.com slash talk nerdy to learn more. You can also visit, you know, my different

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websites to learn more about other ways to support the show by rating and

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reviewing on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, or whatever RSS Feed Reader you use or by shopping in the TalkNurdy store so you can visit

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talk nerdy.com and learn everything there as well. All right let's dive into

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today's episode.

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So this is a really fascinating chat,

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and I think a really important one as well.

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This week, we sit down with Dr. Kathy O'Neill

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to talk about her new book, The Shame Machine, who profits in the New Age of

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Humiliation. Now, Kathy is a mathematician. She earned her PhD in mathematics from Harvard. She's also the

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