Poli Sigh Podcast

02/01/2023

Happy new year from Poli Sigh 🎊

Season 2 is all wrapped up, so there’s no new episode to end the year. We’ll let you know when we’ll be back for season 3✌️

03/12/2022

Our season finale “Pop Goes the Culture (feat. Dr. Lilly Goren)” is out just as Dr. Goren’s new book “The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe” is!

Check out the latter wherever you get your books and the former wherever you get your podcasts!

We zone out with Netflix, HBO, etc. to get away from politics, right? But where is the line between political and apolitical?
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"To close off season 2, we hear from Professor Lilly Goren about the relationship between popular culture and politics. We cover examples across television, cinema, and literature to illuminate what political themes we often consume in our everyday lives without even realizing. We work through themes of nostalgia, gender construction, and “the anti-hero” to begin considering how we should treat popular media and its appropriate role in politics today."

08/11/2022

Almost half of the states in the U.S. allow for same day voter registration, so get on out there and !

Not sure whether your vote matters? What to expect once the dust settles? Our special episode, “Is Mid a Term? (feat. Courtney Nava)”, is available with the answers everywhere you podcast!

23/10/2022

It’s not a “special election”, but our special episode covering everything about the midterms goes live next Monday! And of course, don’t forget to make sure you’re all registered and ready to vote come Nov 8!!

01/10/2022

Has feminism failed?

Our newest episode “All in the Femily (feat. Dr. Michaele Ferguson)” has all the answers!

Available now everywhere you podcast 🎧

“What does it mean to be a feminist? What does feminism look like in a post-Roe era?

On this episode, we talk with Professor Michaele Ferguson about feminist politics. Spanning the suffrage movement to Gaga feminism, we breakdown what has changed and what themes have continued across feminism. Within the context of the Dobbs decision, we pinpoint instances in which current feminisms may fall short, and attempt to identify which ones may be better equipped to meet today’s challenges.”

09/09/2022

Happy to share that your co-hosts have added another diploma between them! 👩‍🎓

Congrats to master Molly Brzezinski!

03/09/2022

Ep. 15 now available everywhere you podcast!

"Communication is as simple as talking, right?

This month we hear from Professor John Barry Ryan about polarization in the United States and its significance to communication and compromise in politics today. Specifically highlighting the issues of gun violence and climate change, we explain why Americans appear so far apart and how this often results in policy inaction. We discuss the nature of American democracy and its limits in order to sort out its potential to mitigate collective action problems."

31/08/2022

A news clipping from our guest, Dr. John Barry Ryan, whose episode, “C’mon Unity”, releases today! 🎧

Available wherever you folks podcast and always at http://polisighpodcast.com

“Communication is as simple as talking, right?

This month we hear from Professor John Barry Ryan about polarization in the United States and its significance to communication and compromise in politics today. Specifically highlighting the issues of gun violence and climate change, we explain why Americans appear so far apart and how this often results in policy inaction. We discuss the nature of American democracy and its limits in order to sort out its potential to mitigate collective action problems.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/opinion/polarization-politics-americans.html

Most Americans view politics as two camps bickering endlessly and fruitlessly over unimportant issues.

08/08/2022

What’s politics but a high stakes game that never ends + that you can’t quit? 😅

8 days late with this announcement, but episode 2 of season 2, “It’s (Un)just a Game (feat. Dr. John Emery)”, is out now ✌️

Listen wherever and always at http://polisighpodcast.org

23/07/2022

They’ve been downgraded to unpaid interns after sleeping on the job
💤 🐱 🐶

Final edits before July’s episode drops next Sunday - be sure to check out part 1 of our 2 part dive into Ukraine beforehand! “Snap, Autocrackle, Prop” available now wherever you podcast and at www.polisighpodcast.org 🗣🎙🎧

01/07/2022

Season 2 out now wherever you get your podcasts
www.polisighpodcast.org

19/06/2022

6.30.22

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05/05/2022

Season 2 is still in the works - so stay tuned! More immediately, though, we wanted to give some commentary on what has likely been a visceral few days for many of you. Here's an interview featuring Owen from a couple months ago: https://theboldcu.com/2022/03/the-future-of-choice/

The Future of Choice

01/01/2022

Hey all. For a few reasons, there’s no new episode out today to close out our first season. But stay tuned here for season 2 in the spring!!

Thank you to everyone who’s reached out regarding the Marshall fire outside of Boulder. A little bit too close for comfort, but Molly and Owen are out of town, and the fire is just out of reach of our place. Please consider supporting the areas of Louisville and Superior who have been less fortunate though (https://www.coloradoresponds.org/)

Check back here for season 2 in the near future ✌️happy new year and stay safe everyone!!

02/12/2021

It's like the New York Times listened to episode 12
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/world/congo-cobalt-albert-yuma-mulimbi.html

Dangerous mining conditions plague Congo, home to the world’s largest supply of cobalt, a key ingredient in electric cars. A leadership battle threatens reforms.

01/12/2021

End of the month ➡️ new episode drops!!

Ep. 12 “Sus”tainable Solutions (feat. Dr. Christina Boyes) goes out this evening everywhere y’all podcast 🍃 🔥

What does it mean to meaningfully produce environmental policy?

On this episode, we chat with Professor Christina Boyes about why we should take a more holistic approach, considering both the human and non-human. Looking specifically at natural resources, we discuss where environmental technology might fall short both ecologically and along lines of social justice, pinpointing some non-obvious consequences that accompany greenwashing today.

www.polisighpodcast.org

01/11/2021

In case you need a hint for this episode’s title pun…

Episode 11, Social Mediacracy (feat. Dr. Jennifer Forestal), out now wherever you podcast!!

Are digital technologies and social media relevant to politics? It’s not so much a question of “if” but “how”….

This month we talk with Professor Jennifer Forestal about how the digital world can both support and hurt democracy. Looking at the way platforms are structured and monitored, we discuss ways that social media can build meaningful communities instead of atomized ones, what’s required of democratic citizenship in the 21st century, and how digital technologies might just be a boogeyman that overshadows bigger political issues.

www.polisighpodcast.org

26/10/2021

It's almost the end of the month again!! Read up on our next guest, Dr. Jennifer Forestal, before you hear her in a few days on episode 11!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/16/people-blame-facebook-for-fake-news-and-partisan-bile-theyre-wrong/

The problem isn't Facebook. It's that we've lost the habit of treating each other as fellow citizens.

01/10/2021

When you run into your podcast guests in-person 🙌
Episode 10 “Wore On Terror (feat. Kiela Crabtree)” out now wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 !

23/09/2021

If you want to read up on our next guest, check out one of her articles on the Washington Post Monkey Cage 🔥

Episode 10 featuring Kiela Crabtree out on the 30th 🎧 🗣

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/24/how-racially-targeted-mass-shootings-can-alter-community-politics/

When Black Americans are the targets, other Black Americans respond with anger and search for more information. That's not the same for other racial groups.

31/08/2021

It’s the end of the month! You know what that means!!! 🙌

Episode 9 “Whose War It Best? (feat. Drs. Jess and Alex Braithwaite)” goes live tonight!

Double the guests, double the “sighing”!

Check us out wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 and always at www.polisighpodcast.org

12/08/2021

Bad news: we had to reassign our sound technician
Good news: he’s enjoying his new job as the official “microphone warmer upper”, and episode 9’s audio editing is going faster than ever!!

Ep 9 out Aug 31 - be sure to check out our recent episode 8 w/ Jesse Acevedo to keep you entertained in the meantime!!

www.polisighpodcast.org

01/08/2021

Now available on a podcast provider near you: Ep. 8 “Migrants Go Marching One By One (feat. Dr. Jesse Acevedo)” 🔥
www.polisighpodcast.org

For your amusement, pictured is an Owen with his family in Bangkok.

“CNN and Fox News definitely want you to believe their theories to explaining immigration. But when actually looking at the data, what truly causes migration, and in turn, what does migration cause politically?

On episode 8, we speak with Professor Jesse Acevedo about his research on migration and remittances. Covering the movement of people and money across the Americas, we debunk assumptions behind migration and offer a path towards engaging questions of immigration in moving forward.”

31/07/2021

It’s almost the end of the month…you know what that means!!

Episode 8 drops tomorrow night! 🔥

Keep refreshing whatever you use to get your podcasts 🎧

30/06/2021

Episode 7 drops later tonight featuring CU’s very own Adriana Molina Garzon 🔥🔥
Stay tuned for some more environmental talk 🌎🌳
Find us always at www.polisighpodcast.org or wherever you listen to podcasts

30/05/2021

This week we are getting up close and personal with environmental political theory!! 🌿 Episode 6 available now wherever you get your podcasts!

“In the 21st century, the political environment and ecological environment might as well be the same thing. But if the planet is so important to everything, then why do we have trouble enacting sustainability?

On episode 6, we talk with Dr. Emily Ray about how and why environmentalism still faces difficult hurdles, even in the face of impending doom.”

28/05/2021

Can anybody guess the topic for this Sunday’s episode?? 🌱

Episode 6 (featuring Dr. Emily Ray) comes out this Sunday night (5/30) 🔥

02/05/2021

A very special Episode 5 available now wherever you get your podcasts!!

“Always been curious to know what Owen is busy doing when not podcasting?!? Well wait not longer!

In this special episode, Molly sits down with Owen to hear about his work on performative citizenship and how respectability factors into the way race matters to U.S. citizenship today.”

www.polisighpodcast.org

29/04/2021

We’re back at the end of the month as promised 🤟
Check back tomorrow evening for a special episode 5 🔥