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Smartest Person in the Room
by Laura TremaineLaura Tremaine is not the smartest person in the room, but she knows someone who is. Driven by her belief that we all learn, grow, and become better when we surround ourselves with people who are smarter than us, she'll take you along to meet people who are brilliant in their fields. With the casual tone of the best dinner party conversation you've ever had, Smartest Person in the Room offers fascinating, funny, and thought-provoking learning you won't want to miss!
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Ep 38 Best Books of 2018
1h 19m · PublishedIt's finally here! Our best books of the year episode.
Host Laura Tremaine and her real life book club friends Stephanie Newman-Smith and Yasmin Dunn discuss their favorite books of the year and some of the most buzzed about books of 2018.
Books mentioned on this episode:
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies by Ben Fritz
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Florida by Lauren Goff
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
The Yes Brain by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth
(30:40) Circe by Madeline Miller
(34:50) 9 Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
(44:36) The Witch Elm by Tana French
(54:55) An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
(1:00:10) The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
(1:04:04) Educated by Tara Westover
(1:12:30) The Line That Held Us by David Joy
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Ep 37 Princess and Pirate Rachael MacFarlane
35m · PublishedYou've probably heard Rachael MacFarlane speak at some point in her 20 year acting career. She's given voice to characters from Johnny Bravo, Tom & Jerry, Fancy Nancy, Family Guy, and she has played Hayley on American Dad since 2005.
Now Rachael has written a children's book titled Eleanor Wyatt, Princess and Pirate. Laura talks with Rachael about her career, her new book, parenting in L.A., and why the message of Eleanor Wyatt is so important.
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Ep 36 Laura's favorite books of 2018 (so far)
26m · PublishedOn today's episode, Laura is the smartest person in the room because she is the ONLY person in the room. That's right, it's a first for this podcast: a solo show! Laura shares the best books she's read so far in 2018.
Click here for the full show notes.
Follow Laura on Instagram where she shares what she's reading in real time, or sign up for her Secret Post emails here.
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BIAS: A series wrap-up and Q&A
52m · PublishedThis is the final episode in the BIAS series. We're sharing our thoughts on creating and releasing this series, and answering some of the questions we've received over the last few weeks.
We're also making an announcement about the future of this conversation in this space, since of course this work doesn't stop here. Please check out our ever-evolving resource page here.
Thanks for joining us for the BIAS series of Smartest Person in the Room!
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Ep 35 BIAS: Marriage burst the bubble
56m · PublishedOver the past several episodes, we’ve mentioned several times that my friend and co-host for this series Yasmin is married to a white man. Yasmin has talked about how being part of an interracial marriage has given her a unique perspective on the dynamics of race in our culture, and I couldn’t think of a better way to conclude our series on bias than by asking her husband Jason to sit down and talk with us about his perspectives on the reality of racial bias in our country.
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Ep 34 BIAS: Stop saying "down there"
51m · PublishedThis episode is different from any episode of Smartest Person in the Room that I’ve ever recorded. Months ago, when Yasmin and I were planning this series, I mentioned that though I’ve lived in Los Angeles for 17 years now, I’ve hardly ever been to the historically black neighborhoods of South LA. And so, Yasmin decided to take me on a little field trip in our own city.
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Ep 33 BIAS: Wow, there's a whole other side of you.
49m · PublishedThis is an unplanned episode. Yasmin and Laura were talking off the record, but the mic was recording. With Yasmin's permission, we are sharing this story.
The blog post we reference from Luvvie Ajayi can be found here.
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Ep 32 BIAS: Pop culture perspectives
1h 8m · PublishedEarly in our friendship, Yasmin and I realized that we had pretty different perspectives on most things pop culture. So many factors (and especially our racial makeup) affects how we see everything from music to movies to the Great American Novel.
In this episode, we talk about Beyonce, Black Panther, Get Out, Michael Jackson, and more. And Yasmin has a SHOCKING (to me) opinion about one of America's most beloved novels.
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Ep 31 BIAS: Identity matters
49m · PublishedThis episode is all about racial identity, and how it matters.
I'm speaking with my friends Jason & Yvonne Lee, actors and producers here in Los Angeles.
I met Jason & Yvonne through our children, and in our very first conversation we ended up talking for hours about Jason's story of being a black man adopted and raised by a white family. He and his wife Yvonne have really interesting things to say about racial identity, and why it matters.
There are so many layers to this conversation. Make sure you listen all the way until the end.
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Ep 30 BIAS: Well-meaning white people
57m · PublishedContinuing our series on racial bias, a black and white conversation between friends.
In this episode, Yasmin and I talk to her friend and former colleague Melissa Kaplan, the Deputy Superintendent of Education at Bright Star Schools. Melissa tells the story of how she was inspired to take her life experiences of growing up poor with an addict for a father and struggling with a learning disorder to the classroom where she believed she could help her students overcome their challenges the way she had been able to: through hard work and education. But she experienced an unexpected awakening to the realities of race in our country that, as a white woman, she had been unprepared to encounter.
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Smartest Person in the Room has 44 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 28:42:18. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 12th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 9th, 2024 18:04.
