Best David Shin Podcasts (2026)

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Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023) 58:52

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Scott A. Mitchell is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He teaches and writes about Buddhism in the West, Pure Land Buddhism, and Buddhist modernism. As of 2010, there were approximately 3-4 million Buddhists in the United States, and that figur…

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Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023) 54:34

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California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives--the first slaves transported into California--and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Ru…

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Joanna Siekiera, "International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region" (Routledge, 2025) 1:05:11

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International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region (Routledge, 2025) edited by Dr. Joanna Siekiera uses an interdisciplinary approach to discuss international law and conflict in the Indo-Pacific region, covering topics such as maritime security, climate change and international relations. Detailing how international re…

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Stephen Bohr: Righteousness By Faith and The Final Conflict 1:00:48

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Aaron Smale, "Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone" (Bridget Williams, 2024) 44:44

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"The Coast has been battered for years by decisions made by those who don’t live there and don’t have any connection to the place. It started early." Based on his investigative Newsroom series, Aaron Smale’s Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone (Bridget Williams, 2024) goes deep into the region’s struggle with colonial legacies and environmenta…

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Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021) 56:08

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Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II an…

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Robert L. Worden and Jane Leung Larson, "A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911" (Brill, 2025) 2:14:03

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A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911 is an encyclopaedic reference work documenting the exile years of imperial China’s most famous reformer, Kang Youwei, and the political organization he mobilized in North America and worldwide to transform China’s autocratic empire into a …

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Jamil Jan Kochai, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" (Viking, 2022) 31:20

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The first story in Jamil Jan Kochai’s newest collection has an interesting title and premise. “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” leads The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories (Viking: 2022). But what starts as a story of a young Afghan-American man buying the latest installment of the stealth video game becomes an exploration of A…

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Sierra Talks 10-Year Wrestling Anniversary, CM Punk & AJ Lee Returns, Halloween, Graduating College || #312 34:17

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Former AAW Women's Champion Sierra joins A Wrestling Gal to talk about her celebrating her 10-year anniversary in pro wrestling, AJ Lee's return to WWE, being backstage for CM Punk's return to wrestling in 2021, graduating college, briefly becoming a brunette, upcoming matches against Rachael Ellering and Tootie Lynn, Halloween trends and movies, a…

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Jessica Urwin, "Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia" (U of Washington Press, 2025) 53:23

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Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth century. From uranium extraction to nuclear testing, Australia’s lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of national development. The continent was subject to rampant nuclear colo…

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Tracy Slater, "Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp" (Chicago Review Press, 2025) 42:03

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On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced Executive Order 9066, which authorized the confinement of tens of thousands of Japanese and Japanese-Americans living in the Western U.S., sending them to cramped, hastily-constructed camps like Manzanar and Amache. One such Japanese-American was Karl Yoneda, a well-known labor activist–an…

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K. Ian Shin, "Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century" (Stanford UP, 2025) 1:07:42

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This episode, which is co-hosted with Delaney Chieyen Holton, features Dr. K. Ian Shin discussing his recently published book, Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America’s Pacific Century (Standford UP, 2025). Imperial Stewards argues that, beyond aesthetic taste and economics, geopolitics were critical to the United States’ transform…

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K. Ian Shin, "Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century" (Stanford UP, 2025) 1:07:42

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This episode, which is co-hosted with Delaney Chieyen Holton, features Dr. K. Ian Shin discussing his recently published book, Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America’s Pacific Century (Standford UP, 2025). Imperial Stewards argues that, beyond aesthetic taste and economics, geopolitics were critical to the United States’ transform…

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AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door Predictions (w/ Sean Ross Sapp) 37:16

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Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful joins A Wrestling Gal's Ella Jay to give their predictions for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door in London! Plus, we look at potential implications for AEW All Out.

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Uzma Quraishi, "Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War" (UNC Press, 2020) 1:10:04

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In Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War (University of North Carolina Press), Uzma Quraishi (Sam Houston State University) follows the Cold War-era journeys of South Asian international students from U.S. Information Service reading rooms in India and Pakistan, to the halls of the Universit…

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Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson, "Racial Resentment in the Political Mind" (U Chicago Press, 2021) 55:57

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In Racial Resentment in the Political Mind, Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson challenge the commonly held notion that all racial negativity, disagreements, and objections to policies that seek to help racial minorities stem from racial prejudice. They argue that racial resentment arises from just-world beliefs and appraisals of deservingness that…

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Kit W. Myers, "The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States"(U California Press, 2025) 1:17:50

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This episode features Dr. Kit W. Myers, associate professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced, discussing his book The Violence of Love: Race, Family and Adoption in the United States, which was published by the University of California Press in January 2025. The Violence of Love challenges the …

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Anand Pandian, "Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down" (Stanford UP, 2025) 52:22

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In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trump's harsh attacks on immigrants to the United States, the appeal of that politics of anger and fear. In the years that followed, he crisscrossed the country—from Fargo, North Dakota to Denton, Texas, from southern California to upstate New York—seeking out fellow Americans with markedly different soc…

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Teagan Thorne Talks Character Transformation, OVW, Tatum Paxley, Spooky Entrance Theme & More || #310 31:04

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"The Eternal Enigma" Teagan Thorne joins A Wrestling Gal to talk about her transformation from Bailey McRoberts to Teagan Thorne, bouncing back from a knee injury, taking inspiration from Tatum Paxley, Poison Ivy, and Bride of Frankenstein, favorite movies of all-time, her experience working at Ohio Valley Wrestling, her new spooky entrance music, …

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Ep.147 - I Hope You Hear About ATL Church Softball (Guest: Phil Choi) 46:39

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Phil is the "voluntold" comissioner for this year's ATL Church Softball season. Phil joins us to explain the heart behind the league and exciting additions he hopes to bring to this year's season! Any and all feedback can be transmitted via: Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected] ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ihopetheyhearthis⁠…

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Joseph O. Jewell, "White Man’s Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era" (UNC Press, 2023) 40:16

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In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people's expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the "browning" of the nation's middle class--once considered a de facto "white" category--over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially di…

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Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021) 1:19:53

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All nations make rules -- through their constitutions, legislatures, bureaucratic practices – about who counts as a citizen. American by Birth examines the role of the Supreme Court – particularly a ruling from 1898 that is still precedent today. Wong Kim Ark v. United States interpreted the language of the 14th Amendment to answer whether a man bo…

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Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific" (Apollo, 2020) 56:16

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In Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Apollo, 2020), the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas tells the story of the peopling of the Pacific. In clear, accessible language Thomas shows us that most Pacific Islanders are in fact 'inter-islanders', or people defined by their movement across the ocean and between islands, rather than 'tr…

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Sabrina L. Hom, "Critical Mixed Race Philosophy: Rethinking Kinship and Identity" (Lexington Books, 2025) 1:26:39

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What are dominant narratives of mixed race identity? What are those narratives doing, in everyday life and within philosophical discourse? How can attending to the narratives and actions of people who identify as mixed race not just interrupt these dominant narratives, but change our understandings of ancestry, race, sexuality, and much more? In Cr…

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Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025) 32:00

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The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created by Hormel Foods in 1937 to utilize surplus pork shoulder during the Great Depression, SPAM became an essential resource during the Second World War, and helped shape perceptions of American culture. SP…

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Sonia C. Gomez, "Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America" (NYU Press, 2024) 1:01:46

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Picture Bride, War Bride examines how the institution of marriage created pockets of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women during the period of Japanese exclusion. Gomez’s work joins together an analysis of picture brides, or Japanese women who migrated to the United States to join husbands whom they married [in absentia] in the early 20th …

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Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks, "Global Asias: Tactics & Theories" (U Hawaii Press, 2024) 1:10:37

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Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge formation that currently make legible and organize the study of Asia and its multiple diasporas. Transits, Indigeneity, Epistemology, Language, and A/Geo…

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Alexus McLeod, "Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon" (Lexington Books, 2025) 1:36:00

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Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon (Lexington Books, 2025) is a study of the role of myth and ideology in the formation of social identity, focusing on a variety of communities of practice involving the martial arts in East Asian and Western history. Alexus McLeod argues that myths of the martial arts should not be understoo…

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Davina Thorne Talks Fashion, Training w/ Kylie Rae, Blair Onyx, Being The Elite, Happy Coincidences || #309 35:16

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"The Head Diva" Davina Thorne joins A Wrestling Gal to talk about fashion in the ring and real life, training with Kylie Rae at Freelance Wrestling, working with Blair Onyx, how Being The Elite got her hook back onto wrestling, happy coincidences in her career (including her ring name), horror films, and much more.…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney, "Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt" (Temple UP, 2025) 1:09:37

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In this episode we challenge the ideas about invisibility of Asian Americans in the urban Midwest by discussing Rebecca Jo Kinney’s Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt (Temple University Press, 2025). Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland links the contemporary development of Cleveland’s “AsiaTown” to the multiple and fragmente…

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Ep.146 - I Hope You Hear About Morning Men (Guest: Morning Men) 58:26

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I sit down with John, Joe, and Joojin to discuss why we meet at 6 in the morning on Wednesday to hang out for an hour. Any and all feedback can be transmitted via: Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected] ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ihopetheyhearthis⁠

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Hollie Barlow Talks Return To Wrestling, David Arquette, Lana Austin, Future Shock Main Event & More || #308 41:14

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Former FSW Women's Champion Hollie Barlow joins A Wrestling Gal to discuss her previous retirement from pro wrestling, her venture in bodybuilding and competing at the PCA Physical Culture, her decision to return to in-ring action in 2024, CM Punk's return to WWE in 2023, meeting and wrestling in front of David Arquette, main eventing a Future Shoc…

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Coll Thrush, "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" (University of Washington Press, 2025) 30:13

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The Northwest Coast of North America is a treacherous place. Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features such as the notorious Columbia River bar have resulted in more than two thousand shipwrecks, earning the coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island the moniker “Graveyard of the Pacific.” Beginni…

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Ep.145 - I Hope KMs and EMs Hear This (Guest: Pastor Steven Kim) 1:11:49

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Is the Korean Ministry and English Ministry within Korean American churches doomed to separate? Or is there hope for their co-existence and collaboration? Pastor Steven Kim joins us again to discuss! Any and all feedback can be transmitted via: Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected] ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ihopetheyhearthis⁠…

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Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025) 55:15

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In 2022, Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. But she wasn’t the first actress of Asian origin to be nominated. In 1935, Merle Oberon was nominated for Best Actress for the role of Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel, only her second film in the U.S. film industry. But no one knew Oberon was Asian. Her pu…

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Nightshade On EVE Title Win, WrestleMania 41 Weekend Adventures, Touring In Japan & More || #307 41:57

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EVE Champion Nightshade joins Ella Jay to discuss her crowning moment at Eve: Punkin' Instigators, goals for her championship reign, adventures in Las Vegas during WrestleMania 41 weekend, making her in-ring USA debut at Spark Joshi and Marvelous, sharing a ring with Aja Kong, her recent three month tour in Japan, training at the Marvelous dojo, ma…

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Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025) 40:33

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Join me for a conversation with Dr. Seulghee Lee (Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, University of South Carolina) about his recently published book, Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life (Ohio State UP, 2025). Some topics of our discussion include Adrian Tomine's graphic novel Shortcomings (2007), Gayl Jones…

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Riley Matthews On Finding Herself, Royal Rumble Experience, Meeting Legends, Being A Cat Mom || #306 41:57

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"The Neon Dream" Riley Matthews joins Ella Jay to discuss her taco of choice for Cinco De Mayo, finding new hobbies and herself while on break from wrestling, returning to action at Revolution Rising, her upcoming debut at Hooligan Championship Wrestling, experience attending the 2024 WWE Royal Rumble, ring gear inspirations, Mercedes Mone's run ou…

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Linda Trinh, "Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non) Buddhist Memoir" (Miroland, 2025) 36:54

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Join NBN host Hollay Ghadery for a thought-provoking conversation with Linda Trihn about her memoir, Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoir (Miroland, 2025). Linda Trinh had everything she thought an immigrant woman should want: motherhood, career, and security. Yet, she felt empty. Growing up in Winnipeg, Linda helped her mom make offer…

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Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021) 1:08:58

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Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters; guerrilla fighters; pirates; smugglers; prostitutes and dancers as spies; and Asian Americans collaborating with Axis Powers. All these colorful individuals form the story of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), th…

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Ep.144 - I Hope You Commit to the Local Church (Guest: Pastor Steven Kim) 1:31:20

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Pastor Steven Kim returns and we just have a conversation about the ways we make decisions as servants in our respective churches. Any and all feedback can be transmitted via: Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ihopetheyhearthis⁠

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WWE WrestleMania 41 Predictions! 1:23:15

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(Not) Kimmy Sokol and Love Wrestling's Pluggo and JPJ join A Wrestling Gal to give their predictions for WWE WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas! Plus, we speculate on who might step up to be Randy Orton's opponent at the big event.

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Ring The Belle's DS Shin Talks Diva Mania, Iconic Theme Songs, & WrestleMania 41 Predictions || #304 34:07

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DS Shin joins A Wrestling Gal to talks about the glams, slams, and surprises coming to Diva Mania in Las Vegas! Plus, we share our favorite Diva theme songs and some WrestleMania 41 predictions.

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Charli Evans On Fallout w/ Jessica Troy, North Shore Wrestling, AEW Grand Slam, RevPro High Stakes || #303 36:05

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"The Violence Artist" Charli Evans joins Ella Jay to discuss her upcoming Last Wrestler Standing Match against Jessica Troy at PWA Chevs vs. Troy, their recent fallout, her new alliance with North Shore Wrestling, goals for her future reign as PWA Heavyweight Champion, experience at AEW Grand Slam Australia, advice to wrestlers looking to relocate,…

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WWE Evolution 2 Dream Card (w/ Chris Riddle) || #303 49:06

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Wrestling commentator and women's wrestling advocate Chris Riddle joins Ella Jay in making a dream card for WWE Evolution 2 (spoiler alert: our card ends up being two nights' worth of matches)! Talents from WWE's main roster, NXT and TNA are on the table, and so are legends and free agents. Will any of our matches materialize at the rumored Evoluti…

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Tuomas Tammisto, "Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier" (Helsinki UP, 2024) 2:01:32

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On the podcast today I am joined by socio-cultural anthropologist, Tuomas Tammisto, who is an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tampere University. Tuomas is joining me to talk about his recently published book, Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier (Helsinki UP, 2024) Hard Work exa…

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David Oakeshott, "Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwestern Pacific: Becoming Enemy Friends" (Bristol UP, 2024) 48:28

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Bringing concepts from critical transitional justice and peacebuilding into dialogue with education, Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwestern Pacific: Becoming Enemy Friends (Bristol University Press, 2024) by Dr. David Oakeshott examines the challenges youth and their teachers face in the post-conflict settings of Bougainville and Solomon…

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Layla Divine Talks Australian Wrestling, Elimination Chamber 2024, Randy Orton, Tattoos & More || #302 33:56

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Australian Women's Champion Layla Divine joins A Wrestling Gal to discuss her full-circle championship win, the influences of Michelle K. Hasluck & Hayden Zenith, attending WWE Elimination Chamber in 2024, the Australian wrestling community, our mutual love of Randy Orton, the stories behind her tattoos, her passion for history, and more.…

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Big Mama On NWA Women's Tag Title Win, Dream Challengers, Mercedes Martinez, Being A Mom & Wrestler || #301 31:18

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NWA Women's TV and Tag Team Champion Big Mama joins A Wrestling Gal to discuss her historic tag title win alongside Kenzie Paige, potential challengers for the titles, which women she'd like to see join NWA, her role as a veteran in the locker room, wrestling Mercedes Martinez, introducing her son to pro wrestling, which women inspire her, being a …

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Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene" (Routledge, 2024) 50:40

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Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2024) presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact o…