Podcast Description

Join our host Arie Yamasaki and guests Varenna Tong Ronald, Tinbeet Yonas, Sofia Haro-Moss, and John Burgess as they explore journeys in their personal lives and media! Over the course of their first humanities class, Group 7 (Arie, Varenna, Tinbeet, Sofia, and John) first covered the topic of Imperialism and the idea of darkness through Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Next, they explored stereotypes around marginalized communities through the lens of the Roma people with Miguel de Cervantes’s La Gitanilla and Alexander Ramati’s And the Violins Stopped Playing. Finally, the last two episodes focus on the importance of stress, struggle, and acceptance while pulling inspiration from the video games of Bennet Foddy’s Getting Over it and Maddy Thorson’s Celeste in tandem with excerpts from Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, and Friedrich Nietzche’s The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The Will to Power. This podcast serves to facilitate discussions of those very topics and how they connect to personal experiences. Especially in a significant time such as the transition to college, our guests reveal how they connect with their class materials on a personal level while relating their experiences with their classmates. Overall, each guest gets to pitch in their 2 cents on topics that may hit close to home!