Gal, Hey!

Gal, Hey!
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Lessons in art, culture, literature, and poetry in particular. Each episode, we start with a poem and end up discussing what it means to be human. Come join us! We're so glad you're here.
The Gal, Hey! podcast is created and produced by Anna Elizabeth, PhD, and Ashley Jean, MA, with mixing help from Patrick Weatherly. Intro and outro music is from Patty & The Oh's hit single "Heard Some Kinda Light."
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The podcast explores themes of art, culture, literature, and poetry, with episodes diving into topics such as loneliness and communion in Walt Whitman's work, the dynamics of love and expression in Ernest Dowson’s poetry, and the nuances of immigration and identity through Emma Lazarus's verses. Each episode brings forth varied discussions that intertwine literature with societal and psychological inquiries.

Lessons in art, culture, literature, and poetry in particular. Each episode, we start with a poem and end up discussing what it means to be human. Come join us! We’re so glad you’re here.
The Gal, Hey! podcast is created and produced by Anna Elizabeth, PhD, and Ashley Jean, MA, with mixing help from Patrick Weatherly. Intro and outro music is from Patty & The Oh’s hit single “Heard Some Kinda Light.”
Episode 10: In this episode, Ashley and Anna explore the theme of loneliness and communion in Whitman’s Calamus collection, reading a beautiful and comforting piece called “Full of Life.” Other topics include the psychology of a beard; a compact made to break each other out of the hospital so we can each pass away in peace beneath a shady tree; the film Weekend at Bernie’s; the legality of human taxidermy; the psychology of hunting for sport and dominion over other beings; and alternative methods of achieving the psychedelic or transcendental experience.

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