Genteel Poverty
Welcome to Genteel Poverty: a podcast about the consequences of living for one’s passions. This is a place for academics, artists, writers, educators, and you filthy, filthy followers of Diogenes. Welcome home.
Episodes
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Weaponized Hope
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Our couple look at the weaponization of hope.
From gambling, politics, to religion our hope is being used as a weapon against us.
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Friends, Lovers, Acquaintances
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Our couple discuss friends, lovers, and acquaintances.
Navigating between these three can be more difficult than it seems; and why does it get harder as we age?
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
You Can't Make Love to the World
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Our married couple discuss the artists voice within the creative process.
Can you make a universally loved piece of work? Should that even be a goal? Can you open the window and make love to the world?
Saturday Jan 18, 2025
A Clean Well Lighted App
Saturday Jan 18, 2025
Saturday Jan 18, 2025
Our married couple discuss the possible demise of TikTok
Is TikTok a clean well lighted place? Is it a threat to the United States? Who will hurt from its ban and should we care?
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Marriage: Player vs Player or Co-Op
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Our married couple talk marriage.
Are you and your significant other playing cooperatively or is it a battle of player vs player? Are you a solo player thinking about marrying "the one"? Is marriage important?
Sunday Jan 12, 2025
A Curtsy to Manners
Sunday Jan 12, 2025
Sunday Jan 12, 2025
What role does manners play in society? Is it essential to help us get along socially or repressive/archaic? Our husband and wife team explores what manners means, how we resist it, and whether you need to stand when someone comes into a room.
Saturday Jan 04, 2025
Judgment
Saturday Jan 04, 2025
Saturday Jan 04, 2025
From clothing to career to whether to have children, we discuss the realities of judgment and how we've navigated them.
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
The Parent Trap
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
This is the real parent trap: what are you going to do with all the stuff they have when they are gone? In this episode, we talk about navigating the logistics and guilt associated with deciding what to keep of our parents' collections.
Wednesday Jan 01, 2025
Episode 1: Champagne Wishes and Caviar Fever Dreams
Wednesday Jan 01, 2025
Wednesday Jan 01, 2025
What is genteel poverty, and what did we do wrong to get here? In this episode, we discuss what the term means and how our journey in the humanities led us here.