Gulp: Documenting Life in the Time of Coronavirus
Co-hosts Maureen Sebastian and Risa Sarachan share stories which archive people's diverse experience as we shift into the "new normal". Each episode investigates the intimate inner worlds of people's lives being upended by the pandemic. It features candid and poignant Q&A style interviews from the frontlines, from essential works, from people just trying to get by, all of whom are suffering both directly and indirectly from this gulp-worthy time in our history.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2020
Hiccup One: How We Got Here
In this final episode of season one, Risa and Maureen look back at the last few months of working on the podcast. They revisit interviews that didn't make it into this first season but were crucial i…
Arrested Development: The Challenges Facing Education
We explore how education is evolving in different parts of Michigan, a state which often serves as a barometer of things to come throughout the United States. Paula Alejo (a sophomore in high school)…
Loss of Taste, Smell, & Love Scenes: Art & Entertainment
At the start of California's Stay-at-Home orders, Maureen and Risa speak with actors William Jackson Harper (NBC's "The Good Place") and Haley Joel Osment (Hulu's "Futureman", "The Sixth Sense") to d…
Deaths of Despondency: Ravaged Nursing Homes
Annie Wild shares her experience of having her father in the memory care unit of a nursing home in Michigan. Sarah Slocum, Co-Director of Altarum's Program to Improve Elder Care, gives a brief histor…
Law & Order: The Criminal Injustice System
Prison populations across the country are being devastated by COVID-19, with few state governments intervening to help. In order to protect those within the prison system at risk of needlessly contra…
Beat the Drum: #SayTheirNames
Deonta Williams is an educator and photographer residing in Davison, Michigan. He talks to us about George Floyd's death, documenting peaceful protests in Flint, and inspiring his mostly African Amer…
Put a Stamp On It: Save the USPS
Roxxann, a mail artist and USPS letter carrier, describes her struggles working for an under-resourced government agency serving every corner of our country, including the most underprivileged popula…
Superman's Kryptonite: The Myth of Youth
Dylan Hales, an Australian restaurateur residing in Brooklyn describes surviving COVID-19 during New York City's initial surge, when little was known about the virus itself and less was set up to hel…
Some New Growth: Texas Reopens
An ICU nurse from Texas, who wishes to remain anonymous, discusses the impossibility of end of life care during COVID-19 and her mounting anxiety concerning the statewide coronavirus shutdown ending.
COVID-19: Inside the Epicenter
In this episode, Dr. Moira Carroll, a first year attending physician in the Emergency Department at a public hospital in Queens, NY, talks about working in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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