People Stuff
People Stuff is a write-in, anthropology advice podcast wherein we answer all sorts of questions with the weird and wonderful wisdom that anthropology offers. From whether you should make your bed to what you owe to the dead, no dilemma is too tiny, no conundrum too vast for a little bit of anthropology. After all, as a species, we've been human-ing for like 300,000 years already. Surely we've figured some stuff out.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2025
Dan and Michael Park a Car
In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael discuss and/or are informed by:
“The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds” in the NYTimes by Carl Zimmer https:…
Dan and Michael Heard it through the Grapevine
In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael discuss and/or are informed by:
The “Lloyd’s List Shipping Podcast” https://www.lloydslist.com/the-lloyds-list-shipping-podcast
“Father Christmas Execut…
Dan and Michael Destroy Democracy
In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael discuss and/or are informed by:
An article in the Times about that rigged Texas lottery: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/rigged-texas-lottery.htm…
Dan and Michael Get Abducted
In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael discuss and/or are informed by:
“Unsinkable” by Daniel Mendelsohn https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/16/unsinkable-titanic-iceberg
“Removing Kno…
Dan and Michael are not That Into Labels
In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael discuss and/or are informed by:
Stacy’s Mom.
Ritual and Mantras: Rules Without Meaning by Frits Staal
The Rites of Passage by Arnold van Gennep
The Ritual…
Dan and Michael Learn a Trade
In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael discuss and/or are informed by:
“30 under 30-year sentences: why so many of Forbes’ young heroes face jail” by Arwa Mahdawi https://www.theguardian.com…
Dan and Michael Touch Grass
In this episode, Dan and Michael discuss (and/or are informed by):
The Paranoid Style in American Politics, by Richard Hofstader (https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-pol…
Dan and Michael Refuse
In this episode, Dan and Michael discuss:
Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
“Te…
Dan and Michael Get Spooked
Dan and Michael discuss:
Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe by Agniezska Pasieka
The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-1945 by William Allen…
Season 1 Trailer
In season 1 of People Stuff, Dan and Michael take on CAT scans for baseball cards, stupidity, college admissions, pompous assholes, unionization, the Bakersfield restaurant scene, and much, much, muc…
Dan and Michael Go To Ikea (Pilot)
Swedish Design by Keith Murphy can be found here: Swedish Design by Keith M. Murphy | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin can be found here: Rabelais and His…