The Drag: Stories
The Drag: Stories showcases excellent audio storytelling from students at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 79
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
How climate change affects indigenous healing practices
For centuries, Indigenous communities have turned to plant medicine for spiritual and physical healing. But what happens when the earth is out of sync? Flowers don’t bloom when they’re supposed to,…
In a pickle
Need to learn an easy sport to play on he weekends? Pickleball might just be the sport for you. Among young Austinites, this oddly-named ballgame has gained incredible popularity for it's simplistic…
Austin could be the new capital of comedy
When you think of Austin,Texas, you probably think of its lively music and film scene, but in recent years, its also become the capitol of standup comedy. Folks from around the country are flocking …
The loud, proud, badass world of Texas Roller Derby
For the skaters in the Texas Roller Derby league, rollerskating is more than a hobby -- it’s a way of life. Carly Rose talked with veteran skaters of the Austin-based league to learn how the sport o…
The last stand of Cain and Abel's
In this episode, Carter Yates tells the story of a beloved University of Texas student hangout.
Since opening in 1991, the Cain and Abel’s bar became synonymous with the West Campus student neighbo…
The most famous crossing guard in Texas
If you ever need your day brightened exponentially, all you have to do is visit the crosswalk at Whitis Ave and 24th St. Here, a UT Austin crossing guard, Mike Shaw, shares his words of wisedom, jo…
Introducing The Drag: Stories
Request Pending is now The Drag: Stories.
In this podcast, you’ll hear episodes produced by students at the University of Texas at Austin. But it’s a little different than what you might be used to …
Quarantine's a drag
Drag artists have displayed their art through lip sync performances and dance numbers in night clubs and bars for decades. Now their usual venues have closed due to the pandemic, and drag artists are…
Getting off track
One of the hottest meme Facebook groups right now is about...trains. Yes, trains. New Urbanist Memes for Transit Oriented Teens has over 200,000 members, and posts range from comics to pictures of hi…
A new age of sex work
They say sex work is the oldest profession, and over generations, it has evolved and taken on new forms. Its latest iteration: Onlyfans. On Onlyfans, creators sell and users pay for access to origina…
Minisode: Deep sea or deep space?
This week, the Request Pending crew explores a very big question: deep sea or deep space? Executive producer Haley Butler offers her stance and explains why her love for the deep sea goes deeper than…
Not your average yard sale site
Why does everyone love true crime?
How Money Diaries empower women
The comforts of ASMR
Into the woods with cottagecore
