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This week's theme is Understanding Why: Podcasts for Giving a Shit. Our curator is Quinn Emmett, host of the podcast Important, Not Important.

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About our curator, Quinn Emmett: Quinn is the founder of Important, Not Important, and 6-time Webby nominee for, among others, Best Podcast Host.

A screenwriter, philanthropist, and angel investor who has worked for the Financial Times in London, and ESPN and Conde Nast in New York, Quinn has lived in various major metropolitan areas ("bubbles") across three continents.

This week's interviewee: Andrea Lavinthal
About Andrea: PEOPLE Style & Beauty Director, co-author of The Hookup Handbook, Friend or Frenemy, and Your So-Called Life. Co-host of PEOPLE in the 90s podcast.

More about Andrea: https://www.instagram.com/andilavs/?hl=en

Find this week's podcast recommendation list here: https://www.earbudspodcastcollective.org/understanding-why-podcast-recommendations

This week's podcast picks:
Ologies
Drilled
How To Save a Planet
The Ezra Klein Show
Important Not Important

This week's spotlight: A Bintel Brief
 In 1906, the Forward started A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for “A Bundle of Letters.” Now our classic Jewish advice column is a podcast. Our co-hosts, two very different Jewish mothers, dish on the dilemmas of Jewish-American life, identity, culture, and politics. Listen.

Listen: https://forward.com/a-bintel-brief-podcast/

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