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The first episode of Ask Jumbo, a new series from Tufts Podcast Network. We're answering random questions you never knew you had about life at Tufts. On this episode, Jenna investigates popular foods and sustainability in Tufts dining halls.

Have a question? Ask it here: goo.gl/yOdL39

Recorded and produced by Jenna Fleischer

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Story Hour is an intimate gathering of people listening to and sharing stories with each other. This week's theme is Second Chance.

00:29: Bobby Familiar, giving a summer camper a second chance. 11:13: "Second chances, well actually my fourth chance." 16:17: Jenna Fleischer, giving Tufts a second chance.

Edited by Judy Chen

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Housewarming is a new series where guests tell stories and share their experiences over a meal cooked in their home.

Produced by Megan Mooney

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Welcome to a new series where Steven and Alvaro discuss things they *think* they know. For their inaugural episode, they delve in and discuss movies.

Produced by Steven Honig and Alvaro Ortega

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People gather for Story Hour and share their stories on their first times:

Bobby's first time going on a date [0:21] Morgan's first time not enjoying snow [3:21] Judy's first time cuddling platonically [9:55] Gabe's first time kissing, and first time facing his own mortality [19:14] Niamh's first time having her character called into question [26:29] Justine's first time hurting somebody [36:50] Ian's first time in a car accident [41:39] Katie's first time lying in front of the grand jury [52:06]

Edited by Judy Chen

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The Trap Music Orchestra is an up-and-coming Boston band that performs music across the African-American diaspora through the instrumentation of a jazz big band. Listen to an interview with the founder and director of the Trap Music Orchestra, Ryan Easter, and trumpet player and Assistant Director, Alonzo Ryan Jr.

All of the music in this piece was recorded and performed by the Trap Music Orchestra incorporation with the Parasoul Music Group. Music and merchandise can be found on their website: www.parasoulmusicgroup.com/

Produced by Bobby Familiar

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Why are football players so big? – Well, they haven't always been...

The Bigger Picture is a new series that digs deeper into original research that takes place at Tufts University.

Produced by Julia Press Narrated by Niamh Doyle

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English Professor Lisa Lowe reads lê thị diễm thúy’s The Gangster We Are All Looking For, a memoir-esqe novel published in 2004.

Back in 1978, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, lê thị diễm thúy escaped her hometown on just a small fishing boat with her father and her siblings. Eventually, they were picked up by an American naval ship and were sent to Southern California, along with other refugee immigrants.

Today she is a poet/performance artist/ researcher of French colonial picture postcards, in Northhampton, MA. As a result, her novel reads like a series of poetry, with narratives shaped around images, objects and scenes. The structure, too, is very non-linear, with a jumpy timeline and the absence of the traditional plot development.

Lowe is not only an English professor, she has written several books on Asian American immigration and taught my Decolonization/Colonialism class at Tufts University. I know that part of the point of It’s Lit is to interview non-English professors, so that the conversation can stay more conversational… but I promise that our interview won’t feel like a lecture, even if Lowe did used to teach this book in literature classes back at UC San Diego.

Produced by Shirley Wang

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Margaret Gorguissian runs the blog Hungry Hodge, where she shares her cooking experiences using ingredients from Hogdon, Tufts' take-out spot. Listen in as we help her prepare one of her dishes. 

Check out Margaret's blog at hungryhodge.wordpress.com

Produced by Jenna Fleischer

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Nikhil and McKenzie went on their date - this is how it turned out. Interviewed, recorded, and produced by Jenna Fleischer.

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Get to know Nikhil and McKenzie before they go on their blind date. Interviewed, recorded, and produced by Jenna Fleischer.

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Abuzar is a student at Tufts who is widely known both on campus and in Afghanistan for his efforts to counter the appeal of extremism in his country.

Brinley sits down with him to talk about his work.

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A look into the Norwegian word Forelsket, and the many - or not so many - ways we talk about love. Produced by Evie Bellew and Elana DeSantis

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Annika Leybold talks to Armenian students at Tufts about the importance of remembering the Armenian genocide.

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Late night correspondent Bobby Familiar attends a Catholic Mass at Tufts and talks to students about the role of religion in their lives.

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Gabe and Hannah went on their blind date – this is how it turned out.

Interviewed and recorded by Orian Sneor, produced by Judy Chen.

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Get to know Gabe and Hannah before they go on their first blind date.

Interviewed and recorded by Orian Sneor, produced by Judy Chen.