Genteel Poverty

Genteel Poverty

Welcome to Genteel Poverty: a podcast about the consequences of living for one’s passions. This is a place for academics, artists, writers, educators, and you filthy, filthy followers of Diogenes. Welcome home.

Episodes

February 15, 2026 47 mins

Saddle up partner! Today our couple explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of the western film genre.

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Our couple look at the weaponization of hope.

From gambling, politics, to religion our hope is being used as a weapon against us.

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February 11, 2025 40 mins

Our couple discuss friends, lovers, and acquaintances. 

Navigating between these three can be more difficult than it seems; and why does it get harder as we age?

 

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January 21, 2025 41 mins

Our married couple discuss the artists voice within the creative process. 

Can you make a universally loved piece of work? Should that even be a goal? Can you open the window and make love to the world?

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January 18, 2025 43 mins

Our married couple discuss the possible demise of TikTok

Is TikTok a clean well lighted place? Is it a threat to the United States? Who will hurt from its ban and should we care?

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January 14, 2025 39 mins

Our married couple talk marriage.

Are you and your significant other playing cooperatively or is it a battle of player vs player? Are you a solo player thinking about marrying "the one"? Is marriage important? 

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January 12, 2025 38 mins

What role does manners play in society? Is it essential to help us get along socially or repressive/archaic? Our husband and wife team explores what manners means, how we resist it, and whether you need to stand when someone comes into a room.

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January 5, 2025 39 mins

From clothing to career to whether to have children, we discuss the realities of judgment and how we've navigated them.

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January 3, 2025 41 mins

This is the real parent trap: what are you going to do with all the stuff they have when they are gone? In this episode, we talk about navigating the logistics and guilt associated with deciding what to keep of our parents' collections. 

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What is genteel poverty, and what did we do wrong to get here? In this episode, we discuss what the term means and how our journey in the humanities led us here.

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