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Q: What happens when people leave their regular routine and comfort zone and find themselves far from home, in foreign places and cultures unknown to them?
A: Life. Changing. Stories.
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Voices of Exchange-Episode 1: More Alike Than Different from 2021-03-31T09:00
Critical Language Scholar and disability rights advocate Anna Landre takes us on a journey of overcoming cultural, lingual, and physical barriers in a new city. Through her story, we learn that we ...
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Series Finale from 2021-03-12T07:00
Welcome to the final episode of 22.33. In this special goodbye episode, we shifted our focus to interview Christopher Wurst, 22.33 mastermind and former director of the Collaboratory in ECA. This p...
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Women Heroes of Peace and Security, Part 1 (Recorded Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, 22.33 brings you a special two-part collaboration with ECA's International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Listen to a live recording of interviews with the participants in this ye...
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Becoming a Cup Half Full Kind of Guy - Alistair Ross from 2021-01-15T04:00
IVLP from Scotland
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A Hero's Rescue / Beauty Lies in Differences - Rishikanth&Priyanka Bose Kanta from 2021-01-08T09:00
IVLP from India & Bangladesh
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Michelangelos of Ancient Africa - Patty Bass from 2021-01-01T09:00
Fulbright Student Program to South Africa
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A Bit of Alabama in Amman - Jonathan Shirley from 2020-12-25T09:00
Critical Language Scholarship in Jordan
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Finding Resilience and Coconuts - Mary Nagel from 2020-12-18T09:00
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Brazil
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Take Me Home, Country Roads - Oyunbolor Battsogt from 2020-12-11T09:00
FLEX & WYLET from Mongolia
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Dreams of America, Hopes for Yemen - Ahmed Alfotihi from 2020-12-04T09:00
English Access Microscholarship Program & MEPI from Yemen
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The Food We Eat, Part 15 from 2020-11-27T10:00
Our bonus collection of food anecdotes from all over the globe. This month's featured story is from our English Language Programs colleague Joe Bookbinder. Just wait until you find out what the ...
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Chickenfoot Soup for the Soul - Jared Banks from 2020-11-20T09:00
Fulbright Student Program to Mozambique
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Universal Truths Far From Home - Josh Glasser from 2020-11-13T09:00
Fulbright Student Program to Vietnam
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Around the World in 20 Minutes- Johanna Gusman from 2020-11-06T09:00
Fulbright Program to Samoa
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The Wonderful Complexity of People - Daniel Kyne from 2020-10-30T08:00
Summer Work & Travel from Ireland
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Mountaintops and the Sound of Lightning - Eric Swinn from 2020-10-23T08:00
Fulbright Student Program in South Korea
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A Requiem for Nursultan - Peter Oster from 2020-10-16T08:00
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Kazakhstan
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One Pink Step at a Time - Nataly Naser Al Deen from 2020-10-02T08:00
Fulbright Scholar from Lebanon
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One Funeral and a Wedding - Ivy Silverman&Miki Smith from 2020-09-25T08:00
English Language Fellows in Sri Lanka & Oman
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Trekking in India - Kiley Adams from 2020-09-18T08:00
Imagine, you've left your comfort zone. You moved to a foreign country that's 12 time zones away, most people speak a different language, and the lifestyle and culture are radically different, b...
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American Sister, American Sister - Abena Amoakuh from 2020-09-11T08:00
This week a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program participant from Atlanta, GA describes her experience while living in China and studying Mandarin.
Learning to better communicat...
Don't Worry Mom, It's Just the Arab Spring - Kristen Erthum from 2020-09-04T08:00
In this week's episode, we interview a Fulbrighter who went to Egypt for the English Teaching Assistant program. This program places American teachers in classrooms abroad to provide assistance ...
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The Tricked Out Rickshaw - Patty Esch from 2020-08-28T08:00
This week, hear about the sweetest rickshaw ride in Mumbai, the funniest man in India, and what it's liked to be dragged onto a Bollywood dance floor. Join us on a journey from Colorado to India...
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Everyone Can be Good at Math - Allie Surina from 2020-08-21T08:00
In this week's episode, a Fulbrighter from Western Kentucky University travels all the way to Shiyan, China to study math teacher education and discovers that both math and American sitcoms are ...
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A Study in Courage - Claire Ouedraogo from 2020-08-14T09:00
Claire Ouedraogo is the winner of the International Women of Courage Award and the President of the Songmanegre Association for Women’s Development (Association féminine songmanegre pour le déve...
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Une Histoire de Courage - Claire Ouedraogo from 2020-08-14T08:00
Note: This is the original French-language recording. The English translation is also available in the next episode (S02E46).
Claire Ouedraogo is the winner of the International Women o...
By the Grace of School Children - Lauren Garza from 2020-08-07T08:00
Moving from the United States to South Korea means leaving what you know and surrounding yourself with things that are unknown and mysterious. In this week's episode, we hear from Lauren Garza a...
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Big Foot Meets Mary Poppins - Graeme Gross from 2020-07-31T07:00
This week, Bigfoot meets Mary Poppins, disco meets polka, and what happens when you turn the handle the wrong way? Join us on our journey from Waterford, Wisconsin, to Hamburg, Germany, and divi...
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Showing Your Metal - John Register from 2020-07-24T08:00
Lives Without Limits!
John Register, a Sports Diplomacy program partner, and two-time Paralympic athlete from the United States tells us what living without limits means to him. #Withou...
24 Hours in an Irish Bog (For Peat's Sake) - Emily Toner from 2020-07-17T09:00
Oh, for peat's sake! Join us this week on a journey deep into the heart of Ireland's magical bogs, places of lore, and as we learn from Fulbright National Geographic Storytelling Fellow Emily To...
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Life Between Worlds - Michael Littig from 2020-07-10T09:00
Stories that have to be heard to be believed. Living and studying with shaman in Mongolia. This week, entrepreneur, investor, theater artist, and co-founder of Zuckerberg Institute M...
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Random Identity - Christiana Botic from 2020-07-03T09:00
On a fellowship in the Balkans to research the concept of identity, Christiana Botic discovers her family background is much more complicated than she thought, leading to a journey over many bor...
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Rice + Bunny = Me Too! - Sophia Huang from 2020-06-26T09:00
Meet the remarkable 'Sophia' Huang, the fearless driver of the #MeToo movement in China. However, due to the censorship of that specific phrase, the cause Sophia champions instead features...
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An Accidental Activist - Susanna Liew Koh from 2020-06-19T09:00
This is the incredible story of Susanna Liew Koh, a 2020 recipient of the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Award. Following the February 2017 abduction of her husband, Chri...
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Finding Perspective on Robben Island - David Rader from 2020-06-12T09:00
As a Gilman Scholar, David Rader thought that going from the United States to South Africa would be a radical change, but it turned out to be nothing compared to the dramatic contrasts within hi...
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Technology as a Force for Good - Will Tyner from 2020-06-05T09:00
This week, Will Tyner, a coder from Silicon Valley, travels to Romania on his Fulbright National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship, to see the power of civic tech unleashed. On th...
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Now There's a Word for It - Meaza Ashenhafi from 2020-05-29T09:00
A very special episode, featuring the story of Meaza Ashenhafi, Ethiopia's first female Supreme Court Chief Justice. Her story is an inspiration for women and girls everywhere.
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Connecting Through Isolation, Part 9 from 2020-05-22T09:00
This week is all about gratitude--for the essential workers keeping us safe and for those we are closest to. From 91-year-old "Granny" in an assisted living facility in Alabama to a little...
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Connecting Through Isolation, Part 8 from 2020-05-15T09:00
This episode is all about the power of music--to connect people, to break down barriers, to inspire, and to evoke powerful emotions. This week: musical inspiration from all over the world ...
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Connecting Through Isolation, Part 7 from 2020-05-08T09:00
This week it's all about human connection--valuing it, missing it, and finding creative ways to get it. Stories about discovering a newfound appreciation for little things, feeling empower...
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Connecting Through Isolation, Part 6 from 2020-05-01T09:00
This week: Getting to know a musician playing backyard quarantine concerts in his Washington, DC neighborhood. An exclusive new song from Seth Glier. A massive recommended reading li...
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Connecting Through Isolation, Part 5 from 2020-04-24T09:00
Somehow it’s already our fifth installment of Connecting Through Isolation. How did that happen? This week: Inspirational and dramatic poems, original music, stories of perseverance,...
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Connecting Through Isolation, Part 4 from 2020-04-17T09:00
With a bit of stir-craziness setting in, this week's stories remind us of the power of art to connect us and transport us, and the surprising power of flour, sugar, and eggs to bake away our iso...
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Connecting Through Isolation, Part 3 from 2020-04-10T09:00
Our third edition of a global conversation that shows how we are all in this together, so we're never alone. Stories this week about balancing the joys of springtime with the difficult realities...
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Connecting Through Isolation, Part 2 from 2020-04-03T09:00
The second edition of our new global conversation. We’re all alone, but we’re all alone together. As we navigate our collective new reality, stories are still coming in from around the w...
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Connecting Through Isolation, Part 1 from 2020-03-27T09:00
The first of 22.33's special new series "Connecting Through Isolation," featuring self-recorded clips from 22.33 alumni from around the world who, separated though they may be, are together in s...
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The Coronavirus Episode - Sabrine Chengane from 2020-03-23T09:00
This week's special bonus episode follows Sabrine Chengane, a Fulbright Scholar from Algeria, who, in the course of an exchange to the University of Nebraska to study public health, found hersel...
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Silence is No Longer an Option - Nighat Dad from 2020-03-20T09:00
Nighat Dad's trip from Pakistan to the United States was also your first time on an airplane. This led to some, well, awkward situations. But ss a lawyer and digital rights activist, ...
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Read and Understand the Word Love - Benjamin Simington from 2020-03-16T08:00
What happens when you leave your comfort zone to move to another country and are forced to interact with a different culture, a new language, and unique ways of life you might not be used to. In...
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Growing Beyond Exponential - Lebang Nong from 2020-03-13T07:00
"Going to school in Soweto township meant that you had a lot of challenges. However, no challenge was greater than the day your math teacher stopped showing up and the students decided one by on...
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Shining Light Against the Dark - Chantal Suissa-Runne from 2020-03-06T08:00
This week our guest is Chantal Suissa-Runne, editor of Nieuwwij, the largest multimedia platform on diversity and interfaith matters in the Netherlands. She has founded various projects in the f...
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Saying Adios to the Tamale Guy - Susie Meyer from 2020-03-02T08:00
In this week's episode, we bring you an interview with Susie Meyer, a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) from Philadelphia who shares her experiences living and working in Aguascalientes...
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Women Heroes of Peace and Security, Part 2 (Recorded Live) from 2020-02-28T09:00
This week, 22.33 brings you a special two-part collaboration with ECA's International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Listen to a live recording of interviews with the participants in this ye...
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The Food We Eat, Part 14 from 2020-02-24T09:00
Another tasty selection of crazy food stories from ECA alumni while on their international exchange programs. Enjoy!
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The Arc of the Moral Universe - Savon Jackson from 2020-02-21T10:00
This week's episode features Savon Jackson who grew up in the borough of Queens in New York City. Savon traveled to New Delhi and Kolkata, India as part of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scho...
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Falling in with the Gauchos - Lindsey Liles from 2020-02-17T09:00
In this week's episode, we interview a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant from Little Rock, Arkansas who traveled to Brazil and soon found herself becoming part of the Gaucho community, and th...
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You're My Reason (Valentine's Day Special) from 2020-02-14T09:00
Today we bring you a very special episode in celebration of Valentine's Day. Enjoy!
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The First 100 Episodes - A Bonus Supercut from 2020-02-10T10:00
Today we celebrate our 100th episode of life-changing international exchange stories!
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The Prosecutors - Leslie Thomas from 2020-02-07T10:00
The American Film Showcase brings award-winning contemporary American documentaries, independent fiction films, and documentary know-how to audiences around the world, offering a view of America...
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Disinformation Across Borders - Nina Jankowicz from 2020-02-03T10:00
On this week's episode, we interview a Fulbright Public Policy Fellow working in Ukraine
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A Cup of Kindness Can Lift Your Spirits Up - Humming House from 2020-01-31T10:00
The American Music Abroad band tours in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
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The Food We Eat, Part 13 from 2020-01-27T10:00
Another installment of crazy food stories features stories from around the world.
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Life in an Open Fridge - Hodabalou Anate from 2020-01-24T10:00
In this week's episode, we interview a Fulbright Scholar from Togo who is at the University of Michigan, Flint conducting research on deconstructing ethnicity in African literature.
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Homemade Wine&Hockey Pads - Annie Erling Gofus from 2020-01-20T12:55:16
Life in Slovakia as a Fulbright English Language Teaching Assistant was often similar to what she was used to in the United States... but always just a little different, and often in humorous wa...
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I Was the Foreigner - Gretchen Sanders&Cash on Delivery - Bob Kochersberger from 2020-01-17T12:58:09
The main story follows Gretchen Sanders from small-town Georgia to India and traces how her new life in a completely foreign culture helped her see her situation as an American even clearer, and...
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Finding Help Far From Home - Shahbaz Ahmad from 2020-01-13T10:00
All your life was spent moving further and further from home, from a village to a bigger village, to a city, and finally abroad, in your quest for a better education. But, now, living half a wor...
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22.33 Live - FLTA Party in the USA from 2020-01-10T10:00
Recorded live at the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Conference in Washington D.C.
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American Music Abroad - Freedom's Boombox from 2020-01-03T10:00
As a vocal trio, working without instruments and often singing in a language foreign to your audience, you're worried about how deeply you could resonate. But years and many foreign tours later,...
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New Year's Wishes from ECA from 2020-01-01T05:00
Happy New Year! -From everyone at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)
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The Food We Eat, Part 12 (Bonus) from 2019-12-31T10:00
Our 12th bonus episode of crazy food stories from around the world. It's been an amazing first season of 22.33 and we thank all our fans and loyal subscribers for supporting us! Happ...
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Crying Out for Kindness (with the Tony Memmel Band) from 2019-12-27T10:00
Tony Memmel has never let anyone impose limits on his dreams and he followed his passion to become a successful guitarist, despite the fact that he was born with only one hand. Now he travels th...
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The Same Earth Everywhere (with Munif Khan) from 2019-12-20T10:00
When Munif Khan touched the soil in rural Iowa, it didn't seem much different than the soil in his hometown of Bangladesh. Yet, the fact that there were nearly 157 million fewer people on the sa...
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Beautiful Sounds in the Sky (with Edward Nassor) from 2019-12-16T09:00
What started as a curiosity about a unique sounding instrument ultimately led Edward Nassor to the top of the United State's capital city, Washington D.C. Specifically, to the top of the Washing...
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And Justice For All (with Amy Avellano) from 2019-12-13T10:00
Every step of Amy Avello's journey, from student activist to family court judge in the Philippines, she has had to confront and overcome stereotypes and obstacles. It wasn't easy but she did so ...
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Keeping the Lights On (Bonus) from 2019-12-09T10:00
A hospitalization abroad leads to an insight that changes the course of a participant's life and work--and all this while living overseas with a disability.
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Dos Pies En La Tierra (con Kathy Pico) from 2019-12-06T10:00
Muchas personas sueñan con terminar un maratón, pero pocas lo hacen. Increíblemente, Kathy Pico decidió competir en maratones el día en que le amputaron la pierna. (Este es un episodio especial ...
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Two Feet on the Ground (with Kathy Pico) from 2019-12-06T09:00
Many people dream of finishing a marathon, but few actually do it. Incredibly, Kathy Pico's decision to start racing began on the day that her leg was amputated. On this special episode of 22.33...
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Getting the Picture, Part 2 (Revenge of the Dung Beetles) from 2019-12-02T10:00
Ever wonder how an iconic image comes to be? In this bonus episode, Jen Guyton explains how she got her favorite picture, taken in Mozambique during her Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Sto...
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Living on the Set of the Lion King (with Jen Guyton) from 2019-11-29T08:00
Jen, a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow, is a photographer and ecologist with a passion for wildlife conservation and communicating nature. She believes that art -- whet...
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The Food We Eat, Part 11 (Thanksgiving) from 2019-11-28T08:00
A special Thanksgiving Day installment of crazy food stories features stories from Yemen, Iraq, Ukraine, Morocco, and the Philippines.
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Tea in Taxis with Tajiks (with Chane Corp) from 2019-11-25T10:00
From learning to teach on the fly, to learning absolute obedience to Tajik grandmothers, to learning to adapt to ten-hour taxi rides, Chane Corp kept his wits, his sense of humor, and his love o...
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It's a Great Day to be Alive (with Ahmad Shaju Jamal) from 2019-11-22T10:00
Ahmad talks about his family and life in Afghanistan, and cultural experiences he noticed as an exchange student in Kentucky.
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Julia Roberts and German Culture (with Julia Follick) from 2019-11-15T10:00
From Oakland, California to Rostock, Germany, Julia Follick remembers her pleasant and also intense conversations with her German students. She also recalls fun cultural activities that opened h...
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Paying it Forward (with Aleksandra Gren) from 2019-11-08T10:00
Aleksandra Gren teaches us the importance of mentorship. Chosen among women from women around the world for the elite Fortune Women's Program, she traveled from Poland to the United States as a ...
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Scenes From the Umbrella Revolution (Bonus) from 2019-11-04T10:00
As a Critical Languages Scholar in Hong Kong, your lessons included not only how to speak Chinese, but how the society worked from the ground up and some of the skills you learned (and applied) ...
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The Needs of the Living (with Katie Thornton) from 2019-11-01T09:00
Katie Thornton’s quest to look at cemeteries and death rituals has given her a greater appreciation of the kindness and needs of the living. A special All Saints Day episode to listen to i...
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The Food We Eat, Part 10 (Bonus) from 2019-10-28T08:00
In this installment of food stories, we bring you tales from the United States, India, Portugal, El Salvador, China, and Egypt.
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Prison Prayers (with Yasin Dwyer) from 2019-10-24T10:58:26
Yasin Dwyer visited the United States as part of a group of international leaders learning about American programs that work to support the developmental aspirations of youth. He talks about his...
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The Art of Life (Bonus) from 2019-10-21T09:00
From a high school exchange student into a museum expert creating her own high-level exchange, Jane Milosch recounts the path that led to her love of Germany and bringing together some of the to...
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Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window (with Andrew Hevia) from 2019-10-18T08:00
Recorded at SXSW the day of his film’s premiere, Oscar-winning film producer and director Andrew Hevia recounts his Fulbright grant in Hong Kong—and how a series of near-failures, bold decisions...
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Bringing Smiles, One Raindrop at a Time (with Biplab Paul) from 2019-10-11T09:00
Coming from an arid part of India, Biplab Paul vividly understood the importance of water. His simple idea about collecting and preserving rainwater—told with passion and humor—has gone on...
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Full Circle at the L.A. Film Festival (Bonus) from 2019-10-07T09:00
A Lebanese student at Loyola Marymont University, Lucien Bourjeily used the experiences that he learned in Los Angeles to create a film that tackles tough subjects about family, culture, and hum...
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[World Space Week Special] Spaceship Earth: The Ultimate Exchange (with Cady Coleman) from 2019-10-04T08:00
A veteran of three space missions, including a six-month stay on the International Space Station, astronaut Cady Coleman talks about life in space, living in close quarters with people from diff...
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The Food We Eat, Part 9 (Bonus) from 2019-09-30T12:55:31
Our ninth installment of crazy food stories features stories from the United States, Syria, the Dominican Republic, Lithuania, India, Colombia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Gems of Wisdom (with Wordsmith) from 2019-09-27T09:00
One of hip hop’s great forces for good, Baltimore native Wordsmith has traveled around the world showing that music inspires in every culture and that, no matter where you travel, if you open yo...
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Something Good to Think About (with Elsa Nicolovius) from 2019-09-20T09:00
What started as an effort to teach students in her new country (the United States) about life and culture in her old country (Germany) in the 1970’s has now become the longest-running continuous ac...
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An Ode to Rick Ruth (Bonus) from 2019-09-16T09:00
A bonus episode glimpse into the career of Rick Ruth, Senior Advisor to ECA for many years, and longtime public diplomacy visionary within the U.S. Department of State.
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Life Hacks and Ultimate Frisbee (with Kayla Huemer) from 2019-09-13T09:00
When Kayla Huemer traveled to India as a biomedical researcher, she worried about finding a community in the land of contrasts. However, it didn't take too long for her to find her people, join ...
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Lots of Big Talk (Bonus) from 2019-09-09T09:00
On this bonus episode of 22.33, we ask Kalina Silverman, founder of Big Talk, to answer questions from her very own Big Talk card game, designed to help facilitate in-depth conversations with fr...
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No More Small Talk (with Kalina Silverman) from 2019-09-06T09:00
When Kalina Silverman went to study journalism at Northwestern University, she was meeting new people each day, yet still felt a sense of loneliness and superficiality that made her feel i...
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Learning by Unlearning (with Bilal Khan) from 2019-08-30T09:00
How do you mix heartbreaking and hilarious? Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program participant Bilal Khan, from Karachi, Pakistan, tells about his life before, during, and after YES, and the ine...
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The Food We Eat, Part 8 (Bonus) from 2019-08-26T09:00
On this bonus episode we bring you even more hilarious food stories from around the world.
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Medicine&Poetry (with Irene Mathieu) from 2019-08-23T09:00
This week, understanding systems to help individual people; learning to expand your limits of trust; and using words to understand emotions. Join us on a journey from Virginia to the Dominican R...
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Beware of Taxis with Disco Balls (Bonus) from 2019-08-19T09:00
What happens when you leave your comfort zone, travel to another country, interact with a different culture, a new language, and unique ways of life? Now let's take that a step further. Imagine ...
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Learning From One's Mistakes (with Nejra Rizvanovic) from 2019-08-16T09:00
As a child, when you thought of America, you thought of the Texas plains and cowboys but, as a teenager, when you first traveled to America, your destination was Alaska. Instead of life in the W...
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Start from the Outside (with Steve Coleman) from 2019-08-09T09:00
The thriving, multicultural neighborhood that you so love wasn't always that way. When you first arrived, it was a place of fear and violence, and thus sadness. A group of courageous and passion...
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50th Episode Special: The Songs of 22.33 (Bonus) from 2019-08-05T09:00
A medley of “Little Nook” concerts and original music heard exclusively over the course of 22.33’s first 49 episodes. Featuring Seth Glier, Carla Canales, Francis Tongpalad, Est Est Est, Begish,...
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The Bottlebots are Coming! (with Melissa Stange) from 2019-08-02T09:00
What started as a great experiment—a virtual exchange between schools in rural Virginia and Amman, Jordan—ended in a heartwarming face-to-face meeting and lifelong friendships. Moreover, t...
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The Food We Eat, Part 7 (Bonus) from 2019-07-29T09:00
Stories this month with flavors from Malaysia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Slovenia and other Balkan countries, India, and the United States.
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Who Says You Can't Be A Boy Band? (with Cheyenne Boyce) from 2019-07-26T09:00
Over the course of programs in Malaysia and Indonesia, Cheyenne finds out how a city girl copes in the jungle, finds herself unexpectedly managing several boy bands, and discovers the grandparen...
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The Ambassador's First Job (with Daniel Mulhall) from 2019-07-19T09:00
As Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States, Daniel Mulhall lives and breathes an international lifestyle within an elite group. But it wasn’t always this way. In fact, his first in...
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Doing What Needs to be Done (Bonus) from 2019-07-15T09:00
This is a study in contrasts: A high school student from tropical Ghana sent to the freezing plains of southern Minnesota, the adjustment from a small village school to a giant U.S. high s...
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Picturing Coffee Farmers and Refugees (with Tim McDonnell) from 2019-07-12T09:00
How better to document local environmental changes than by handing out cameras to local coffee farmers in Uganda? Photographer Tim McDonnell ended up not only getting interesting results, ...
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The Barefoot Route of Rūta (with Rūta Beinoriūtė) from 2019-07-05T10:00
Lithuanian Rūta Beinoriūtė threw herself into her expat experience in the United States, both professionally and socially, leaving a positive mark on those whose paths she crossed. A dream...
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The Romanian Stairmaster (Bonus) from 2019-07-01T10:28:27
When Stephen Guice took a teaching assignment and moved his large young family to communist Romania he was sure that it would be difficult—especially for the kids—to go without so many of comfor...
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On a Quest for Duende (with Carla Canales) from 2019-06-28T09:00
This classically-trained opera soprano is used to performing on the world’s largest stages. But as she travels the world sharing her music as an Arts Envoy, she finds the joy shared between diverse...
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The Food We Eat, Part 6 (Bonus) from 2019-06-24T09:00
Listen to these entertaining food stories from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the United States.
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Knitting as Coding (with Lindiwe Matlali) from 2019-06-21T05:41:31
As an orphan raised by her grandfather in rural South Africa, but pushed by her brilliant older brother, Lindiwe Matlali beat the odds and went to the best university in Africa. Now, as the leader ...
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Father-Daughter Exchange (Bonus) from 2019-06-16T13:00
A special bonus episode for Father’s Day. 15-year-old Meenu Bhooshanan describes her life-changing experience, learning Arabic in Jordan, halfway across the world from her native Alabama—w...
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Between Us, Bread and Salt (with Tony Tahhan) from 2019-06-14T09:00
Meeting across a table to share a meal brings people together like nothing else. In this episode, an American traces his family’s history on a historical food tour through Syria, and in th...
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If They Could See Me Now (Bonus) from 2019-06-10T17:22:20
We asked high school exchange students from around the world only one question: “Tell us about a time when you said to yourself, ‘I wish my friends or family back could see me now.’” Their...
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Blind Stories (with Marcos Lima) from 2019-06-07T09:00
A blind soccer player and snow skier talks about living life without limits.
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You Can Always Count on Music (with Harpeth Rising) from 2019-05-31T09:00
Coming from different musical traditions, playing instruments unknown to each other, this American music trio and audiences in Cambodia and Singapore came together over the love of the sounds cr...
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The Food We Eat, Part 5 (Bonus) from 2019-05-27T09:00
Our monthly food episode will have you laughing and drooling.
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What Would Princess Diana Do? (with Janet Steele) from 2019-05-24T09:00
Sometimes opportunities present themselves in mysterious ways. When many expats evacuated during a time of political turmoil in Indonesia, this Fulbright professor not only stayed, she fou...
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View From the Treetops (with Kevin McLean) from 2019-05-17T09:00
Looking up from the foot of a rainforest is overwhelming. Imagine what the world looks like from way up there. Our storyteller today doesn’t have to. He spends his time in the ...
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Bring Your Own Guinea Pig (Bonus) from 2019-05-13T09:00
Too cute to eat? Plus, the relationships created and the ethical issues that arise during an excavation at an ancient historical site in Peru.
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Strength Through Vulnerability (with Robin Hauser) from 2019-05-10T10:56:40
This U.S. filmmaker wasn't sure how her topical documentaries--one about unconscious bias, another about the gender gap in the tech industry--would play to foreign audiences in dramatically diff...
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Observing Ramadan (Bonus) from 2019-05-05T13:45:58
What’s it like for Americans living abroad during Ramadan, or international exchange participants in the U.S. during Ramadan? Listen to ECA exchange alumni share their experiences in this bonus epi...
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The Answer is Yes (with Ali Makahleh) from 2019-05-03T08:00
From the deserts of Jordan to the pine forests of Washington State, everything in America should have seemed radically different to this one high school international exchange student. But with ...
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The Food We Eat, Part 4 (Bonus) from 2019-04-29T14:46:22
22.33’s fourth mash-up of unique, scary, strange, and sometimes delicious food stories from around the world.
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Three Deep Breaths (with Derik Nelson&Family) from 2019-04-26T04:42:09
The talented sibling trio recount their amazement at hearing their own musical compositions performed for them halfway across the world, while on an ambitious tour that constantly underscored ho...
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Who You Are, Not What You Do (with Carlin Daharsh) from 2019-04-19T09:00
She was a perfectionist, successful and with her future mapped out. But traveling alone in Ecuador proved full of unexpected challenges—not least of which was answering the question about what k...
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Onstage with the Entire Globe (Bonus) from 2019-04-15T20:02:26
Please enjoy our 6th bonus episode of the year: an interview with Dr. Bernadett Szél, a Hungarian economist, politician, and member of the National Assembly.
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Curing Homesickness in a Hurricane (with Salma Oubkkou) from 2019-04-12T09:00
Based in South Carolina to teach Arabic to American university students, Salma Oubkkou found herself in the path of a major hurricane—and completely new weather phenomenon to her. Her experience...
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Bollywood Without Subtitles (with Luke Tyson) from 2019-04-05T10:00
Wise beyond his years, high school junior Luke Tyson took advantage of a year abroad in India not only to learn Hindi, but to dive deeply into foreign cultural traditions, religion, and the prac...
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Seasoned by an American (with Lenny Russo) from 2019-03-29T10:00
The concept was simple, Award-winning American chef Lenny Russo would go to a small country he knew little about, meet farmers and food producers and transform their ingredients using traditiona...
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The Food We Eat, Part 3 (Bonus) from 2019-03-25T15:49:26
22.33’s monthly mash-up of unique, scary, strange, and sometimes delicious food stories from around the world.
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Trash Truck Tunes&Hip Hop Grooves (with Lillygol Sedaghat) from 2019-03-22T10:00
A life-long love of milk tea, lead Lillygol to consider her environmental footprint, leading to a fellowship in Taiwan to study waste management, all the while practicing hip hop diplomacy.
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Seeing It, Striving to Be It from 2019-03-15T09:00
As more opportunities for women open up in Saudi Arabia, previously unattainable pursuits become not only possible but essential. This week: Three groundbreaking Saudi women soccer coaches...
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Getting the Picture (Bonus) from 2019-03-11T10:19:57
Ever wonder how an iconic image comes to be? In this bonus episode, American cowboy, writer, photographer Ryan Bell talks about the challenge of representing Kazakhstan's ancient horse cul...
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Born Again Cowboy on the Steppe (with Ryan T. Bell) from 2019-03-08T10:00
American cowboy Ryan Bell never imagined that he would find himself riding on the steppe, teaching Russians the art of cattle-wrangling, but once he was there it seemed perfectly natural. ...
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Crusader in a Conflict Zone (with Fatima Askira) from 2019-03-01T11:30:12
Tired of watching women and girls targeted, kidnapped, and killed in a region of Nigeria controlled by Boko Haram terrorists, Fatima Askira has fearlessly dedicated her life to creating opportun...
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The Food We Eat, Part 2 (Bonus) from 2019-02-25T16:32:34
22.33’s second mash-up of unique, scary, strange, and sometimes delicious food stories from around the world.
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Following in My Father’s Footsteps (with Alaa Mahmooud) from 2019-02-22T11:00
When Alaa Mahmooud was 8 years old he saw a picture of his father in front of the U.S. Capital building. He didn’t know what it was at the time, but he knew he wanted to go there someday as well...
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Pop Stars and Marriage Proposals (with Amanda Trabulsi) from 2019-02-15T11:29:57
Though she grew up in New York City, Amanda Trabulsi never actually felt like she fit in until she landed in Kyrgyzstan, a faraway place that she knew little about. But then, as she looked like the...
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Learning to Say Love in Bengali (Bonus) from 2019-02-13T20:47:38
A Valentine's Day bonus: When Collin Walsh went to Bangladesh to learn the Bengali language, he had several goals in mind, including securing his future career. But of much greater concern was l...
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It Starts When It Ends (with Seth Glier) from 2019-02-08T11:00
Musician Seth Glier traveled to Mongolia, China & Ukraine, connecting with foreign artists and audiences, learning to appreciate new cultural traditions, and learning more about his own country in ...
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Call Me Teacher (with Will Langford) from 2019-02-01T16:14:48
Will Langford knew that Kenya would be very different than Detroit, but as an African American he never expected to be called a “white man” simply because of his American accent. His memor...
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The Food We Eat (Bonus) from 2019-01-30T15:19:46
22.33’s first monthly mash-up of unique, scary, strange, and sometimes delicious food stories from around the world.
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Hope in You, Hope in Me (with Eaint Thiri Thu) from 2019-01-28T16:14:42
Eaint Thiri Thu never set out to be a human rights activist. She did not like what was happening to minority populations in her country, but it was only when the government pushed to silen...
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Practice, Practice, Practice (with Grace Benton) from 2019-01-28T16:00:52
Because she was required to do a project during her exchange program in Jordan, Grace Benton volunteered to teach English to Sudanese refugees. What started as a lark (and with her literal...
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The ABC Song in St. Petersburg (with Eric Swinn) from 2019-01-28T15:54:27
Eric Swinn found himself in St. Petersburg, Russia, tasked with teaching English to marginalized students who sometimes didn’t even speak Russian. Describing his regular trips from the cit...
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Dignity for the Disabled (with Xatyswa Maqashalala) from 2019-01-25T22:25:11
Xatyswa Maqashalala tells her life story, how a tragic misdiagnosis in her youth, combined with poor health care, led to her permanent disability—and how difficult it was to be young and disable...
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Captain Courageous (with Husham Al-Thahabi) from 2019-01-25T22:11:28
Husham Al-Thahabi never set out to be a hero. As he saw more and more orphans and homeless people in his community, he took it upon himself to create a center where needy community members would...
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Don’t Stop, Keep Moving (with Joanna Lohman) from 2019-01-25T21:53:26
American professional soccer player Joanne Lohman recounts a trip to sub-Saharan Africa as a sports envoy only to learn that her team didn’t own shoes, despite the fact that turf was burning hot...
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Sneak preview of the first four episodes of 22.33. from 2018-11-30T20:26:52
Four life-changing stories from around the world about challenges, commitment, isolation, vulnerability, perseverance, and triumphs.
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Presenting 22.33, a new podcast coming January 2019. from 2018-11-05T20:48:31
Featuring first-person stories of people finding themselves in the middle of a culture that is foreign to them; each week, 22.33 will deliver interesting tales from people who share how they were a...
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