Amanda Montell
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1,990 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Amanda Montell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, yes, like the mental gymnastics go from like somersault level to circus ole level.
But I'm interested in long ago history.
I'm fascinated by the way that people lived, the way that people died.
I want to understand my own life and my own values and you know how humanity has evolved from this anthropological and yeah, just like educationally historically curious perspective.
And I follow my intuition with that.
Like learning about New Orleans, where my mom is from, or like Italy.
Italy, where some of my ancestors are from, like Italy, a country that I have a connection to.
Like that doesn't feel like offensive to me.
Maybe it would be offensive to others, and that is fair.
Yeah.
Um and like, yeah, for sure, like I'll go visit battlegrounds like Gettysburg or whatever.
Like, I'm I'm fascinated by these historical events.
I'm not fascinated by death itself.
Well, I am fascinated by death itself, but I'm not interested in murder.
Dude, that reminds me the last I heard, the site of the Jonestown massacre was being transformed into a tourist site in Guyana, which like that turns my fucking stomach.
And I guess, uh, I don't know.
I mean, like, some could argue that it's for education purposes, but for me, I guess already knowing the history of that tragedy, I'm just like, that's fucked up.
But then some people could say that same thing for me.
going to the you know operating theater.
It's like, well, bodies were completely defaced there.
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