Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
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1,523 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Jaime Hoerricks, PhD’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The next time you find yourself absolutely convinced you made a flawless decision, or entirely certain your failure was just a streak of bad luck, take a breath, look at your certainty, and ask yourself.
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Wanna bet.
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Thanks for joining us on this deep dive.
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See you next time.
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Um, so in nineteen thirty-three, a man bought a totally bankrupt, just ruined newspaper in a blind auction.
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Which is wild, yet, you know, that blind purchase would eventually lay the groundwork for a massive media empire, like one capable of taking down a United States president.
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We do.
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We have to look at a terrified little girl who, frankly, didn't even know she was a millionaire.
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Yeah, and we're using excerpts from her Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography, Personal History.
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The mission today is to look at how this bizarrely isolated, high pressure upbringing, you know, forged one of the most consequential leaders of the twentieth century.
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Oh, completely.
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Because looking through these source materials, the contradictions in her early life are just staggering.
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I want to start with the parents, actually.
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Right.
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Because to understand Catherine, you really have to understand the two massive, totally opposing forces that created her.
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Her father, Eugene Meyer, seems almost impossibly rigid.
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I mean looking at his notes, who actually plans out their entire existence in exact twenty year chunks?
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Map of life.
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Okay.
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He graduated from Yale at nineteen, right?
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