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Classy with Jonathan Menjivar

Classy with Jonathan Menjivar

By: Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy
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 *** Named one of the best podcasts of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, The Atlantic, Apple, Vogue, the CBC, and Lifehacker. ***Classy is a collection of surprising stories, juicy and uncomfortable interviews, and engaging segments that explore the ways that class infiltrates our day-to-day lives. In the host seat is Jonathan Menjivar – a working-class Latino kid who started working in media and became someone who likes oysters, wears cashmere socks, and is very conflicted about all of it.Pineapple Street Studios Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Introducing: What We Spend

    Introducing: What We Spend
    Apr 9 2025

    Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. On What We Spend, people from across the country and across the financial spectrum are opening their wallets—and their lives—to tell you everything: what they make, what they want, and—for one week—what they spend.


    Listen to and follow What We Spend, available now, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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    12 mins
  • Introducing: Pulitzer on the Road S2

    Introducing: Pulitzer on the Road S2
    Mar 10 2025

    The Pulitzer on the Road podcast is back for season two! What does it take to win a Pulitzer Prize? In each episode, we’ll hear winners in conversation with one another, sharing stories behind their prize-winning work. This packed season features conversations between historians Vladimir Kara-Murza and Anne Applebaum, novelists Jayne Anne Phillips and Viet Thanh Nguyen, playwrights Sanaz Toossi and Lynn Nottage, critics Justin Chang and Joe Morgenstern, biographer Jonathan Eig and journalist Yohance Lacour, investigative reporter Hannah Dreier and photo-journalists Greg Bull and Ivan Valencia, and critic Salamishah Tillet talking with journalists Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler.


    The first episode is out now! Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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    2 mins
  • Queen for a Day

    Queen for a Day
    Aug 2 2023

    Why are we so attracted to stories of people suffering on television? And what happens after the cameras turn off? In our final episode, Jonathan explores the origins of reality TV and uncovers his family’s shocking connection to a very early reality TV game show.


    Angelina is an educator and poet. You can find her books of poetry at https://angelinasaenz.com/
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    44 mins
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Warm and kind - lots of inner pondering… lots of opportunities for seeing the world through different lenses. JM has always been a gold star writer from years ago when I listened to him on TAL(?) . Well worth a listen.

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Delves into thoughtful questions around the experience of class in everyday life. The topic is loaded with unspoken meanings and leads to many uncomfortable revelations.

Very thoughtful

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