Dan and Michael Consider the Fruit of the Vine | Wine, Hospitality, Catholic Rituals & Why Gen Z Quit Drinking

Wine snobs, communion wine, gift etiquette, Gen Z sobriety, globalization, and why every dinner invitation comes with a tiny anthropological tax.

Dan and Michael take on workplace personality tests, IQ tracking, and pop psychology’s obsession with turning people into types.

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Why your best friend can call you an idiot, why job hunting feels humiliating, HOA politics, honor cultures, and whether the internet deserves to die.

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This week on People Stuff, anthropologists Dan and Michael sink their teeth into the strange and the spooky — from vampire lifestyles and Nazi fanboys to the mysterious Jersey Devil lurking in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. They start with a “What Fresh Hell” segment exploring the surprising backlash against empathy, before diving into three listener questions that veer from the undead to the unhinged: High Stakes: A listener obsessed with vampires wonders — is it normal to want to become one? Dan a