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Dan and Michael Are Definitely Out of Place: Why Some Places Feel Wrong, Why Seats Matter, and Why the Dead Deserve Space
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Oct. 27, 2025

Dan and Michael Are Definitely Out of Place: Why Some Places Feel Wrong, Why Seats Matter, and Why the Dead Deserve Space

This week on People Stuff, anthropologists Dan and Michael get very, very lost — in Carmel-by-the-Sea, at the dinner table, and even among the dead.
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Dan and Michael are not That Into Labels: Why naming things is both anthropology and chaos management
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Aug. 11, 2025

Dan and Michael are not That Into Labels: Why naming things is both anthropology and chaos management

Dan and Michael explore why names matter — from doomed bars to militias — and how our labels reveal who we think we are.
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