Season 3 Is Coming (Probably): Listener Mail, Hobbits at Palantir, and the Return of People Stuff
Season 3 of People Stuff is arriving soon — theoretically. Dan and Michael read off-season listener mail, confront accusations of academic indolence, hear from a trucker philosopher, and discover what happens when teenagers start demanding anarcho-syndicalist households. Anthropology advice returns March 31.
Is People Stuff a weekly podcast? Philosophically, yes.
In this Season 3 preview, Dan and Michael emerge from their off-season hibernation to read listener messages ranging from supportive to Victorian-newspaper furious. Along the way:
- Programmers at Palantir identify as Hobbits protecting the Shire
- A parent blames anthropology for radicalizing their children
- A long-haul trucker offers perhaps the most sincere defense of creative labor ever received by the show
This episode serves as a warm-up before a 20-episode season featuring jeopardy contestants, horse whisperers, boats (yes, an entire episode about boats), and more cultural analysis disguised as advice.
New episodes begin March 31.
Until then: remember — we’re anthropologists, and we know stuff about people.
That’s it for this week’s People Stuff — the show where two anthropologists try (and sometimes fail) to make sense of people.
If you’ve got a question, a dilemma, or just something deeply weird about humanity you’d like us to unpack, send it our way at people-stuff.com
Credits
Produced by Gabe Bullard
Music by The Endless Bummer
Art by Siobhan Henegan
Marketing by Bryan Haut
Legal support by The Law Office of Matthew Shayefar, the one true business uncle.
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