Join award-winning journalist Robyn Curnow as she tries to understand the America from her outsider perspective as a South African living in the American South
Listening. Looking. Laughing
Beyond the noise and chaos of news
Lots of GREAT AMERICANS across the political spectrum
Spies, teachers, doctors, nuclear experts, comedians, journalists, music producers and a few of Robyn’s neighbors too
Why Robyn Curnow talks to Americans about what matters to them, and why it matters to the world
When I moved to the American South, the thing that struck me the most as an outsider was the personification of Jesus in a way I had never quite seen anywhere else in the world.
Do you joke about American politics? Or is it all too serious to not be funny anymore?
Some comedians don't like President Trump --
John Mulaney says he's like a horse, loose in a hospital.
When Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, John started a thread on X/Twitter which was “what my advice would be to civilian resistors in Ukraine, especially Kyiv. Someone with no military training but wanting to resist. Here are a few things…”
'Michael Jackson will work on a song until we got it down to a science. And, he always say, the more time you spend on a song, the longer it will last.'
Let's not get one's knickers in a knot. Don't fall into a hand-wringing state of terror or depression. Pour yourself a whisky and watch. I’m patiently waiting to see what happens.
Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, The Zodiac Killer. Whether or not you know what their crimes, most Americans know their names. I want to know… why?
She says the human part of medicine is fading away
as processes become more automated…
and it’s becoming harder to look at a patient in a holistic way.
Marc was attacked by some sort of energy weapon when he was in Moscow, leaving him with a traumatic brain injury.
