The Unspeakable Podcast

By: Meghan Daum
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  • Author, essayist and journalist Meghan Daum has spent decades giving voice—and bringing nuance, humor and surprising perspectives—to things that lots of people are thinking but are afraid to say out loud. Now, she brings her observations to the realm of conversation. In candid, free-ranging interviews, Meghan talks with artists, entertainers, journalists, scientists, scholars, and anyone else who’s willing to do the “unspeakable” and question prevailing cultural and moral assumptions.
    2021
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Episodes
  • Special Ep Part 2 Los Angeles Fires: The Immaterial World

    Special Ep Part 2 Los Angeles Fires: The Immaterial World
    Jan 21 2025

    In the hours of January 8, my house burned to the ground in the Eaton Fire in Altadena, CA. Here are some thoughts I recorded on January 15.

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    The Unspeakeasy has new retreats for 2025. Find out where we’re going.
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    15 mins
  • Special Episode: Letter From the Los Angeles Fires

    Special Episode: Letter From the Los Angeles Fires
    Jan 9 2025
    I’ve lost my home. I am safe.

    HOUSEKEEPING Visit The Unspeakable on YouTube!
    Unspeakeasy 2025 retreats. We’re going to Texas, Los Angeles, upstate NY and beyond. See where we'll be!
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    12 mins
  • Topaz Adizes On How To Ask Questions (And Sell Them, Too.)

    Topaz Adizes On How To Ask Questions (And Sell Them, Too.)
    Jan 9 2025
    This week, Meghan is joined by filmmaker, YouTuber, and “experience design architect” Topaz Adizes. He is the founder of The Skin Deep, an experience design created to foster connection in human relationships, often through innovative products and curated live events. In this conversation, Topaz discusses the evolution of relationships in the digital age, the importance of asking the right questions, and how he built a sustainable business model around his project, The And, a video series in which two people sit face to face and engage with a series of simple yet surprising questions. He also explains the concept of experience design and how it shapes human interactions in a technology-driven world. Finally, he and Meghan talk about building a business, the meaning of “intimacy,” the changing rules of the dating market, and why he’s (theoretically) willing to accept that his grandchildren might never meet their spouses in real life. GUEST BIO Topaz Adizes is an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and the founder and executive director of the experience design studio The Skin Deep, which has a popular YouTube channel. Topaz studied philosophy at UC Berkeley and Oxford University. He speaks four languages and currently lives in Mexico with his wife and two children.

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    Unspeakeasy 2025 retreats. We’re going to Texas, Los Angeles, upstate NY and beyond. See where we'll be!

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    1 hr and 12 mins

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Nuanced, relentless, intelligent

The podcast is excellent, it doesn’t skirt hard issues, and you learn a lot. Great for people of love to explore and share ideas. Meghan Daum leaves us all smarter. Be a Daumy not a dumby!

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For the Independent Thinker

Meghan Daum's The Unspeakeasable podcast is an anchor of sanity in a polarized world. Great guests, emotionally intelligent hosting. A gem.

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