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A Recast of ‘Smart Girl Dumb Questions’

It's a curiosity party, and you're invited. On Smart Girl Dumb Questions, Nayeema Raza asks simple Qs to big thinkers (like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Diplo, or two 11 year olds), trying to make sense of life. Send us your dumb Qs: nayeema.raza101@gmail.com

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Recastable Episodes (58)

1. Coming Soon: SGDQ Jan. 3, 2025
2. Can Billionaires Save Us? with Mark Cuban Feb. 28, 2025
3. Is the Future Too Bleak to Have Babies? with Cleo Abram March 7, 2025
4. Are We Living In A Simulation? with Neil deGrasse Tyson March 14, 2025
5. What Do 11 Year Olds Do All Day? with Sophie and Dilan March 21, 2025
6. When Is A Woman’s Prime? with Tamsen Fadal April 4, 2025
7. Is Cooking Art or Science? with Kenji Lopez-Alt April 18, 2025
8. Is It Self-Care … or Capitalism? with Brooke DeVard May 2, 2025
9. Is It Better To Buy Flights On A Tuesday? with The Points Guy(s) May 10, 2025
10. Wait… What’s The Deal With This Economy? with Paul Krugman May 16, 2025
11. Is It Safe to Fly Right Now? with Kate Kelly May 30, 2025
12. Why Go On Reality TV? with Rebecca Minkoff June 6, 2025
13. How Do Kids Change Your Life? with Alison Roman & Max Cantor June 20, 2025
14. Is the Iran War Over … or Just On Pause? with Vali Nasr June 27, 2025
15. If Everyone’s Got Anxiety, Does Anyone Have Anxiety? with Dr. Ellen Vora July 11, 2025
16. Why Can’t We Have More Parties? with Lee Drutman July 18, 2025
17. Should You Be My Mayor? with Eric Adams Aug. 1, 2025
18. Are We Really Having Less Sex? with Dr. Justin Garcia Sept. 5, 2025
19. Season 2 - Coming in Hot! Sept. 29, 2025
20. Why Is Love Harder Now? with Esther Perel Sept. 30, 2025
21. Diplo: Why Is Every Dude a DJ? Oct. 7, 2025
22. Is NASA Worth 25 Billion Bucks? with Casey Dreier Oct. 14, 2025
23. What Happened to Science? with Bill Nye, the Science Guy Oct. 21, 2025
24. Who Are You When No One’s Watching? with Doormen Daryl and Joe Oct. 28, 2025
25. Why Do People Run? with Olympian Alexi Pappas Nov. 4, 2025
26. How Much Would You Pay for Love? with Matchmaker Maria Avgitidis Nov. 11, 2025
27. World’s Best Music Lesson? with Gen Z Mozart Jacob Collier Nov. 18, 2025
28. How Do Our Brains Work? with the Godfather of AI Dec. 2, 2025
29. Should You Have Kids in an AI World?! with Dr. Geoffrey Hinton Dec. 9, 2025
30. Mark Cuban: Why Does Healthcare Suck? Can Billionaires Save Us? Dec. 23, 2025
31. Will the Market Crash in 2026? with Andrew Ross Sorkin Jan. 6, 2026
32. Can He Make America Healthy (and Trusting) Again? with Trump's NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya Jan. 13, 2026
33. Why Do Venezuelans Want This? Jan. 19, 2026
34. Stress: What’s the Solve? with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar Jan. 27, 2026
35. Calling Congress … Does It Work? with Rep. Melanie Stansbury Jan. 29, 2026
36. Why Do Relationships Fail? with a Million Dollar Divorce Attorney Feb. 10, 2026
37. Rage Bait, 6 7, Algospeak … What Does It All Mean? w Etymology Nerd Feb. 17, 2026
38. Is It Time for An AI Boyfriend? Feb. 27, 2026
39. Another Iran War? with Professor Vali Nasr (Revisiting Iran 101) March 4, 2026
40. Is Weather a Conspiracy? With Dancing Weatherman Nick Kosir March 5, 2026
41. Can AI Replace My Brain? I Ask a Child Prodigy March 10, 2026
42. Is Every War About Oil? Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel Yergin March 17, 2026
43. What’s Rich People Healthcare Like?! with Dr. Florence Comite March 24, 2026
44. Why Does Everyone Have a Podcast? Nayeema & Sammi Cohen March 31, 2026
45. Is Dry Cleaning a Scam? with the Father-Son Duo Behind Jeeves April 7, 2026
46. Does Silicon Valley Run Washington? with former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo April 14, 2026
47. How Do You Win a Grammy? April 21, 2026
48. Iran ... Um, How Does This End? April 28, 2026
49. Is There A War on Men? May 5, 2026
50. Aliens Encounters and UFO Files?! with Neil deGrasse Tyson May 12, 2026
51. Is Who You Marry the Most Important Financial Decision? with Divorce Attorney Jim Sexton May 19, 2026
52. Why Chew With Your Mouth Open? A Billionaire & Oxford Gastrophysicist Walk Into SGDQ April 11, 2025
53. How Do Cranes Get Up There? An Astrophysicist & Construction Worker Walk Into a Bar April 25, 2025
54. Is the American Dream Still a Thing? with Harvard Economist Raj Chetty June 2, 2026
55. Rent vs Buy? Homes, IVF, MBAs and Other $$$ Choices June 9, 2026
56. Who’s Scarier: Gangsters, Billionaires or Investigative Journalists? June 16, 2026
57. Can the NBA Fix the USA? with Cavs Owner Dan Gilbert June 23, 2026
58. When Do We Move to Mars? (or the Moon) June 30, 2026