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Let's Give A Damn
Hosted by Nick Laparra · EN
Let's Give A Damn is your one-stop shop for inspiring, raw, no-bullshit conversations with damn-giving artists, activists, and troublemakers from all over the world. We believe that no one is free until everyone is free. With these conversations, we're trying to help you get free.
Are you in? Welcome to Let's Give A Damn.
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Misan Harriman on Waltzing With Immortality, the Downfall of Empire, and Shoot the People
5d ago00:59:46Tap to summarize❤️ If you love the podcast and benefit from it, please consider joining our Patreon. 🎉 It’s Misan Harriman week on the podcast!📷 Misan is am award-winning photographer, social activist, Oscar-Nominated filmmaker, and is one of the most widely-shared visual storytellers of this age. He is also the first black person in the 104 year history of British Vogue to shoot the cover of its September issue.🎬 Misan just released his documentary, Shoot the People! Directed by Andy Mundy-Castle and distributed by Watermelon Pictures, this film is a must-see. I was honored to attend the first screening in NYC last week and it’s in theaters all over now! Click here to see if there is a theater close to you. 🎧 Follow Misan Harriman on Instagram.❤️ Read the rest of Misan's bio here. 📺 Request a screening or buy tickets here. ----------------✊🏽 Join the Let’s Give A Damn community on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: hello@letsgiveadamn.com.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!
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Roger Waters & Mona Miari: Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined
2w ago01:07:16Tap to summarize❤️ If you love the podcast and benefit from it, please consider joining our Patreon. 🎉 It’s Roger Waters & Mona Miari week on the podcast!🇵🇸 On June 12, 2026, the legendary Roger Waters and acclaimed Palestinian musician Mona Miari release a re-imagined version of the iconic song Comfortably Numb, 47 years after the original was released, with new Arabic verses that transform the Pink Floyd classic into a powerful battlecry to bring global attention to the continued genocide in Gaza.This new interpretation amplifies the song’s original message of rejecting extreme alienation and apathy and brings in new Arabic arrangements and melodies that evoke feelings of resistance and solidarity—themes that are increasingly relevant to the genocidal Israeli war waged against the Palestinian People.Comfortably Numb in 2026 is a direct response to the genocide in Gaza and affirms solidarity with the oppressed in Palestine and beyond. The project centers the responsibility of artists to reflect the world around them and to speak openly about injustice, humanity, and collective suffering. It demands an end to silence.🎧 Listen to Comfortably Numb Re-imagined📺 Watch Comfortably Numb Re-imagined🔥 Learn more here!----------------✊🏽 Join the Let’s Give A Damn community on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: hello@letsgiveadamn.com.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!
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Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez: Conversion Therapy Dropout
4w ago01:00:26Tap to summarize❤️ If you love the show and learn from it, please consider joining our Patreon. 🎉 It’s Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez spent almost a decade in gay conversion therapy—all while working behind the scenes at some of the most influential Evangelical Christian megachurches. After embracing his identity as a gay Christian and stepping away from church work, he co-founded Church Clarity, an organization that helps queer people find affirming faith communities. A writer and commentator focused on the intersection of faith, sexuality, and belonging, Tim has contributed to TIME, Oprah Daily, Harper’s Bazaar, Religion News Service, and The Advocate, and he was a 2026 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Journalism.✅ Follow Timothy on Instagram!✅ Purchase a copy (or two!) of Conversion Therapy Dropout!✊🏽 Join the Let’s Give A Damn community on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: hello@letsgiveadamn.com.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!
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Tatiana Maslany: Resisting AI, Free Palestine, & 31 Years In Show Biz
May 2100:56:31Tap to summarize❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, please consider joining our Patreon. 🎉 It’s Tatiana Maslany week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Tatiana is an Emmy® Award-winning actress known for Orphan Black, She-Hulk, and Perry Mason. She will next appear in Sony Pictures Classic's The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Recently, Maslany wrapped production on Osgood Perkins’ The Young People. Her film credits include Keeper and The Monkey. On Broadway, she has appeared in Network and Grey House. And last but not least, she released her latest project this week on Apple TV+ called Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed co-starring alongside Jake Johnson. 🍉 During our chat, we talk about why artists must resist AI, why it's so important for her to speak up about Palestine, and so much more.✅ Follow Tatiana on Instagram.✊🏽 Join the Let’s Give A Damn community on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: hello@letsgiveadamn.com.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!
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Pattie Gonia: Touch Grass, Stay Focused, & Genocide Is Ecocide
May 101:06:35Tap to summarize❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, please consider joining our Patreon. 🎉 It’s Pattie Gonia week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Pattie is a critically acclaimed drag queen, environmentalist, and advocate for inclusivity and diversity in the outdoors. She is the co-founder of the Outdoorist Oath (a non-profit that gets BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and femmes into the outdoors through community and education) and the Founder of the Queer Outdoor and Environmental Job Board (a free tool queer individuals can use to get hired and therefore diversify the fields). Pattie has raised almost $5 million for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC and environmental non-profits. And if that isn’t enough, she has made films and has made music with other incredible artists like Yo-Yo Ma and Imogen Heap. 🌍 Also, Pattie is on tour right now. Go see them in a city near you! ✅ Follow Pattie on Instagram.✊🏽 Join the Let’s Give A Damn community on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: hello@letsgiveadamn.com.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!
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Julian Brave Noisecat: Surviving the Night, Becoming a Father, and Faith
Apr 2001:20:59Tap to summarize❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, please consider joining our Patreon. 🎉 It’s Julian Brave Noisecat week on the podcast! 👉🏽 NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerational trauma by getting stoned with his dad for The New York Times Magazine.During this conversation we talk at length about his first book, We Survived the Night, a portrait of Indigenous life beginning with the familial and expanding outwards from there through a contemporary retelling of the Coyote epic. When it released in 2025, it was an instant national bestseller in Canada and an indie bestseller in the United States. In addition to being a bestselling author, Julian's first documentary, Sugarcane, directed alongside Emily Kassie, follows an investigation into abuse and missing children at the Indian residential school NoiseCat’s family was sent to near Williams Lake, British Columbia. Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition. ✅ Follow Julian on Instagram.✅ Buy a copy (or two!) of We Survived The Night.✊🏽 Join the Let’s Give A Damn community on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: hello@letsgiveadamn.com.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!
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Ibram X. Kendi: The Great Replacement Theory, Anti-Racism, and the Chain of Humanity
Apr 300:52:27Tap to summarize❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, please consider joining our Patreon. 🎉 It’s Dr. Ibram X. Kendi week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Dr. Kendi is one of the world’s foremost historians of racism and a leading antiracist scholar. He is the Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History at Howard University, and the inaugural director of Howard’s Institute for Advanced Study. Kendi has published eighteen books for adults and children, including twelve New York Times Best Sellers. Today's conversation is all about his latest, Chain Of Ideas: The Origins Of Our Authoritarian Age. A fantastic and helpful book.✅ Follow Dr. Kendi on Instagram.✅ Buy a copy (or two!) of Chain of Ideas today.✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: hello@letsgiveadamn.com.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!
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Charithra Chandran : One Piece and Bridgerton and Palestine, Oh My!
Mar 2700:43:34Tap to summarize❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, please consider joining our Patreon. 🎉 It’s Charithra Chandran week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Charithra Chandran has quickly established herself as an internationallyrenowned actor, showcasing her range of disciplines both on-screen and theatrically. Charithra is currently starring in Season 2 of Netflix’s One Piece — a live-action adaptation of the best-selling manga series of the same name by Eiichiro Oda.Charithra has starred in several other films and shows — including Season 2 of Bridgerton, opposite Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley. — as the 'Diamond of the Season.' During this conversation, we talk about gratitude, her immense love for India, her incredible career, why she advocates for Palestinian liberation, how she has no patience for transphobic people, and so much more.✅ Follow Charithra on Instagram.✅ Watch Season 2 of One Piece on Netflix now! ✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: hello@letsgiveadamn.com.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!
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Kat Abughazaleh: Running for Congress, Fighting Against Fascism, & Mutual Aid
Mar 1301:04:33Summary readyIt’s Kat Abughazaleh Day on the podcast! Kat is a 26-year-old, Palestinian American, grassroots congressional candidate running to represent Illinois’ Ninth District. She’s a renter, a formerly uninsured worker, and a union representative running to bring a new generation of leadership to Congress, defend democracy, fight for economic justice, and advance a humane foreign policy.Kat is a badass. Don’t believe me? Go on YouTube, type her name into the search bar, and see for yourself.Lastly, Kat is up against millions of dollars of attack ads by AIPAC and her opponents. Please donate, phone bank, or door knock if you can! ✅ Check out Kat’s website.✅ Follow Kat on Instagram and YouTube.✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: hello@letsgiveadamn.com.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!
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Shabnam Mogharabi: We Need A Spiritual Revolution!
Feb 601:13:05Summary ready🎉 It’s Shabnam Mogharabi week on the podcast!❤️ Before I share more about our guest, consider supporting us on Patreon! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends.👉🏽 Shabnam Mogharabi is an entertainment executive, producer, and New York Times bestselling author with 20 years of experience in mission-driven media. She currently runs The Joy Brigade, a boutique film and media production company. Prior to that, Shabnam was an EVP at film company Participant and also co-founded the uplifting content studio SoulPancake with actor Rainn Wilson, which she ran as CEO for nearly a decade, amassing 1B video views and dozens of awards. She and Rainn are still collaborating today on Rainn's Soul Boom platform, which seeks to unlock a modern spiritual revolution through playful, practical, and profound media. Shabnam is a Henry Crown Fellow, a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and serves on a number of private and non-profit boards. She also got a certification in positive psychology in her spare time and is a frequent keynote speaker on the power of joy and storytelling. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and young children.✅ We spend quite a bit of time talking about the book she co-wrote with Rainn Wilson, the Soul Boom Workbook. Get a copy today! ✅ Follow Shabnam on Instagram and LinkedIn. ✅ Follow Soul Boom on Instagram and YouTube.-------------✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon! 👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, UpScrolled, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack newsletter.📱 Reach out anytime: hello@letsgiveadamn.com.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!
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