Shouting from the rooftops: how Teen People magazine brought this couple together!
Teen People
02/13/22
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Gennie Gorback is an early childhood educator and President of the California Kindergarten Association. As a teenager, she joined Teen People magazine's Trendspotter club, and was featured not once, but twice, in Teen People! The first time, Gennie and her college friend Dan pranked Teen People—they weren’t actually a couple when they wrote a fake love note for publication in the magazine. As Gennie told me, she really just wanted to be in Teen People, the magazine that she read and enjoyed. They figured a cooked-up love story would do the trick. And it kind of did. Not only did they end up in Teen People...they fell in love. Today, Gennie and Dan Gorback are the parents of two little ones. Gennie spoke with me in the summer of 2021, and began by walking me through the cover of the April 2004 issue of Teen People—the first of two appearances Gennie and and her husband made in Teen People magazine. You can find the matching pictures Gennie shared with me on my Twitter and Instagram, [at] TeenPeoplePod. Notes: Gennie is very active on social media! Find her on Twitter [at] GennieGorback. She shares the picture books she and her daughters read each day on Instagram, [at] myfavoritebooksforkids. Her website is www.genniegorback.com. In Canada, February 20-26, 2022, is Freedom to Read Week! Find out more here: www.freedomtoread.ca. Music: 'The Cradle of Your Soul' by lemonmusicstudio on Pixabay 'Cinematic Ambient Emotional (Main)' by ZakharValaha on Pixabay 'Indie Folk Acoustic' by Coma-Media on Pixabay Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.
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February 6, 2022
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There is no episode this week! I have spent the past few days attending the virtual Ontario Library Association conference, so I have not had time to put together a full episode. Fear not, I will be back next week with the story of a star-crossed pair of lovers who came together with the help of Teen People magazine!
Music: 'Say Goodnight', Mild Wild, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
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Right place, right time: Rabbi Andrew Oberstein's leap of faith
February 20, 2022
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In 2005, Rabbi Andrew Oberstein was a budding theatre kid in Los Angeles, when Teen People magazine invited him to interview Sandra Bullock. "I loved Miss Congeniality," he told me, "so I thought, 'why not take this opportunity to check out what's going on with Miss Congeniality 2?'". Before Rabbi Andrew became a rabbi, he was destined for a career on the stage, and studied musical theatre at Emerson College, in Boston. This passion inspired his rabbinic thesis, 'Welcome to Falsettoland: The Intersection of Jewish and Queer Identity in Late 20th Century American Theater.' Rabbi Andrew spoke with me in January 2022, and told me about the leap of faith that brought him from the pages of Teen People magazine to the rabbinate. Notes: Rabbi Andrew's website: http://rabbiandrewoberstein.com Find Oliver Sacks' book 'Gratitude' here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27161964-gratitude Find me on Twitter and Instagram (where I've shared Rabbi Andrew's interview with Sandra Bullock) at Teen People Pod, and on Tumblr: www.teenpeoplepod.tumblr.com. Intro music: © Anna Soper Outro music: ZakharValaha on Pixabay Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.
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