Uningrained
A documentary-style podcast investigating cultural blind spots, invisible ideas and hidden assumptions
Uningrained
A documentary-style podcast investigating cultural blind spots, invisible ideas and hidden assumptions
About Uningrained
A documentary-style podcast investigating cultural blind spots, invisible ideas and hidden assumptions
Uningrained is a documentary-style podcast about ideas so familiar that they become invisible. Theyre so ingrained that we stop noticing themeven when they dont make sense.
Why Join Uningrained as a Guest
Society & Culture Listener Reach
You speak directly to curious Society & Culture listeners who love narrative reporting and want experts to decode blind spots, cognitive biases, and the systems they live inside.
Documentary-Grade Story Production
You’re woven into a documentary-style episode—like “You Mean Softball?”—with scripting, scoring, and editing that showcase your expertise as part of a cinematic narrative arc.
Hosted By An Award-Winning Journalist
You’re interviewed by Steve Hendershot, an award-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author, giving your ideas added credibility with a rigorously reported narrative frame.
Distribution Across Major Podcast Apps
You gain an evergreen interview packaged into a shareable narrative episode that travels across major podcast platforms and can anchor your own talks, articles, and social posts.
Episode Angles & Guest Pitches
You Mean Softball? Gender, Power, and the Games We Offer Girls
You reveal how sports like softball became the default for girls—and what that exposes about gender, opportunity, and cultural blind spots.
Cognitive Biases Hiding in Everyday Systems
You unpack the cognitive biases that quietly structure rules, institutions, and norms listeners take for granted.
Peach Basket Parallels: Origin Stories of Today’s ‘Normal’
You connect surprising historical origin stories—like early basketball—to the strange logics that still govern modern life.
Pairing Off: How We Organize People and Who Gets Left Out
You examine how pairing, grouping, and categorizing people—on teams, in workplaces, in society—creates both order and exclusion.
How You'd Contribute to the Show
Audience Takeaways
Your episode helps listeners spot the invisible ideas steering their choices—and consider how to redesign systems, from sports to workplaces, so they make more sense.
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The Ideal Guest
You’re a strong fit if you’re a researcher, historian, policy thinker, athlete, coach, organizer, or operator who can ground big ideas about society, culture, blind spots, or cognitive biases in vivid, human stories.
Recent Episodes
Peach Basket Parallels
Uningrained • Oct 22, 2026
Going Pro
Uningrained • Sep 10, 2026
Pairing Off
Uningrained • Aug 12, 2026
A Team Sport Says Yes to Women
Uningrained • Jul 1, 2026
When No One Went to Bat for Girls In Baseball
Uningrained • Jun 3, 2026
You Mean Softball?
Uningrained • May 13, 2026
Season One Preview: "You Mean Softball?"
Uningrained • Apr 9, 2026
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