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Searching for America with Robyn Curnow

Searching for America with Robyn Curnow

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America is the most powerful country on earth. It’s also one of the hardest to understand. Searching for America is a podcast hosted by award-winning foreign correspondent Robyn Curnow that tries to make sense of the ideas, contradictions and cultural quirks shaping the United States today. After decades reporting around the world - and interviewing global leaders including Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton - Robyn now lives in Atlanta in the American Deep South and has turned her journalist’s lens on her adopted home. Think of it as a kind of modern-day field guide to America - somewhere between David Attenborough observing a new species and Alexis de Tocqueville taking notes on a young democracy. Each episode starts with a story - a place, a moment, a strange cultural habit - and uses it to explain something deeper about the country. From cowboy hats that cost more than rent, to Silicon Valley ambition, to the theatre of American politics, Searching for America looks at the country with curiosity, humor and an outsider’s eye. Because sometimes it takes someone from the outside to notice what Americans themselves no longer appreciate.2025 Robyn Curnow Ciencia Política Ciencias Sociales Política y Gobierno
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  • If AI Knows Everything ... What Should We Learn?
    Mar 24 2026

    If AI can do the homework… what exactly are we educating our kids for?

    This episode starts with my daughter choosing her 11th grade subjects—and turns into a bigger question about the future of learning, work, and what it means to be human.

    Because as machines get smarter, the real premium may be on something much older: thinking, questioning, and learning how to learn.

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    • Got a great idea for an episode? Drop Robyn a message here with the subject line PODCAST IDEA
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    More about Robyn's public speaking
    Robyn Curnow is a sought-after public speaker on what it takes to create positive leadership in complicated times. As a South African now living in the American South, Robyn is determined to bring a hopeful and light-hearted tone to all conversations.

    She reflects on her interviews with U.S. Presidents Bush, Clinton and Carter and First Lady Michelle Obama. She has impactful stories of working alongside Nobel Peace Prize Lauretes Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu

    She has delivered talks and hosted events around the Blue Economy in the Principality of Monaco where she introduced Prince Albert of Monaco and Prince William, Prince of Wales and French President Emmanuel Macron, the Lincoln Centre in New York, the Science Museum in London, the Swedish Royal Palace in Stockholm, the YPO annual conference in Cape Town, the United Nations, a Haaretz newspaper panel in Jerusalem, the Nantucket Yacht club and many more.

    She has recently worked with Prince Albert II Foundation in Monaco and Philadelphia, the Swedish royal family in Stockholm, Made by Dyslexia in London, the Red Cross of Georgia in Atlanta alongside Delta Airlines.


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    9 m
  • Why Some Americans Think AI is the Devil
    Mar 16 2026

    Artificial intelligence may be the most powerful technology humans have ever built - but many Americans don’t trust it.

    After taking an AI course at Georgia Institute of Technology, Robyn Curnow explores why voters across the political spectrum are uneasy about AI, from job fears to electricity-hungry data centers.

    From a conversation with an HVAC technician who believes the “devil’s number” is hidden inside computer chips to a classroom discussion about white-collar job disruption, this episode explores the deeper anxieties shaping America’s response to artificial intelligence.

    And the political landmines that will determine who triumphs at the ballot box in this year's midterms.

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    More about Robyn

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    • Got a great idea for an episode? Drop Robyn a message here with the subject line PODCAST IDEA
      Subscribe to Robyn's Substack.
    • Visit her website here.
    • To book Robyn to speak at your event, get in touch here.

    More about Robyn's public speaking
    Robyn Curnow is a sought-after public speaker on what it takes to create positive leadership in complicated times. As a South African now living in the American South, Robyn is determined to bring a hopeful and light-hearted tone to all conversations.

    She reflects on her interviews with U.S. Presidents Bush, Clinton and Carter and First Lady Michelle Obama. She has impactful stories of working alongside Nobel Peace Prize Lauretes Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu

    She has delivered talks and hosted events around the Blue Economy in the Principality of Monaco where she introduced Prince Albert of Monaco and Prince William, Prince of Wales and French President Emmanuel Macron, the Lincoln Centre in New York, the Science Museum in London, the Swedish Royal Palace in Stockholm, the YPO annual conference in Cape Town, the United Nations, a Haaretz newspaper panel in Jerusalem, the Nantucket Yacht club and many more.

    She has recently worked with Prince Albert II Foundation in Monaco and Philadelphia, the Swedish royal family in Stockholm, Made by Dyslexia in London, the Red Cross of Georgia in Atlanta alongside Delta Airlines.


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    9 m
  • The Polite Way Southerners Call You An Idiot
    Mar 9 2026

    In the American South, an insult doesn’t always sound like an insult.

    Sometimes it sounds polite. "I"ll pray for you."
    Sometimes it sounds sympathetic. "You sweet thing."
    And sometimes it sounds like three very gentle words:

    “Bless your heart.”

    In this episode of Searching for America, Robyn Curnow explores one of the South’s most fascinating cultural phrases - a sentence that can express genuine kindness or deliver a devastatingly polite takedown.

    From small towns in Mississippi to suburban Atlanta, Southern language has evolved its own code of diplomacy. Criticism is rarely shouted. Instead, it’s softened, wrapped in manners, and delivered with a smile.

    Because in the South, people often say exactly what they mean.

    They just say it… politely.

    Three little words.

    Bless Your Heart

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    • Got a great idea for an episode? Drop Robyn a message here with the subject line PODCAST IDEA
      Subscribe to Robyn's Substack.
    • Visit her website here.
    • To book Robyn to speak at your event, get in touch here.

    More about Robyn's public speaking
    Robyn Curnow is a sought-after public speaker on what it takes to create positive leadership in complicated times. As a South African now living in the American South, Robyn is determined to bring a hopeful and light-hearted tone to all conversations.

    She reflects on her interviews with U.S. Presidents Bush, Clinton and Carter and First Lady Michelle Obama. She has impactful stories of working alongside Nobel Peace Prize Lauretes Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu

    She has delivered talks and hosted events around the Blue Economy in the Principality of Monaco where she introduced Prince Albert of Monaco and Prince William, Prince of Wales and French President Emmanuel Macron, the Lincoln Centre in New York, the Science Museum in London, the Swedish Royal Palace in Stockholm, the YPO annual conference in Cape Town, the United Nations, a Haaretz newspaper panel in Jerusalem, the Nantucket Yacht club and many more.

    She has recently worked with Prince Albert II Foundation in Monaco and Philadelphia, the Swedish royal family in Stockholm, Made by Dyslexia in London, the Red Cross of Georgia in Atlanta alongside Delta Airlines.


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    8 m
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