Who Yelling Now?

The Performance of Being Human Who are you? The answer may depend less on who you are... and more on who others remember. In this episode of Who Yelling Now? , Olga Foreign explores the invisible performance we all participate in every day. Through the story of Mr. Hastings—a respected manager whose coworkers suddenly begin treating him differently after discovering he wears a prosthetic leg—the q...

Season 6, Episode 1 — Who Taught Us to Live Like This? Every one of us knows what "normal" looks like. We recognize it in how people dress, speak, grieve, celebrate, work, and dream. Yet few of us can answer a simple question: Who taught us what normal means? In the Season 6 premiere of Who Yelling Now? , Olga Foreign explores one of humanity's quietest inheritances—the invisible rul...

WHO YELLING NOW? – Season 5 Episode 10 WE CALL IT PROGRESS Progress is one of the few words almost everyone agrees is good. We celebrate it. We pursue it. We measure it. We build entire lives around it. But what if progress is simply movement? A disease progresses. A wildfire progresses. An avalanche progresses. A river progresses beyond its banks. None of these ask whether the destination is desi...

Who is accountable? In this episode of Who Yelling Now? , Olga Foreign explores one of society's most celebrated—and most avoided—virtues: accountability. Through original poetry, the story of Jerry and his Three Pillars (a scapegoat, a story, and a shadow), and a thoughtful conversation with Matt Campbell, we examine responsibility, representation, excuses, consequences, and the questions tha...

WHO YELLING NOW? – Season 5 Episode 08 WE CALL IT STRENGTH What if the things you've been carrying your entire life aren't making you stronger? From childhood, many of us are taught to be strong. We are handed expectations, responsibilities, silence, duty, sacrifice, and survival habits by people who love us and want us to succeed. We pack them carefully into our emotional luggage and carr...

WHO YELLING NOW? Season 5, Episode 07 WE CALL IT EDUCATION What exactly are we calling education? Is it information? Knowledge? Compliance? Opportunity? Preparation for life? Or something else entirely? In this episode, Olga Foreign is joined by award-winning investigative journalist and author Christopher Papst for a thought-provoking conversation about education systems, accountability, incentiv...

Season 5 Episode 6 " We Call It Success." Success. Who taught us what it looks like? In this episode of Who Yelling Now?, Olga Foreign asks an uncomfortablequestion: If recognition becomes detached from contribution, wisdom, mastery, or substance… what exactly are we celebrating? From invisible workers holding society together quietly, to expertise buried beneath noise, to a world increa...

Who Yelling Now? – Season 5 Episode 5WE CALL IT TRUTH What happens when truth isn’t hidden… just unfinished? Sharon left home eight years ago to build the life she always dreamed of. Returning home for her parents’ 60th wedding anniversary should feel familiar—family laughter, favorite meals, old memories, and the people who knew her before she knew herself. But home sounds different now. Stories...

Who Yelling Now — Season 5, Episode 04 We Call It Passion With Guest SusannahB We call it passion when it’s loud. We call it passion when it moves fast. We call it passion when it feels certain. But what if passion isn’t neutral? What if some passion is amplified… while other passion is ignored? In this episode, we follow two forces moving at the same time:one loud enough to leadone quiet enough t...

We all say we want stability. A stable job. A stable relationship. A stable life. But what if stability isn’t peace… what if it’s just something we stopped questioning? In this episode of Who Yelling Now? , Olga Foreign breaks apart the idea of “stable” and asks a harder question: What did you give up to keep everything from changing? Through poetry and story, we follow Jason—a man who did everyth...

Season 5 , EP 02 — We Call It Loyalty We call it loyalty. We praise it. We expect it. We build our relationships around it. But we don’t always question it. In this episode of Who Yelling Now? , Olga Foreign explores the quiet line between loyalty… and self-abandonment. Through story and spoken word, we follow a woman who stayed—not because it was working, but because it once did. Because time was...

“We Call It Love” We use the word love as if it means the same thing to all of us. But what if it doesn’t? In one family, love shows up in ways that don’t match— quiet and enduring, stable but unmoving, intense and damaging, and sometimes… not there at all. Through the eyes of one observer, this episode explores what happens when the same word is used to describe completely different experiences....

What Survives the Silence — Season 4 Bonus Episode What happens when truth is spoken clearly… and nothing happens? In this closing episode of Season 4, Who Yelling Now? , Olga Foreign explores the quiet reality of what occurs after truth enters systems, conversations, and spaces that are not built to hold it. Through a powerful story of a courtroom moment that was heard—but not received—and a refl...

Episode 13 — Who Ordered the Silence? What happens to truth when it enters the room—but doesn’t survive it? In this episode of Who Yelling Now? , Olga sits with Jenny Chan of Pacific Atrocities Education to examine the stories that were known… and still never spoken. From wartime crimes to the language that reshaped them, this conversation pulls apart the quiet agreements that allow history to be...

Promoting Episode 13 of Who Yelling Now? , Join us on April 8th , tell a friend and subscribe. Olga sits with Jenny Chan of Pacific Atrocities Education to examine the stories that were known… and still never spoken. From wartime crimes to the language that reshaped them, this conversation pulls apart the quiet agreements that allow history to be softened, renamed, and, ultimately, silenced. But t...

Season 4 — Episode 12 What Cannot Be Bought There is something the system has always assumed. That everything can be priced. Truth. Memory. Identity. Even freedom itself. And for a long time… it worked. We participated. We adapted. We learned how to live within systems that reward agreement more than belief. But what happens when something refuses to enter the transaction? In this season finale of...

The Stories the Courtroom Allows Season 4 Episode 11 Most people believe courtrooms exist to uncover thetruth. But courtrooms are not truth machines. They are places where stories must first survive therules. In this episode of Who Yelling Now, we explore whathappens when memory, law, and narrative collide. Through poetry, storytelling, and conversation, OlgaForeign examines the uncomfortable spac...

Season 4 – Episode 10 Who Benefits From Civic Amnesia? Most systems of profit do not require secrecy. They require participation. In this episode of Who Yelling Now , Olga Foreign explores thequiet agreement that allows harmful systems to continue even when peoplesuspect something is wrong. Through story, poetry, and reflection, we follow a worker who finallysees the structure behind the company t...

Season 4 — Episode 9 “When Truth Can No Longer Stop Harm” Truth has never been more visible. Wars are broadcast in real time. Casualty numbers appear instantly. Every tragedy can be documented, recorded, and shared. And yet harm continues. In this episode, we explore a disturbing possibility: truth is notdisappearing — it is being exhausted. Through a story of a patriotic family confronting confli...

When we read a novel, we imagine the characters. We give them faces. Voices. Accents. Grief. That’s harmless. But what happens when we do the same thing with real people? In this episode, we examine how truth becomes performance when it mustmatch our expectations. When we hear a story without visuals, we cast the rolesourselves. And when reality doesn’t match the casting in our minds, discomfortbe...

We often think of forgetting as personal. A family moves on. A community heals. A nation turns the page. But what happens when forgetting is no longeremotional — and becomes procedural? In this episode, we follow Meranda, a publictrust archivist tasked with “reclassifying” historical records. Nothing isburned. Nothing is deleted. Files are simply moved — delayed, restricted,reframed. When does doc...

Forgetting can look like healing. A husband and wife married for fifty years. Thirteen children. Three who were never fully loved. After the parents die, the story changes. What was once whispered becomes “years ago.” What was once felt becomes “you’re remembering it wrong.” What was once painful becomes inconvenient. But forgetting doesn’t erase harm — it redistributes it. In this episode, we exa...

Episode 5 — The Auction of Identity When did identity stop being inherited and start being sold? In this episode of Who Yelling Now , we step inside a quiet auction where race, ancestry, trauma, and belonging are assessed, packaged, and priced. Through the story of two rising entertainers, we examine how identity becomes resale value—how talent is weighed against narrative, and how pain becomes pr...

Why does some pain circulate while other pain disappears? In Episode 4 of Season 4, Olga Foreign explores how trauma becomes content — sorted by what’s consumable, shareable, and marketable. Through a haunting firsthand story of unsellable suffering and a deeper look at how awareness replaces action, this episode reveals how certain pain is amplified while other trauma fades quietly into invisibil...

When someone goes missing, silence takes over — and silence invitescontrol. In Episode 2 of Season 4, Olga Foreign explores what happens when aperson’s story is managed in their absence. Through the haunting transformationof Margaret — a woman slowly rewritten once she disappears — this episodereveals how memory is curated, complexity is softened, and truth becomesnegotiable. From families to inst...