The Kvetching Professor

By Mark Sherman

Mark Sherman is a Renaissance soul, a guy with so many interests that he's never made it to the top in anything. Got a PhD in Psychology and taught it for 25 years, but always preferred being funny to... more

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The podcast currently has 75 episodes available.

The Kvetching Professor episodes:

April 15, 2019 Real Men and Me
While the centerpiece of this episode is humorous, there is a serious message here as well. And in the introduction, I definitely get serious as I talk about issues concerning boys in America today. Girls are getting all kinds of encouragement, but boys are not, and yet I think our society will do best when boys as well as girls are encouraged to be all that they can be.

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10min
March 25, 2019 Born to Be Mild
Listening to “Born to Be Wild,” the great Steppenwolf rock song from the late 1960s, got me thinking about what the title of my signature song might be. I think “Born to be Mild” would come closer. This episode takes a fun look at that, but I also talk about the lasting joys of rock.
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9min
March 17, 2019 My Little Black Book
In going through the piles of stuff I’ve saved over the years, I came across the “little black book” I bought when I was 16 years old, so I could write in the names and phone numbers of girls I hoped I might go out with. I kept this little book going for three or four years. In this episode I talk about a few of the girls I did go out with, and one who had an exclamation mark next to her name - but whom I can’t remember at all.

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11min
March 11, 2019 High Maintenance or Piece of Work?
We all know people who are, shall we say, “difficult.” This episode talks about various terms we have for them, some of which aren’t so nice. But others are OK, like “high maintenance” and “piece of work.” Assuming you’re not the easiest person to be with, which would you rather be called? I’m sure you’ll agree, they’re both better than “total jerk” or “complete idiot.”

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10min
March 04, 2019 Revisiting Kids' Tales
Here I look back at some old and classic children’s stories - from a contemporary perspective. The little engine that could? Are you kidding? Give me a break! I also talk about some of the best kids’ stories of the late 20th Century. I’m talking “George and Martha,” the two wonderful hippopotamus friends. Each story in the series is so short and sweet.
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10min
February 24, 2019 Am I an Alpha Male?
I’ve long heard about the status associated with being an "alpha male," so I’ve always wondered if I was one. In this educational and entertaining episode I talk about alpha males, beta males, and what makes you one or the other. Am I, the Kvetching Professor, an alpha male? There's only one way to find out! Listen in...

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9min
February 18, 2019 The Strange World of Mottos
In this episode I take a lighthearted poke at some mottos of companies, colleges and countries. If you think about it, mottos are all around us. Many are quite inspiring, like Nike’s “Just Do It.” Others are a bit less so, like KFC’s “Finger-Lickin’ Good,” or the state of Michigan’s “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.” I mean let’s be honest. How many of us are truly seeking a pleasant peninsula?
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11min
February 04, 2019 Raining On Their Parade
In this episode, the Kvetching Professor, who has attended many a college graduation ceremony, suggests what a commencement speaker might say if he were being truly realistic about what the future holds for today’s graduates.
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11min
January 28, 2019 Age Shaming
Today we’re encouraged to take pride in whatever groups we are a part of – whether it’s race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, etc. But one group, to which we all ultimately aspire, doesn’t seem to be proud of its identity: the old folks. In fact, we “seniors” (which sounds so high school!) are embarrassed even to use the term “old.” Here, the Kvetching Professor tries to put an end to that kind of self-shaming!
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10min
January 21, 2019 Finders Keepers
While this week’s episode of The Kvetching Professor features something I wrote more than 25 years ago, it certainly is highly relevant today, when, between new guidelines for therapists counseling men and boys and the Gillette ad, which went viral, the idea of boys as rowdy, rambunctious, and wild has become so yesterday.
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14min

FAQs about The Kvetching Professor:

How many episodes does The Kvetching Professor have?

The podcast currently has 75 episodes available.