Meet The Panther’s newest Video & Podcast Editor, Timea Steingart. She’s a freshman political science major from Berlin, Germany. In this episode, she talks about stereotypes people have about Germans: are they true or not? Steingart compares the education systems in America and Germany, what her time at Chapman has been like, and what listeners of The Panther Pod can expect in the future.

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Have you ever been curious about what The Panther’s top stories are? We gathered the top 10 stories including news, features, entertainment and guest opinions on The Panther’s current website when it was created in February 2020. The analytics and viewership numbers mentioned in this episode were retrieved on March 11, 2023.

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The Sundance Film Festival is the largest American film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. Nidhi Kumar, video & podcast editor, reflected on her experience attending the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She talked about her favorite films, her experience getting to chat with experienced filmmakers, how the festival was structured and seeing actor and singer Ben Platt.

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Disney’s latest animated film ‘Strange World’ releases in theaters on Nov. 23, but the film’s marketing falls flat compared to its previous counterparts. Video and Podcast Editor Abby Little sits down with Annaliese Barnett to discuss the company’s shortcomings in comparison to their past films.

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This episode was recorded on the morning of Nov. 11, 2022. Due to the rapid changes of Twitter’s platform, the information discussed in this episode may be out of date.

Elon Musk’s recent acquisition of the popular social media app Twitter has sparked heated conversations from content moderation to subscription fees. Video and Podcast Editor Abby Little sits down with “The Social Media Professor” Niklas Myhr to discuss the scope of Twitter in this new age of Elon.

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With the release of her 10th studio album, Taylor Swift has now been in the public eye and continually breaking records ever since she started her music career as a teenage country singer over 15 years ago. In this episode, Video & Podcast Editor Abby Little sits down with two other “Swifties” to discuss the music sensation’s latest release “Midnights.”

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Mid-September, migrants originally arriving in Texas and Florida started showing up unexpectedly in northern cities like Washington D.C., Chicago and New York City. They were bussed or flown to these locations by taxpayer funded transportation programs from Texas and Florida as a part of a political stunt protesting immigration laws. The response from locals has been generally positive so far: people are provided food, donating winter clothing and giving legal assistance.

Video and Podcast Editor Lisa Wong spoke with Adama Bah, a community organizer in New York City to understand the situation from a personal perspective and what people could do to help out if they’re not based in directly impacted cities.

Below are the organizations and fundraisers mentioned:

Migrant Support DMV Wishlist

Sanctuary DMV fundraiser

Artists Athletes Activists

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Halloween is just around the corner, and although it’s known for being a lively holiday where people can dress up, let loose and eat lots of candy, Halloween generates tons of plastic waste every year. Video and Podcast Editor Abby Little sat down with the co-presidents of Chapman’s Mission Environment club to talk about some of Halloween’s most wasteful behaviors, while offering solutions that college students can easily participate in.

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Mariachi music has been around since the 18th century, but recently, Chapman University has become host to Orange County’s first collegiate mariachi ensemble — the Mariachi Panteras. In this episode, Podcast Editor Abby Little talks to two students within the ensemble to discuss their relationship to the traditional folk genre that is Mariachi.

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Chapman is known to host a wide variety of travel courses from full semesters abroad to summer or interterm courses. This last summer, over 20 film students had the opportunity to produce films in Greece for the class FTV 393: Cultural Filmmaking, Greek Myths from Page to Screen. Podcast Editor Abby Little sits down with one student filmmaker on this trip who had the privilege of getting their script realized and produced as a film.

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