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Reconnecting Roots

Reconnecting Roots is a half hour television series featuring stories of America told through music, history, & a series of field trips alongside host Gabe McCauley. Portraying American life across the past six generations, this series exhibits the American journey of unbounded progress with the hope of understanding how exactly we fit in and why.

Games: Rolls to Roles

26m 46s

Gabe rolls the dice with actress/gamer Felicia Day (creator/star “The Guild,” founder “Geek & Sundry”) to discuss the “roles” of gaming and what makes it a valuable use of time, looking not just at how we play, but why we must. From cards to joystick controllers and back again, we see how games and society interact with each other and what spurred the current renaissance of tabletop board games.

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    Food: Around the Table

    S4 E402 - 26m 46s

    America’s menu includes family recipes, TV dinners, company luncheons, and everything in between. Gabe breaks bread with James Beard award winner Mashama Bailey in Savannah dinner destination The Grey and helps her prepare one of her favorite dishes based on regional ingredients. We explore the concept of foodways and why Americans now have more culinary choices than most families can agree on.

  • Food: Around the Table: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Food: Around the Table

    S4 E402 - 26m 46s

    America’s menu includes family recipes, TV dinners, company luncheons, and everything in between. Gabe breaks bread with James Beard award winner Mashama Bailey in Savannah dinner destination The Grey and helps her prepare one of her favorite dishes based on regional ingredients. We explore the concept of foodways and why Americans now have more culinary choices than most families can agree on.

  • Photography: “Picture This”: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Photography: “Picture This”

    S4 E401 - 26m 46s

    From experiments, to art, to everyday life, we’re surrounded by photos and the memories they keep. But are they still meaningful if we take millions a day? On location at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo, National Geographic Explorer Joel Sartore helps host Gabe McCauley understand the power that a single image can wield as we see how the photography industry developed’ from darkrooms to phone screens.

  • Photography: “Picture This”: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Photography: “Picture This”

    S4 E401 - 26m 46s

    From experiments, to art, to everyday life, we’re surrounded by photos and the memories they keep. But are they still meaningful if we take millions a day? On location at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo, National Geographic Explorer Joel Sartore helps host Gabe McCauley understand the power that a single image can wield as we see how the photography industry developed’ from darkrooms to phone screens.

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