Episode 2: Gloria Liu and Dan Schwartz from Outside Magazine

Gloria Liu's Outside Magazine column recently tackled a topic near and dear to her heart: Her boyfriend, Dan Schwartz (also a writer for Outside Magazine and beyond).

Both Gloria and Dan live for the outdoors — bikes, skiing, camping, you name it. That led them to their careers telling stories about the outdoor life, which is an inherently fascinating career.

Yet on ski lifts last winter, the couple found the conversation turning to Dan's life in Silverton more often than not. Gloria often got left behind in the conversation, or ignored altogether.

That led Gloria to explore why people found her boyfriend so fascinating simply because of where he lived — way up in the mountains of Colorado.

On this episode, we discuss Gloria's piece in Outside (link below), and what she learned in the course of her research as to why such conversations transpire the way they do.

You can read her article here: What the men who love my boyfriend taught me about the social hierarchy

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