Matt Zanellato - My Aunt the NASA Astronaut

Matt Zanellato, former D1 Penn State Football player, talks about how fucking awesome his family is, while I talk my dysfunctional family. We address strong women, particularly women in STEM and Matt discusses his aunt, Serena Auñón-Chancellor who is arguably one of the most bad ass women alive, as well as his mom. We discuss 9/11 and living around/growing up in D.C., toxic masculinity and having younger sisters, and then of course, he fires me up about epidemiology. We also touch on football culture and athlete star power in general, which will be built upon with the next episode released in which he is featured. Hopefully he will let me include his entire family in future episodes because this was honestly so much fun to record. I was fed a delicious family meal MADE by a man (10/10–they belong in the kitchen) AND got to participate in a holistic family discussion amongst educated, civil minded folk who genuinely know what they’re talking about. It was glorious. Here is the link to information about his Aunt: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiO9Mbz6JruAhXipVkKHcd8BHgQFjABegQIBBAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fastronauts%2Fbiographies%2Fserena-m-aunon-chancellor&usg=AOvVaw3w1nk00KIowYfhXmpdhdGJ

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A late 20's self-proclaimed "relatively hot" woman with a background in biochemistry and epidemiology. The type of person who is so aware of the response to their presence, they personally enjoy mutilating the egos of men at her whim (never unjustly, to be clear). A self-aware "narcissist" (literally any woman very comfortable with prioritizing THEMSELVES in THEIR own life) just trying to creatively express my anxiety whilst also attempting to monetize my voice (unlike that idiotic mermaid) and the voices of those around me to normalize conversation. All under the satirical comedic fall back that "it's a joke!" whenever I go a little too far.