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Overview

The first season of Who Taught You That? begins with a personal question and expands into an examination of thought, faith, language, and knowledge. Across five episodes, Yvener Duroseau asks listeners to identify the beliefs they inherited, examine the systems that shaped them, and decide what still deserves authority. Each episode offers a question to carry forward, not an answer to accept without reflection.

Five episodes.

One question beneath all of them:

Who taught you that?

The question sounds simple.

It is not.

It reaches into faith, identity, family, education, language, memory, and the private assumptions we mistake for personal truth. Season 1 of Who Taught You That? follows that question from the inner life outward, from the moment a person begins to doubt an inherited idea to the larger systems that determine which ideas are called knowledge.

The season does not ask listeners to reject everything they were taught.

It asks them to become conscious of what they carry.

Episode 1: “Why I Started Asking Questions”

Runtime: 25 min 39 sec

The opening episode begins with Yvener’s personal journey toward questioning inherited ideas about faith, identity, history, culture, and freedom. It establishes the central concern of the season: many of the beliefs that shape our lives arrive before we have the language or power to examine them.

The episode is not framed as rebellion for its own sake.

It is an invitation to look more honestly at the stories that formed us.

Why do we believe what we believe? Which ideas were chosen freely, and which were absorbed through family, institutions, tradition, or historical circumstance? What happens when a person realizes that certainty may have been inherited rather than examined?

This episode opens the door to decolonization of the mind by naming the courage required to question familiar narratives.

It ends with the question that gives the show its direction:

Who taught you that?

Listen to Episode 1

Episode 2: “Are All Your Thoughts Really Your Own?”

Runtime: 27 min 30 sec

The second episode moves from personal questioning to the formation of belief. It examines how ideas about intelligence, language, culture, identity, success, beauty, faith, and human worth can be shaped by family, schools, religious institutions, media, and colonial history.

But the episode does not turn that examination into an accusation against families or traditions.

It asks for awareness.

A belief may feel intimate and still have a history. A judgment may feel natural and still have been taught. A definition of success may feel personal and still reflect the priorities of a system that never intended to protect everyone equally.

Yvener introduces a five-question “thought audit” to help listeners examine one belief they hold about themselves. Where did it come from? Who benefits from it? What does it make possible? What does it prevent? Does it help them become more free?

The purpose is not to distrust every thought.

The purpose is to distinguish inherited conditioning from conscious conviction.

Listen to Episode 2

Episode 3: “This Is Not an Attack on Faith or Religion”

Runtime: 31 min 6 sec

The third episode enters the most sensitive territory in the season: faith, religion, authority, and control.

Yvener draws a clear distinction between faith and religion. Faith can be deeply personal. Religion can become institutional. A person may hold genuine faith while questioning the institution that claims to represent it.

That distinction matters.

The episode explores how colonial power used religious structures to encourage people to abandon languages, traditions, names, and relationships to their ancestors. It asks listeners to examine what their inherited beliefs produce: dignity and compassion, or fear and obedience? (Episode 3)

Questioning can feel dangerous when belief has been tied to family, belonging, morality, or eternal consequences.

The fear is understandable.

But questioning does not always destroy faith. Sometimes it removes fear from faith. Sometimes it separates spiritual meaning from institutional control. Sometimes what remains is not emptiness, but a belief a person has finally chosen for themselves.

Listen to Episode 3

Episode 4: “The Language We Were Taught to Be Ashamed Of”

Runtime: 36 min 2 sec

The fourth episode begins with a question many people can answer immediately:

When did you first learn that the way you speak was a problem?

From there, the conversation follows language from power to shame and back to memory. Colonial systems often treated language as a measure of intelligence, respectability, and worth. The result was not simply a preference for one vocabulary or accent over another. It was a hierarchy imposed on people through the sound of their voices.

The episode examines what happens when a child learns to distrust the first words they ever spoke. It considers how shame can travel from school to home, from home into the body, and from the body into the self.

Fluency is not the same as belonging.

A person can master the language of power and still feel estranged from the language of memory. A person can abandon a language to survive and still carry its absence.

Reclaiming language, the episode suggests, is not only about vocabulary. It is about dignity, identity, history, and the right to hear oneself without apology.

Listen to Episode 4

Episode 5: “Who Decides What Counts as Knowledge?”

Runtime: 39 min 27 sec

The fifth episode turns toward education and authority.

Who decided what counts as knowledge?

Listeners are invited to question the categories they were taught to accept: fact versus folklore, rigorous knowledge versus “cultural” knowledge, textbook versus tradition. The episode argues that these divisions were assigned by institutions, including schools, churches, universities, and those who controlled printing presses and curricula. (Episode 5)

Education can open the mind.

It can also teach the mind which voices to disregard.

The episode examines what happens when ancestral wisdom is renamed superstition, when oral history is treated as unreliable, and when a community is told that its knowledge does not count until an outside institution validates it.

The classroom does not only teach subjects.

It can also teach whose thinking is worth citing.

This final episode gathers the season’s earlier concerns (thought, faith, language, identity, and history) and brings them into the question of authority. What did you learn to stop trusting about your own people’s way of understanding the world?

That question remains open.

Where to Listen

Listen to the five episodes through their individual links above.

You can also access the full show here:

Listen to Who Taught You That?

Watch the video episodes on the Who Taught You That? YouTube channel.

The verified direct video link currently available is Episode 3: “This Is Not an Attack on Faith or Religion”.

One Season. Five Questions. No Easy Inheritance.

The season moves in a deliberate direction.

It begins with the personal: Why did I start asking?

It moves into thought: Are my beliefs really my own?

It enters faith: What happens when belief is used to control?

It examines language: Who taught me to feel shame about my voice?

It ends with knowledge: Who decided whose understanding counts?

The episodes do not offer a final doctrine.

They offer interruption.

They create space between the belief and the believer. Between the inherited story and the person carrying it. Between what was normalized and what is true.

That space can be uncomfortable.

It can also be where freedom begins.

The work of questioning is not to become rootless. It is to know which roots nourish us and which ones have been wrapped around the mind as restraints.

For readers who want to continue reflecting on human unity, love, and self-examination, Yvener’s published book, Alike Regardless: This Is Where It Began, extends that invitation beyond the podcast.

The question remains.

Who taught you that?

And what will you do now that you know to ask?

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