Episode Details

What's to come in 2021?

This week, Wild Prognostications! Jess, Aaron, and Joey make their annual predictions (and explore the "Wilderness" around them): the plant-based schism [5:23], going back to the office [17:19], sit-down frozen breakfast innovation [29:28], the death (or not) of the fucc boi [38:32], the pop wellness holiday [47:15], and the fall of the Eurocentric design blueprint [58:57]. They don't talk about the correct way to eat popcorn—according to Jess, it involves chopsticks.

references

• Plant-based: at Dunkin, Impossible Foods news, and for more on "Lab Meat"...
• Office: BBC on the Great Remote Work Experiment
• Breakfast: NYTimes with proof of our collective Breakfast Rut, Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches, Savorly breakfast turnovers: the hot item at Costco, other freezer meals, and Jess's sister-in-law's pro-tip: bake-at-home croissants
• Fucc bois: Urban Dictionary's definition...
• Wellness: COVID's mental toll, Variety on a COVID 3rd wave's impact on media and entertainment,
• Design: MABEO furniture, Yinka Ilori, and Architectural Digest on Afrofuturism