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Commotion Introduces | Olympic FOMO: Canada's Golden Girls
Olympic FOMO is your daily Olympics recap, in 20 minutes or less. Besties Mark and Jem go behind-the-scenes bringing you the wins, losses, and hot go…
1 year, 8 months ago
NewJeans, Hybe, and the battle at the heart of K-pop, and Rema's new album HEIS
There’s a very messy and public fight between Hybe and the CEO of its subsidiary label ADOR, Min Hee-jin, who produces the popular K-pop group NewJea…
1 year, 8 months ago
How Miranda July's All Fours became the book of the summer, and College Football 25
'All Fours' by Miranda July follows an artist in her mid-40s as she navigates the breakdown of her marriage, and how perimenopause changes her relati…
1 year, 8 months ago
Can Deadpool and Wolverine end the Marvel slump? And the return of the Olympics
Culture critics Rachel Ho, Radheyan Simonpillai, and Teri Hart join Elamin to discuss Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s blockbuster match-up in Deadpo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Childish Gambino's new album, and a look at Donald Glover's career
Elamin is joined by culture critics Ian Kamau, Sarah-Tai Black, and David Dennis Jr. to react to the latest and reportedly final album from Childish …
1 year, 8 months ago
Apple's streaming service has the best shows, why is no one watching? And K-pop goes primetime
Despite Apple spending more than $20 billion on tv and movies, its streaming service gets fewer views in a month than Netflix gets in a day. Vulture …
1 year, 8 months ago
Kamala Harris and the meme campaign, and breakdancing at the Olympics
After Joe Biden dropped out of the race, he gave Kamala Harris his endorsement. But the internet is very familiar with Kamala as a subject of some of…
1 year, 8 months ago
Twisters makes Glen Powell a star, and the millennial midlife crisis
Elamin is joined by film critic Rad Simonpillai and culture critic Anne T. Donahue to discuss ‘Twisters’, the standalone sequel to the original film …
1 year, 8 months ago
The photo of Trump’s assassination attempt, in pop culture and memes
Writers Drew Magary, Marina Fang, and Jason P. Frank join the group chat to discuss how the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the naming of…
1 year, 8 months ago
Katy Perry's botched comeback, and the New York Times best books of the 21st century
It’s hard to come up with a song that’s been more critically panned than Katy Perry’s latest track 'Women’s World'. And it was supposed to be her bi…
1 year, 8 months ago