Podcast Episodes
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Quiet luxury. Clean girl. Old money. Trad living. Kylie Jenner’s pivot from Black culture vulture to glass skin pilates princess. College youth dress…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Tech Bro-ligarchy
Our country is now run by a bunch of spineless billionaires who were cast out as nerds in college so they launched a vendetta against humanity. Today…
1 year, 2 months ago
Blake Lively and the Amber Heard Effect
The first episode of this podcast ever recorded was about Amber Heard and the online public’s inability — or unwillingness — to distinguish between t…
1 year, 2 months ago
Why is the Media Coverage of Luigi Mangione So Bad?
The remarkable dissonance between the public’s embrace of UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione and the mainstream media’s outward disdain for…
1 year, 3 months ago
How Did Elon Musk Get Like This?
There was a time before Elon Musk was tweeting 60 times a day about trans people and the woke mind virus — and it wasn’t that long ago. As recently a…
1 year, 3 months ago
Is Glinda Good?
A Bit Fruity was due for a good old-fashioned film analysis. Wicked is a kids movie that is actually for adults, holding up a mirror to our increasin…
1 year, 4 months ago
How the Right is Winning Young Men (with Taylor Lorenz)
This was the first election where the online far-right radicalization of young boys and men revealed itself in exit polls. After years of being fed d…
1 year, 4 months ago
Riley Gaines: Tie for 5th, Grift for Life
In America, the only thing standing between you and wealth beyond your wildest dreams is tying for fifth with a trans person. Today, media critic Ari…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jubilee Must Be Stopped
The slogan of YouTube’s most popular debate channel, Jubilee, is “provoke understanding & create human connection.” So why is all of its content a ce…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Cult of Stan Culture (with Amanda Montell)
Well, I got Swiftied. As I sat there, sifting through ever more creative and graphic death threats, I wondered: is it time for a podcast episode? Tod…
1 year, 6 months ago