Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Conspiracy of DEI
Season 2 Episode 12
DEI is the new Critical Race Theory is the new Affirmative Action -- a way to distract you from the way finance is ruining everything. Jessa and Nico…
2 years, 2 months ago
Whither Art School: The MFA Crisis in the United States
Season 2 Episode 11
America's oldest art school, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, is closing its degreed programs after a perilous drop in enrollment. It is just o…
2 years, 2 months ago
Nonfiction Overload: Nickelodeon Trauma Docs and Overstuffed True Life Content
Season 2 Episode 10
Every week there's a new docuseries where the victims of horrific violence or exploitation have to get in front of the camera and tell us the bad thi…
2 years, 2 months ago
The State of the Wife: Kate Middleton gone girl'd herself, Tradwives, and radical divorcées
Season 2 Episode 9
Are the tradwives coming to take your husbands? Page Six printed an essay by a woman whose partner got addicted to depictions of effortless domestici…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Oscars: The Opposite of Content!
Season 2 Episode 8
The viewership of the Oscars is less than half of what it was a decade ago, and yet the award ceremony dominates celebrity media more than ever. The …
2 years, 3 months ago
America the Uncanny: The Octopus Murders, CIA Serial Killers, and Other Conspiracy Content
Season 2 Episode 7
Hey, hey you. No no no, act cool. Listen, I have discovered some pretty potent information about the dealings of our government in (Iran/Nicaragua/Ch…
2 years, 3 months ago
A Short History of the Holocaust Film
Season 2 Episode 6
The Oscars love the Holocaust. Jessa and Nico look back at the short history of the Oscar bait Holocaust film, from Sophie's Choice to Schindler's Li…
2 years, 3 months ago
Is Your Grief Loud Enough: AI Resurrects the Dead
Season 2 Episode 5
Families of the victims of mass shootings are participating in The Shotline, where AI recreates their loved ones' voices to plea for political action…
2 years, 4 months ago
Fade Out: Will Spotify or TikTok Kill Music First?
Season 2 Episode 4
Has TikTok ruined music? With its users flooding concert venues to meow at the artists, with the "oh no" song playing in the background of videos of …
2 years, 4 months ago
My Own Private Colombia: Griselda, Narcos, and Fantasies of the Drug Wars
Season 2 Episode 3
With the release of "Griselda," a Narcos-adjacent Netflix show that reboots Scarface as a woman as if this were the Ghostbusters, Jessa and Nico look…
2 years, 4 months ago