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Ep. 99: Queer for Fear and Our Horror Recommendations Oct 24, 2022

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Wynter & Karen dive into the new Shudder documentary series, Queer for Fear: The History for Queer Horror, and are inspired to make some of their own queer horror recommendations for the spooky season. Wynter considers which streaming services she needs to drop, while Karen claps back at the WaPo piece claiming GenX's shift to the right by considering how "Generation Jones" skews those purported numbers. Plus, Negroni Sbagliato (with prosecco in it), and two new songs of the week.

Ep. 98: Too Much Too Crime? Dahmer, The Gabby Petito Story and Blonde Oct 10, 2022

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Wynter assigns Karen a range of true crime offerings with varying degrees of budget and prestige, from Lifetime's The Gaby Petito Story, to Netflix's limited series, Dahmer and the cinematic offering, Blonde. The two discuss when true crime is too much in both quantity and affect. KT's viewing habits have veered to deep straight dude sportiness, while Wynter walks us through some major GenX anniversaries for 90210 and Janet's The Velvet Rope, plus Hocus Pocus 2 on Disney+. Nuo-lingo has a long reality story attached to it, and our songs of the week are bonafide jams.

Ep. 97 WRESTLING with GENX's ANGLOPHILIA Sep 26, 2022

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The end of the Elizabethan-era (part II) prompted us to reflect on how British pop culture has dominated GenX's imaginaries, from new wave and the new romantics, to Fawlty Towers and Monty Python, to iconoclasts like Bowie and the Sex Pistols up to and including contemporary favorites the Great British Bake Off and The Crown, to the British royal family itself as pop culture.

Plus, it's a very Hulu week for us with Welcome to Wrexham and Reboot. We drop a nuo-lingo for new relationships and two songs from beloved icons from the 80s and now.

Ep. 96: 2022 Emmy Predictions Sep 12, 2022

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Karen and Wynter are back together again, just in time to drop their Emmy predictions for all the Comedy and Drama acting categories. They tell you who they want to win, as well as who they think will actually win, so listen-up before you fill out your ballots for the awards broadcast on Monday, September 12! Fresh from her vacay, KT talks about the "couple" shows she and Sarah watch together, like Industry on HBO. Wynter is stoked about the impending return of the Great British Bake Off and tells us about all the nuo-lingo that has officially been incorporated into Merriam-Webster. Plus, two sweet sweet songs of the week for coastal grandmas, grandpas and/or thembas.

Canceling Cable - SNL

370 New Words and Definitions Added to Merriam-Webster

Ep. 95: She-Hulk and Snark w/Ryan Bailey Aug 29, 2022

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Wynter is in the driver's seat one more time and wants to know if you're watching She-Hulk. It's a refreshing glass of characters and story that you don't even need to have watched all 432 Marvel movies to enjoy.

Ryan Bailey (So Bad it's Good Podcast) stops by for the main segment to talk about all things snark and why we love to hate on the internet.

PLUS: nuo-lingo to help you sift through bad vibes and a SOTW from a Gen X icon's kid!

Ep. 94: A Free For All w/ Abby Gardner Aug 15, 2022

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While Karen is on vacation, Wynter brought in special guest host Abby Gardner (We Have Notes Podcast/Substack) to talk about ALL THE THINGS: Biopics, Harry Styles, mixtapes, movies, Kate Bush, old Hollywood, new Hollywood, Joan Crawford, Florence Pugh...seriously, it's a dense pop culture discussion from top to bottom.

Grab a snack and settle in!

Ep. 93: Irma Vep Across Time Aug 01, 2022

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Karen and Wynter have been seduced by Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas' "serialized" HBO Max revisitation of his own 1996 indie film of the same name starring screen goddess Maggie Cheung (his ex-wife). The two get into all the series' meta-narratives,, including Alicia Vikander as a modified K-Stew. Light SPOILERS.

Karen is obsessed with #PREATH's (Christen Press and Tobin Heath's) sizzle on the ESPYs red carpet, while Wynter loves up on Nathan Fielder in The Rehearsal. (Where's our HBO Max sponsorship already?!)

Are we or are we not "BASED"? Plus two songs of the week from the 80s, and info about KT's new food-related BoCo on our Patreon.

Ep. 92: WORTH THE WAIT? From Stranger Things to Umbrella Academy Jul 19, 2022

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Wynter has returned from her European vacation to tell us about her encounter with Aline–not to be confused with Celine, who the main character of this French-Canadian film very closely resembles. Karen tells us about Chris Belcher hot new memoir Pretty Baby (Simon & Schuster), chronicling her life as a queer teen rebel who escapes small-town Appalachia to become a renowned Lesbian Dominatrix in L.A.

The two also offer their rundown of TV series that have taken a long hiatus (Stranger Things, Atlanta, Barry, Umbrella Academy, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) only to return after several years, assessing whether or not they were worth the wait.

Plus, nuo-lingo and songs of the week with totally different vibes.

Ep. 91: Comin' in Hot: FX's THE BEAR Jul 04, 2022

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This week Karen is joined by author, curator, and former kitchen-geek Jennifer Doyle, as well as Chef Courtney Storer to talk about the buzzy and bingeable FX series The Bear. As the culinary producer on the show, Chef Coco gives us the inside scoop on how the actors recreated the tense, fast-paced atmosphere of professional kitchens, while revealing what happens to all the food they make on set.

KT and Jennifer talk about women's soccer and mutual aid, and share their profound love for L.A.'s NWSL team, the Angel City Football Club. (LAFC gets its props too).

Plus, they get into Apple TV's Loot and Showtime's I Love That For You. Nuo-lingo explains what it means when someone is "a 10, but…" and we offer up two songs of the week with a dose of hope.

Ep. 90: A Theysian/Gaysian Guide to Hulu's FIRE ISLAND Jun 13, 2022

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Wynter is out of the country, so Karen invited her longtime gaysian/theysian pals, Summer Kim Lee (a cultural critic and UCLA professor), and JJ Chan (an artist and designer based in Brooklyn) to talk about the highly anticipated gay(sian) rom-com, Hulu's Fire Island. The three talk about some of their own summer gaycations together and apart, while diving deep into the details of Fire Island down to its most resonant moments with Austen's Pride & Prejudice, to what JJ calls the "Cherry Grove aesthetic" of Margaret Cho's house, despite the film's setting in the Pines. Plus: Karen takes her wife Sarah to Disneyland for her very first visit to the Magic Kingdom, JJ gosses about "eyebrow gate" on Gentleman Jack, and Summer FINALLY gets into Survivor after 42 seasons. And, nuo-lingo from a real life millennial and three #thatgirl summer jams!

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