Episodes

  • The Dune Movies

    The Dune Movies
    May 10 2024
    Dune is Rebecca’s favorite novel, but Maya is a pure 100% Dune virgin. We watched Denis Villeneuve’s massively popular adaptation of this legendary, and legendarily unfilmable, sci fi epic to see if we see any of the same things. Does it work as a movie series? As an adaptation? As a meditation on the white …

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Grab Bag! Beyonce, Tradwives, OJ Simpson

    Grab Bag! Beyonce, Tradwives, OJ Simpson
    Apr 25 2024
    There is too damn much to talk about so we try to talk about it ALL! In this episode, Beyonce Goes Country, Tradwifes Go Viral, OJ Simpson Goes Dead, and Rebecca and Maya just try to keep up. We break down Cowboy Carter, the weird fantasy of white housewife cosplay, and the legacy of a …

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Trump, Fucked (?)

    Trump, Fucked (?)
    Apr 9 2024
    After taking a much-needed break from TFG, Maya and Rebecca catch up on Trump’s troubles: legal, financial, political, and psychophysical. How fucked is he? How worried should we be? What’s the most productive way to direct our anxiety between now and November?
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Poor Things

    Poor Things
    Mar 26 2024
    Depending on whom you ask, Academy award winner Poor Things is either a feminist masterpiece about an empowered woman, or a male fantasy about a baby-minded fuck toy. Maya and Rebecca attempt to bridge the gap, asking the really important questions: Why is Yorgos Lanthimos so obsessed with old-timey whorehouses? Is this quirky visual style …

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Right Wing Attacks on Higher Ed (with Nadia E. Brown!)

    Right Wing Attacks on Higher Ed (with Nadia E. Brown!)
    Mar 8 2024
    College presidents forced to resign. Faculties gutted. Anti-DEI legislations cropping up nationwide. There’s no doubt about it–Right Wing activists are attacking Higher Ed, trying to “capture, restructure, and reform” centers of learning. Georgetown political scientist and Women’s Studies professor Nadia E. Brown joins us to help us understand this moment, what makes it different than …

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Problematic Faves: Liberal Arts Education (with Meredith Yayanos!)

    Problematic Faves: Liberal Arts Education (with Meredith Yayanos!)
    Feb 20 2024
    Intellectual expansion! Youthful passion! Exploited innocence! Genius writer, musician, and professional flame-throwing shit-starter Meredith Yayanos, comes on to talk about their problematic fave: Liberal Arts Education. What does college MEAN in the social imaginary? What did it mean to us? Cronyism, elitism, pranks, nubility, narcissistic faculty, racism, classism, date rape, Jeffrey Epstein, the hangover of …

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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • Swifties Strike Back

    Swifties Strike Back
    Jan 30 2024
    Were we wrong about Taylor Swift? Actual, real live Swiftie Jenna Parrot responds to Maya and Rebecca’s takes about her favorite pop megastar. Can she help us understand Swift’s musical appeal, not to mention her cultural and political impact?
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Taylor Swift and Beyonce

    Taylor Swift and Beyonce
    Jan 3 2024
    We can’t start the new year without talking about THE biggest pop culture story of 2023: Beyonce and Taylor Swift dominating American music, culture and even economics with their wildly popular, wildly extravagant Renaissance and Eras tours. Maya and Rebecca break down the star power, the spectacle and the songwriting, asking what makes these two …

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    1 hr and 5 mins