Waiting to X-hale
125 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 222 ratingsA Gen X-themed show with podcast veterans Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh and Karen Tongson (Pop Rocket). W2X revisits the pop culture & social issues that defined Generation X from a (queer) woman-of-color perspective in a way that sheds new light on the pop culture from both then, and now.
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Welcome to Tangent Island
December 18, 2023 05:00 - 6 minutes - 6.96 MBI've been dreaming of this very journey for a few years. I turned 40 during COVID and was hit with speed bump after speed bump. Situations I have never anticipated experiencing and in some cases it will be my first time sharing it with you. Once you've lived through a pandemic as I have, you see things differently, your appreciation for life hits differently and your tolerance for BS plummets… I want to navigate those twists and turns with you and stray off the beaten path just for th...
Ep. 114: Second Acts: The Waiting to X-Hale Finale
December 08, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 82 MBIt’s the final episode, and there are tears shed, and personal revelations made as Karen and Wynter contemplate their favorite “second acts” in popular culture. Amidst it all, Wynter also discusses her new project dropping in January, and Karen shares a couple of lines from her new book Normporn. Plus, a glimpse at Apple TV+’s The Supermodel, and Todd Haynes’ latest, May/December. What’s the last NUO-LINGO ever? And what did each of our hosts choose as their final songs? We’re going to miss ...
Ep. 113: Favorite Finales
December 04, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBIn our penultimate episode, Wynter and Karen prepare for the end by reflecting on their favorite series finales including Mad Men, Six Feet Under, The Good Place and The Americans among others. Before they do, Karen insists on one more discussion about a pop culture controversy: Julianna Marguilles’ condescending comments told from her perspective “as someone who plays a lesbian journalist” on TV. Our team LOVES Squid Game: The Challenge, which is their new problematic fave. Plus, NUO-LINGO ...
Ep. 112: Special Guests
October 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBThis week we present our second "best of" episode featuring a collection of the lovely guests we've had over the years. You'll hear Guy Branham & Margaret Wappler make their first appearance since the end of Pop Rocket (3:28), Kathy Valentine talk about the L.A. punk scene and feminism (15:27), Kevin Smith talk about working with his daughter (24:37), June Diane Raphael give her take on Clueless (34:09), Bob Odenkirk talk about Mr. Show and using comedy to expose homophobia (49:21), Renee Be...
Ep. 111: Ahead of Our Time
September 23, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBWe present our first "best of" episode featuring clips or topics that were ahead of the curve. From the prediction of the Cocaine Bear movie, the ahead of her time Queen Latifah and Wynter's discovery of TUBI to darker predictions of COVID conspiracy theories and political unrest, we look back on what we got right. Episodes featured: Ep. 6: What the Wild Things Teach Us: Cocaine Bear vs. Meth Gator Ep. 10: On Becoming Kirstin Dunst: 1990s KD vs. 2000s KD Ep. 13: All Hail t...
Ep. 110: My favorite disaster
August 19, 2023 15:31 - 53 minutes - 75.2 MBWynter flies solo again as she discusses her favorite natural disaster movies as Hurricane Hilary is set to bring the rain to SoCal. She shares her thoughts on guilty pleasures she’s indulging like Baywatch Nights and getting rid of cable. and what she thinks is the unlikely song of the summer which is a throwback to the eurodance era of the 90s. To get early access to releases and bonus content weekly, please subscribe to our patreon at patreon.com/waitingtoxhale
Ep. 109: Gen X Grief & the Loss of Sinead O’Connor and Paul “Pee-Wee Herman “ Reubens
August 05, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 68.5 MBWynter flies solo as she discusses Gen X grief in the wake of Sinead O’Connor and Paul “Pee Wee Herman” Reuben's deaths. She shares her thoughts Greta Gerwig’s Barbie success, the Lizzo controversy, and recommends a British show that depicts Hollywood post-#MeToo. Plus her dedication to a popular Seattle radio station that’s been turning out her favorite greatest hits all week. To get early access to releases and bonus content please subscribe to our patreon at patreon.com/waiting...
Ep. 108: HOTCAST
July 22, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutes - 72.3 MBIt’s the hottest summer on record, so Karen and Wynter take it upon themselves to discuss the pop culture that’s bringing all the heat, from Barbenheimer opening weekend, to Mission Impossible and the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Before all that, Wynter rants about the erosion of travel etiquette, while Karen prepares for her return to Oz with a look at Deadloch, a lesbionic Aussie murder mystery that its writers originally called “Funny Broadchurch.” Plus, songs ...
Ep. 107: Threads, Bear, And Just Like That…
July 08, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBWynter and KT have so much to chew on this week, including the scramble for social media life-rafts after Twitter. Wynter tells us all about the new Meta platform, Threads, while KT documents her various false starts and efforts at making a go of it on Bluesky. The two dish deep on the 2nd season of Hulu’s The Bear, and ask the question, “Fishes” or “Forks?,” all while heaping praise on Ayo Edibiri’s contributions to heartwarming BLERD representation.They also share their feelings about s...
Ep. 106: Wynter is Back! Black Mirror and Other Current Dystopias
June 24, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBWynter is back and we have an episode filled with SPOILER ALERTS for both the season finale of Dave and all of Black Mirror, season 6. Which of Streamberry’s eps do we love, or…not so much? KT has an action alert for the LGBTQ+ community, as the GenX 1990s activist organization Queer Nation revs back up in Los Angeles to fight the ‘phobes. Plus, Japanese yacht rock and our undisputed song of the summer. To get early access to releases and bonus content subscribe to our patreon at: pat...
Pride Bonus Episode on Ultimatum: Queer Love
June 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBKaren assembles an expert panel of queers to dish about this summer's reality phenom, Ultimatum: Queer Love (Netflix). Authors, curators, and queers about town, Greta La Fleur (@GretaLaFleur), Juana María Rodriguez (@RadioRodriguez), Poulomi Saha (@poulomiqsaha) and Jeanne Vaccaro (@whateverjeanne on instagram only) join KT with a rundown of all the things they find delightful and cringey about TV's latest bid for sapphic representation. Who ends up on top in our cast-member power rankings? ...
Ep. 105: GenX Coffee Klatsch + 1984 w/ Scott Poulson-Bryant & Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
June 03, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 99.5 MBKaren is joined this week by Scott Poulson-Bryant (a co-founding editor of Vibe magazine, author and professor at the University of Michigan), and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, the author of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games. Ebony is a Detroit native who is also a professor at the University of Michigan. The trio get together for some wide-ranging cawffee tawk about pop culture habits across the spectrum of GenX (Scott was born in ‘66, KT in ‘73, a...
Ep. 104: Met Gala and More w/ A.E. Stevenson
May 13, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 97.2 MBFashion connoisseur and media scholar A.E. Stevenson joins KT this week to get into all things Met Gala, from the controversies around the Lagerfeld theme, to the tiniest details about some of the looks that ATE. Before all that, the two express their support for the WGA strike and explain some of the stakes for the uninitiated. Plus, songs by Kelele and Phoenix. To get access to early releases and bonus content subscribe to our patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/waitingtoxhale.
Ep. 103b: Nuo-Lingo and BoCo: “Touch Grass" w/ Andrew Ti
April 29, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MBKaren and guest-host Andrew Ti take their "Asian conversation meant to be had indoors" outdoors to the soccer pitch. The two share their love of ACFC player Jun Endo, while also discussing a controversy surrounding her hairstyle at the beginning of the season. Plus, "Brown-Eyed Biffs," latchkey kids, and the origins of the NUO LINGO phrase, "touch grass." It's our last FREE BoCo ep--the rest will be Patreon exclusive--so listen up, then subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/waitingtoxhale.
Ep. 103: Yo, is Gen X Racist? With Andrew Ti
April 22, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBKaren welcomes guest-host Andrew Ti (creator and co-host of Yo, is This Racist?) to discuss a recent Politico article that describes Gen X as “the Trumpiest generation.” Before getting into all that, the two discuss their mutual love of the Angel City Football Club, aka ACFC, L.A.’s National Women’s Soccer League team. Andrew also reports back after treating himself to matinees of the Dungeons and Dragons and Mario Bros. movies, while Karen is in the middle of another prestige TV rewatch w...
Ep. 102b: Nuo-Lingo and BoCo: “Private Not Secret” w/ Guy Branum
April 17, 2023 04:00 - 22 minutes - 25.7 MBOuttakes from episode 102 on Andy Cohen and International TV; a nuo-lingo on online displays of relationships. Please follow and review the show wherever you listen to podcasts. You can support the podcast on Patreon.
Ep. 102: World(ly) TV: From Top Chef World All Stars to International Netflix Offerings
April 08, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutes - 76 MBOur dear Guy Branum sits in for Wynter, as he and Karen have a wide-ranging conversation about everything from #Gaylor discourse and why KT is a “Swiftie at Fifty,” to his long Talmudic catch-up with the Real Housewives franchise, specifically Beverly Hills. The two also explore the impact of international TV, including shows like Physical 100 (S. Korea) and the Filipino comedy, The Enlightened before discussing what it means for the Top Chef franchise to do a “World All Stars” season. Plus...
Ep. 101: What Did I Miss? Spare, The Last of Us, M3GAN & More - Plus THE OSCARS
March 17, 2023 10:45 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBWynter and Karen are back with season 6 to ask each other, “what did I miss?” as they cover some of the notable pop culture moments that went down during their holiday hiatus. Before they get into Spare, The Last of Us and M3GAN, the two debrief about the 2023 Oscars, as Wynter goes against the tide of criticism around The Whale, while Karen considers the significance of Everything, Everywhere All At Once’s sweep of the top prizes. The two also catch up about their recent travels...
Ep. 100: Turning 100 with Bob Odenkirk
November 07, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 131 MBIt’s our 100th episode and season 5 finale!!! To help celebrate the occasion, the one and only BOB ODENKIRK was kind enough to join us for a chat about Mr. Show, comedy in the 90s, and the great Janeane Garofalo. Karen is cautiously optimistic about the new season of White Lotus, while she and Wynter process the ramifications of El-n M-sk’s purchase of Twitter. Plus, a few other 100th episode surprises, to go with nuo-lingo and our songs of the week.
Celebrate 100 episodes with us!
October 28, 2022 19:25 - 2 minutes - 1.56 MBHead over to w2xpodcast.com and click the blue button on the right side to leave us a voicemail!
Ep. 99: Queer for Fear and Our Horror Recommendations
October 24, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBWynter & 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
October 10, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 46.9 MBWynter 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...
Ep. 97 WRESTLING with GENX’s ANGLOPHILIA
September 26, 2022 11:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBThe 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 an...
Ep. 96: 2022 Emmy Predictions
September 12, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBKaren 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 an...
Ep. 95: She-Hulk and Snark w/Ryan Bailey
August 29, 2022 13:09 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBWynter 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
August 15, 2022 18:06 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBWhile 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
August 01, 2022 10:18 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBKaren 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 spon...
Ep. 92: WORTH THE WAIT? From Stranger Things to Umbrella Academy
July 19, 2022 01:23 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBWynter 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 Th...
Ep. 91: Comin’ in Hot: FX’s THE BEAR
July 04, 2022 11:53 - 1 hour - 51 MBThis 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 ...
Ep. 90: A Theysian/Gaysian Guide to Hulu’s FIRE ISLAND
June 13, 2022 15:37 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBWynter 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 Gr...
Ep. 89: FIGHT BACK! w/ author Raquel Gutierrez
June 06, 2022 11:45 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBCW: discussions of violence, self-harm, domestic abuse, mass shooting–in other words, of our everyday lives in the U.S.A. Wynter and Karen welcome special guest Raquel Gutierrez, author of the new book Brown Neon (out June 7). The three revive a conversation they started over drinks during the Gen X festival about vengeance movies centering women, and fantasies of fighting back in a bleak timeline moving increasingly from the genre of horror to realism. Karen talks about why she underto...
Ep. 88: W2X Live @ REDCAT w/ Kevin Smith & Sandra Bernhard
May 09, 2022 21:09 - 1 hour - 134 MBThis is an edited version of the live show - Patreon members get the full unedited video! The Gen X festival’s Humanities co-curators (Wynter & Karen!!!!) take the stage for a live podcast recording along with special guests Sandra Bernhard and Kevin Smith!
Ep. 87: The Music of 1992 and 2002
April 11, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes - 105 MBWynter and Karen reflect back on the music of 1992 and 2002, from Pitchfork favorites to the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to selecting their MVP songs and albums from each year, they each get into what they were wearing and gift an NFT idea to Ja Rule in the process. Wynter continues delving into the saga of millennial overreachers by entering the world of WeCrashed, while Karen sobs to the epic, multigenerational saga that is Apple TV+’s Pachinko, while revisiting the thrills and jigg...
Ep. 86: 80s Erotique with Karina Longworth
March 28, 2022 17:57 - 1 hour - 50 MBThis week Karina Longworth, the creator, producer and host of You Must Remember This joins us for a preview of the pod’s latest season on the “Erotic 80s.” Before the three regale you with tales of peering at their parents’ Playboy magazines (and whatever played late at night on cable), Wynter and Karen tell us what’s up this week by diving into the first Adrian Lyne offering in 20 years, Deep Water starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. Plus, The Gilded Age finale, Life After Beth, a n...
Ep. 85 - A Most Excellent Vintage: Our Favorite OSCARS Years
March 14, 2022 15:34 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBWynter and Karen look back on their favorite Oscars years and winners in recent, i.e. prime GenX decades, as we round the corner to the 94th Annual Academy Awards. Before they take a 1985 and 1992-heavy trip down memory lane, the two get into the latest TV exegesis on millennial hustlers, The Dropout and Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, before launching into an unexpected Guy Fieri lovefest, especially for his Food Network Tournament of Champions. Plus, more retrolingo as nuo-lingo a...
Ep. 84: THE FUTURE OF MUSIC IS…RAISING THE DEAD?
February 28, 2022 15:21 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBWe’re thrilled to welcome back Ann Powers of NPR Music, and author of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music to talk to us about the future of music. We explore other critics’ predictions about the future, including Ted Gioia’s speculation that we may have more dead musicians performing for us in the form of holograms, deep fake vocals, and more. From A.I. K-Pop artists, to Kanye’s STEM player, and what Karen calls “micro-dosing mega mixes,” all three peer...
Ep. 83: THE FUTURE IS NOW
February 21, 2022 14:34 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBKaren returns from her bout w/ the Omarion variant to catch up with Wynter about Super Bowl Sunday, including all the ads, and the “GenX has arrived” halftime show featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and 50 Cent. Their main segment focuses on how uncannily films and TV from the past have predicted elements of our present (or their future), from 1973’s Soylent Green set in 2022, to Robocop, Her, Idiocracy, and many more, including detours into present day “pandemic” shows like ...
Ep. 82: And Just Like That…It’s 1996
January 31, 2022 12:30 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBHot on the heels of our last episode on Yellowjackets, Wynter and Karen are inspired to revisit the year 1996 and what it gave to us in fashion, fragrances, music, TV, movies and more. Before they get into all that, and what they were each up to at the time, they finally sit down for a much needed & extended processing session about And Just Like That… the SATC reboot on HBO which has made the non-binary character, Che Diaz (played by Sara Ramirez) into a cultural lightning rod. Is the sho...
Ep. 81: Yellowjackets! Buzz, Buzz, Buzz
January 17, 2022 19:56 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBWynter & Karen welcome you to Season 5 with a bushel full of SPOILER ALERTS for both Search Party and the topic of their main segment, everybody’s latest obsession Yellowjackets (not that other “Yellow” TV show). Which Yellowjacket do each of them identify with vs. who they ended up with on their Buzzfeed quiz? In their eagerness to catch up at the start of the new year, Karen & Wynter get into a deep convo about the state of TV narratives as they’ve worked their way in, around or through Co...
Ep. 80: Holiday Holigay Special w/ Alonso Duralde and Dave White
December 13, 2021 16:16 - 1 hour - 56 MBThe whole gang gets frisky with a very special feline-themed holiday episode. Our favorite holigays Alonso Duralde and Dave White join Wynter and Karen to discuss Hallmark’s The Nine Lives of Christmas (2014) and its brand new sequel, The Nine Kittens of Christmas (2021)--all in celebration of Alonso’s new co-authored book, I'll Be Home for Christmas Movies: The Deck the Hallmark Podcast’s Guide to Your Holiday TV Obsession. Karen & Wynter also break down the latest Live in Front of a St...
Ep. 79: Fright Night Finale! Halloween Kills, Chucky and Ghosts
October 25, 2021 11:30 - 1 hour - 50 MBOur hosts close out season four with a Halloween-themed episode that covers a spate of new horror-related releases from Halloween Kills to SyFy’s Chucky series. Speaking of horror, Karen took her first cross-country flight since the pandemic started and has tales to tell, while Wynter takes another kind of Trip with a Swedish suspense film of the same name. The two tease new GBBO related BoCo that will be available to Patreon subscribers during the season break, and our songs of the week ...
Ep. 78: Squid Game and Playing for Survival
October 11, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBSPOILER ALERT: Details from the several episodes of Squid Game are discussed in the main segment. Wynter and Karen join the rest of the world in obsessing over Squid Game, the S. Korean Netflix series about contestants playing children’s games to try to win billions of won without getting eliminated...literally. The two also talk about this week’s big reveal that W2X is curating the humanities program for the LA Phil’s GenX festival in spring 2022. In the spirit of the moment, Karen re-wa...
Ep. 77: ACS Impeachment
September 27, 2021 14:15 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBWho is the “mother SCOBY” of all Karens? Find out on this week’s episode, which dives deep into Impeachment, the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story anthology. How does the series ratchet up its scenes of bureaucratic drama as Sarah Paulson and Beanie Feldstein disappear into the roles of Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky? How has the series already shifted our hosts’ perspective on their original reactions to the scandal back in the 90s? Wynter gets bourgie (aka boujee...
Ep. 76: You’re Not the Main Character!
September 13, 2021 13:38 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBInspired by Kathryn VanArendonk's Vulture article about white men in crisis on TV, Wynter and Karen explore the many layers of white male aggrievement in TV, pop culture, and real-life (fr. Rutherford Falls, to White Lotus and Ted Lasso w/ a special shoutout to the new movie Vacation Friends). Wynter discusses the spoils she acquired in the Tom Girardi auction (Erica Jayne, on the RHOBH’s ex-husband), as our hosts comb through the other items on offer for both deals and insights into the ri...
Ep. 75: Geriatric Xers and End-of-Summer Top 10
August 30, 2021 14:59 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBFilm critics and husbands Dave White and Alonso Duralde of the Linoleum Knife Podcast are GUEST HOSTING W2X this week! While Wynter and Karen are running around taking care of business (at a safe distance and masked, of course) Dave and Alonso have stepped in to discuss "geriatric" millennials, Xers, and whether these terms are even useful. And with the end of summer upon us, they share their Top 10 films, tv shows, and printed words of the last few months. We also get their take on NUO-L...
Ep. 74: BioDocs from Bourdain to Val
August 16, 2021 13:24 - 58 minutes - 40 MBKaren and Wynter explore two high-profile and controversial documentaries about beloved figures Anthony Bourdain (Roadrunner), and Val Kilmer (Val). What do we get from conjuring their lost voices? And what do we miss in the process? Wynter performs our semi-annual Ryan Murphy check-in, and gets pumped up about ACS: Impeachment on the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal, while looking askance at this season of American Horror Story. Karen spends some quality time with the Peacock platform to tell us al...
Ep. 73: Woodstock 99 & Music Festivals with Ann Powers
August 02, 2021 14:11 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBOne of our generation’s greatest pop music critics, Ann Powers (NPR Music), sits down with Karen and Wynter to process the new Woodstock 99 doc, and music festivals in general, while exploring the cultural conditions that stoked this calamity. This week, both hosts are up to going deep on Mike White’s latest HBO limited series, The White Lotus, and as promised, wrap up their take on the Fear Street trilogy by processing the 1666 edition. Plus, a homonymic nuo-lingo and songs of the week by ...
Ep. 72: Ridin’ Down Fear Street: 1994 and 1978
July 19, 2021 13:38 - 1 hour - 121 MBWynter tells Karen to suck it up for a ride down R.L. Stine’s Fear Street, especially with the release of the trilogy on Netflix and its deep GenX flex (from 1994 to 1978). SPOILERS ABOUND! Before we get to the scary parts, Karen insists we process this year’s Emmy nominations. Which categories does she deem a veritable “Sophie’s Choice”? Meanwhile, Wynter makes some special requests of the team working on the new, Samantha-less SATC reboot. Plus, an update on all the nuo-lingo recently a...
Ep. 71 - Soft, Yacht, and Spago Rock with Mike Pace and Molly Lambert
July 05, 2021 18:50 - 1 hour - 57 MBWe go long this week to pore over all the shout horns, crotchy synth chords and late-80s affluence of what Mike Pace famously describes as Spago rock. Molly Lambert explains the Spago-adjacent music she and her brother have dubbed “Glass Bricks rock,” and the whole panel gets into what Wolfgang Puck and Spago as fantasy and reality meant to pop culture from the 1980s onward. Wynter and Karen kick off the show by processing the homosocial episode of Dave, and explain why Apple TV’s Physical...
Ep. 71: Soft, Yacht, and Spago Rock with Mike Pace and Molly Lambert
July 05, 2021 18:50 - 1 hour - 57 MBWe go long this week to pore over all the shout horns, crotchy synth chords and late-80s affluence of what Mike Pace famously describes as Spago rock. Molly Lambert explains the Spago-adjacent music she and her brother have dubbed “Glass Bricks rock,” and the whole panel gets into what Wolfgang Puck and Spago as fantasy and reality meant to pop culture from the 1980s onward. Wynter and Karen kick off the show by processing the homosocial episode of Dave, and explain why Apple TV’s Physical i...