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Every couple of weeks there’s a new story of a fan at a concert misbehaving. One fan threw ashes at Pink, another hit Drake with a cellphone, Miranda Lambert stopped her show when fans took selfies with flash photography. Extreme instances have landed performers in the hospital, but more often attendees have noticed the audience has gotten louder and more distracting than ever. Where is all of this coming from?<br/><br/>Brittany Luse is joined by YouTube commentator Tiffany Ferguson to breakdown…
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This year, the WNBA had its most-watched regular season in 21 years, but what went into creating this new moment of visibility for the league? Host Brittany Luse is joined by Katie Barnes, author of <em>Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates </em>to unpack the league’s initial ‘Barbie girl’ image, the trailblazers who pushed the WNBA to become the first professional sports league to celebrate Pride, and what it means for an athlete to ‘authentically’ express themselves.<br/><br/>Then, we…
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Bethann Hardison is the fashion icon behind so many fashion icons: she worked as a modeling agent in the era of the supermodel – brokering the careers of stars like Kimora Lee Simmons and Tyson Beckford. And when models of color all but vanished from view at the turn of the millennium – she forced designers to bring them back. Host Brittany Luse sits down with Bethann to discuss the new documentary about Bethann’s life, <em>Invisible Beauty</em>, and why fashion imagery, while fraught, is still…
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Bethann Hardison is the fashion icon behind so many fashion icons: she worked as a modeling agent in the era of the supermodel – brokering the careers of stars like Kimora Lee Simmons and Tyson Beckford. And when models of color all but vanished from view at the turn of the millennium – she forced designers to bring them back. Host Brittany Luse sits down with Bethann to discuss the new documentary about Bethann’s life, <em>Invisible Beauty</em>, and why fashion imagery, while fraught, is still…
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A recent New Yorker piece on Hasan Minhaj found that some crucial bits of his stand-up act didn’t stand up to fact-checking. Stretching the truth in comedy is par for the course, but how does that work for a figure like Minhaj, who’d previously doubled down on these stories in interviews and is known for his political satire shows? Brittany is joined by writer Imran Siddiquee and journalist Allana Akhtar to make sense of an entertainment industry that created the conditions for his fame.<br/><br…
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We can all think of a bad movie accent. There’s Lady Gaga in House of Gucci, Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black, or Emma Watson in The Bling Ring. A bad accent takes you out of a movie, right? Well, Brittany sits down with New York Times columnist Kyle Buchanan who thinks a bad accent actually pulls you into a movie. Brittany and Kyle breakdown his theory and play a special game of “Where IS she from?”
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Taylor Swift and her maybe boyfriend, Kansas Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, have been inescapable the past few weeks. The pop superstar has been showing up at Chiefs games, and the NFL has been playing it up - all to the mutual benefit of each party involved. Regardless of if the three of them - Taylor, Travis, and the NFL - are in a romantic polycule, public relations expert Molly McPherson says they are for sure in a PR relationship. Brittany and Molly get into how PR relationships work for ce…
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Taylor Swift and her maybe boyfriend, Kansas Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, have been inescapable the past few weeks. The pop superstar has been showing up at Chiefs games, and the NFL has been playing it up - all to the mutual benefit of each party involved. Regardless of if the three of them - Taylor, Travis, and the NFL - are in a romantic polycule, public relations expert Molly McPherson says they are for sure in a PR relationship. Brittany and Molly get into how PR relationships work for ce…
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<em>A warning: This episode contains explicit language and mentions of rape.</em><br/><br/>For the past two weeks, social media has been flooded with coverage and commentary on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. And while the news updates have been devastating, not everything coming across our feeds has been true. We’ve seen footage pulled from a video game purporting to show a Hamas fighter shooting down a helicopter, and a fake memo from the White House that claimed to announce $8 billion…
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It’s a big week for fans of reality TV - it’s Bravocon 2023. This year it’s in Las Vegas – and while we couldn’t make it to Vegas, we’re revisiting what we learned from last year’s Bravocon in New York. Host Brittany Luse and producer Liam McBain talked to fans, a producer, an academic and the <em>Housewives</em> themselves to understand what makes <em>The Real Housewives</em> peak culture – as in the #1 topic in the group chat – for so many people.
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The Gilded Age delighted audiences with it’s lavish sets, decadent costumes and social sniping when it debuted. Lucky for us, the period drama just returned to HBO Max with a second season. But if we look a little closer at the show, it reveals what we truly want out of period pieces: to remake the past with our modern sensibilities and values. As Brandon Taylor wrote in his essay called “morgan spector pls break me in half,” The Gilded Age engenders “self-delusion” about our history – because t…
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