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cold pizza party
cold pizza party is Adam & Ljubica, talking about TV and leftist politics and trashy TV
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Another Life Another Trauma
This week we discuss the Netflix show, Another Life. Every youtuber seems to think it's trash, but as trash tv experts we disagree! This is good ACKTS...
The Real Psychic Dolphins of Dallas
This week we're joined by our fellow Texans from Psychic Dolphin Garage to break down the premier episode of the Real Housewives of Dallas. We discuss...
Clap Daddy Crystals
We discuss the DSA clapping controversy, and why it matters. Then we examine Bravo's Southern Charm and it's struggle to deal with it's racism, sexism...
Hot Pink Pizza Party!
In this ep Ljubica shares her thoughts about the neon color trend sure to dominate our wardrobes, as well as some ways to update the look so you don't...
The Society & Vanderpump Rules
First we discuss the Netflix teen, melodrama, The Society. It claims to depict socialism--but spoiler, it's not the good kind. The show also makes us...
Ilhan's Intentions & Aunt Becky's Very Bad Day
Why is it islamophobic to think that Ilhan Omar is anti-semitic? Because Roland Barthes was wrong in "Death of the Author." We bring Walter Benn Micha...
Recommendations!
This week we say goodbye to 2018 with an ep full of recommendations! Here's a bunch of stuff we like in no particular order.
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The Sexiest Christmas Movie Ghost w/ Matthew @MattTheGweat
Matthew of Liquid Flannel joins us again to talk The Spirit of Christmas, a Netflix (but more like Hallmark) Original Christmas movie about a hard-wor...
Sabrina vs Charmed: Why We Watch Bad TV
On this ep we get meta and discuss why we do what we do: watch bad tv and connect it to politics. Then we get into some the witchy TV that's been flic...
CW Charmed: First Impressions
We share our first impressions of the CW reboot of Charmed and ride out to B*Witched "C'est la Vie"
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Wow, Racist Beauty YouTubers!
This week, we invite you to sit on our Texas porch, pop a bottle and discuss the recent-ish (recent when we recorded it) controversy surrounding the Y...
The Hauntology of Heathers
Matthew from Liquid Flannel joins us to talk Heathers and its preemptively-cancelled TV reboot. We talk first about the movie, with its critique of th...
Sasha Grey and Anime
This week we basically make the point that no one is free under capitalism. Consent doesn't mean anything when money is inherently coercive, and your...
Electoral Politics, Leftism, And Why We Still Like Bernie Sanders
This week we invite you into our kitchen to talk politics. We make breakfast while explaining some big ideas like why leftists shouldn't discount elec...
House Hunters International the Podcast
Why is House Hunters International so appealing to literally everyone? This week, we think out loud about the fantasy of the show, its rigid format, i...
Macedonia, Brutalism as Politics, and What's in a Name? ft. Djordje
This week we bring you a conversation with our friend Djordje (who's living in Macedonia) about the current state of MK politics. We start out discuss...
Centrists Don't Believe in Democracy
Democracy is under threat from centrists according to recent polls, but Democrats continue to prefer moderates anyway. Also they're racist. What does...
Seize Culture from the Rich
Watching Netflix's World's Most Extraordinary Homes, we were both awed and disgusted. Today, we talk about the show and its obscene mix of beautiful,...
The Liberal Pathology Behind Russiagate
This it's a true podcast hangout sesh. We have a free-wheeling discussion about Russia-gate, and why it's pathological for the liberals who love it. W...
Seize Fashion From the Rich
Ljubica gives us kind of an intro to fashion, and we talk about why it's interesting and worth watching and what the class politics of fashion are. Al...
Millennials: Nature's Anxiety-Ridden Snowflakes
The meritocratic and winner-takes-all world order is gonna make us all self-optimize to death. In her Jacobin article, "You Can Be Your Own Tyrannical...
The Only Correct Take on Aziz Ansari
Today, we say everything right about the Aziz Ansari sex abuse scandal. As always, don't form any opinions until you've listened to the whole episode....
The Ethics of "Charmed" and Lady Detectives
Back from a (long) holiday break, we're talking about female perspectives on justice as portrayed by the sisters of Charmed and women-centered cop sho...
Lunch with Milo and Rupi Kaur
This week, we talk Alt-Right with the pleasant sounds of sautéing lunch in the background. Buzzfeed put out an exposé on Breitbart’s literal ties to t...
Should We Have Kids? TV Says No
TV shows parenting as a hellscape, and in our class-stratified society, it increasingly is. Even well-to-do parents are so consumed with anxiety about...
Schooled by a DACA Recipient
On this ep, a continuation of “Conversation w/ a DACA Recipient,” our discussion moves to cover immigration more widely. Andrea talks about the miscon...
Conversation w/ a DACA Recipient
This week we have a cold pizza party first, an interview! Better yet, an interview with our friend and DACA recipient Andrea De La Vega. She tells us...
Howdy from Hurricane Harvey Country
This week, we talk Harvey and Houston. We also explain Houston to people who’ve never been. Listen for some interesting facts that might counter misco...
Louboutins and Neo-Nazis
We start out with a long ranting sesh as we decompress and try to digest the horrifying events of the weekend in Charlottesville. Then we switch over...
My Feminism will be Anti-Capitalist or It will be Bullshit!
This week we get back to talking about TV, with a new "feminist" tv show. We take a critical look at The Bold Type, it's lack of commitment to an actu...
Confession: We are Active Members of The Cult of Domesticity
This week we talk about Amber A'lee Frost's recent piece for Current Affairs, "Against Domesticity." In the piece Amber argues that, “Attempts to elev...
Dispatches from Soviet Yugoslavia
How many Transformers movies is Warren Buffet worth? How many Transformers movies could all the OxyContin overdoses pay for? And what ever happened to...
Even When We're Paranoid, We're Not Paranoid Enough
This week has been a bit hectic so instead of a new topic we bring you a bonus ep on last week's topic, conspiracies. Adam and I kept talking long aft...
Are We Being Paranoid? Ancient Alien Theorists Say Yes!
This week we talk Ancient Aliens, the tv show. We discuss why we love it as well as the many things about it that worry us. Then we talk about conspir...
Hillary Lives in 2037
Adam shares with Ljubica some stuff Hillary Clinton said at a tech conference, and along the way, we discuss a bunch of stuff like conspiracy theories...
The Angry Episode
This week we do a close read of Megan McArdle's Bloomberg piece, "Beware of Blaming Government for London Tower Fire." It is the angriest episode we'v...
Let's Smoke Weed and Protest on Campus
This week we talk about the Vermont Governor's recent decision to veto a recreational pot bill, followed by a longer discussion about free speech and...
Matty G Tweets
Today, we read Matt Yglesias’ tweets for young Bernie fans from an old Democrat, which are bad and wrong.
We'll Title This Tomorrow, Maybe
This week, we have a very free-ranging discussion over wine -- we touch on whiteness, reading politics as art, the great "The New Victorians" article...
A Golden Age of Murder Shows
This week Ljubica is excited to share some thoughts on true crime TV shows with Adam. We discuss new versus old and argue that "the real America" is m...