Waiting to X-hale (Karen Tongson and Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh)

Karen and Wynter couldn’t resist diving into season 3 of Netflix’s most opulent and expensive series, The Crown as soon as it was released. How do the two feel about the new cast, lead by Oscar-winner Olivia Colman & Helena Bonham Carter as we enter EIIR’s midlife transformations? Karen has a little something to say about Gen Z labeling Gen X a bunch of “Karens.” And as usual, nuo-lingo enhances our vocabulary, as Wynter gets us bopping to a new song of the week. 

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Links to just about everything mentioned:

• The Crown Season 3 Teaser
• Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman? Gregory Allen Howard on ‘Harriet’s’ difficult journey to the big screen
• Charlie’s Angels Official Trailer
• Gen Z Is Calling Gen X The "Karen Generation"
• Discover the real history behind Netflix’s The Crown
• Starman - Bowie

Our 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 bring you two different autumnal vibes.

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Karen and Wynter fixed their audio problems just in time to record in the wake of Super Tuesday 2020. They get into the nitty-gritty generational breakdown between candidates and their supporters while assessing the media (hell)scape of electoral politics in general. Wynter tells us what Kim Kardashian has to do with all of it at the end of the segment (!!!)  In light of all this political drama, the two also tell us what TV helps them go “nighty night” after a long and stressful day of facing the world. You might be surprised--or not--at Wynter’s frightening selections, while Karen gets into how The Circle is a perfect sleepytime TV show. Also, why do both of them keep falling asleep to the reboot of High Fidelity? Warning: there are some Love is Blind spoilers. Plus, nuo-lingo and a song fit for Tuesdays. 

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Links to just about everything mentioned:

• Mindhunter 
• HGTV Features Its First-Ever Throuple On House Hunters
• The Circle
• Love is Blind
• High Fidelity (2000)
• High Fidelity (2020)
• Coming Up Close - ‘Til Tuesday

Karen 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 all about Dr. Death and Rutherford Falls. Nuo-lingo comes from an old familiar place, and songs of the week both new and old are available for your listening pleasure.

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Karen 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 Station Eleven and Y: The Last Man. 

Nuo-lingo continues as retro-lingo with an education in denim cuts, and our songs of the week anticipate next week’s episode about the future of music.

Wynter 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 season two of And Just Like That…. Plus two songs of the week from Le Tigre and Otoboke Beaver.

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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

Wynter and Karen reveal the different reasons each of them cried when they watched The Real World: Homecoming, which reunites the cast of MTV’s first season of The Real World: New York (1992). Whose fashion and “smooth concave chest” do they miss most? And what are their impressions of the cast members both then and now? Plus, the two take a deep dive into THE event of the last week, Oprah’s exclusive interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Plus nuo-lingo, and songs of the week both old and new that slap.

Wynter returns this week, as we welcome special guests Renee Bever (artist, co-host of Attack of the Queerwolf), and Tavia Nyong’o (author, Professor of American Studies at Yale). The panel catches up about how they’ve been participating in the national uprisings, while reflecting on some of the media moments, both head-scratching, and inspiring over the last week, from the Dems draped in kente cloth, to “You About to Lose This Job,” the unofficial anthem of the movement.  Wynter also digs deep into the “Bon Appetit Revolt,” a developing story at the time we recorded. The panel devotes some deep conversation to  “good civil rights movies” vs. really shitty ones, as well as films about race relations that are frozen in their historical moment. Nuo-lingo goes meta to explore when certain slang terms are appropriate or appropriation, and there are several songs of the week to get you to the next protest. 

Instead of another plea to contribute to us this week, we ask that you contribute to the social justice organizations of your choice, especially those promoting peace, and racial, gender and sexual equality. We, and our guests this week  recommend the following:

• Black Visions Collective 
• Act Blue Community Bail Funds 

This week, Karen and Wynter take on the Netflix phenomenon, Cheer, a docuseries about the championship cheer squad from Navarro College in Corsicana, TX. Wynter speaks candidly about what it’s like to embark on life in her 40s, which includes taking a “Lexapause” to try and make a baby. Karen has taken on the daily ritual of trying to perfect the tornado omelette (or “omurice”), while explaining to us the meaning of “borrid” after a screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Plus, a song of the week that comes with an 80s movie recommendation!

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Links to just about everything mentioned:

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire [Official Trailer]
• Cheer [Official Trailer]
• Japanese Dressed Omu-Rice [YouTube]
• tornado omelet master - korean street food [YouTube]

W2X Movie Night - Tuesday, April 7 at 6pm PST  Pacific - check our social media accounts for details!

Wynter and Karen each enter week 3 of their respective quarantines, so their habits (pop cultural and otherwise) have taken some unpredictable turns. Find out what they’ve been watching, listening to and doing that indicates they’ve gone over the edge.

Speaking of which, the culture at large has reached the “watching Tiger King” phase of our isolation. Find out why neither Wynter or Karen are surprised that Joe Exotic exists. You should stop deadnaming his former zookeeper Saff, and quit giving Doc airtime.

Plus, what’s a Branch Covidian? We also offer a new song feat. Fiona Apple to soothe us in these wild times.

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Links:

Supermarket scene from ‘Bird Box’

ButchHairQuarantine on Instagram

Hey, All You Cool Cats and Kittens, Kate McKinnon Is Playing Tiger King’s Carole Baskin

Stop Misgendering Saff From 'Tiger King'

King Princess with Fiona Apple, “I Know”

SPOILER 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-watches the film Waiting to Exhale for the first time since 1995, while Wynter tells us what L.A. Plays Itself has to do with the angle the two are taking for the festival. Nuo-lingo tells us about a new turn to granny aesthetics and old money cosplay, plus two classic songs of the week.

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***SPOILER ALERT - MIDSOMMAR AND HEREDITARY PLOT DETAILS ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE***

It’s Halloween-time and modern-day horror ensnares Wynter who finally convinces Karen to watch Midsommar and Hereditary. Which movie could she not make it through?!? The two get into horror/suspense auteur Ari Aster’s impressive body of work exploring intergenerational trauma, and what they call “intimate horror” within families and between lovers. Wynter goes to the theater to see Famous, a play set in 1994, based on the Two Corey's trauma they experienced as young heartthrobs and child actors from the GenX era. Karen finds refuge in the Asian and gaysian plentitude on primetime sitcoms, including Joel Kim Booster on Sunnyside and Nico Santos’ continuing undocumented arc on Superstore, plus Bowen Yang killing it every which way on SNL. NUO-LINGO drops some onomatopoeia, and the SOTW is deeply beloved by both hosts. 

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Links to just about everything mentioned: 

• Opening Clip from Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 
• Famous Stage Trailer
• MIDSOMMAR Official Trailer (2019) 
• Hereditary Official Trailer (2018)
• Something About You - Level 42

Karen and Wynter confront the surge in anti-AAPI hate and violence during Covid, while exploring how its longer histories are intertwined with pop culture. Karen shouts out some writers doing the hard work of responding to the Atlanta shootings in venues like Vanity Fair and GQ, and tells Wynter what she’s been watching--both good and bad--to ease her mind. 

The two impromptu launch a recurring segment on The Real World: Homecoming and get into what’s the matter with Becky. Plus, WTF is an NFT? And why do we people think British accents on Netflix make shows better? (Spoiler alert: they don’t).

Wynter 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 jiggles of the Lakers’ showtime era of the 80s reimagined in Adam McKay’s Winning Time. 

Plus, nuo-lingo and songs of the week from 1992 and 2012 (in an extension of our episode’s timeline).

In 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 is unlocked for the last 2 episodes and butch/femme songs of the week.

Their former girl group sister, Guy Branum told Karen and Wynter to watch the new Peacock series Girls 5Eva so they could all process it 3gether, which they do on this week’s ep. Karen is too busy cavorting in the gay woods with her vaxxed BFFs to absorb any new pop culture, though Guy does bring up one of their favorite old topics--lesbian representation on Top Chef--to keep things sapphically interesting. Wynter gets into the new CNN docuseries about The Story of Late Night, while peering into her crystal ball about what we might expect from the genre in years to come. Nuo-lingo gets “cheugy” with it, plus some music from the late 90s to Y2K.

• Y2K Playlist (Spotify) 

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Karen & Wynter are in week two of their quarantines in Echo Park & Encino, following “shelter in place” directives from Gov. Newsom in California. This prompted them to wonder which fictional characters from the 70s, 80s or 90s would they actually want to shelter in place with for various practical, and sometimes other reasons. They catch up on what their days have been like, to what entertainment has kept them afloat in these troubled times. Plus, a very of the moment Nuo-Lingo, and a song of the week cover that made Karen cry.

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• Good News Movement 'Close To You' Cover

Wynter & Karen talk through the twists and turns of the 90s-set racial melodrama, Little Fires Everywhere. Both continued to explore online extravaganzas this week, including Sondheim’s 90th Birthday Concert, and the Melrose Place cast reunion. Karen also accidentally watched, and enjoyed, the HBO original film Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney. Wynter shares a Nuo-Lingo you should all stop doing, and they leave you with a cover of a 90s classic as the song of the week.

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• Little Fires Everywhere - Trailer
• Elena meets Mia - LFE clip
• Mia and Elena fight - LFE clip
• 'Uninvited' cover by Bellsaint

It’s their third week of quarantine, so Karen is talking to Steak-umm on Twitter, and Wynter thinks Ellen sux. In lieu of music festival season launching this April, the two offer their own virtual W2X music festival for you this week. Sure there’s no Coachella and Stagecoach, but what really strikes at Karen’s heart is the postponement of PopCon 2020, the annual gathering of musicians, music writers, scholars, and fans at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, which she’d been organizing for the better part of a year. Nevertheless, she brings us a little taste of scheduled PopCon presenter Glenn McDonald of Spotify’s very international “In the Time of the Virus” playlist, with over 1700 new songs written since the start of the pandemic from all part of the globe. Meanwhile, Wynter lets us in on some of the themed playlists she’s been crafting for our sisters and fairy podmothers at the Jane Club, fit for everything from dining-in, to being “extremely chill.” Listen along with us, and turn the music up!

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Links to just about everything mentioned:

• The Sound of the Virus Playlist 
• Extremely Chill Playlist 
• Drone Shot Of My Yacht - John Mayer 
• Ariel de Cuba  “Quedate in Casa” 
• Vice Ganda (Filipino queer artist/TV personality):  “Corona Ba-Bye Na” 
• Rhoma Irama (Indonesian artist): “Virus Corona”
• Dip Doundou Guiss (Senegalese rapper from Dakar):  “and xeex coronavirus”
• Dixie Chicks “Gaslighter”
• Rilo Kiley  “Does He Love You” 
• Yves Montand  “Rue St. Vincent”  
• Giorgio Moroder “Together in Electric Dreams” 

Wynter 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 and two songs that will move your feet in some pretty different ways.

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 powerful female artists working in *very* different styles.

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We stand with the Black Lives Matter movement in advocating for racial justice, and against police violence. Wynter and her family have also suffered a personal tragedy, so this episode is in somber observance of this, as well as our current national events. Queer scholars & activists, Homay King and Jeanne Vaccaro join Karen to offer reports and resources for social justice actions, including ways of contributing for those who cannot participate in street actions. They discuss the media coverage of protests, race, and the pandemic, while reflecting on how race, feminism and LGBTQ politics intersect, or fail to, in “pride month” media and entertainment, including the recent Hulu original series Mrs. America. Nuo-lingo focuses on the concept of “mutual aid” and what it truly means, while the panelists offer resources for what to read, what to watch, and how to educate yourselves & others about race, justice, and sexuality in America. 

Instead of another plea to contribute to us this week, we ask that you contribute to the social justice organizations of your choice, especially those promoting peace, and racial, gender and sexual equality. We, and our guests this week (Homay King and Jeanne Vaccaro) recommend the following:

Black Visions Collective (BLVC) “believes in a future where all Black people have autonomy, safety is community-led, and we are in right-relationship within our ecosystems. (https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/)

ABC (Act Blue Community Bail Funds) where you can split a donation between up to 40 community bail funds all over the country, from Louisville to Hawaii, Baltimore, NOLA, CA, Memphis, Chicago, as well as bail funds established by organizations like the LGBTQ freedom fund. (it’s a long URL, so look on our Patreon Page) https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd?fbclid=IwAR2x8YYMubmjvUldt3XWQ2h9AJKkV5oEhjPqE4Zkdxpmv-szyPCa1lYcs8Y

BLM Global Network: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund: https://www.phillybailout.com/

Reclaim Philadelphia: https://www.reclaimphiladelphia.org/

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund: https://www.philaculturalfund.org/

What we talked about this week: 

• And She Could Be Next - Trailer 
• The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish Swish Swish 
• ‘Mrs. America’ Gets It Wrong
• Salt-N-Pepa, None of Your Business
• Bonnie Raitt, Goin’ Wild For Ya Baby
• Marvin Gaye, What’s Going On 

Our 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 the songs of the week,  Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus and Y’a du Soleil by Christoph Maé.

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Wynter and Karen visit USC--this time virtually--in Sarah Kessler’s class on Audio(visuality). Sarah is a media studies scholar, TV editor of Public Books, and KT’s spouse aka quarantine hostage. The three get into a discussion of the role lip-syncing has played in U.S. pop culture as entertainment, the source of scandal, and as a means of building a following all the way to a Netflix special a la Sarah Cooper’s Everything’s Fine. Wynter gets into the chart daddies of election coverage, John King & Steve Kornacki, Sarah tells us why this season’s The Bachelorette mimics the 2020 election cycle, and Karen delves into the “privilege porn” of HBO’s The Undoing. Plus, a bonus nuo-lingo session about social media platforms and three songs of the moment.

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All hail Regina King! Her turn on HBO’s The Watchmen alerted most of white America to the existence of a “Black Wall Street” in its opening depiction of the 1921 “Tulsa massacre.” This episode explores the shifting TV representations of the BMC or “black middle classes,” from King’s debut in the 80s sitcom 227 to the Johnsons of Black-ish today.  Karen and Wynter also talk GBBO gossip, 90 Day Fiancé drama, and a new interior design competition. Plus: NUO-LINGO and SOTW! 

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Links to just about everything mentioned: 

• 227 Theme Song
• Watchmen: Official Trailer 
• Before the 90 Days Season Preview
• Interior Design Masters Trailer
• Are These Two British Bake Off Sweeties Dating?
• HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ depicts a deadly Tulsa race massacre that was all too real (Washington Post)
• Dre Invites Charlie to Golf with the Social Club Guys - black-ish
•  Atlanta Season 2 Trailer
• Insecure Season 3 Trailer
• Cyndi Lauper - When You Were Mine
• Prince - When You Were Mine

Wynter and Karen welcome guest Karina Longworth of You Must Remember This for their season 2 finale! Karina tells us all about Polly Platt, the subject of this season’s YMRT. Polly was an Oscar-nominated production designer, screenwriter, producer, and executive who put her stamp on some of the greatest and most loved films of the 1970s and 80s – including Paper Moon, Bad News Bears, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, The Witches of Eastwick and more.  We get into how sexism, and the auteurist focus on her ex, Peter Bogdanovich, rendered Polly “invisible” in various ways.  Wynter also brings us “The Pudding,” and Karen tells us about Disclosure, a new Netflix doc on transgender representation. Plus,  Nuo-Lingo ups your generational IQ and you get three amazing songs of the week for the price of one. 

Instead of another plea to contribute to us this week, we ask that you contribute to the social justice organizations of your choice, especially those promoting peace, and racial, gender, and sexual equality. We and our guests this week  recommend the following 

Project Q (https://www.projectq.me/)

ProjectQ Community Center is an L.A.-based non-profit organization that provides safe space for LGBTQIA+ unhoused youth.  At their Community Center, LGBTQIA+ homeless youth can receive free mentorship classes and workshops, along with free gender-affirming haircuts. We had Project Q’s founder, Madin Lopez as a guest in Season 1! 

Wynter 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.

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With the recent release of Paul Rudd's Netflix series, Living with Yourself, we began to ask ourselves which everyman, GenX heartthrob might be the "better" version of another? This week we stage a showdown between everybody's favorite nice guys, Paul Rudd vs. John Cusack. Wynter relishes in the boos heard ‘round the world, as Nats fans confronted the president in their house. Karen declares Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite one of the top 2 films of the year, and the two take stand on “OK BOOMER” in this week’s Nuo-Lingo. Plus, another slappin’ song of the week.

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Links to just about everything mentioned: 

• Episode opener from “Say Anything”
• Fans Boo President at World Series Game 5
• Parasite - Official Trailer
• Living With Yourself - Official Trailer
• Paul Rudd Does a Historic Dab While Eating Spicy Wings
• Celery Man (That one Tim & Eric sketch with Paul Rudd) 
• All The Young Dudes - Bowie

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.

Karen and Wynter explore what it means to be excellent to each other in a world as dire and apocalyptic as our own, as they get into the #girldad energy of Bill and Ted Face the Music (spoilers in the discussion!), and the entire Bill & Ted trilogy. Wynter tells us about a Brit comedy called I Hate Suzie that she happens to love. Karen is super bummed out and despairs out loud about the rise of fascism in the U.S., but finds a spot of joy in Niecy Nash’s announcement about her marriage to musician Jessica Betts, as well as other mid-life Sapphic romances. Plus, two 80s themed nuo-lingo entries, and double your song of the week fun.

Outtakes from episode 102 on Andy Cohen and International TV; a nuo-lingo on online displays of relationships.  

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Wynter and Karen welcome a witch, healer and the Oracle of Los Angeles, Amanda Yates Garcia (author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch), to offer some perspective and guidance about the astrological plane and what we might be facing in the weeks ahead. Before Amanda arrives, our hosts catch up on some recent movies, including Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, and the return of Borat in his “subsequent moviefilm.” Karen also tells us about The Kingmaker, a 2019 doc on Imelda Marcos and her dictatorial family’s efforts to return to Filipino politics. Plus, an audience submitted NUO-LINGO, and full-circle realness in our songs of the week.

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Karen & Wynter binged all of Netflix’s The Crown in a single day, as season 4 of the prestige series swerves into the GenX sweet spot of 1977-1990. The two get into the Charles & Diana of it all, and the cognitive dissonance of seeing Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher, while taking a stab at answering why two California-raised WOC like themselves are so fascinated by anemic British royals. Karen updates us on the pandemic-themed debuts of Grey’s Anatomy and This is Us, and Wynter reminds us why Leta Powell Drake is a national treasure. Plus Nuo-Lingo and tunes befitting the People’s Princess.

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Karen and Wynter are joined by Dr. Megan Auster-Rosen, the co-director of the mental health program at Cedars Sinai, to talk about how to ride out the next several weeks. How do we break free from doomscrolling? What binges feel good to us, and what series have successfully undertaken the difficult task of depicting trauma? (SPOILERS for the reality series Alone). Wynter tells us about the documentary, The Social Dilemma, while Karen brings us into the thick of two Twitter disputes, one involving Hainanese chicken rice. We’re soliciting nuo-lingo submissions, and have two 90s songs of the week just 4 u. 

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What upcoming movie releases will inspire Karen and Wynter to leave the comfort and safety of their pandemic bunkers to go to an actual theater?!? This is an especially tall order since news broke of the Arclight & Cineramadome’s demise in Hollywood, RIP. Hint: (M)CU at the movies… 

Meanwhile, the two continue on a docu-tear as Wynter reveals what Sasquatch on Hulu is really about. KT’s talk of a new true crime doc set in Riverside, CA--Netflix’s Why Did You Kill Me?--sends both hosts spinning out into memories of MySpace. WARNING: SPOILERS ABOUND FOR BOTH FILMS. 

The two wrap up their recurring segment about The Real World: Homecoming wishing for more. Plus, a nuo-lingo that would get us in trouble in Japan and two classic songs of the week.

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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! 

Wynter and Karen reunite with their former podmates Guy Branum and Margaret Wappler in this supersized episode fundraising for G.L.I.T.S and SummaEverything! The fierce foursome indulge in a deep catch-up about everything from the demise of the “girl boss,” to 90 Day Fiance and Top Chef All Stars (Margaret even cameos at a boozy brunch in one of the episodes), all while processing the pop culture in the last year that they’ve missed talking to each other about since they wrapped Pop Rocket in May 2019. The gang puts their Gen X heads together for an analysis of Generation Z, who are revved and ready to lead the revolution. Plus,  Nuo Lingo tips us off to what’s become of the influencer class, and our beloved guests bring us home with two radiant songs of the week. Instead of another plea to contribute to us this week, we ask that you contribute to the social justice organizations of your choice, especially those promoting peace, and racial, gender and sexual equality. We, and our guests this week  recommend the following:

 G.L.I.T.S. - https://www.glitsinc.org/donations

SummaEverythang - https://summaeverythang.org/

Karen has fled Los Angeles for the rest of September, as both she and Wynter mourn the loss of the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg by girding their loins for the fight ahead. The two give a full rundown of the pandemic Emmys, and get into why so many of us are seeking refuge in nostalgic all-star table reads, from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, to the all-Black Golden Girls reenactment, the Princess Bride reunion, and the recently announced all-black Friends table-read w/ Sterling K. Brown as Ross(!) Plus, we find out what nuo-lingo is circulating from the DMV (D.C./Maryland/Virginia), and two entirely different vibes for SOTW. 

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Guy Branum joins us for an impromptu reunion to talk more about Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood on Netflix. Last week, guy texted Karen about the show, which we covered in our supersized Ep. 35. 6 hours later, we got together with Guy to dish even more on all the golden age of cinema hawniness! 

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All hail the goddess, Kirsten Dunst, who just received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and is turning heads with her spectacular turn as Krystal Stubbs on the new Showtime series, On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Karen & Wynter dive deep into her under-appreciated career, focusing on her debut decade (the 1990s), as well as her rise to box-office domination (in the 2000s). Wynter calls new career opportunities in from the universe, while honing her taste-making and curatorial skills by indulging in a mini-marathon of Michael Douglas films. Karen finally plugs her fall book tour for Why Karen Carpenter Matters, and gives us another update on the bisexual modifications required of Bachelor in Paradise. The two also announce some exciting news about ep. 11--W2X's FIRST LIVE SHOW, which will be recorded in Oxford, Mississippi at Ole Miss with some very special guests. Plus, Nuo-Lingo tells us about who and what constitutes a "snack," while the SOTW will get your grooving, early aughts-style. We're taking a break for our trip to Ole Miss next week, so soak this one up to tide you over!

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Links To Just About Everything Mentioned:

Interview With The Vampire (1994) Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCmYN6TLd8A

On Becoming a God In Central Florida (2019) Official Trailer 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpxhCX47lZg

Wynter’s Mini Michael Douglas Film Fest 

Basic Instinct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_20N7t-umo&t=7s

Falling Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD5ofrSNDFA

Behind The Candelabra 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n083CsdN4XM

Kirsten Dunst Filmography (IMDB)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000379/

GTA Online - After Hours: The Black Madonna full liveset

https://youtu.be/Pjl6kdVjf-w 

Film 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-LINGO and always, some choice SOTW selections for your playlists. 

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Karen & Wynter dive into the fray to discuss Mindy Kaling’s latest sitcom, Never Have I Ever on Netflix. They engage multiple perspectives on the show, from controversies around its caste bias, to its role in diversifying contemporary teen representation. This has also been a busy week for our two hosts. Which one is going in for a free drive-thru Covid-19 test? And who survived a harrowing trip to Tarzhay? Who got sucked into Netflix’s Hollywood? And who fell in love with Alice Wu’s The Half of It? All this, plus, nuo-lingo and a boppin’ SOTW.

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• Never Have I Ever Trailer
• The Half Of It Trailer
• Never Have I Ever...Seen A Show So Casteist And Racist - Wear Your Voice Mag

Wynter 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.

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Dust off your dial-up, and join Wynter and Karen for a glimpse at social media through the ages, from the classic AOL Instant Messenger, to all the apps we rushed to download during the pandemmy like Marco Polo, HouseParty, and Clubhouse. Karen is all-in for HBO’s Mare of Easttown and all things Kate Winslet, while Wynter tells us about her adventures in cryptocurrency. The two also get into The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Sony Animation’s latest, featuring a queer lead. Plus, nuo-lingo and two fresh olde bops.

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It's a battle of GenX matinee idols, Brad Pitt vs. Leonardo DiCaprio. Wynter and Karen reflect on the arc of Brad & Leo's careers in light of their latest joint venture, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The two also reveal the special joys of "secret single behaviors" when they take themselves out without their spouses. Wynter hits the comedy clubs, and Karen talks about her close encounter with Maya Rudolph & PT Anderson at the movies. Plus, nuo-lingo and your SOTW.

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Links To Just About Everything Mentioned:

Thelma & Louise - Trailer 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRr0HY9MPZ0

Tituss Burgess on Working with Eddie Murphy | WWHL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJGE52yLGuY

Survivor - High On You Music Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxhueyC70cU

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Visual Communications

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Potluck Podcast Collective

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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.

Writer, comedian, and Asian American cultural icon Jenny Yang joins us to process WTF Bling Empire is all about. Karen and Wynter call an audible, and devote their ‘sup segment to Framing Britney Spears, because it truly is the only thing that’s on everyone’s minds these days, as the pressure intensifies to #FreeBritney from her father’s conservatorship. Plus, nuo-lingo from this extended phase of the pandemic, and some Britney songs worth (re)listening to.

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Fashion 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.

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With the recent debut of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: 1984, Wynter and Karen take the occasion to explore his deeply nostalgic oeuvre to consider whether or not his dominion is 80s camp or 90s magic realism, i.e. horror stories or true crime stories? The two talk about where they were when Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Nightstalker and resurrected in AHS 1984, was wreaking havoc IRL. Wynter goes Inside Out with Demi Moore’s new autobiography, Karen GAGS over the recently announced thirtysomething reboot, while both take a detour into The Affair’s wild psychosexual turns as it wraps up its series run. Nuo-lingo tells you why this year’s “GAG” is not 1984’s, and we give you a song of the week that Ryan Murphy has yet to harvest from 1984’s Hot 100 for his over-the-top slasher series. 

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Links to just about everything mentioned: 

American Horror Story: 1984 Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wcEiFIM3mM

Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker) Biography

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/richard-ramirez

Inside Out by Demi Moore

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062049537/inside-out/

Thirtysomething Was One of the Most Iconic Shows of the 1980s. Now It’s Coming Back for the 2020s.

https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/thirtysomething-the-tv-show-is-being-rebooted.html

The Affair foolishly bases an entire episode on a character we don’t know very well

https://tv.avclub.com/the-affair-foolishly-bases-an-entire-episode-on-a-chara-1838595421

How Ryan Murphy Became King of the Streaming Boom

https://time.com/5667752/ryan-murphy-netflix/

The Politician Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-kdBlzCG7w

Hall & Oates - Method of Modern Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3F4c7E9IBU

Inspired 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 rich and hoardy. Karen offers a super-cut of her thoughts about Netflix’s The Chair after her week-long junket on other outlets. Nuo-lingo serves up another nickname for a controversial “social justice” figure, and we close with two very fun SOTWs from CANADIANS!

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Who 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) and hires a private chef after her adventures in Portugal, and Karen introduces us to the Australian dramedy, The Unusual Suspects, featuring Filipina leads in a show that she describes as a cross between The Flight Attendant and Devious Maids, with a touch of Oceans 8. Plus, nuo-lingo and a new song of the week, followed by an indisputable classic.

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With the 1983 classic, Valley Girls back on streaming services, Wynter and Karen revisit the film alongside other San Fernando Valley gems like Karate Kid, Earth Girls are Easy, La Bamba and of course, Boogie Nights. Wynter chimes in on Babyface vs. Teddy Riley, while Karen plunges into the catacombs with the Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary production that streamed for free on YouTube for 48 hours. Plus, Nuo-Lingo and a song fit for a fast dance at prom.

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• "What a Hunk!" scene from Valley Girl
• 'The Phantom of the Opera' - 25th Anniversary production clip

***SPOILER ALERT: MAJOR PLOT POINTS FROM THE JOKER ARE REVEALED IN THIS EPISODE***

Amazing guests keep rolling into W2X, and this week Wynter and Karen are joined by the one and only Heather Matarazzo, an actor, writer, director, who’s played some of the most iconic roles in film and TV over the last 25 years, including Dawn Wiener in Welcome to the Dollhouse, Lily Moscovitz in the The Princess Diaries films, and of course, Stacey Merkin on The L-Word. The three get into a stunning range of conversations about life, death, and “acceptance” before debating Todd Phillips’ The Joker and its various controversies. Karen, Heather, and Wynter also revisit the gay 1990s and the impact of independent film-making (or “The New Queer Cinema” as B. Ruby Rich called it) vs. the mainstream films that took on LGBT representation in that era. Our NUO-LINGO “curves” back to The L-Word in a serendipitous way and Heather shares a sparkly new SOTW with us. If you can’t get enough of their conversation, visit our Patreon page for some bonus content exclusive to subscribers.

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Links to just about everything mentioned: 

• The Birdcage (1996) Official Trailer 
• JOKER Trailer (2019)
• Sue Perkins: An hour or so with… (Podcast)
• Ina’s Cooking Playlist - Women Who Rock (via Ina Garten, Spotify)
• Editor Note: Chris Klein’s character’s sister in Election does, in fact, have a name, and it’s Tammy Metzler, played by Jessica Campbell. 
• Come Alive - Madonna

The 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 Studio Audience featuring a star-studded cast re-enacting classic episodes of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes. Plus, nuo-lingo about holiday adjacent relationships, and songs from Kelly Clarkson’s new Christmas special, as well as Peter Jackson’s Beatles epic, Get Back.

This 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 nuo-lingo phrase about phones, a Selena classic, and a sexy queer song about “Pisces Eyes.”

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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. 

Karen and Wynter do their best to catch you up with season 2 of Hulu’s cringe comedy Pen15, while reminiscing about their own deeply awkward middle school years. ***Warning: Pen15 Spoilers and Middle-School Callouts in this Ep!***

Plus, Wynter tells us about the Peloton pandemic lyfe, while Karen is soliciting any additional info anyone may have about the Great British Bake-Off bubble. Where are people practicing their signature bakes? Do contestants go directly home when they’re kicked off, or do they sit in their sad quar rooms eating leftovers from the challenges? There’s no nuo-lingo this week, but you do have two songs of the week to keep you feeling cozy as we usher in autumn.

We are so grateful to our extended W2X family, and some very special guests, who sent us their dedications and messages of gratitude for the Thanksgiving holiday, while also reminding us about this vexed occasion’s origins. Karen gets to play out her “Mr. DJ” (a la Sharon Cuneta) fantasies, while artist, writer and podcaster Nicole J. Georges, author of the illustrated book, Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, and host of Sagittarian Matters, pops in the Zoom room to share her message of thanks, while also chatting about The Amazing Race, her and KT’s mutual obsession.

W2X goes wild as we conjure a raucous showdown between urban legends, Cocaine Bear vs. Meth Gator! Who are they? What are they? And what do they tell us about person-kind's relationship to nature as it's evolved since nature TV in the 1970s and 1980s? Wynter tells us all about the new boomer cable channel MeTV as we have a slight skirmish over GenX shows like The Facts of Life that also appear on the network. Meanwhile, Karen explains her strange relationship to the Gordon Ramsay TV empire. As always, we've got nuo-lingo for you and a SOTW. 

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Links To Just About Everything Mentioned:

Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours To Hell & Back Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ptgPliiMo

The Craziest Moments of Amy’s Baking Company on Kitchen Nightmares

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC8i0gt5m-Y

Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted (National Geographic)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/videos/gordon-ramsay-uncharted/gordon-ramsay-uncharted-trailer-5932.aspx

MeTV Show Listing

https://www.metv.com/shows/

Tennessee police warn flushing drugs could create hyper-aggressive alligators

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-police-warn-locals-not-flush-drugs-fear-meth-gators-n1030291

Cocaine Bear - Roadside America

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/50220

9-year-old girl charged by bison at Yellowstone Park, treated for injuries

https://www.abcfoxmontana.com/all_abc_fox/year-old-girl-charged-by-bison-at-yellowstone-park-treated/article_68791cf6-ad90-11e9-ade2-f3c842118ddd.html

Class of 1999 - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOM2jgzBBhs

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY

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Visual Communications

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Potluck Podcast Collective

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'Tis the season for dogs wearing sunglasses, horndog teens and poolside rumpshakin'. Karen and Wynter get deep into summer shenanigans, both their own, and everything we've seen on screen since the 1980s. Karen is surrendering to yoga while catching up on Big Little Lies, while Wynter has some thoughts to share about all the online drama over casting a black Little Mermaid and black female 007. Alright, alright, alright: this week's title card showdown is a battle royale between two summer films from the 80s and 90s, Summer School vs. Dazed & Confused. Plus, more "nuo lingo"--HIGH KEY--and not one, but two summer songs of the week (SOTW). 

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Links to just about everything mentioned: 

Freshman Hazing from Dazed & Confused 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtkI87FeqOY

Big Little Lies Season 2 Trailer 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCWevZV945M

Summer is sexist: Women have to sweat 'bikini bodies,' hair removal, camp and crime 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/07/summer-sexism-dieting-bikini-body-hair-moms-camp-assault/1290427001/

Summer School trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijCU3fPp3s

Dazed and Confused trailer 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aQuvPlcB-8

Robbie Nevil’s C’est La Vie 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGtf9QfITQw

Wreckx-n-Effect’s RUMPSHAKER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKKONgfNONU

Grounded in the hopeful spirit of songs by Band Aid and U.S.A For Africa, Karen and Wynter chat about what they’re grateful for in 2019 – and look forward to renewed focus and positive productivity in the coming year. While Wynter hopes Instagram removing likes from the platform eases our anxieties, Karen recommends a book on choosing activism that actually makes us feel good. The two also discuss Apple+’s viability in the streaming world, boundaries at work, and leave us with a rockin’ SOTW! 

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Links to just about everything mentioned:

• Band Aid - Do They Know its Christmas - The Making of
• How removing ‘likes’ from Instagram could affect our mental health
• “Pleasure Activism” by adrienne maree brown
• The Morning Show — Official Trailer
• Dickinson — Official Teaser Trailer
• Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas 1984 (Official Video)
• U.S.A. For Africa - We Are the World (Official Video)
• ‘We Are the World’: A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown
• Ambrosia’s “You’re the Biggest Part of Me” (1980)

Karen and Wynter greet you from the new nation of Cascadia, or OrCaWash, or whatever you prefer to call the western pact states. Wynter gives us the “state of Twitter” in these times, including her own viral tweet about Sarah Sanders. This week the two also get into all sorts of pop culture they’ve been consuming, from Karen’s first true “binge” of the quarantine (Netflix’s Unorthdox), to the new season of Killing Eve, Wynter’s obsession with 90 Day Fiancee, as well as her disappointment in HBO’s Run. Conspiracy theories abound, and we’re here to debunk all of them (mostly). Plus, a nuo-lingo from The Economist (how fancy!)

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This week, we teamed up with our old pals Guy Branum and Margaret Wappler and raised $750 for Stacey Abrams' FAIR FIGHT! During our taping the day before election day, we covered everything from Who's the Boss, The Queen's Gambit, the fall of Quibi, and what everyone's election day drink of choice would be. 

As we continue to wait anxiously for this year's election to end, please enjoy an extra-long and special episode. Thanks again to everyone who donated! 

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Like everyone else in the world, Wynter and Karen are preparing for a possible Coronavirus quarantine. What social distancing and stockpiling techniques have they been practicing to avoid “the ‘roni?” With the world as eerie and uncanny as it is in the age of late capitalism, both are feeling a little like they’re actually living in disaster films like Contagion, Outbreak, Cloverfield, Idiocracy and even...Jurassic Park (!) Plus, a longer than usual nuo-lingo chat about “Periodt” and when slang veers in and out of cultural appropriation. 

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Links to just about everything mentioned:

Idiocracy
Outbreak
Contagion
Cloverfield 
Jurassic Park 
An Inconvenient Truth
2012

Wynter asks us all to think about the films and TV shows that changed the game, from those that captured the style and essence of their era (Clueless), to those that transformed the cultural conversation (Boyz N The Hood, and the early-80s trifecta of Victor/Victoria, Tootsie, and Yentl). Karen celebrates Pride month by getting into the FX docuseries, Pride alongside the series finale of Pose, while Wynter dishes about the cast shake-ups on RHOC.

The two brace themselves as the state of California lifts all Coronavirus restrictions, and coin their own nuo-lingo, #unvaxxinista in the process, even as they explain another one. Plus there is a super soft rock vibe to this week that foreshadows what’s in store in the future.

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Karen 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. 

Karen and Wynter kick off season 4 and 2021--the year this millennium is finally old enough to drink--with reflections on when they each turned 21. For Wynter, it was 2001, and she recalls her days tearing up the San Francisco scene, while immersing herself in new tech & the internet as her primary form of entertainment. Karen throws us back to 1994, the year she turned 21 and took her first trip ever to NYC for Stonewall 25. It was the year that The Real World: San Francisco with Pedro Zamora shared the airwaves with Friends, and R&B artists like Boyz II Men and Toni Braxton ruled the pop charts alongside Ace of Base.

Plus, Wynter checks into Discovery+’s Cecil Hotel and Karen locks all her doors & windows to The Night Stalker docu-series on Netflix.

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Both Wynter and Karen try not to cry every time they talk about the dearly departed Luke Perry, aka Dylan McKay. The two dive headfirst into a long simmering debate from the last 30 years--Brenda vs. Kelly--as the Fox reboot, BH 90210 confounds and excites viewers with its many layers of meta. Wynter is excited about this year's VMA's (!?!?), but only because Dr. Missy Elliott received the Video Vanguard award. Karen's wife has lured her into Bachelor Nation, with this season's queer-ish Bachelor in Paradise. Plus, in NUO-LINGO, we clarify the subtle nuances between "achievement unlocked" and "goals," while our SOTW is sure to make you slow-dance like its 1992. 

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Links To Just About Everything Mentioned:

Dylan and Kelly tell Brenda about their summer together [YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TXkCSIRYUE

Beverly Hills, 90210 [Original intro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDOrOMuo-9o

BH90210 Trailer [2019 Reboot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcWKGy7df5o

MTV VMAs 2019: Watch Missy Elliott Accept the Video Vanguard Award, Presented by Cardi B

https://pitchfork.com/news/mtv-vmas-2019-watch-missy-elliott-accept-the-video-vanguard-award/

Brian McKnight & Vanessa Williams - Love Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nra7OwEc0oA

Wynter & 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 Covid in its endemic phase. KT thinks Station Eleven is the most gorgeous show on TV, and Wynter tells us a little bit about why Search Party’s surprising turn in season 5 makes perfect sense given the state of the world. Plus Nuo-lingo goes retrolingo, and two songs-of-the-week from the Yellowjackets soundtrack that are already making our year.

Wynter 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 added to Dictionary.com, some of which our regular listeners already know, and a couple of 90s hits in keeping with our Fear Street moods.

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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.

Wynter has made some upgrades to her club, The Palace, on Grand Theft Auto, while Karen calls Away, the new mission to Mars drama on Netflix, “normporn in space.” Dr. andré carrington, a renowned scholar of race and science fiction--and a birder!--joins us for a retrospective of Chadwick Boseman’s tragically short, but illustrious career. We get beyond the superhero legacy and consider some of the real-life legends Boseman portrayed on screen. Nuo-lingo covers a term that crossed over from academia into public discourse, and we bring you a couple of songs about skies. Plus, andré tells you to watch ALL of Patti vs. Gladys--no skips!

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• Legends Verzuz Battle: Patti LaBelle vs Gladys Knight (starts at 10:35 mark)
• Trixie Mattel & Katya React to Netflix's "Away"

In this summer bonus episode, Karen shares her spring interview with Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls in preparation for her NPR article on the duo. Special thanks to NPR Music (especially Ann Powers and Marissa Loruss

o), as well as the Indigo Girls and their team (especially Carla Parisi and Russell Carter) for making this all happen! Stay tuned for KT's interview with Emily, coming up next.

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! 

Have you ever bought something “as seen on TV” and not available in stores? Wynter and Karen stroll down memory lane about the most irritating and captivating infomercials from the 80s, 90s and today, while sharing their reviews of products that either they or their parents actually bought. It’s the end of an era for the Real Housewives of Orange County with Tamara and Vicky’s departures, and Wynter is here to tell us all about it. Karen revels in Season 40 of Survivor, featuring all past winners and a whole new currency of “fire tokens.” Plus, nuo-lingo is back, so you best “pull up.” 

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Links to just about everything mentioned:

• The real reason Vicki and Tamra are leaving RHOC
• Survivor: Winners at War | Season 40 Trailer
• Nads
• Slap Chop
• Shake Weight

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! 

Wynter and Karen immerse themselves into WandaVision, as they explore how we use TV to work through our grief in myriad ways. Ever the completist, Karen re-watched all 23 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in timeline order, and reports back to us after a month living through the Infinity Saga. Wynter gets into the deja vu vibes of Tiger Woods’ recent car accident just a year after Kobe’s death, and right before our collective paniniversary. Plus, the two process HBO’s Allen vs. Farrow, and the magic of MC Hammer’s Foucauldian forays on Twitter.

• Wynter's piece on WandaVision

Wynter catches up with Karen after she returns from her month-long book tour abroad, and the two get into some of the things KT missed back in the U.S. of A. , including HBO MAX, and the new series Euphoria. Karen (who saw a couple of World Cup games in France) gets into how we are all living in Megan Rapinoe's Sapphic summer, and the two debate Goonies vs. Stand By Me--the coming-of-age films that served as GenX source-texts for Stranger Things 3. Plus more "nuo lingo" and your SOTW (Song of the Week).

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Links To Just About Everything Mentioned:

The Goonies Cold Open:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0atATbXbQ9g

Women's World Cup Brazil V. Australia Highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzpAtOGcUuA

Magnum Commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZkUgwRhweQ

H'Bo's Euphoria Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziMUD0_TTg0

'80s Shopping Mall Commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnOvVBUhQC4

The Goonies Original Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2j4oWdQtU&t=60s

Stand By Me Original Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUVnfaA-kpI

Stranger Things Season 3 Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcnHOQ-cHa0

A bonafide rock star turned author, Kathy Valentine (yes, THE Kathy Valentine from The Go-Go’s, and author of the new memoir All I Ever Wanted)  joins Karen and Wynter to talk about ALL OF IT--from her time on the scene in Austin and Hollywood  in the late-70s and early 80s, to The Go-Go’s imperial years, and her new life as an author. Wynter tells us about the Fast Times at Ridgemont High table reading that never was, and Karen alerts us to a new Sapphic period drama starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan sure to take the “borrid” genre by storm. Plus, nuo-lingo is all fun and games, and we give you a bounty of songs of the week.

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• Kill by Kill Podcast 
• Scaredy Cats Horror Show - Hereditary and Midsommar 

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W2X goes back to school w/ Professor Tongson’s class on U.S. Pop Culture LIVE at USC! Wynter is off on assignment, so Tre’vell Anderson from OUT magazine and Sarah Kessler, the TV editor for Public Books (and Karen’s better half) join her for a backwards glance at the early 2000s and the “postfeminism” of Sex & The City vs. The L-Word.  Tre’vell gives us the dish about Robyn Crawford’s new memoir and offers us a preview of the L-Word sequel, Generation Q, while Sarah tells us about her bodice-ripping amusements when Karen is out of town. Nuo-Lingo gets into “cool wine aunts,” and the students become the masters as they discuss the meme “Ladies, imagine this.” Plus, SOTW’s from the aughts! 

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Links to just about everything mentioned:

• Opener: Clip from The L Word
• The L Word: Generation Q (2019) Official Trailer
• Sex and the City show trailer
• The New "Ladies, Imagine This" Meme Will Make All Women Piss Themselves Laughing
• I Believe - Fantasia
• Heartbeats (Rex the Dog Remix) - The Knife

This 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 Bever and Tavia Nyong'o talk about blackness in horror cinema (55:48) and Sandra Bernhard gives her thoughts about fighting on the internet. 

Wynter & Karen welcome Madin Lopez, a stylist and the founder of ProjectQ: a non-profit organization benefiting LGBTQ+ homeless youth by providing free gender-affirming haircuts, and safe-spaces, as well as life-skills workshops. On this National Coming Out Day, the three evaluate Queen Latifah’s career and how her iconic characters, Cleo from Set it Off, and Khadijah from Living Single have influenced queer people of color over the last 25 years. Wynter swims with the gators of the horror-suspense flick, Crawl, while Karen revels in a stunning new oral history of the Lilith Fair in Vanity Fair. Meanwhile, Madin tells us a little about the Octavia Butler books they’re reading to help them unwind, while interjecting a much needed millennial perspective into this week’s NUO-LINGO. Plus, Madin’s SOTW sends us into the weekend feeling empowered.

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Links to just about everything mentioned: 

ProjectQ

https://www.projectq.me/about

Set It Off (1996) - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rxRimf99w

Building a Mystery: An Oral History of Lilith Fair

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/09/an-oral-history-of-lilith-fair

Living Single Opening Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnD2mdaxUAo

Chicago | 'When You're Good to Mama' 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6_odu4lNc

Last Holiday (2006) Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO0NSRPcPFs

Bringing Down The House (2003) Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-btKN19zlE

Jasmine Masters handle your liquor (‘and I oop’ at about 4:30)

https://youtu.be/g52aV8OcFcs?t=270

Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. (Official Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cHxydDb7o

It's the debut episode of Waiting to X-hale, a Gen X-themed show with podcast veterans Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh and Karen Tongson. 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. In our first episode, Wynter & Karen welcome you to their world, and debate who'd come out on top in a head-to-head showdown between SINGLES vs. REALITY BITES. We discuss whether or not each of us "belongs" in Gen X, at the same time that we consult the youngest among us--Generation Alpha--about any "nuo lingo" we should know to keep up with the zeitgeist. We wrap things up with Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise," the headliner for our weekly music video watch party. 

Cold open clip from Singles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PP5ENgXLiI

Singles trailer: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4tQFsPTGXI

Streaming free on Vudu:

https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/play/9190/ADVERT_CONTENT?returnUrl=%252Fcontent%252Fmovies%252Fdetails%252FSingles%252F9190

Reality Bites Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6IYoQ8Atms

Available to rent through Apple and Amazon

Cooliio - Gangster's Paradise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPO76Jlnz6c

We’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 into the future together, while also listening to our past. 

Wynter tells us what’s up on Love is Blind season 2, while Karen gives us the final word on her wife Sarah’s viral tweet about “cat butter.” Plus, the two get into Netflix’s Inventing Anna, which they each binged in a single sitting. Nuo-lingo explores the “vibe shift” and a resurrected SOTW accompanies a brand new one to close out the show.

Kurt Cobain and Nirvana learning how much money they make per show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdb271UMb50&feature=youtu.be

Pop open a Bartles & Jaymes, and pull your rocking chair up to your laptop, Wynter and Karen get into how Generation X uses YouTube, from nostalgic forays into old commercials and landmark pop culture moments, to how-to videos and instructional content. But they don't stop there: Wynter also scours YouTube for fresh content to break us all out of our slacker rut. Speaking of slackers, Karen revisits Always Be My Maybe through the lens of the Asian slacker, while also anticipating crying a lot to Awkwafina's dramatic turn in The Farewell. Meanwhile, Wynter prepares to celebrate her first wedding anniversary like an enlightened Don Draper at Esalen, and has high praise for CNN's docuseries, The Movies.  The two stage an ad war between Mentos vs. Diet Pepsi, and ask you to sus out some "nuo lingo." As always, we close things out with a SOTW. 

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Links to just about everything mentioned:

Bartles & Jaymes Ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYdWHK6AA6E

Michael J Fox DIET PEPSI (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqNXNE-P4uc&app=desktop

MENTOS: The Freshmaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfp2Bg6iUdY

YouTube Is a Temple of Nostalgia for 1990s TV Commercials

https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/youtube-is-a-temple-of-nostalgia-for-1990s-tv-commercials.html

Bon Appetit - Gourmet Makes With Claire Saffitz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeM8OReKzfQ&list=PLKtIunYVkv_RezN3GB12YA8orYOScQUdA&index=11

Seth Rogen Breaks Down His Most Iconic Movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Db_8Oyy09w

Surgical Resident Breaks Down 36 More Medical Scenes From Film & TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2MUNDiXazM

Former CIA Chief of Disguise Breaks Down 30 Spy Scenes From Film & TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqeBMP8nEg

Close Up - The Hollywood Reporter - W/ Tiffany Haddish, Phoebe Waller Bridge, Natasha Lyonne, Jane Fonda, Maya Rudolph, Alex Borenstein, Regina Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTuOAV0lK1M&t=6s

CW: 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 undertook a double-feature of the new Downton Abbey film with Alex Garland’s latest, Men starring Jessie Buckley. Wynter anoints The Kids in the Hall honorary Gen X-ers, while telling us why she comfort-binged their latest revival three times. 

Plus, nuo-lingo is back from retrolingo, and two VERY different songs of the week for your enjoyment. 

Our dear friend and the smartest mouth in town, Katherine Spiers (Smart Mouth podcast, Table Cakes Productions) joins us to mull over some of the new food TV being cooked up during the pandemic, from Selena + Chef, to Amy Schumer Learns to Cook. We also get into the ins and outs of what’s happening more broadly in the food scene, from moldy jam-gate at SQIRL, to the perpetual Bon Appetit fallout. Plus, the Umbrella Academy, Michelle Obama and Rhode Island calamari at the DNC, and the etiquette/ethics of using the Reface app. Plus, we close this super-sized episode out with a very classy (because it’s British) nuo-lingo, topped off with three total BOPS.

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Disney rolls out the reboots at its annual D23 convention and--surprise, surprise--there's little to tickle the fancies of Generation X, with all the devotion to Lizzie McGuire & HSM. Wynter & Karen remedy that by telling you which Disney reboots from the 70s & 80s they'd be interested in seeing, especially between The Cat from Outer Space vs. Flight of the Navigator. Karen fishes for a Netflix sponsorship by theming her birthday party, aka "Leztopia" after Wine Country. She also tells us what's brewing on the final season of Showtime's The Affair. Wynter follows up her previous VMA chatter with a postmortem on the broadcast, as well as a general assessment of the pop music landscape. Thanks to listeners Gerald & Keith, we have two new W2X bumpers for you to hear! Plus, what's a TikTok (in Nuo-Lingo), and your SOTW.

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Links To Just About Everything Mentioned:

Trailer for The Cat From Outer Space (1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SEaSW1jtnQ

Disney’s High School Musical Reboot Trailer: The Start of Something Old

https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/disney-releases-first-high-school-musical-reboot-trailer.html

“The Belle of St. Mark” by Sheila E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThJYpaCcOqE

Karen and Wynter travel all the way to the University of Mississippi in Oxford for their first live show, with special guests Kiese Laymon and Alysia Steele. The four of them get into our inappropriate objects of pop-cultural affection--or the many times each of them has been told they were wannabes, or didn’t belong for being POC who like “problematic pop objects.” Befitting their idyllic campus setting, the panel gets into how School Daze vs. Dear White People (the TV series) each explore the minefield of desire and student culture at universities.  Wynter praises Hustlers and tells us why J. Lo is the hardest working woman in show business. Karen gets into the “hard to watch,” but nevertheless must-watch Netflix series on a serial rape case, Unbelievable with Merrit Wever and Toni Collette. Plus, we have more Nuo-Lingo for you, while Kiese and Alysia bring you two slappin’ songs of the week. W2X thanks the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, and director Professor Jaime Harker for bringing us out to Ole Miss! 

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Links To Just About Everything Mentioned:

"Good and Bad Hair" from School Daze (1988)

https://vimeo.com/136433500

Dear White People | Season 3 Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPbJdDKKds

Unbelievable | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTIkUzkbzQk

EPMD - So Whatcha Sayin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4HJ-xvmSyo&feature=youtu.be

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Parents Just Don't Understand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3PFC86UNI