Episodes
Aug. 29, 2022
Ep. 95: She-Hulk and Snark w/Ryan Bailey
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 Baile…
Aug. 15, 2022
Ep. 94: A Free For All w/ Abby Gardner
While Karen is on vacation, Wynter brought in special guest host Abby Gardner () to talk about ALL THE THINGS: Biopics, Harry Styles, mixtapes, movies, Kate Bush, old Hollywood, new Hollywood, Joan Crawford, Florence Pugh...…
Aug. 1, 2022
Ep. 93: Irma Vep Across Time
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 ser…
July 19, 2022
Ep. 92: WORTH THE WAIT? From Stranger Things to Umbrella Academy
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 …
July 4, 2022
Ep. 91: Comin’ in Hot: FX’s THE BEAR
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…
June 13, 2022
Ep. 90: A Theysian/Gaysian Guide to Hulu’s FIRE ISLAND
Wynter 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 antici…
June 6, 2022
Ep. 89: FIGHT BACK! w/ author Raquel Gutierrez
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 (out June 7). The thr…
May 9, 2022
Ep. 88: W2X Live @ REDCAT w/ Kevin Smith & Sandra Bernhard
This is an edited version of the live show - 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!
April 11, 2022
Ep. 87: The Music of 1992 and 2002
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 an…
March 28, 2022
Ep. 86: 80s Erotique with Karina Longworth
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’…
March 14, 2022
Ep. 85 - A Most Excellent Vintage: Our Favorite OSCARS Years
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 lan…
Feb. 28, 2022
Ep. 84: THE FUTURE OF MUSIC IS…RAISING THE DEAD?
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 …
Feb. 21, 2022
Ep. 83: THE FUTURE IS NOW
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.…
Jan. 31, 2022
Ep. 82: And Just Like That…It’s 1996
Hot 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…
Jan. 17, 2022
Ep. 81: Yellowjackets! Buzz, Buzz, Buzz
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 Yello…
Dec. 13, 2021
Ep. 80: Holiday Holigay Special w/ Alonso Duralde and Dave White
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 n…
Oct. 25, 2021
Ep. 79: Fright Night Finale! Halloween Kills, Chucky and Ghosts
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 s…
Oct. 11, 2021
Ep. 78: Squid Game and Playing for Survival
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 play…
Sept. 27, 2021
Ep. 77: ACS Impeachment
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 o…
Sept. 13, 2021
Ep. 76: You’re Not the Main Character!
Inspired by 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 spe…
Aug. 30, 2021
Ep. 75: Geriatric Xers and End-of-Summer Top 10
Film critics and husbands Dave White and Alonso Duralde of the 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 h…
Aug. 16, 2021
Ep. 74: BioDocs from Bourdain to Val
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…
Aug. 2, 2021
Ep. 73: Woodstock 99 & Music Festivals with Ann Powers
One 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 st…
July 19, 2021
Ep. 72: Ridin’ Down Fear Street: 1994 and 1978
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, …