Episodes

Ep. 55: Lipsync for Your Life: From Milli Vanilli to Sarah Cooper w/ Sarah Kessler

Nov. 13, 2020

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 discuss…

Ep. 54: Reunion for a Fair Fight w/ Guy Branum and Margaret Wappler

Nov. 6, 2020

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 G…

Ep. 53: Written in the Stars w/ Amanda Yates Garcia, the Oracle of L.A.

Oct. 30, 2020

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 f…

Ep. 52: Defend Your Sequel w/ Kill by Kill’s Patrick & Gena

Oct. 23, 2020

Wynter brings an all-horror loving posse over to our Zoom room to get hyped for Halloween. Patrick Hamilton and Gena Radcliffe of the Kill by Kill podcast come to defend their favorite horror sequels. Wynter advocates for…

Ep. 51: A Mental Health Break w/ Dr. Megan Auster-Rosen

Oct. 16, 2020

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 …

Ep. 50: Debating SNL

Oct. 9, 2020

Wynter and Karen take a look back at SNL’s political coverage, especially its parodies of presidential debates past and present, as the show resumes production with a live studio audience. Is satire even possible in the poli…

Ep. 49: Getting Pen15

Oct. 2, 2020

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. 48: Fast Times and the Rise of the All-Star Table Read

Sept. 25, 2020

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, …

Ep. 47: Remembering Chadwick Boseman with andré carrington

Sept. 18, 2020

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 …

Ep. 46: Lovecraft Country with Dr. Jonathan P. Higgins

Sept. 11, 2020

We’re a full month into Lovecraft Country, so Dr. Jon Paul Higgins from the Learnt podcast joins us for a spirited discussion about the show’s horrors, both everyday and paranormal, as well as what it’s done for Blerds (Blac…

Ep. 45: Facing the Music with Bill & Ted

Sept. 4, 2020

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 e…

Ep. 44: The Go-Go’s with Kathy Valentine

Aug. 28, 2020

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 A…

Ep. 43: What’s Cookin’ in the Pandemic w/ Katherine Spiers

Aug. 21, 2020

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 Sc…

Ep. 42: 90s Domestic Thrillers with Brandy Monk-Payton

Aug. 14, 2020

Media scholar & author Dr. Brandy Monk-Payton (Fordham University) joins Karen & Wynter to talk about the preponderance of domestic psychodramas like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Sleeping with the Enemy in the early 19…

Ep. 41: What’s Good is Bad & Bad is Good w/ June Diane Raphael

Aug. 7, 2020

Karen and Wynter kick off a brand new season joined by June Diane Raphael, co-founder of the Jane Club, and star of Grace and Frankie, Long Shot and The High Note. June Diane drops in to BLOW OUR MINDS with her read on Cluel…

Karen interviews Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls

July 17, 2020

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

Karen interviews Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls

July 10, 2020

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 wel…

Ep. 40: You Must Remember Polly Platt with Karina Longworth

June 26, 2020

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,…

Ep. 39: Together Again to Talk Gen Z with Guy Branum & Margaret Wappler

June 19, 2020

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 fr…

Ep. 38: Just Can’t [The] Help It

June 12, 2020

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 …

Ep. 37: American Uprising

June 8, 2020

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 we…

Ep. 36: Butches for Billions with Raquel Gutierrez

May 29, 2020

Wynter is off for the week, so one of Karen’s oldest BFF’s, the poet, writer and performer Raquel Gutierrez joins her from Tucson, AZ to talk about everything from making pizzas with coral mushrooms to Netflix’s Lovebirds. R…

Talking Hollywood with Guy Branum

May 22, 2020

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 G…

Ep. 35: Hollywood, Babylon

May 15, 2020

Wynter and Karen are not alone! Special sexxy guests, Guinevere Turner and Alonso Duralde join them in the W2X Zoom Room for a deep hang, and some scandalous conversation about Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood, a new limited series r…