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A trio of my favorite independent podcasts:
1. STARGIRL — Created and hosted by Emma Glenn Baker, STARGIRL explores girls with that ineffable star quality. (There is such a thing as a non-STARGIRL "It" Girl, which Baker frequently clarifies on the show.) A podcast that is equal parts pop culture tea and highbrow cultural critism, every episode delves into a different STARGIRL, their patterns, and what their fame reveals about our culture and ourselves. Episodes range from Gwyneth Paltrow and Zendaya to Addison Rae, Jennie Kim, and Willa Cather (!). Gentle and soothing, this is also a great podcast to put on before bedtime. Listen to STARGIRL on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6VFykudaxSh0XNLzcL2YmS?si=pZOfBXBnQESmkjYRCtNgww&nd=1&dlsi=f58ee3b787a9497f
2. EYEWITNESS BEAUTY — Created and hosted by two experienced beauty industry and DTC brand professionals, Nick Axelrod-Welk and Annie Kreighbaum—who met during their tenure at golden-era Into The Gloss—EYEWITNESS BEAUTY investigates both the biggest and more niche beauty topics of the day, from why "the artist [Harry Styles] has left the building" with the f.k.a. nailpolish brand PLEASING to why a recent book release on Glossier may not be an altogether factually correct portrayal of the beauty company's rise. I also enjoy when Nick and Annie discuss their culture & art favorites, bring on special guests (from aestheticians and make-up artists to entrepreneurs and fellow beauty podcasters), and discuss their Products of the Week. This podcast is fully independent—no advertising dollars are at play here—and it shows in the tastes, discernment, and honest opinions of its hosts.
Listen to EYEWITNESS BEAUTY on Apple Podcasts here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pelotons-cody-rigsby-the-seinfeld-of-cycling/id1518313105?i=1000514517551
3. THE IMMORTAL ICONS OF DANCE — Created and hosted by Lauryn Johnson, a dancer and dance history curator, THE IMMORTAL ICONS OF DANCE explores dancemakers, directors and choreographers who have changed the course of the medium. Each episode focuses on a game-changing subject (for example: Gene Kelly or Martha Graham), as told through the lens of a dancer, usually a protégé, who worked with that icon and was actually in the (rehearsal) room where it happened. As dance is such a presence-oriented art, and often an ephemeral one, I'm a big fan of anyone who has the dedication to preserve its priceless oral histories in stone so that anyone can access and be enriched by it in some way.
Listen to THE IMMORTAL ICONS OF DANCE on Apple Podcasts here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/immortal-icons-of-dance/id1708302372
Feb 3, 2024
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once every two weeks I set up my microphone, my eyes roll back and turn black, and I talk with my good friend Kat for approximately an hour and 20 minutes. we just recently released Episode 2 Hottest Shawty in the Tuberculosis Ward.
In Episode 2 we talk about the Princess and the Pea, royal glass delusion, globohomo fruit, TikTok DID fakers, when Trisha Paytas was a chicken nugget, HRH Collection Alex's Jungian shadow self, Botox, face yoga, DIY oat milk, buccal fat removal veneer tooth horse face, the Big Angification of society (RIP), the need for plastic surgery ugliness war crimes tribunals, tuberculosis hotties, r/ gangstalking, psychic powers of dogs, Mark Twain's brain waves, and we answer some burning Qs from listeners.
listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts if you are so inclined…. Episode 3 coming this Saturday where we interview Joshua Lengfelder, cofounder of Randonautica.
Apr 2, 2024
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Join nunjournal and me at bird brain reeducation camp! Escape your gilded cage if only for a moment and allow us to brighten your day.
Episode 1: Escape the Pod
Emma Watson's pubic hair oil and Brown nepotism slay degree, jojoba oil, the struggles of yuppie pod life, the definition of birdbrained, Mormon mommy bloggers, backlash against aspirational girlboss lifestyle and pressure to have it all, linea alba, the undervaluation of feminized labor, the dehumanizing evils of food delivery apps and the status of gig workers as an underclass of people, Wall-E as prescient dark dystopian film, Dr. Hole and Ariana's border town upbringing, Julia Fox and Emrata's intellectual posturing, Your Fav is Problematic's twisted world that we're all just living in, cultural Protestantism vs. Catholicism, exercise as punishment, movement as hygiene, cankles, an exhaustive list of American Girl dolls and their lore from Kiddles Kidpedia, America as a country of failsons, trad LARPing, regretful parents, being dusty and crusty, House of the Dragon's swaglessness, Dr. Hole's Bridgerton trauma, retroactive victimization of Shelley Duvall and her legacy, Asia Argento's grooming scandal, and our excitement for our triumphant escapes from the pod.
Episode 2: Cackling Kamala
How ASMR could have saved Jeffrey Dahmer, Ariana's newfound interest in ASMR, Dr. Hole's misophonic rage, fundamental antisocial brokenness, and love for hot baths, Top of the Lake, Blue Maga, whether Kamala is brat, Ariana's cracker-sona Mackenzie, Trump losing his rhetorical sauce, Dr. Hole's Hillary Clinton hot sauce slay, reactionary rightoid delusions, Red Scare podcast host coomer sandpaper pussy and pelvic floor atonia, carnivore diet, inflammation as more than just a buzzword, the Ballerina Farms saga, why beautiful men look better without facial hair, Mormon soaking, upcoming buzzy trad wife influencer horror novel and film adaptation Yesteryear, and an update of life out of the pod.
Episode 3: 365 Temperate Girl
Dr. Hole's rediscovered hatred of pop music, listening to a song about getting dicked down so hard you can't walk in the middle of Subway, female welders, the rightoid monopoly on culture war issues and moral outrage, the arrest of living Roblox character Bobby George, salt of the earth libtards, GMO weed, potent fermented nootropic placebo beverages, adaptogens, Bella Hadid's brain colonizing bacteria, why Alton Brown is zaddy, and Adam Driver's GI bill Julliard education swag. Finally, Dr. Hole drunkenly rage baits Ariana about the perils of alcohol and the party lifestyle.
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