Episodes
Dec. 18, 2023
Welcome to Tangent Island
I've been dreaming of this very journey for a few years. I turned 40 during COVID and was hit with speed bump after speed bump. Situations I have never anticipated experiencing and in some cases it will be my first time sharing it with you. ...
Dec. 8, 2023
Ep. 114: Second Acts: The Waiting to X-Hale Finale
It’s the final episode, and there are tears shed, and personal revelations made as Karen and Wynter contemplate their favorite “second acts” in popular culture. Amidst it all, Wynter also discusses her new project dropping in January, and Karen...
Dec. 4, 2023
Ep. 113: Favorite Finales
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...
Oct. 7, 2023
Ep. 112: Special Guests
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 & make their first appearance since the end of (3:28), talk about the L.A. punk scene and feminism (15:27), ...
Sept. 23, 2023
Ep. 111: Ahead of Our Time
We present our first "best of" episode featuring clips or topics that were ahead of the curve. From the prediction of the movie, the ahead of her time and Wynter's discovery of to darker predictions of COVID conspiracy theories and political...
Aug. 19, 2023
Ep. 110: My favorite disaster
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 whic…
Aug. 5, 2023
Ep. 109: Gen X Grief & the Loss of Sinead O’Connor and Paul “Pee-Wee Herman “ Reubens
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 …
July 22, 2023
Ep. 108: HOTCAST
It’s the hottest summer on record, so Karen and Wynter take it upon themselves to discuss the pop culture that’s bringing all the heat, from Barbenheimer opening weekend, to Mission Impossible and the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Before all that, Wynter rants about the eros…
July 8, 2023
Ep. 107: Threads, Bear, And Just Like That…
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 o…
June 24, 2023
Ep. 106: Wynter is Back! Black Mirror and Other Current Dystopias
Wynter is back and we have an episode filled with SPOILER ALERTS for both the season finale of Dave and all of Black Mirror, season 6. Which of Streamberry’s eps do we love, or…not so much? KT has an action alert for the LGBTQ+ community, as the GenX 1990s activist organization Queer Nation revs ba…
June 7, 2023
Pride Bonus Episode on Ultimatum: Queer Love
Karen assembles an expert panel of queers to dish about this summer's reality phenom, (Netflix). Authors, curators, and queers about town, Greta La Fleur (), Juana María Rodriguez (), Poulomi Saha () and Jeanne Vaccaro ( on instagram only)...
June 3, 2023
Ep. 105: GenX Coffee Klatsch + 1984 w/ Scott Poulson-Bryant & Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Karen is joined this week by Scott Poulson-Bryant (a co-founding editor of , author and professor at the University of Michigan), and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, the author of . Ebony is a Detroit native who is also a professor at the University of...
May 13, 2023
Ep. 104: Met Gala and More w/ A.E. Stevenson
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 …
April 29, 2023
Ep. 103b: Nuo-Lingo and BoCo: “Touch Grass" w/ Andrew Ti
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 , while also discussing a controversy surrounding her hairstyle at the beginning of the season. Plus,...
April 22, 2023
Ep. 103: Yo, is Gen X Racist? With Andrew Ti
Karen welcomes guest-host Andrew Ti (creator and co-host of Yo, is This Racist?) to discuss a recent Politico article that describes Gen X as “the Trumpiest generation.” Before getting into all that, the two discuss their mutual love of the Angel City Football Club, aka ACFC, L.A.’s National Women’…
April 17, 2023
Ep. 102b: Nuo-Lingo and BoCo: “Private Not Secret” w/ Guy Branum
Outtakes from episode 102 on Andy Cohen and International TV; a nuo-lingo on online displays of relationships
April 8, 2023
Ep. 102: World(ly) TV: From Top Chef World All Stars to International Netflix Offerings
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 inter…
March 17, 2023
Ep. 101: What Did I Miss? Spare, The Last of Us, M3GAN & More - Plus THE OSCARS
Wynter and Karen are back with season 6 to ask each other, “what did I miss?” as they cover some of the notable pop culture moments that went down during their holiday hiatus. Before they get into Spare, The Last of Us and M3GAN, the two...
Nov. 7, 2022
Ep. 100: Turning 100 with Bob Odenkirk
It’s our 100th episode and season 5 finale!!! To help celebrate the occasion, the one and only BOB ODENKIRK was kind enough to join us for a chat about Mr. Show, comedy in the 90s, and the great Janeane Garofalo. Karen is cautiously optimistic about...
Oct. 28, 2022
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Oct. 24, 2022
Ep. 99: Queer for Fear and Our Horror Recommendations
Wynter & Karen dive into the new Shudder documentary series, Queer for Fear: The History for Queer Horror, and are inspired to make some of their own queer horror recommendations for the spooky season. Wynter considers which streaming...
Oct. 10, 2022
Ep. 98: Too Much Too Crime? Dahmer, The Gabby Petito Story and Blonde
Wynter assigns Karen a range of true crime offerings with varying degrees of budget and prestige, from Lifetime’s The Gaby Petito Story, to Netflix’s limited series, Dahmer and the cinematic offering, Blonde. The two discuss when true crime is too...
Sept. 26, 2022
Ep. 97 WRESTLING with GENX’s ANGLOPHILIA
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...
Sept. 12, 2022
Ep. 96: 2022 Emmy Predictions
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...