Season 3
Dec. 18, 2020
Ep. 59: Gifts that Keep on Giving from our Family to Yours
It’s a family affair for our season 3 finale, as both Wynter and Karen’s parents pop into our Zoom room to chat about their favorite pop cultural memories--the gifts that keep on giving--from then and now. Each of our hosts …
Dec. 4, 2020
Ep. 58: The Happiest Season...OR IS IT?!
Karen could barely wait through the holiday weekend to hear what Wynter, her self-described “cis-het” gal pal thought of The Happiest Season, the new holiday romcom with sapphist leads. Find out what a “Madewell femme” is in…
Nov. 26, 2020
Ep. 57: Thank You, Thank You: Listener Dedications + An Amazing Race detour w/ Nicole J. Georges
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. …
Nov. 20, 2020
Ep. 56: Crownin’ Around with Diana: The Crown S4
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…
Nov. 13, 2020
Ep. 55: Lipsync for Your Life: From Milli Vanilli to Sarah Cooper w/ Sarah Kessler
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…
Nov. 6, 2020
Ep. 54: Reunion for a Fair Fight w/ Guy Branum and Margaret Wappler
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…
Oct. 30, 2020
Ep. 53: Written in the Stars w/ Amanda Yates Garcia, the Oracle of L.A.
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…
Oct. 23, 2020
Ep. 52: Defend Your Sequel w/ Kill by Kill’s Patrick & Gena
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…
Oct. 16, 2020
Ep. 51: A Mental Health Break w/ Dr. Megan Auster-Rosen
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 …
Oct. 9, 2020
Ep. 50: Debating SNL
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…
Oct. 2, 2020
Ep. 49: Getting Pen15
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 …
Sept. 25, 2020
Ep. 48: Fast Times and the Rise of the All-Star Table Read
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, …
Sept. 18, 2020
Ep. 47: Remembering Chadwick Boseman with andré carrington
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 …
Sept. 11, 2020
Ep. 46: Lovecraft Country with Dr. Jonathan P. Higgins
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…
Sept. 4, 2020
Ep. 45: Facing the Music with Bill & Ted
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…
Aug. 28, 2020
Ep. 44: The Go-Go’s with Kathy Valentine
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…
Aug. 21, 2020
Ep. 43: What’s Cookin’ in the Pandemic w/ Katherine Spiers
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…
Aug. 14, 2020
Ep. 42: 90s Domestic Thrillers with Brandy Monk-Payton
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…
Aug. 7, 2020
Ep. 41: What’s Good is Bad & Bad is Good w/ June Diane Raphael
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…