Season 4
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 new sequel, The Nine...
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 since the pandemic started...
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 playing children’s games...
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 of bureaucratic...
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 special shoutout to the new...
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 have stepped in to...
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 process? Wynter performs...
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 stoked this calamity. ...
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, Karen insists we process...
July 5, 2021
Ep. 71: Soft, Yacht, and Spago Rock with Mike Pace and Molly Lambert
We go long this week to pore over all the shout horns, crotchy synth chords and late-80s affluence of what Mike Pace famously describes as Spago rock. Molly Lambert explains the Spago-adjacent music she and her brother have dubbed “Glass Bricks...
June 21, 2021
Ep. 70: Gamechangers: Film & TV Edition
Wynter asks us all to think about the films and TV shows that changed the game, from those that captured the style and essence of their era (Clueless), to those that transformed the cultural conversation (Boyz N The Hood, and the early-80s trifecta of...
June 7, 2021
Ep. 69: The One With the Friends Reunion
Wynter and Karen hit all the angles of the HBO Max Friends reunion, from the true MVPs of the cast, to Irish uncle Joey, to its efforts to compensate for the show’s lack of diversity by highlighting its global legacy. The two get into a surprisingly...
May 24, 2021
Ep. 68: Girls 5 Eva, 3gether with Guy Branum
Their former girl group sister, Guy Branum told Karen and Wynter to watch the new Peacock series Girls 5Eva so they could all process it 3gether, which they do on this week’s ep. Karen is too busy cavorting in the gay woods with her vaxxed BFFs to...
May 10, 2021
Ep. 67: Our AIM is True - Social Media Through the Ages
Dust off your dial-up, and join Wynter and Karen for a glimpse at social media through the ages, from the classic AOL Instant Messenger, to all the apps we rushed to download during the pandemmy like Marco Polo, HouseParty, and Clubhouse. Karen is...
April 26, 2021
Ep. 66 At the Movies (Again!)
What upcoming movie releases will inspire Karen and Wynter to leave the comfort and safety of their pandemic bunkers to go to an actual theater?!? This is an especially tall order since news broke of the Arclight & Cineramadome’s demise in...
April 12, 2021
Ep. 65 Better Be Good to TINA, with Nick Murphy
Wynter and Karen welcome longtime listener Nick Murphy, a fierce advocate and fan of the great Tina Turner, to chat about the new HBO doc revisiting her legacy. The three focus on what it means to truly pursue your dreams in your 40s. Wynter is deep...
March 29, 2021
Ep. 64 It’s An Honor Just to Be Asian... #StopWhiteSupremacy
Karen and Wynter confront the surge in anti-AAPI hate and violence during Covid, while exploring how its longer histories are intertwined with pop culture. Karen shouts out some writers doing the hard work of responding to the Atlanta shootings in...
March 15, 2021
Ep. 63 - Coming Home to The Real World
Wynter and Karen reveal the different reasons each of them cried when they watched The Real World: Homecoming, which reunites the cast of MTV’s first season of The Real World: New York (1992). Whose fashion and “smooth concave chest” do they...
March 1, 2021
Ep. 62: The World of WandaVision
Wynter and Karen immerse themselves into WandaVision, as they explore how we use TV to work through our grief in myriad ways. Ever the completist, Karen re-watched all 23 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in timeline order, and reports back to us...
Feb. 15, 2021
Ep. 61: #FreeBritney + Bling Empire w/ Jenny Yang
Writer, comedian, and Asian American cultural icon Jenny Yang joins us to process WTF Bling Empire is all about. Karen and Wynter call an audible, and devote their ‘sup segment to Framing Britney Spears, because it truly is the only thing that’s...
Feb. 1, 2021
Ep. 60: FOREVER 21
Karen and Wynter kick off season 4 and 2021--the year this millennium is finally old enough to drink--with reflections on when they each turned 21. For Wynter, it was 2001, and she recalls her days tearing up the San Francisco scene, while immersing...