Season 5
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. 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...
Aug. 29, 2022
Ep. 95: She-Hulk and Snark w/Ryan Bailey
Wynter is in the driver's seat one more time and wants to know if you're watching She-Hulk. It's a refreshing glass of characters and story that you don't even need to have watched all 432 Marvel movies to enjoy. Ryan Bailey () stops by for the...
Aug. 15, 2022
Ep. 94: A Free For All w/ Abby Gardner
While Karen is on vacation, Wynter brought in special guest host Abby Gardner () to talk about ALL THE THINGS: Biopics, Harry Styles, mixtapes, movies, Kate Bush, old Hollywood, new Hollywood, Joan Crawford, Florence Pugh...seriously, it's a dense pop...
Aug. 1, 2022
Ep. 93: Irma Vep Across Time
Karen and Wynter have been seduced by Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas’ “serialized” HBO Max revisitation of his own 1996 indie film of the same name starring screen goddess Maggie Cheung (his ex-wife). The two get into all the series’...
July 19, 2022
Ep. 92: WORTH THE WAIT? From Stranger Things to Umbrella Academy
Wynter has returned from her European vacation to tell us about her encounter with Aline–not to be confused with Celine, who the main character of this French-Canadian film very closely resembles. Karen tells us about Chris Belcher hot new memoir...
July 4, 2022
Ep. 91: Comin’ in Hot: FX’s THE BEAR
This week Karen is joined by author, curator, and former kitchen-geek Jennifer Doyle, as well as Chef Courtney Storer to talk about the buzzy and bingeable FX series The Bear. As the culinary producer on the show, Chef Coco gives us the inside...
June 13, 2022
Ep. 90: A Theysian/Gaysian Guide to Hulu’s FIRE ISLAND
Wynter is out of the country, so Karen invited her longtime gaysian/theysian pals, Summer Kim Lee (a cultural critic and UCLA professor), and JJ Chan (an artist and designer based in Brooklyn) to talk about the highly anticipated gay(sian) rom-com,...
June 6, 2022
Ep. 89: FIGHT BACK! w/ author Raquel Gutierrez
CW: discussions of violence, self-harm, domestic abuse, mass shooting–in other words, of our everyday lives in the U.S.A. Wynter and Karen welcome special guest Raquel Gutierrez, author of the new book (out June 7). The three revive a conversation...
May 9, 2022
Ep. 88: W2X Live @ REDCAT w/ Kevin Smith & Sandra Bernhard
This is an edited version of the live show - The Gen X festival’s Humanities co-curators (Wynter & Karen!!!!) take the stage for a live podcast recording along with special guests Sandra Bernhard and Kevin Smith!
April 11, 2022
Ep. 87: The Music of 1992 and 2002
Wynter and Karen reflect back on the music of 1992 and 2002, from Pitchfork favorites to the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to selecting their MVP songs and albums from each year, they each get into what they were wearing and gift an NFT idea to Ja...
March 28, 2022
Ep. 86: 80s Erotique with Karina Longworth
This week Karina Longworth, the creator, producer and host of You Must Remember This joins us for a preview of the pod’s latest season on the “Erotic 80s.” Before the three regale you with tales of peering at their parents’ Playboy...
March 14, 2022
Ep. 85 - A Most Excellent Vintage: Our Favorite OSCARS Years
Wynter and Karen look back on their favorite Oscars years and winners in recent, i.e. prime GenX decades, as we round the corner to the 94th Annual Academy Awards. Before they take a 1985 and 1992-heavy trip down memory lane, the two get into...
Feb. 28, 2022
Ep. 84: THE FUTURE OF MUSIC IS…RAISING THE DEAD?
We’re thrilled to welcome back Ann Powers of NPR Music, and author of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music to talk to us about the future of music. We explore other critics’ predictions about the future,...
Feb. 21, 2022
Ep. 83: THE FUTURE IS NOW
Karen returns from her bout w/ the Omarion variant to catch up with Wynter about Super Bowl Sunday, including all the ads, and the “GenX has arrived” halftime show featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and 50 Cent. Their main...
Jan. 31, 2022
Ep. 82: And Just Like That…It’s 1996
Hot on the heels of our last episode on Yellowjackets, Wynter and Karen are inspired to revisit the year 1996 and what it gave to us in fashion, fragrances, music, TV, movies and more. Before they get into all that, and what they were each up to at...
Jan. 17, 2022
Ep. 81: Yellowjackets! Buzz, Buzz, Buzz
Wynter & Karen welcome you to Season 5 with a bushel full of SPOILER ALERTS for both Search Party and the topic of their main segment, everybody’s latest obsession Yellowjackets (not that other “Yellow” TV show). Which Yellowjacket do each...