Engagement Party
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Rick Steves Has Been Everywhere. He's Noticing Something Weird.
Rick Steves Has Been Everywhere. He's Noticing Something Weird.
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Welcome to Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro’s Engagement Party, where the hot takes are the smart takes.
After years of working side by side, Audie and Ari have made it official with their pop culture podcast. Party hopping between what you're watching, reading and scrolling, these longtime friends unpack what matters in our endless feeds.
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- Rick Steves Has Been Everywhere. He's Noticing Something Weird. · 42 minBoxy apartment buildings. Industrial-chic coffee shops. Fast-casual salads. Are cities everywhere becoming indistinguishable? Audie and Ari dissect the trend with help from…
- Bonus: Code-switching and Cussing · 55 minAudie and Ari recently joined one of their favorite people, writer and journalist Anne Helen Peterson, on her podcast Culture Study. They talked code switching, gay slang…
- Why We Hate the Surveillance State but Love Receipts · 36 minWe’re living in an age of surveillance anxiety. And yet, hand us a leaked DM or security footage of Kelly Clarkson at a Brooklyn toy store and we’re here for it. Are we feeding…
- For Nathan Fielder, the Truth Is a Joke · 37 minIn You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder sets his reality-distorting comedic documentarian talents on disgraced tech founder Elizabeth Holmes. The movie had the internet in a…
- Is Sobriety the New Flex? · 37 minFormer Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio got sober before “sober-curious” was trending. As an original arbiter of internet culture, he’s got a long view of today’s drinking discourse —…
- How a Lesbian Bar Sparked a Week of 'Woke 1' Whiplash · 37 minFrom a viral story on a lesbian bar’s masking policy to Nikole Hannah-Jones' essay on making school segregation a personal issue to the “Cornell Seven,” Audie and Ari connect the…
- Kandi Burruss on Life After Reality T.V. · 28 minIt's been 20 years since Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise changed the face of reality T.V. In this special bonus episode, former Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss joins…
- Letterboxd Is the Last Best Corner of the Internet · 36 minThe film review app Letterboxd is a social hub for movie fans everywhere. But has democratizing criticism somehow lowered the bar, or is this the last truly great social media…
- The Novel of the Century Is NSFW · 48 minWith The Disappearers, Marlon James has written an explicit and violent epic that’s been called “the novel of the decade, if not the century." He joins the party to talk about…
- Should Nepo Babies Embrace the Label? · 31 minNepo babies have sparked debate for years, but chart-topping singer-songwriter Stella Lefty, who also happens to be the daughter of a billionaire, is reigniting the conversation…
- Dating Apps Were Never About Romance · 38 minThe internet is full of dating horror stories and think pieces the death of traditional romance. It’s a concept built for virality. But is the moral panic real? Audie and Ari…
- Television's Prestige Hangover Era Is Here · 38 minTelevision's golden age is over, replaced by one that’s decidedly more, as they say, “mid.” Audie and Ari weigh in on whether TV really got worse, the industry's post-prestige…
- RushTok is Southern Soft Power · 32 minThis week, the internet turned its eyes to an annual 2020s tradition: watching freshman girls rush sororities at big Southern state schools via an endless stream of social…
- Lauren Weedman From 'Hacks' Has Main Character Energy · 42 minAs generational warfare feeds TV scripts from Beef to Hacks, Emmy nominee Lauren Weedman joins the party to talk about hanging with Gen Z on the Hacks set, the art of scene…
- How Ella Langley Won the Electoral College of Culture · 39 min"Choosin’ Texas" broke the Billboard charts – so why can’t we all agree it’s the Song of Summer? Audie breaks down why the answer may say more about the state of the music…
- Eddie Huang and the Power of "Sad Boy Lit" · 35 minWriter and chef Eddie Huang joins the party for a conversation about "sad boy" literature, finding love, and the worst relationship advice he's ever received. Like what you…
- Gen Z's '90s Nostalgia Has Some Gaps · 48 minThe '90s are everywhere these days — clothes, music, TV — and brands are doing everything they can to capitalize on the revival. Audie and Ari explore what’s driving the modern…
- 'The Odyssey' Is Epic But The Discourse Is Not · 38 minChristopher Nolan's The Odyssey isn't just a movie — it's an event. Audie and Ari sift through the hype, backlash, and what the online chatter says about the cultural moment…
- Will Meta’s AI Glasses Ever Be Cool? · 32 minMeta’s trying hard to sell people on its AI glasses, but will partnering with Ray-Ban and celebrities like Kylie Jenner let them shed the pervasive take that they’re creepy and…
- The Summer of Peptides and Celebrity Weddings · 39 minIs this officially the summer of peptides and celebrity weddings? Audie and Ari consider what Serena Williams’ Wimbledon comeback means for the rise of GLP-1s and the evolution…
