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Bonus Episode: AHP + Melody's Super Weird Best of 2026 [PREVIEW]
It's BONUS EPISODE TIME! While everyone else is listing their favorite movies and albums and television shows in their end-of-year wrap-ups, Melody and I opted to make up random (but wonderful) catego...
24 Joulu 20251min

What's With All This Eldest Daughter Discourse?
I don't remember when I first noticed Eldest Daughter content popping up in my various social media feeds, but like so many millennials, I loved a meme that seemed to REALLY SEE ME. Why yes, I am a co...
17 Joulu 202551min

What's Behind All The BIG KOREAN POP CULTURE ENERGY
Sometimes I wish I could just have the intro paragraph to an episode be GAAHHHHHHH THIS ONE WAS SO FUN! So this is my version of that: telling you that I wish it could be that, and then also telling y...
10 Joulu 20251h 12min

How to Fall in Love with Birding
Do you need an episode that's the equivalent of a big, deep, inhale and exhale? GREAT NEWS, TEAM, WE HAVE THE EPISODE FOR YOU. Journalist and urban birder Ryan Goldberg joins me to talk about the rece...
3 Joulu 20251h 4min

What It's Actually Like to Run a Small (Creative) Business
When I went freelance full-time to write Culture Study, I had no idea what I was doing. NONE. It took me several years — and encouragement from my accountant and other writers — to begin thinking of w...
26 Marras 20251h 2min

Tracing Cultural Panics with Sarah Marshall (!!!)
What is it about a particular cultural object — or trend, or perceived trend — that makes people FREAK THE F OUT? Anyone who's looked at historical freakouts knows: it's never really about the thing i...
19 Marras 20251h

A Very Smart Conversation About Fantasy (and Romance) with Leigh Bardugo
If you're a paid subscriber and haven't yet set up your subscriber RSS feed in your podcast player, here's the EXTREMELY easy how-to .And if you're having any other issues with your Patreon subscripti...
12 Marras 202558min

Love is Blind as a Cultural Skeleton Key
If you're a paid subscriber and haven't yet set up your subscriber RSS feed in your podcast player, here's the EXTREMELY easy how-to .And if you're having any other issues with your Patreon subscripti...
5 Marras 20251h 9min



















