ICYMI - Are You Anti-Influencer, Or Anti-Women?
After a small business in Nantucket put a “no influencers” sign in their store, creators accused it of being sexist. The issue divided the internet, when really, both things can be true: Influencer cu...
15 Aug 39min
ICYMI - We Lost Another Creator To AI, Boys
Hank Green is finally burning out. After creating for the internet for almost 20 years, the YouTuber (and one half of Vlogbrothers) confessed to having a “not healthy” relationship with AI, relying on...
12 Aug 37min
Decoder Ring - McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime, Part 1 (Encore)
McGruff the Crime Dog arrived on the scene at the dawn of the 1980s, just as a firehose of anti-drug PSAs was inundating the youth of America. These messages didn’t always work as intended—but they di...
12 Aug 33min
Death, Sex & Money - A Refreshingly Curious Adventure through Our Divided America
Peter Santenello has been documenting his world travels on YouTube for nearly two decades, but it wasn’t until he moved in with a family in the Ukrainian countryside that he really began to hone his s...
11 Aug 55min
ICYMI - The "Skinnyphobic" Myth
We don’t know how to talk about bodies online. When a popular content creator named Samyra posted a TikTok accusing The Cheesecake Factory’s “Skinnylicious” menu as fatphobic, the internet couldn’t st...
8 Aug 45min
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Her Heart Will Go On Edition
Céline Dion is set to emerge from her career dormancy into a sold-out Paris residency—a triumph over a rare neurological illness that, until recently, prevented her from singing. Her silence seemed un...
8 Aug 44min
ICYMI - Don’t Fall For 90s Nostalgia Slop
The internet is never not nostalgic for the past, but something about the 90s is different. While previous trends like Y2K and “millennial optimism” have been mostly about the hair and clothes, 90s no...
5 Aug 41min
Death, Sex & Money - I Have a Crush on My Therapist. Now What?
Caroline started going to therapy as a teenager because of depression. After a couple of years working together, she expressed a fantasy. “I had a vision of us dancing to Pachelbel's Canon” she told h...
4 Aug 55min
