Podcast episodes that changed your life.

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Microbiology with Dr. Elaine Hsiao: Did you know that 90% of our serotonin is made in our gut!?! This taught me so much about a subject I thought I already knew a fair bit about. Listen if you've ever suffered from hot girl tummy issues or are simply curious about our gut-brain connection. Fucking fascinating stuff.

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creating a digital garden to end my doomscrolling: Anna Howard talks how to use note-taking to dig deeper into your creativity and connect the dots between everything you're consuming

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How Reality TV Makes Us All Republicans: For lovers AND haters of reality TV! I'm lovinggggg this episode of my favourite podcast (& the only one I pay for), Diabolical Lies.

Talking about the strange, murky para-swamp-universe of reality television, covering topics included but not limited to:

- the ongoing and deeply concerning but also kind of hilarious GOP Crossover Effect

- the psychology behind parasocial fandoms

- the strange emotional cocktail that comes from deep consumption of the genre, in which you walk away feeling equal parts euphoric, god-like, and grimy, all at once

- the absolute fucking DRAMA of Spencer Pratt’s failed mayoral campaign

- the fact of Sarah Palin’s existence

- John McCain being the Last Honest Politician

- How The Hills may or may not have low-key been the truest canary in the coal-mine for this nation’s rapid slide into full-throated idiocy

~ from Diabolical Lies episode description

Dylan · Answer

Upstream: Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness w/ Da’Shaun Harrison: An interrogation of body politics, exploring how fatphobia is rooted in anti-Blackness & eugenics.

Dylan · Answer

Attention-Deficit Neuropsychology (ADHD) with Russell Barkley: This took me a long time to finish because, hilariously, they’re very long episodes for someone with ADHD to pay attention to. Irony not lost on me!

Part 2 is here.

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Is There a ‘Skinny Apocalypse’ in Hollywood?: Another day, another Diabolical Lies SLAY. This one is a very uncomfortable but vital listen imho.

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Sentimental in the City: One episode covers each season of Sex and the City in this hilarious deep dive into the iconic series, featuring two besties nerding out about pop culture. I’m more obsessed with this pod than the show itself.

"I don’t want any woman out there to think you have to place yourself under a fountain of piss to find true love. That’s not what we’re saying. All we’re saying is that she does throw a good man away over a little bit of urine."

Absolutely classic commentary on the groundbreaking (and often, now heavily criticised) series.

Dylan · Answer

Gwen Stefani: From Feminist to Fascist: Matt Bernstein, Taylor Lorenz, & Kat Tenbarge dive into Gwen Stefani’s evolution — from punk feminist icon to conservative tradwife — unpacking the cultural appropriation, contradictions, & deeper narratives behind her carefully crafted persona. This shit IS bananas.

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