🎧: Big nepotism energy w/ Avi & Harling
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Hello!
Thrilled to share I’ve invited my team of pop culture analysts, Avi Bonnerjee and Harling Ross, back on the podcast today to discuss nepotism in America (especially Hollywood), inspired by the Twitter discourse around Cazzie David’s essay in The Cut last week. We also, in the name of literary critique, weigh in on whether we ever get too full to fuck. As usual I was very excited to be conversing with Avi and Harling, although I miss when the three of us could hang intimately on the beach.
Links to things we mention:
-The Light phone
-The Grey’s Anatomy trailer that teased a McDreamy comeback
-Harling’s piece about knocking vs jiggling the bathroom door handle + her theory that outfits go bad at 3pm
-Cazzie David’s essay in The Cut: “Too Full to Fuck”
-Our Emily in Paris podcast episode
-Larry David’s story of quitting SNL
-Wyatt Koch’s “Hawaiian” shirt line as featured in The Cut
-Jia Tolentino’s “The Land of the Large Adult Son” for The New Yorker
-Harling’s satire about the great Oatly shortage of 2018
Come for the goss, stay for Avi’s heart-wrenching cover of LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem.”
Happy Thanksgiving (and thanks for listening),
Haley
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Checked out the comments on the essay itself, the only one that matters to me is from deach5: "Eat after."
I really enjoy these conversations with your pop culture analysts, please do make them regulars. Also, appreciate how, in all their lightheartedness, they still manage to give me a different, broader perspective, e.g. your comments on how we choose to focus on individuals and even take them apart, instead of reflecting on what is truly the root of our anger and frustration, and Harling's comments on how social media sustains and benefits from this. (Which is why I wish there were now a trancript of the podcasts, so I could easily go back and retrieve whatever pops to mind afterwards.) I don't know if these are actually obvious remarks and conclusions to other people, but to someone like me, who hasn't really stopped to consider them, they are thought-provoking and, in some cases, eye-opening. I appreciate the food for thought is what I am trying to say!
P.s. I had no idea who Cazzie David was, so I visited her ig page after listening to this and her first post is from the nyt, a best sellers print paperback list, where her book ranks second :). Also, first congratulatory comment on her post, by Lily Collins :)).
P.s.2: On a second listen, Avi's cover becomes a vibe.