What do you stan? Hosted by real Pop-Culture Professors, Caitlin Bitzegaio and Lauren Brickman, We Stan Together podcast is smart people about dumb topics. The history of pop culture is a rich, wild, and ever expanding playground. Not to mention, a full time job. Who has time to read every Insta post, think piece, and Twitter thread? Don’t worry, we did, so you don’t have to. We’ll be your CliffsNotes to pop culture. Listen in each week and you’ll be a hit at whatever happy hour, office function, or bridal shower you are forced to attend. Caitlin has written for The Rundown with Robin Thede, Impractical Jokers and Project Runway. Lauren has written for The Cherry Picks, Glamour Magazine and performed with Lisa Lampanelli’s Losin’ It. She is a Company Member of the Story Pirates. They're both UCB performers & directors! Together, they are the Pop Culture Professors, because yes, they both have advanced degrees and have taught college. Weirdly.
Quick annoucement about exciting news!! We Stan will be contributing to Podapalooza! Podapalooza is a virtual podcast festival to raise money for COVID relief. Check out our episode out April 25th and find some new favorite podcasts in this incredible lineup. Donate and get your pass here: www.podapalooza.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Old school TV scholar Timothy Dunn pops by the classroom to discuss crossover episodes. We interrogate why there was never a “Golden Girls”/”227” crossover and did NBC even understand the concept? Richard Belzer is king and Timothy tells us how “Supermarket Sweep” and “Sabrina” could finally be united. Follow Timothy on Twitter (@timothydunn) and IG (@timothydunnhimfun) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The reality landscape has as many one hit wonders as megahits: do the words “Boy Meets Boy” or “Stewarts & Hamiltons” mean anything to you? Whether they do or not, this is the episode for you. Reality stan/pop culture icon Ziwe joins us in the classroom. Find her on Twitter (@ziwe) and on IG (@ziwef) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You love our theme song and you’ll love the band that made it: Lady Lightning joins the classroom to discuss one of their big influences: the ladies of 80s music. Paula Abdul’s “Opposites Attract” may have caused a generation of bad relationships. Tracey Ullman is an underrated pop star. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ken McGraw and Doug Widick (Toxic Masculinity: The Musical) are in detention in this week’s class about Toxic Masculinity. Lauren asks the experts if her crushed are problematic and Caitlin tries to explain that even if Eminem’s songs are troubling, at least he loves his family. The most toxic men of Disney are exposed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Let us all be your star, er, professor on an academic study one of the most important text in the Western canon: NBC’s medium hit show Smash. Guest lecturers Ben Farha and Michael DiFrancisco join us to answer these pressing questions: Who should have been Marilyn? Is Smash ultimately a PSA about peanut allergies? Follow Mikey who does out wonderful art @thecompassrosestore and @mike.difransisco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The wonderful Sara Chase joins the classroom this week as that discuss Singers Who TRY To Act, a category full of surprising successes. Adam Levine’s hotness is debated and the movie Crossroads gets the academic inquiry it so richly deserves. Could Sara have been Kelly Clarkson? Listen and stan out. Follow Sara on IG @sarachase_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Anna Roisman has made a name for herself by turning unemployment into FUNemployment by hosting a Facebook live talk show turned live show turned podcast! This week we test her knowledge of unemployment in pop culture & talk about our own brushes with unemployment. You can STAN our fabulous guest by following her on social media @AnnaRoisman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we take a deep dive into the world of Netflix original movies. We also talk about how hot Brian Austin Green & Randall Park are as well as the fact Lauren never knows how to pronounce last names. Test your Netflix knowledge alongside Chris as we put him through a rigorous academic review! You can stan Chris Burns by following him on instagram @FatCarrieBradshaw for all his latest antics and hot takes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This year we’re sending a big ‘ol Valentine to American Sweetheart Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party of Five, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Ghost Whisperer). That’s right, just in time for Hallmark’s second favorite holiday we’re doing a deep dive into a career that can only be described as ICONIC with an icon in her own right, Caitlin Brodnick (Dangerous Boobies). To send us Valentines follow us @WeStanSocial oninstagram, twitter, and TikTok! If you can’t hardly wait for more of Caitlin Brodnick y...
It was December of 2019 & we couldn’t know then what was about to rock the Royal Family of England… but that didn’t stop us from being Royally Obsessed with Corin Wells (Upright Citizens Brigade). We talk all things Royal in this episode from the hottest single Princes on the market today to fictional Royal families who didn’t get enough love. If you ever owned, or wanted to own, a Princess Diana Beanie Baby this episode is for you. If you aren’t sure what that is - you need this episode, to...
Jeff Hiller (Broadway’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) joins Caitlin and Lauren to discuss BROADWAY. We get into the art of Stage Dooring, Test Jeff’s showtune knowledge, and unpack both The Cher Show & American Psycho. Oh, and if you think we don’t manage to mention the Real Housewives of Atlanta, then you don’t know us yet. Connect with us through social media by following @WeStanSocial on instagram, twitter, and TikTok! For all your Jeff Hiller super STAN needs, follow him @boomboomhiller ...
Lauren Ashley Smith (A Black Lady Sketch Show) joins Caitlin and Lauren to discuss the old school 'ships that formed their ongoing romantic neuroses including Boy Meets World, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vernica Mars and Gillian Anderson IRL. Follow We Stan @westansocial! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 1 is out January 21st 2020! What do you stan? Hosted by real Pop-Culture Professors, Caitlin Bitzegaio and Lauren Brickman, We Stan Together podcast is smart people about dumb topics. The history of pop culture is a rich, wild, and ever expanding playground. Not to mention, a full time job. Who has time to read every Insta post, think piece, and Twitter thread? Don’t worry, we did, so you don’t have to. We’ll be your CliffsNotes to pop culture. Listen in each week and you’ll be a hit at ...
