Tai Leclaire (Rutherford Falls) joins the classroom to discuss the city of lights, Paris. Caitlin encourages women to avoid being an LC and go to Paris, Lauren hates “Emily in Paris” and we discover Tai’s Teen Vogue past! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Caitlin and Lauren go guestless this week as they take a break from real life and just watch the musical ep of Grey’s Anatomy, in anticipation of the premiere of season 17! Cue up your Netflix to Grey’s season 7 episode 18 “Song Beneath the Song” (we’ll tell you when to push play!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hannah Solow, Alise Morales, and Lauren Clark argue why Hermione, the Sanderson Sisters or Mama Odie deserve to the first witch inducted into the We Stan Cauldron Canon, everyone agrees Anne Hathaway in the new Witches is weird, best friends use magic to help each other rap, and we ponder life’s most important question: is Mary Poppins a witch? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Matt Rogers (Haute Dog, Las Culturistas) joins the classroom to emancipate our knowledge of Mariah Carey. Caitlin compares Mariah to Dolly, we torture Matt’s knowledge of Mariah’s Japanese B-Sides, Matt casts Mariah’s Kennedy Center Honors performances, Lauren is convinced that Mariah will win an Oscar and Matt pitches Mariah as Mama Rose in a Gypsy set in the modern music industry! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thnk 1994 (Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen) stop by the classroom to tell us about heir new digital art exhibit about Britney Spears’ instagram, we interrogate the nature of “Good For Her,” Lauren bans herself from starting a restaurant and Caitlin thinks The View Halloween episode are high art. Also, we pitch five new Mary-Kate and Ashley movies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will Hines (Brooklyn 99, Search Party) joins the class room to discuss small towns on TV and movies. Will knows more about WB shows than you’d think, Caitlin mourns the loss of smart family shows of the 90s, Lauren surprisingly hates Mystic Pizza and Caitlin might start a patreon to hear goss about her town? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Recording artist Bartees Strange stops by the classroom this week to talk musicians that defy genres. Lauren confesses she learned how to straighten her hair for a photo shoot for a band that wrote one song, Caitlin dives deep into her thoughts on “Going Country”, and we give Bartees a ticket to Hollywood to become the next great reality singing competition judge. Be sure to check out Bartees’ new album, Live Forever, dropping on Bandcamp and Spotify October 2nd! Learn more about your ad choices...
Rekha Shankar (College Humor, Between Two Ferns) join the classroom to talking the sweet and savory chefs of reality TV. Rekha has seen every episode of Top Chef five times, Caitlin gets a reality show heartbreak off her chest, Lauren proselytizes “Crazy Delicious” and they all miss 00s tacky Manhattan restaurant Vynl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jonathan Braylock (Astronomy Club, Black Men Can’t Jump in Hollywood) and Tessa Claire Hersh (Younger) join the classroom to discuss the most important films of 1999: you know, Red Violin, Drive Me Crazy and Wild, Wild West. They guess each other’s 99 crushes and Braylock takes the ultimate test on his wife’s icon Julia Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Victoria Edel (Watch This Space) and Ariel Gitlin (The Foundation) join the classroom to turn the tables on the pop culture professors. This week, they school Lauren and Caitlin in their standom, One Direction! Ariel claims they should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Victoria thinks 1D is the best cover band of all time and Caitlin thinks maybe one of their names is Liev? Will Caitlin and Laurem be directioners by the end of this episode?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....
James III (Astronomy Club, Black Men Can’t Jump In Hollywood) joins the classroom to discuss his passion for dinosaurs. Caitlin blames Barney for ending the legacy of friendly dinosaurs, Lauren’s mom helps us understand her daughter’s fear of Jurassic Park, and we all examine the legacy of dinosaur songs in film and, of course, discuss which dinos are hot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
J.W. Crump (PodLedum) joins the classroom to discuss his Tyra Banks expertise. Caitlin proposes replacing middle school with The Tyra Banks Show clips, Lauren thinks Top Model cost Tyra a glorious acting career, we investigate the interesting overlap between Tyra and Shakespeare and we play Tyra Fail or Tyra Shall (it doesn’t rhyme). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rachel Smith (Smith Sister Live) joins the classroom for the stan-iest ep ever in which the three wannabe-Brits discuss several, different iconic British musical reality shows, Caitlin tries to prove World Idol existed and Lauren makes everyone convert to Superstar superfans! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Marcy Jarreau (Brooklyn 99, A Funny Feeling) joins the classroom to school us on ghosts and we discuss ways in which ghost sex is the safest sex, Lauren believes Beetlejuice 2 is a prank on her specifically and we find out which celebs believe they’re haunted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Angel Yau (Asian AF, AzN PoP!) is totally *NSYNC with Lauren & Caitlin as they do a survey course on Boybands! This week Caitlin tries to reconcile with a song that’s been confusing her for 11years, Lauren is once again thirsty, and Angel reads excerpts from a youth spent in love with Nick Carter! Quit playing games with our hearts & listen now! Be sure to follow @WeStanSocial on IG & Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kevin Fallon (The Daily Beast) joins the classroom to discuss the hottest dads from TVs and movies. Lauren demands a special DILF Emmy for Riverdale, Caitlin thinks bad dads are the biggest DILFs and we discover Kevin’s ultimate DILF (the answer might surprise you -- and him!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week best bud Johnathan Fernandez (Lethal Weapon, Gossip Girl) joins the classroom to school the pop culture professors on all things fashion from making GQ’s 10 Worst Dressed to an early obsession with Wendy Mallick from Just Shoot Me. Caitlin revisits the sartorial wonder of Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitters Dead and Lauren begs for fashion help, despite already having a Girl Scout badge for a mother-daughter fashion show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Comedians Raquel & Howard Powell put their sibling status to the test in our virtual classroom this week as we unpack REAL LIFE celebrity brothers & sisters! Caitlin gives thanks to a very dramatic pair of siblings from the Real Housewives of New Jersey, Lauren reminds everyone that Warren Beatty & Shirley McLaine are related, and Lauren & Caitlin both surprise one another with some very special cameos! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lauren Lapkus (The Wrong Missy, Good Girls) joins the classroom to discuss cartoons! The talented voice artist pitches us her own animated series “Hanging Out With Older People,” and Lauren Brickman tests Lauren Lapkus’s knowledge of fellow Laurens. Caitlin is inspired by only cartoons from the year 2000 and Lauren argues passionately that cartoons are hot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Susie Meister (The Brain Candy Podcast, The Challenge) who is a REAL PhD joins the classroom to discuss religion on TV. Caitlin praises Janelle from Sister Wives as TV’s #1 pious woman and Lauren goes hard for religious diversity on TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this dual episode of We Stan Together and The Bop Pod, hosts Caitlin, Lauren and Ilana Michelle, interview each other about their quarantine playlists, fangirl out about Elton John and Ariana Grande and reveal a Sweating To The Oldies origin story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mariah Smith (Outmatched, Keeping Up With The Kontinuity Errors) joins the classroom to discuss Continuity Errors on TV! Mariah helps us solve continuity mysteries like whatever happened to Judy Winslow, Lauren rebrands Pretty Little Liars “Pretty Big Errors” and Caitlin proclaims that Saved By The Bell helped Millennials deal with the continuity errors in their own mental health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We Stan Together is not releasing a traditional episode this week. Caitlin and Laure reiterate their support for Black Lives Matter and offer to be a resource for anyone with questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michael Hartney (School of Rock, Throwing Shade) joins the classroom to lead us through a cram session on his standom -- Superman! We pontificate what a Real Housewives of Metropolis would look like, pitch J.Lo a Superman movie and ponder a world in which Superman is bigger than Jesus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jeena Bloom (Shweet! A Ladies Guide To Bro Culture) drops by the classroom to pontificate backdoor pilots and their many incarnations, mostly on The Facts of Life. From a racist would-be Brady Bunch spin-off to the 80s LA version of Gossip Girl we so richly deserved, these historical pop culture oddities are given they academic study they honestly don’t deserve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Zeke Smither (Survivor) joins Caitlin and Lauren safely from his shelter-in-place in California to discuss graduations in pop culture. Zeke schools us on military academies, and dispenses cherished advice to 2020 grads. Lauren has the hots for Kim’s Convenience and Caitlin hasn’t stopped talking about A Different World for 30 straight years. Also, no one knows Lindsay Lohan’s level of education. Follow us on social @WeStanSocial and Zeke @zekerchief! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...
Brady O’Callahan (A Show Sometime) virtually join Caitlin and Lauren for the first episode recorded in shelter-in-place to discuss the women of country music. We talk Dolly Parton concerts, country clapbacks, avenge Nashville (the show), ponder why Gwen Stefani should never become a country diva, and discover why Oklahomans are such good singers. Follow us on all social @WeStanSocial and Brady @BradyOCallahan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emily Duke, a visiting professor from her own podcast “Melodramatic Teen Universe” joins the classroom to discuss one of the most foundational topics in pop culture literacy: teen dramas. From the ones that should have lasted longer than one season to the top platonic OTPs to the fake universities our fave characters attended, not one inch of teen dramas goes uncovered! Follow Emily Duke @emilydukehaha! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Laura Grey and Kristy Lopez-Bernal join the classroom to discuss the most important topic: teenage crushes. We trace the rise and fall of Justin Timberlake, solidify Joshua Jackson’s GOAT status, and confront the unbridled sexuality of Steve Guttenberg. Follow Laura (@LauraGreyMatter) and Kristy (@klopezbernal). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Caitlin returns to the classroom to do her makeup assignment on Mariah Carey’s many different feuds. Lauren and sub host Caitlyn cross-examine. See if she passes the test! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
