Zach Raffio (Broadway Beat) joins the classroom to talk rock musicals. We play “Name That Rock Flop,” Caitlin thinks we process trauma through rock musicals, Lauren stans the Linda Lindas and should there be a Jack Antonoff rock musical? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mike Kelton (Beyond, Logo) joins the classroom to to discuss Psychic son TV and proves through game #1 that he himself is psychic (listen, it’s weird.) Caitlin believes psychics are the best Real Housewives producers and Lauren thinks Medium never go its due. Mike brings his trademark good eng to the ep. We dedicate this ep to the memory of Grandma Rose, Kim Zolciak’s psychic who passed away a day after we recorded! We love ya, Grandma Rose! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
Laura Canty-Samuel (Sesame Street) joins the classroom to emotionally wreck us talking about Emotional Wreck Films. Viola Davis to Mandy Moore to Alfre Woodard to vague memories of movies on cable in the 90s, we hit every tearjerker known to humankind. Do they cry in this episode? Listen and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lauren Adams (Kimmy Schmidt, Special), Brett White (Decider) and Chris Lewis (fan of the podcast + Meryl Streep/Mariah Carey/Beyonce enthusiast) join the classroom to discuss Friends and their excitement over the upcoming HBOMax reunion. We challenge our guests’ knowledge of classic lines, who was almost cast as the Friends, who is the best Green sister and ask if Brad Pitt can really act in a sitcom. Grey’s Anatomy is inevitably referenced. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
Caitlin and Lauren go on a rare guest-less journey down memory lane through the songs of the summer from Pharrell to NKTOB to -- record scratch -- Vanessa Carlton. Caitlin and Lauren challenge each other to the games they usually make their guests endure and turns out? They’re really hard! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emma Ramos (New Amsterdam, Marisol) joins the classroom to talk about the evolving nature of home: is it a house? A city? Where the heart is? Caitlin terrorizes the group with the clips from the 1980s musical sitcom Rags To Riches and Lauren believes home is defined as “Diane Lane” and Emma pitches a show based on the TikTok teen who found she lived in a retirement community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda Hunt (Growing Out The Pod) joins the classroom to discuss hair in pop culture from Real Housewives All-Stars makeovers, the emergence of the celebrity Long Hair Son, pitching the next big reality hair show and processing the trauma of the media’s reaction to the big Felicity haircut! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grant O’Brien (College Humor) joins the classroom to discuss the movies of John Hughes. Lauren really earns her professor title this week as she uncovers Hughes’ pen name, we revive his lost scripts, Caitlin has never seen one of the most iconic teen movies of all time and Grant references Weird Science more than you would imagine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jarrett Hill and Tre’vell Anderson (FANTI) join classroom to discuss Dionne Warwick and just be delights! They talk the undying influence of the movie My Best Friend's Wedding, debate whether there should be a Broadway musical of Dionne’s life, and we play the Kennedy Center Honors game in which Jarrett and Tre’vell cast an astonishing group to sing “That’s What Our Friends Are For.” You’ll be shook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sarah Claspell (You, Brooklyn 99) joins the classroom to discuss our mutual obsession with Instragram Influencers including Sarah and Caitlin’s mutual addiction to Turtle Creek Lane, Lauren addresses Sarah Michelle Gellar need for HELP (#SMDHSMG) and nuances of the Kardashian, Jame Van Der Beek and Britney Spears’ IGs. Also, what are more cast member of RENT on Insta? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Achilles Stamatelaky (Broad City, Hit Job) joins the classroom to discuss criminals we root for from our IRL neighbors to Lauren’s formative crushes on kidnappers from 1997. We play our most confusing game yet: Sopranos or SopraNOs and we wonder if the only good thing about the Trump years was female crime movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Andrew Phung (Kim’s Convenience) joins the classroom to give us his first interview after the announcement of his new CBC show Run The Burbs. We nerd out on improv, Caitlin thinks In Living Color changed the world even if it came to Canada too late and Lauren thinks there’s not enough sketch on TV, but Andrew rightly points out that she’s maybe just binged all of television in pandemic. Oh, and Caitlin’s dad sends in a question about Toronto Raptor OG Anunoby. From “stan of the week” to guest: m...
Lauren Adams (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) joins the classroom to discuss the wonderful world of dating on reality shows. We demand #RayaGiveLaurenABowl because she met her husband on the legendary dating app, Caitlin brings Next clips out of the vault, we reboot The Bachelor and Brickman asks the important question: should she go on Married At First Sight? Also, we discuss the epidemic of reality TV stars thinking they can play guitar. #StopTheStrumming Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
We talk self-care with Iranian actress and trans activist Pooya Mohseni who join the classroom to discuss how to take care of ourselves. We play “Oprah or Op-NAH,” Lauren talks about Schitt’s Creek being an ode to self-care, and Caitlin dissects the role of the beauty shop in the music videos of Reba Mcentire, Destiny’s Child and Lizzo! And, as always, remember Les Monves is an enemy of this show and the world! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mike Poole (The Tonight Show) joins the classroom to talk all things parties in pop culture from Eurotrip to Ma, which Mike tragically did not see in theaters. Caitlin thinks there needs to be a FyreFest film, Lauren asks if we can reboot Can’t Hardly Wait and Mike explains his dream of a chaotic talk show with co-host Lil Jon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Casey Jost (Impractical Jokers) and Lisa Kleinman (Comedy Central) join the classroom to discuss what it means to be cool (watching 90210 with your spouse!). Lauren and Lisa are Marvel-phobic WandaVision fans, Caitlin stans Jamie Lee Curtis, and we make Casey and Lisa decide who is the ultimate couple goals (Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles ascendent!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Friends of the show and RHOSLC scholars Jordan Myrick (Talk Chef), Lida Darmian (Kids These Days Comedy) and Matthew Pezzulich (Adelphi University) join the classroom to discuss Heather Gay’s ascendency to the Bravo throne, Mary Cosby’s absolute audiacity, and Brooks Marks’ sweatsuits. Who should get the boot (Lisa), who should get laid (Heather), and what’s the deal with Jen Shah (unclear)? Caitlin brings up Sister Wives, unbelievably. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...
Christina Grace (Unfriendly Black Hotties) joins the classroom to discuss the women of Hollywood who keep getting better with age. Lauren thinks Leslie Jones should star in a rom-com, Caitlin talks Gillian Anderson’s Oscar quest and her Gates McFadden bookmark, Christina shows us her Celine Dion-Viola Davis water cup, and as always we ponder the J. Lo of it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dan Chamberlain (The Tonight Show) and Casey McCormick (Pop Sugar) join the classroom to spread love and talk about the celeb exes who we wish would get back together. Caitlin wants Drew Barrymore and Tom Green to reunite, Lauren asks us who we want to see Britney Spears (#FreeBritney) finally end up with, we try to remember the guy’s name from Olivia Rodrigo’s Drivers License, we wonder how does Madison LeCroy end up the third in all these triangles? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
Neil D’Astolfo (Tooning Out The News, High Fidelity) joins the classroom to discuss drinking alcohol on TV, which he’s qualified to do as someone who served Zoe Kravitz frose on TV. Lauren is thirsty for bartenders (shocker), Caitlin goes in TOO DEEP on Real Housewives drink orders and Neil shares how Kyle from Real World influenced his first bar order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The one and only Pat Regan (Seek Treatment, Search Party) joins the classroom to discuss The Challenge, Real World and why he’d marry Ryan from Teen Mom. Pat guides us through from Veronica and Trishelle IG drama. Caitlin thinks Coral is the #1 MTV tough girl, Lauren wants to bring back Fanatic to save celebrities, especially Sarah Michelle Gellar, and we make Pat put Grey’s Anatomy Characters on MTV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Monique Moses (Astronomy Club) joins the classroom to discuss dance and choreography, a topic they all love and everyone but Caitlin is good at. Lauren gives us the top dance movies of all time, Caitlin wonders why dancer-first singers last longest (Mo has an amazing answer!) and they try to make sense of their love of TikTok. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Leila Cohan (Bridgerton) joins the classroom to discuss women’s bodies on television and also tries to figure out the name of a phone game from 2013. Caitlin thinks Friends was more sex-positive than we give it credit for, Lauren demands more fat people on TV, Leila casts the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in historical fiction and we play a game called Period Drama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alex Song-Xia and Patrick Keene (The Squirrel NYC) stop by the classroom to discuss our resolutions for celebrities in 2021! Sara Ramirez should tweet at Alex more, the guy from Scream needs to make Patrick a Cameo, Lauren would like to move in with Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith, and Caitlin’s crusade to get Snooki on #RHONJ is never-ending. Plus they discuss suggestions for other celebs by listeners like YOU! Happy New Year, Stan Stans! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....
Lifetime pulled out all the stop this holiday season, producing a branded made-for-TV movie for Kentucky Fried Chicken starring the hunk of a generation Mario Lopez. Caitlin and Lauren invite you to watch-a-long with them on MyLifteime.com and experience this cinematic experience together for our last ep of the year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We Stan The Holidays and we couldn’t choose just one guest for our first ever Christmas Variety Show Extravaganza! So we’re bringing you a very merry #contentmas with Alex Brightman & Jenny Ravitz, Brady O’Callahan, Jack Frederick & Melissa Aquiles, Mariah Smith, Kathy Tao, Ali Ghandour, Jay Malsky and Timothy Dunn! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rachel Chapman (You’re Got Hanks) joins the classroom to discuss Christmas TV episodes! Caitlin tries to trace It’s A Wonderful Life eps, but discovers they might not be Christmas-y, Lauren argues Christmas isn’t a season, it’s a genre, Rachel designs some Holiday attractions at Disney World and somehow ALF is shoe-horned into all this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lauren and Caitlin just can’t seem to wrap their heads around Pop Icon Madonna so they brought in a panel of opinionated expert,s LaGina Hill (Characters Welcome), Shane O’Neill (The Shawl), and Heather Turman (Helen’s Famous Pasta Salad) who are each in a different phase of their Madonna stan-dom. Lauren and Caitlin learn a lot, especially remembering how good Bedtime Stories is! We learn, we scream, we stan. Cher comes up, of course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...
This week’s academic symposium is dedicated to the wild and wacky wonderland of Daytime Talk shows! This week visiting pop culture professor, Eric Cunningham (The Drew Barrymore Show) stops by to dig in deep about fast casual dining in Jersey City, Lauren’s thesis that you gotta have gimmick to get ahead, and Caitlin counts down the top duos of all time in Daytime talk! So, pour yourself a cuppa Java and let’s get into daytime talk shows! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...
This week Lauren & Caitlin are totally obsessed with The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, having big feels over the premiere of Grey’s Anatomy Season 17, and are joined by… 11 different comedians and performers who are sharing totally original fanfiction in our first ever FanFicFest! From Gossip Girl to Xfiles to Angelina Jolie and beyond - this very special episode has a little bit of something for everyone! Pour yourself a holiday bev of choice and join Lauren, Caitlin, Nikki Palumbo, Ro...
