Good friend Lou is repulsed by the Cassandras’ Mediterranean oatmeal recipe, preferring instead a garnish of freshly grated nutmeg (never pulverized). We settle our culinary differences with the painter while dining on “the Bushwick pizza of re

Joe Castle Baker is Playing Diablo II

Mar 31st, 2021 1h 28m

Comedian Joe Castle Baker and the Cassandras embark on their content-creating journey, discussing Lil Nas X riding down the shaft of a vaccine needle, Joe getting followed by Alison Roman, how duck fat is the Of Montreal of gastronomy, Joe's se

Ian and Anthony Are Freaks for Joanna Newsom

Mar 26th, 2021 54m 25s

Part 2: deep cuts for the fans. Ian Lewandowski and Anthony Cudahy give the backstory for their forthcoming freak folk podcast: a gag-gifted Joanna Newsom CD, Lilith Fair, stalking your date on Tumblr, and Chicago alt radio. They also discuss t

Ian Lewandowski and Anthony Cudahy Love VH1

Mar 23rd, 2021 59m 36s

Photographer Ian Lewandowski joins us with a gallon red eye, a Topo Chico, and a garish bachelorette party marg to offer his review of boutique grocery store Erewhon. Alongside him is his husband, the painter Anthony Cudahy, who drinklessly rem

Gay Shows (2021) Starring Meghan Markle

Mar 10th, 2021 1h 37m

Were you silent or were you silenced? We join the dethroned royals to lend our voices to the voiceless, abandoning a viewing of Silence (2016) to instead roll with the LGBT, and call people gay in the pejorative sense. Starring gay shows du jou

Loving Trump's America (Nomadland)

Mar 1st, 2021 45m 22s

Congrats to Chloé Zhao, who won best director for Nomadland at the Golden Globes. We discuss the film's roving #vanlife boomers, its cinema vérité stylings, its nods to Terrence Malick, the affecting story of Swankie, Zhao’s interview with Barr

Allen v. Farrow v. Cruella

Feb 26th, 2021 1h 23m

Thirty minutes of estate-porn foreplay preclude what the Cassandras call “a real-life yuppie New York soap opera” and “salacious tabloid fodder with a veneer of respectability.” As per Grace Fraser’s city escape in The Undoing: is there a state

Farming Britney (Minari)

Feb 16th, 2021 1h 17m

On the eve of New York’s chaotic Valentine’s Day reopening we review Framing Britney and the pastoral family drama Minari, written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung and starring Steven Yeun. We discuss sentimentalism, the strength of classical fi

Disappointing New Movie (Promising Young Woman)

Feb 9th, 2021 1h 2m

In the wake of Biden’s inauguration (recorded 1/23/21), we debate: is Promising Young Woman a piquant spin on #MeToo or a failed piece of faux-slasher propaganda? We discuss liberal feminism, ends preceding means in art, and market-tested comed

Stonks and Search Party

Feb 5th, 2021 1h 2m

We discuss our plummeting stocks and the fourth season of HBO’s Scooby-Doo-in-Williamsburg comedy Search Party, namely: what makes for toothy comedy, the standout Chantal episode, and the fake-out ending. Also: gay scare, a culturally insensiti

Remembering SOPHIE

Feb 1st, 2021 1h 18m

Sophie Xeon was a synth virtuoso, pioneering trends in music and broader culture that came to define the 2010s. We mourn her untimely death, remembering her headliner performances at Ladyfag's Pride festival and Brooklyn Steel. We discuss her r

Doula Peep (Pieces of a Woman)

Jan 30th, 2021 1h 11m

For our premiere episode, we LARP as tourists in Little Italy and review Pieces of a Woman. Kornel Mundruczo directs and Kata Weber writes this grief-stricken drama starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, and Ellen Burstyn. We discuss the buzzed-

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