In this episode, Adri and Brie discuss why folks are flocking and going feral about Our Flag Means Death. What has us all singing the praises of a jaunty pirate show? Is it the amazing and diverse cast? The joyful representation of queerness?

#008 "...Bo Burnham's Inside?"

Sep 11th, 2021 55m 30s

In this episode, Adri and Brie try to get to the bottom of WHY everyone has lost their collective minds about Inside. Is it just because it's really good? Are we emotionally invested in him as a person? We take a deep dive into the Bo Burnham E

#007 "...Celebrities?"

Mar 24th, 2021 26m 5s

Celebrity obsession is nothing new, but what do we get from the act of idolizing others? From the days of Marie Antoinette to YouTube personalities, we talk about our parasocial relationships with absolute strangers. Do celebrities get anything

#006 "...Ghosts?"

Sep 16th, 2020 46m 58s

For our first episode since quarantine swallowed us whole, we open the much awaited Spooky Season with a classic human obsession -- ghosts. We ask the big questions like: do you believe in ghosts? Why are some places haunted? Why do we want to

BONUS EP: Let's Get Weird About Quarantine!

Jun 15th, 2020 27m 55s

We interrupt our regularly scheduled learning journey for some weird chatting. Join Adri and Brie on this Let’s Get Weird bonus episode: some good old irregular, barely edited, chatty time! Our Let’s Get Weird episodes let us get wildly, wonky,

#005 "...serial killers?" (w/ Zoe Broad)

May 24th, 2020 1h 5m

From Hannibal to Ted Bundy, we (along with special guest, writer Zoe Broad) try to unpack the obsession with serial killers, and end up instead ruminating on the animal within us all that is capable of murder. AKA: the episode where we assure

#004 "...the end of the world?"

Mar 28th, 2020 36m 47s

Given the current state of things, we felt it was a good time to explore humanity's obsession with The End. Doomsday prophecies span across countless religions, and (at times) intersects with science. For millennia, we've been coming up with in

BONUS: Let's Get Weird About The Witcher!

Mar 2nd, 2020 39m 32s

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you the first in our minisode series 'Let's Get Weird About.' Unedited, unpolished, and just a little bit unprepared. Instead of unlocking other people's obsessions, Adri and Brie spend

#003 "...Star Wars?" (w/ Stephen Schreffler)

Dec 18th, 2019 50m 29s

In this episode, we try to unpack the cultural juggernaut that is Star Wars. We are joined by our friend Stephen Schreffler, who is a writer, musician, AND a huge Star Wars fan with some unique perspectives on what is at the heart of this epic

#002 "...scary stories?" (w/ Pete Binswanger)

Oct 31st, 2019 46m 58s

In this horror-themed episode, TV-writer Pete Binswanger gives us insight into some of the gorier scenes on the show Shadowhunters, we refer to Edgar Allan Poe as a "spooky bitch", and all relive the trauma of the scary movies that really messe

#001 "...aliens?"

Oct 5th, 2019 50m 8s

From UFO sightings to the earliest alien stories (way earlier than you'd think), Brie and Adri take a closer look at humankind's obsession with creatures from above.