Episodes

  • Holding Space for the Jaguar Rebrand

    Holding Space for the Jaguar Rebrand
    Nov 26 2024
    On the pod this week, we’re unpacking who and what the Jaguar rebrand is for, (same with The New York Times’ advice for how to avoid awkward holiday conversations), “reckless dreamers,” and what Dean Kissick gets right in his polarizing essay, “The Painted Protest.”

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    28 mins
  • Please Be Serious

    Please Be Serious
    Nov 15 2024
    On the pod this week we get serious about unseriousness. The crew discusses lookalike contests, “The Eczema Experience,” tinned fish pop-ups, intergenerational grudges held by crows, ‘joy sobriety’, and the growing lack of seriousness in otherwise once serious settings.

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    30 mins
  • Behind the Memes with @NolitaDirtbag

    Behind the Memes with @NolitaDirtbag
    Nov 4 2024
    Alex Hartman is the mind behind Nolita Dirtbag, a “niché and nouveau riche” meme page covering greater-downtown Manhattan (and sometimes Brooklyn). We chat about spending $180 before 11AM on “day in the life” videos, Dirtbag messaging hierarchies, why you shouldn’t put the place of your employment in your IG bio, bringing showmanship back to restaurants, being in a room full of Nolita Dirtbag reply guys, and “what makes you confident?”

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    43 mins
  • Waiting for Our Juul Stipends

    Waiting for Our Juul Stipends
    Oct 29 2024
    This week on the pod, the crew discusses the missing out on Juul settlement money, Phillip Morris’s new status as a growth stock, Addison Rae, “pasteurized vice,” (more) slop, recalls, betting on the election on Polymarket, “the Nutter B*tter trap,” and why sometimes you should just lean on your product and stop trying to be culturally relevant.

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    28 mins
  • Puck's Lauren Sherman on Victoria's Secret, Fashion Crime and What's Next for Luxury

    Puck's Lauren Sherman on Victoria's Secret, Fashion Crime and What's Next for Luxury
    Oct 17 2024

    Lauren Sherman is the Chief Fashion Correspondent at Puck and co-author of “Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon.” We chat about Eric Adams’ controversial hat, the return of the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, bralettes, OMNY, luxury fashion woes, finding out about how the stock market works, her son thinking R.E.M is called “R.E.M Essentials,” and too many people wrongly believing they’re friends with Gwyneth Paltrow.


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    1 hr
  • Could You Pass a Cultural Litmus Test?

    Could You Pass a Cultural Litmus Test?
    Sep 25 2024
    The crew discuss the pros and cons of gatekeeping, Chappell Roan v. superfans, why customized beverages are for children, and what the Broadway play ‘JOB’ gets right and wrong about the consequences of being “extremely online.”

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    39 mins
  • How to Blow Up a Client Brief with PlayLab, Inc.

    How to Blow Up a Client Brief with PlayLab, Inc.
    Sep 18 2024
    Archie Lee Coates IV is the co-founder of PLAYLAB, INC., an extremely multidisciplinary creative studio “with no focus.” They’ve worked with a range of clients, including Virgil Abloh, American Express, and Post Malone. We discuss the lost art of pranks, Charles Eames, Archie’s upcoming studio album, why you can’t focus too much on data and metrics, swimming in the East River, Ernest Shackleton’s hiring filter still holds, and a very simple filter for work: “is this something we want to do?”

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    47 mins
  • Hawk Tuah Girl and the Next Phase of Viral Social Fame

    Hawk Tuah Girl and the Next Phase of Viral Social Fame
    Sep 6 2024
    As Haliey Welch, aka Hawk Tuah Girl, gets her own relationship advice podcast on Jake Paul's network, the crew discusses how the virally famous are rewriting the playbook to capitalize on their moment in the spotlight. People like Welch, Jools Lebron ("very demure, very mindful") and Big Justice are outmaneuvering traditional industry players by brokering their own deals and monetizing on their catchphrases long before a CAA or UTA even reaches out for representation. Enter: the next phase of viral fame creation.

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    31 mins