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Sep 25, 2020

Karen has fled Los Angeles for the rest of September, as both she and Wynter mourn the loss of the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg by girding their loins for the fight ahead. The two give a full rundown of the pandemic Emmys, and get into why so many of us are seeking refuge in nostalgic all-star table reads, from...


Sep 18, 2020

Wynter has made some upgrades to her club, The Palace, on Grand Theft Auto, while Karen calls Away, the new mission to Mars drama on Netflix, “normporn in space.” Dr. andré carrington, a renowned scholar of race and science fiction--and a birder!--joins us for a retrospective of Chadwick Boseman’s tragically...


Sep 11, 2020

We’re a full month into Lovecraft Country, so Dr. Jon Paul Higgins from the Learnt podcast joins us for a spirited discussion about the show’s horrors, both everyday and paranormal, as well as what it’s done for Blerds (Black nerds) everywhere. Karen seeks refuge from “Dumbkirk” and the week’s other stupid...


Sep 4, 2020

Karen and Wynter explore what it means to be excellent to each other in a world as dire and apocalyptic as our own, as they get into the #girldad energy of Bill and Ted Face the Music (spoilers in the discussion!), and the entire Bill & Ted trilogy. Wynter tells us about a Brit comedy called I Hate Suzie that she...