Smoke Show
High thoughts and pop culture nonsense are the core of this podcast, which also dives into history and unexpected tangents. The hosts sometimes engage in surprisingly passionate arguments about how the echoes of history appear in everyday life. It is part of a Substack publication, with episodes available through the show's newsletter. Listeners can expect a casual, conversational tone that blends humor and intellectual curiosity.
Episodes
Ep. 21 - Heated Rivalry: Talkin' Towels Timeline
Welcome back to the Smoke Show podcast, now available in VIDEO FORMAT with CLIPS INVOLVED because this show has taken over my life!Find the video here: & subscribe to me on YouTube if you like literally seeing the words come out of my mouth. Also because hey, why not? If you haven’t read the original ‘stack about the towels of Heated Rivalry you can check that out here: Thank you to the incredible
Ep. 20 - Bama Rush Doc Bad
Watched the new Bama Rush documentary on HBO last night and was so enraged by how vacuous and empty it was when it had SUCH RIPE subject matter that I’ve now recorded two different hour-long episodes in response (the second, calmer version is this very episode which turned out far more cohesively than the one recorded at 1:30 am last night)!I know too much about the University of Alabama’s rush pr
Ep. 19 - Scandalpump Rules
Oh baby the podcast is back! For how long, who knows, but this week I bought some legal weed so we’re talking all about the most recent cheating scandal on Vanderpump Rules.I get into the Shakespearean nature of conflict-driven reality television, why Vanderpump Rules is one of the most watchable TV shows of all time, and the liability that comes with building a restaurant brand upon the personali
Ep 17. Journaling pt. 2 (ft. Meg!)
This week I had my sister on to talk all about journaling! What it’s allowed us to know about ourselves, how we journal (and where and when and with what materials), why our posture matters, headspaces to get into, scribble journaling, putting our phones on do not disturb, and how we can comprehend the idea that time isn’t linear.We laughed, we cried, we wrote a lot, and managed to find compassion
Ep 16. Cult Talk (NXIVM, The Vow, and Seduced)
Hey hi hello! Trying something new with the format today, basically giving an overview of the NXIVM cult, how it trapped people, and ultimately led a select few of them into an extremely sinister sex cult that few managed to escape before outside forces were finally able to topple the leader.MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS for: sexual abuse, manipulation, cult phenomena, and eating disorders. I tried to av
Ep 15. Talkin' Shit About Crossfit
Hey babe hey, welcome back to another episode of Smoke Show! This time, someone (me) who is not interested in sports talks about sports documentaries for 20 straight minutes and then deep dives into the Crossfit Games for another 20. Anomaly alert!!Anyway, I hope you enjoy my absolute unhingedness when it comes to Crossfit and the concept of competitive working out. I only mock it because I’m vagu
Ep 14. People Aren't Tally Points
Content Warning: this episode briefly mentions diet culture/ED in regard to that Taylor Swift music video!Hey hi hello, and welcome back to the pod! This week—internet culture and how the Supernatural fandom is responsible for a lot of bad stuff, the reflexive nature of rank culture & Taylor Swift’s fandom eating itself, plus why practicing being kind all the time and with everyone isn’t easy but
Ep 13. I Heart NY
Oooh hoo hoooo we’re back with…a podcast this week! I’ve still got a head cold so this episodes got a bit of a different vibe! I’m mostly ranting about: Eric Adam’s trash and sanitation “fixes”, landlords being the woooorst, Shein ruining the planet, people not being entitled to trend, the fall of Fashion Hauses, car-to-building building-to-car culture, how much I hate the sans serif balenciaga ba
Ep 12. Lance Armstrong & The Culture Of Cheating
We’re doin’ it y’all, it’s finally the day to talk about Lance Armstrong, his pedagogy when it came to doping, the legacy of PED’s across all sports, why I can’t stand men who know the dangers of American Football but then shrug at their continued desire to watch it, and how state sponsored doping is waaaaay more common than we think.Plus! The trickle down of ‘roids culture from Gym Shark to Bache
Ep. 11 Playin' Video Games (ft. Dan!)
Hi hello welcome to another episode of Smoke Show, this time featuring my favorite person to play video games with: Dan! What are the best Nintendo GameBoy plug-ins and why am I still obsessed with the medical mask they made for kids in hospitals? Is Vermont the place with the stickiest N64 controllers in America? What happened to Big Head mode and why won’t people just let me play a horse game in
Ep. 10 The Try Guys & Thoughts On Cheating
Hi hello welcome (back) to Smoke Show! Today we’re getting into the messiness that went down on Twitter yesterday over resident Wife Guy Ned from the Try Guys getting caught having an affair with an employee. It’s a lot of yikes but it also opens up SO MANY questions about the future of that business, the consequences of being a public relationship, and how containing your brand within your being
Ep 9. Why I Stopped Reading Snark & Deleted My Instagram
Oooo today’s episode is a little all over the place but it all centers around the central crux of my inner examination this week: what am I using Instagram (and social media) for and is it making me happy?Spoiler: the answer was no. But tracing the history and evolution of my snark consumption was extra illuminating when it came to why the internet makes me feel bad more often than not. And also,
Ep. 8 I'm not a housewife, but I am...real
Ooooo we’re getting into The Real Housewives franchises, what they contribute to the overall landscape of women on television, the importance of the early seasons of RHONY, the ethics of the depictions of alcoholism & abuse that the show delves into, and why Alex McCord actually had the best townhouse of them all. Justice for Alex!! (“Is that a buffalo coming down the stairs?”)«Stefon voice» these
Ep. 7 Don't Feed The Stans
Today’s episode is getting into modern standom, how artists have to walk a very delicate line because fans feel so entitled to them, the addictive nature of attention, and how it’s become shockingly easy to just completely erase the lines of traditional human boundaries when it comes to celebrities.Come for the standom analysis, stay for my random tangents about MTV’s Teen Wolf! (Also plz know tha
Ep. 6 Woodstock '99 & The Hippie To Yuppie Pipeline
Content Warning: this episode discusses sexual assault, rape, and death.Well, I watched a documentary and then had so many thoughts I watched four other documentaries about Woodstock and now I’m here to talk about how communes were really the miracle at work in the ‘60s! How quickly did individualism poison society? Why was Michael Lang ever allowed to continue promoting music festivals after the
Ep 5. Whatcha Waiting For?
Hi hello welcome to a rambly episode that’s just about my thoughts & feelings these days at the near end of summer! Had a lot of feeeelings lately about service, life, age, community, forgiveness, and growth so I got a lil’ stoned, sat down, and chatted with a microphone about some of those realizations.And about how hearing birds outside in nature is physiologically calming for anxiety because ou
Ep 4. Fyre Fest & The Power Of Cool Girls
The timely pop culture takes continue with an hour long chat about the dueling Fyre Fest documentaries. You may be saying to yourself “wait didn’t those come out like three years ago?” and the answer is, chyeah they did but I still have a lot of opinions about Fuck Jerry’s thinly veiled rehabilitative documentary to parse out in live time on a microphone babeyyy!(I also get to have a fun moment of
Ep 3. Happy Anniversary Folklore!
In today’s episode, I smoked a big ol’ bowl and let myself talk for an hour about all of my thoughts around TSwift, her fame, her lyrics, her fans relationship with her, blind items, classic PR machines, how much Pitchfork suuuucks, and the Pepe Sylvia vibes that have picked up across all fandoms these days. (And how the bleedover of fandom spaces into mainstream culture is…bad and damaging and we
Ep 2. Let's Talk About MTV
“Lauren will always be known as the girl who didn’t go to Paris.”Today’s episode is all about the heyday of MTV reality shows in the mid-2000s. Mostly it’s about The Challenge and how that became the ultimate representation of how MTV evolved away from exploring the human condition and more into exploiting people for every last drop of drama mode. (And I get to rant a lil’ bit about CT and how Ame
Ep 1. Wildly Long Winded Journaling Advice
Today’s the day! The sun is shining, the tank is clean, and we are uploading the inaugural episode of the Smoke Show podcast!In this episode I talk about journaling, how it’s helped me get through the last few months, and my best tips and encouragements for anyone who wants to start. But, tbh, in the words of the most brilliant marketer Nike ever hired: just do it.Not interested in listening to me
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