Raise your hand if you’d like to take a little break from all things holiday, and go deeeeep into some fascinating topics with Meg and Rebekah! You know how sometimes, you just get totally into a subject and the next thing you know, you are chatting up strangers at the grocery store with all of your newfound knowledge? Well, that’s Meg and Rebekah this week, except instead of bothering strangers, they are bringing the Awesomes along for the dive! From movie magic to YouTube concert footage to viral frustrations to what TikTok gets wrong about feminism, they have a LOT of words about what they can’t stop thinking about these days!

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SHOW NOTES:

Rebekah’s AotW: Soma's Enbliss Soft Stretch Hipster underwear

Meg’s AotW: Stila Stay All Day Liquid Eyeliner

Meg’s favorite YouTube deep dive: Defunctland: Disney’s FastPass: A complicated history

Movie Making Deep Dive (starts at 17:00)

Josh Props

Stunt Props

Fake Ice Cream

Fake Poop

Jessica Steinrock

Modesty & Barrier Protection

Strapless Thong

Kevin and the Female Gaze deep dive (starts at 35:05)

Note from Meg: Kevin’s TikTok profile is no longer available

CLIP OF KEVIN VIDEO is in 2:15 of this video from Jarvis Johnson: The Female Gaze Guy Sucks

The Problem with the "Female Gaze Guy"

Explainer: what does the ‘male gaze’ mean, and what about a female gaze?

Recreating Adam: Romance and the Hazard of the Female Gaze

Music Releases & TikTok (starts at 57:28)

"Unholy" is a Hot & Heavy Single with a Lukewarm Reception

Lewis Capaldi

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR4CbsNf/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR4CGbGs/

The Awesome of Nathaniel Rateliff (starts at 1:04:52)

Rolling Stone: The Long Shot: Nathaniel Rateliff’s Long, Hard, Booze-Soaked Road to Stardom

Solo Album: And It’s Still Alright (2020)

with the Nightsweats: Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats (2015); Tearing at the Seams (2018); The Future (2021)

YouTube performances:

Sessions: At home with Nathaniel Rateliff (November 2020)

Levitate Music & Arts Festival (July 2019)

Live at Red Rocks (September 2020)

Rock the Garden (September 2022)

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