Anyway, We're Pretentious

By Claire Stemen

Your resident discourse nerd and host, Claire, tackles the unspoken, bizarre, and banal features that make up our society and our lives. Each episode a new or recycled guest joins to add their own spi... more

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How many episodes does Anyway, We're Pretentious have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.

Anyway, We're Pretentious episodes:

May 10, 2018 Episode 015: Krasivaya Zhenshchina
Dakota joins Claire to act as commentator to the things in history that just really piss her off: Andrew Jackson's Bank War and The Destruction of the Library of Alexandria. Along the way they learn that the things they thought to be true were just shrouded in mythos. Join this historical romp with lots of sound effects I found time to add. Wow!
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1h 37min
May 03, 2018 Episode 014: The Pink and Green Tube
Claire and Nadine dive into the geeky, multi-faceted depths of the beauty industry, touching on the power YouTube beauty gurus have, the democratization of makeup and what it does to help and hurt brands, as well as their favorite and coveted products. Full of sidetracking, rants, and unrelated discussions about Japanese YouTube cooking channels, this episode is in the spirit of Episode 001's Wild Noodlings.
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1h 10min
April 14, 2018 Bonus Episode: Judging Gender Reveals
A behind the scenes look into what we really sound like when we're allowing ourselves to truly be as petty and rude as we can be.
DISCLAIMER: DO WHAT YOU WANT WITH YOUR LIFE.
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13min
April 06, 2018 Episode 013: Jeff Bezos' #1 Fan
It's that time of year, where people get married a bunch. Today Allison and I break down the ridiculous cost of marriage and why, in fact, it exploits women and excludes men. Ironically, feminism helps push that along, as well as the general male population and their inability to pick up the slack (or lack of interest in doing so.)
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1h 5min
March 26, 2018 Episode 012: Two Lips Mania
Happy Spring! Spring means flowers. Inevitably it reminds us all of the famed 17th century Dutch Tulip Market Crash. Every year I ruminate on this fabulous story and sigh in happy remembrance of the joyful fact that an entire country got really stoked about a flower market. In this telling of the tale, we nod to the mania that think-pieces on Business Insider or something loved to point at frantically when Bitcoin got popular, but also use the new information from Anne Goldgar's new book "Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age" to acknowledge that, in fact, it wasn't really much of a mania at all.
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1h 8min
March 03, 2018 Episode 011: aut delectare aut prodesse
Discourse is a matter of course for me and one of the main reasons I wanted to create a podcast that could facilitate that much needed space. Originally I was inspired by the 18th century Parisian salons and their amazing salonnières, but ended on the idea of pretentiousness. In this episode we explore what the special soup of societal conditions, governmental unrest, and gender stereotyping that led to women guiding the philosophical giants of their time and also what happened to those spaces in the modern era. We also end on the Latin phrase that I want to instill in my listeners: aut delectare aut prodesse.
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49min
February 15, 2018 Episode 010: Podcast of Affirmation
In honor of the Hallmark Holiday Valentine's Day, Emma and I walk you through Gary Chapman's 5 Love Languages, a method of understanding how we give and want to receive love, romantic or otherwise. How do you want to get love? How do you want to give it? Does understanding it help us interact more effectively and understand the people around us? Emma and I investigate, as we analyze our own love towards friends, family, and etcetera.
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1h 4min
February 06, 2018 Episode 009: Spontaneously Combusted Watermelon
People are always asking me for book recommendations and I never really know what to say. Dakota and I decided that we were both too exhausted and lazy to do some research for this week, so we landed on a topic where the research is built into the act itself: reading. Thus, look no further for the books that affected us the most and that we would definitely recommend to you. If you're not sure if you'll like them, then our cursory explanations may help you decide whether or not to pick these literary staples up.
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1h 34min
January 29, 2018 Episode 008: Straight Shooting
Being in a band isn't all glamourous. This week I chat with local musician, JD Cupple, who lets us know what the Cleveland music scene is all about and the struggles of being a musician trying to make it. Do you sell out if you have the chance? Do you experiment in the face of making popular music for cash? How do you negotiate the artist and the moneymaker? We explore these inquiries.
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1h 35min
January 26, 2018 Episode 008: Straight Shooting
Being in a band isn't all glamourous. This week I chat with local musician, JD Cupple, who lets us know what the Cleveland music scene is all about and the struggles of being a musician trying to make it. Do you sell out if you have the chance? Do you experiment in the face of making popular music for cash? How do you negotiate the artist and the moneymaker? We explore these inquiries.
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1h 35min

FAQs about Anyway, We're Pretentious:

How many episodes does Anyway, We're Pretentious have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.