Hunter Harris is a screenwriter and culture critic who writes “Hung Up” on Substack and co-hosts “Lemme Say This” on Wondery. Today she’s on the pod to talk about her voice as a writer and also gets into some of her favorite TV and movies of 2025. She and Eddie critique the shopping culture of New York City and discuss where to go in terms of political optimism following the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the recent mayoral election.

Jason Stewart AKA the Pod GOD stops by Canal Street Dreams this week to make us all laugh more than usual and discuss Jimmy Buffett cuisine. Eddie is persuaded to blow big gas on the pod for the first time (allegedly) to pregame dinosaur halloween. Try and keep up as we discuss chicken and the egg logic with the demonstrable genius of R Kelly. For real, no more teasers, you just gotta listen for yourself fam.

Today we welcome Josh Topolsky to the pod! Josh founded The Verge and The Outline, helped build Vox Media, and has shaped some of the most influential digital brands of the past decade. You won’t hear much about any of that on this episode, because today Josh, Natashia, and Eddie do a deep dive into Eddie’s unhinged relationship with sports: how much he watches, gambles, and why The Knicks are his family. They also talk about compromise in relationships and what their greatest ultimatums are.

This week we’ve got Eddie’s Floridian brother dza3000 on the pod, the venerated Commissioner of their fantasy sports league, and of course esteemed DJ. DZA lays down some ethics on participating in the league (do your lineup or die), shares some of his favorite watches and thoughts on collecting, and debuts the Rapid Fire segment, making him the first guest Eddie has ever prepped for. Tune in!

This week, the homie Roman AKA the mayor of Orchard St stops by the pod. We dive straight in to his DJ roots (a known pre-req for guests of the show) and talk about the old New York, with a look towards the fate of future nightlife. We get into the creation of Ronan's spots Regina's Grocery and Mixed Ingredients, and what it takes to build a great team that can create and maintain something special.

This week we've got very special guest Chi Ossé, Council Member for New York City's 36th District, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant and North Crown Heights. We get into a ton about Chi's motivations for getting into politics during the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement. We debate is housing lotteries are a saving grace or a bandaid for a much larger issue. Plus we get the scoop that Chi gonna abolish wine bars as his next campaign issue (not really, but stop serving our man the little plates and charging big plate prices). There's so much more covered and we really appreciate Chi doing what he does and coming to kick it with the people, so tune in!

This week, we're back to talk about the materialist movie. We get vulnerable about money in relationships, we talk height shaming in the film and much more.

This week, fashion writer and editor Jake Woolf stops by the pod. Amongst other things we talk how you have to dress trash before you can master throwing a fit, what actually makes style, and who wins baggy pants Versuz-- Eddie or Jacob Elordi.

This week, Dave 1 stops by the pod to get our frames right. After getting our angles approved, we talk about everything from disco to what qualifies as hate speech. We talk all types of music, early vice days and more. Tap in!

This week we had our man Quentin Belt aka qringe.by.quentin aka buffydavampireslayer2 swing by the pod! We talk the fine art of being a maître d' and the wild path to get there. We also get into what's going down in the Equinox steam rooms and Russian Turkish Bathouse, specifically on sundays (; IYKYK. Tune in for this all and much more, including an important PSA on an epidemic sweeping the nation which some say is a more pressing issue than climate change...