How was your Halloween? Spooky? Socially distanced? Good! If your November is looking less so (read: a lot more stressful) channel your energy into learning about the current protests in Poland or aquatic mystery n Ireland. 

Reading

• Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (to skip this discussion, go to: 8:15) 

Watching 

• Deaf U (Netflix)

Listening 

• Resistance (podcast)

Politics 

• Wikipedia article (useful in that it translates Polish sources): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2020_Polish_protests

Pop Culture 

• About Fungie: https://www.ireland.com/en-us/articles/dingle-dolphin-fungie/

It's officially fall, y'all! If you're interested in learning more about the best season, you'll love this month's pop culture segment in which Yaz covers pumpkin spice lattes and Christian Girl Autumn. And if being knowledgable and informed about the election process is on your fall to-do list, Majka's got your back with a politics portion that dives deep into the definition and execution of fair and free elections.

Reading

• The Hand On The Wall by Maureen Johnson 

Watching 

• Parenthood 

Listening

• Last Seen: https://www.wbur.org/lastseen

Politics 

• Help Floridians vote: https://wegotthevote.org/finesandfees/

Pop Culture 

• The science behind our obsession with fall: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scientific-reason-we-love-fall_n_57f41713e4b04c71d6f0979f?guccounter=1

As the wonderful and wise Taylor Swift once said: August slipped away like a bottle of wine. So here we are, already talkin’ all about the month of August 2020! Listen to hear us discus the legacy and influence of Shirley Chisholm, the viral power of that Strawberry Dress, and exciting new media bits like Nice White Parents, Boys State, and I May Destroy You.

Keep in touch with us until the next episode:

Instagram: @dtcbspodcast

Personal ‘Grams: @msclearwater, @yazminelomax

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks on Race (essay collection by Jesmyn Ward)

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

American Made

Boys State on Apple TV

I May Destroy You on HBO (USA) – Trigger Warning: Sexual violence. Please feel free to skip from 15:00 to 19:15 if you would like to skip this discussion.

Nice White Parents by Serial and The New York Times

Imploding The Mirage by The Killers

Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was by Bright Eyes

*Note: Lena Dunham was actually involved in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign in a different, controversial way to the one we discussed in this segment (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/01/25/politically-illiterate-democratic-celebrities-continue-to-embarrass-themselves/) It was actually Taylor Swift who felt her public image would be detrimental to the campaign (https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/8/20791816/taylor-swift-hillary-clinton-2016-endorsement-vogue-september-issue)

• https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-shirley-chisholm/

• https://lirikamatoshi.com/pages/about

We hope this episode *finds you well in these unprecedented times* and, y’know, that you like it! If you do and you want more Different Things Can Be Sad in your life, make sure to follow our podcast Instagram @dtcbspodcast, as well as our personal accounts @yazminelomax and @msclearwater.

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham 

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) 

Michael Clayton (2007) 

The Babysitters Club on Netflix 

Women in Music Part III by Haim 

Folklore by Taylor Swift

(If you’d like to skip this section, jump to 41:35)

Gender and Covid research: https://www.genderandcovid-19.org/

Turkey:

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1714741/middle-east

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/turkey-convention-combating-violence-against-women-must-not-be-abandoned

http://bianet.org/english/male-violence/228290-istanbul-convention-what-is-it-what-is-it-not 

Poland:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-politics/heightening-eu-frictions-poland-queries-pact-on-violence-against-women-idUSKCN24V1UU

https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/49844/1/how-lgbtq-rights-are-under-threat-in-poland-and-how-to-help-fight-it

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53538205

https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/poland-should-not-withdraw-from-the-istanbul-convention-says-secretary-general

Rolling Stone article that explains why albums are being pushed back: https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/album-delays-caused-by-covid-19-973870/

Phoebe Bridgers’ New Yorker profile: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/phoebe-bridgers-frank-anxious-music

Cousin Greg’s pandemic song: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/succession-cousin-greg-nicholas-braun-song-antibodies-1234720585/

Grey’s Anatomy featuring coronavirus next season: https://ew.com/tv/greys-anatomy-season-17-coronavirus/

Newsletter recommendation! Maybe Baby by Haley Nahman: https://haleynahman.substack.com/

Not Without My Sister podcast: https://www.thewarren.ie/not-without-my-sister

Pants2Bags: https://www.instagram.com/pants2bags/?hl=en

Sundae Service: https://www.instagram.com/sundaeservice.nyc/?hl=en

Welcome to the second half of 2020! Here's hoping act two has more happiness in store for us than the first did, hey? This month we're returning to our regular Politics and Pop Culture format, as well as providing you with a BLM focused Reading, Watching and Listening. Bon app the teeth!

*Got some bookshop.org links for ya, not affiliate links! 

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin: https://bookshop.org/books/if-beale-street-could-talk-9780307275936/9780307275936

Red at the Bone by Jaqueline Woodson: https://bookshop.org/books/red-at-the-bone/9780525535270

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid: https://bookshop.org/books/such-a-fun-age/9780525541905

The Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds: https://bookshop.org/books/opposite-of-always/9780062748379

• Da 5 Bloods on Netflix 

1619 from The New York Times

Code Switch from NPR

Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

Wet’suwet’en

• https://globalnews.ca/news/6936521/wetsuweten-draft-agreement-details/

Hong Kong 

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/world/canada/huawei-extradition-meng-wanzhou.html

• Celebrities being unrelatable online: https://www.insider.com/celebrities-quarantine-social-media-distancing-have-been-completely-unrelatable-in-2020-4#ellen-degeneres-comparing-being-in-quarantine-to-being-in-jail-21

This month, we're asking you to use the time you'd normally spend listening to Different Things Can Be Sad consuming a different podcast (or podcasts!). Our recommendations are a mixture of podcasts that focus on anti-racism, and ones that are fun listens by amazing Black creators. We are excited to join you on this important listening journey! 

• 1619 from The New York Times

Hold up: it’s (gonna be) May already? April 2020 passed in a bit of a blur so this month we’re talking all things April 1920 because...well, why the heck not? Get ready to hear Majka discuss some significant political events from 100 years ago, and Yaz dissect the juicy pop culture happenings of the time. 

Plus… IT’S OUR SECOND BIRTHDAY! Different Things Can Be Sad is officially a toddler now and we’re celebrating by holding a bookish giveaway. Head over to @dtcbspodcast on Instagram, fill out and share our Story template, and you’ll be in with a chance to win a book of your choice from Bookshop.org, a new site that benefits independent bookstores.

Reading 

The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Watching 

Alex Strangelove on Netflix

Bridget Jones’s Diary

Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu

Listening 

I Feel Alive by TOPS

Songs From A Broken Chair, and Gemini by Noah Reid

The New Abnormal by The Strokes

The Loves Of Your Life by Hamilton Leithauser

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

Politics 

All the April 1920 news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1920

Pop Culture

Scott Fitzgerald’s wedding: http://airshipdaily.com/blog/04032014-fitzgerald-wedding

Gigi and Zayn’s baby news: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a32307065/gigi-hadid-zayn-malik-pregnant-expecting-child-together/

Edward VIII surfing: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9187691/King-of-the-waves-Edward-VIII-pictured-surfing-in-1920.html

Harry, Meghan, and LA: https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1270884/prince-harry-Meghan-markle-la-renting-house-Duke-Duchess-Sussex-royal

Harry’s HeadFIT: https://people.com/royals/prince-harry-is-back-doing-what-he-loves-most-helping-the-military/

Harry and Thomas the Tank Engine: https://people.com/royals/prince-harry-helps-celebrate-75th-anniversary-of-one-of-his-childhood-heroes/

Ice hockey at the Olympics:

https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1920/ICH/mens-ice-hockey.html

Gronk becomes a Buccaneer: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29078406/patriots-trade-rob-gronkowski-buccaneers-4th-round-pick

YOU GUYS! March has been...well, rough. It's been scary. It's been emotional. It's been looooong. So that's why we're breaking from our usual formula to bring you Pandemic Support Group, a very special episode designed to get you through this spell at home. Think of it as both an audio hug and your go-to guide to beating boredom. And remember: if we all pray to Noah Centineo and Timothee Chalamet enough, hopefully April's episode will be dropping into a happier and safer world.  

Reading 

Normal People by Sally Rooney 

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

The Younger Man by Zoe Foster Blake 

Watching 

Emma 

Schitt’s Creek

New Girl

Listening 

Step by Haim

The Local by Pulp Fever

Caution by The Killers

Bad Feeling and Broken Tambourine by Muzz

Persona Non Grata by Bright Eyes

Isolation Reading 

Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Meet Me In The Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman

Looking For Alaska by John Green

Red, White and Royal Blue by Cassie McQuiston

Emma by Jane Austen

Stasiland by Anna Funder

Isolation Watching 

The Big Sick

La La Land 

Looper

Twilight

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The Office

The West Wing 

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Isolation Listening

Fine Line by Harry Styles

Yours To Keep by Albert Hammond Jr.

19 by Adele

Wide Awake! by Parquet Courts

Staying In with Emily & Kumail 

Life Uncut

It's us again, folks! This February we're discussing the Wet'suwet'en pipeline protests in Canada and the forthcoming Friends reunion. Plus, in news that will surprise exactly zero loyal listeners, we read books with feminist themes and listened to the new Strokes songs so you'll get to hear our take on those too!

Reading 

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

Mrs Everything by Jennifer Weir

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Watching 

Uncut Gems

Next In Fashion on Netflix

'Reality Shows Don't Have To Be Cruel': https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/02/netflix-next-in-fashion-new-era-reality-tv/606859/

High Fidelity on Hulu

High Fidelity review: https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/02/tv-review-high-fidelity/

Listening 

Frankie Cosmos

'At The Door' and 'Bad Decisions' by The Strokes

Politics 

Governance in Canada: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/02/25/Politicians-Columnists-Dont-Get-Wetsuweten-Crisis-Governance/

The protests: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/blockades-continue-hamilton-bc-1.5474916

The protesters: https://globalnews.ca/news/6399938/bc-pipeline-protesters-speak/

Trudeau's handling of the protests: https://www.hilltimes.com/2020/02/24/very-slippery-ice-wetsuweten-blockades-critical-for-trudeau-governments-credibility-say-former-indian-affairs-minister-pollsters/237024

UNDRIP: https://globalnews.ca/news/6101723/undrip-indigenous-relations-canada/

Unist’ot’en: http://unistoten.camp/

Pop Culture 

Friends: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends

Millenials' views on Friends: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/friends-netflix-sexist-racist-transphobic-problematic-millenials-watch-a8154626.html

Friends on HBO Max: https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/the-friends-reunion-is-official-at-hbo-max-its-a-perfect-example-of-how-to-turn-fans-into-customers.html

The One Where Monica Goes On A Hike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AaW_oRI_mk

Happy 2020! It's a new year and a decade but the same old Majka and Yaz are back to break down the latest in politics and pop culture for you. This month, Majka teaches a masterclass on the concept of royals in light of #Megxit, while Yaz discusses the road to a potential Brad Pitt/Jennifer Aniston reunion. Oh, and there is definitely a Lorde singalong. You've been warned. 

Reading

Nothing Breaks Like A Heart by Katherine Webber

Tiny Love Stories in The New York Times

Watching 

The Bold Type on Hulu

Next In Fashion on Netflix

Killer Inside: The Mind Of Aaron Hernandez on Netflix

Sex Education season 2 on Netflix

Longshot

Little Women

Listening 

Hamilton Leithauser

Bright Eyes

Foolish Loving Spaces by Blossoms

Marriage Story soundtrack

Little Women soundtrack

Politics 

The purpose of the monarchy and the problem of inequality: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/06/the-purpose-of-the-monarchy-and-the-problem-of-inequality

Why monarchies are still relevant and useful in the 21st century:https://thediplomat.com/2014/06/why-monarchies-are-still-relevant-and-useful-in-the-21st-century/

Monarchies are more useful than you think:https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/monarchies-more-useful-than-you-think.html

European monarchies still have a purpose:https://www.thenewfederalist.eu/do-european-monarchies-still-have-any-purpose?lang=fr

Royal family costs and benefits: https://fullfact.org/economy/royal-family-what-are-costs-and-benefits/

Pop Culture

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt relationship timeline: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a30378889/jennifer-aniston-brad-pitt-relationship-timeline/

Looking back on Jennifer Aniston's romance history: https://www.eonline.com/news/1013117/looking-back-on-jennifer-aniston-s-surprising-romance-history#photo-963205

Pittaissance: https://www.vogue.com/article/best-brad-pitt-moments-golden-globes-2020

Jennifer Aniston's Huffington Post op-ed: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/for-the-record_b_57855586e4b03fc3ee4e626f

Why Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt should never get back together: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jen-dont-do-it-why-jennifer-aniston-and-brad-pitt-should-never-get-back-together?ref=scroll