This week (and every week) on the podcast, Megan is intellectualizing pop culture with a Valley Girl speech pattern through an extremely online lens. 

[cw: discussion of childhood sexual abuse @ 20:00 ]

Topics covered:
🎥 prestige film szn & what to watch
👩🏻‍🦰 the Emma Stone Effect
👻 Did Elvis possess Austin & Jacob?
📰 Supporting print journalism
🎤 Olivia Rodrigo on SNL
🍑 psychoanalyzing Pantone's color of the year
🔦 surveillance culture (women's version)
👎🏽 more matt rife gossip

Mentioned Media:

• "We need a ceasefire" by @Greycism on TikTok & Instagram 
• Poor Things (trailer) 
• Past Lives (trailer)
• American Fiction (trailer)
• Variety Actors on Actors: Emma Stone x Bradley Cooper
• Variety Actors on Actors: Jacob Elordi x Colman Domingo
• Las Culturistas Matt Rodgers & Bowen Yang 
• Olivia Rodrigo Vampire (Live on SNL) 
• Pinterest Predicts
• Pantone's Color of the Year
• Opinion: Listen up. The closing of the teenage mind is almost complete (LA Times)

Follow Megan as she: Reads (sometimes), Listens to niche playlists, sporadically TikToks, & works out her thoughts for this podcast @meganspodcast.

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