Hot Takes Podcast

From iPods to floppy disks and nearly indestructible flip phones...get ready for a techy trip down memory lane...

Why was our foundation never blended into our necks? Is Axe "woke" now? Drench yourself in BBW warm vanilla sugar body spray, and strap in...we're talking early 2000's products!

This week we're discussing the reason we even HAVE the VMAs. Does anyone else remember the sheer absurdity of Early 2000's music videos? The giant chicken leg in Ludacris' - Stand Up, a squid fucking a space ship in The Darkness' - I Believe in a Thing Called Love, and the fancy (treadmill) footwork of Ok Go's - Here it Goes...all quintessentially early 2000's music video culture! Enjoy!

Were you a Samantha or a Miranda? Were you team Vampire Eric or Vampire Bill? Did you aggressively try to recruit everyone you know to watch The Wire or Entourage? Were you able to hang in for those final (awful) seasons of Weeds and Dexter? So many questions with the introduction of early 2000's cable programming...

Sarah and I are back on our early 2000's reality TV bullshit...answering the important questions: Were Jackass and The Simple Life really so different? Did The Pickup Artist single-handedly launch the Man-O-Sphere?

Plot Twist: Tyra Banks is a Sociopath. Heidi Montag isn't the villain she was painted to be. Join Sarah and I for Part 1 of what may be a 2 or 3 part series on Reality TV in the early 2000's.

Show me those snake bite scars. Sing me something soft, sad, and delicate...(why yes, that WAS a Straylight Run reference!) 

This is honestly the Hot Takes episode I've been dying to make. Ya'll know I'm a emo/screamo bitch for life!

Sarah (Hex) and I are also letting Patreon folks vote on upcoming episode topics. The poll is currently up in our respective Patreons. Enjoy!

Sara + Sarah dive into the late 90's and early 00's genre of teen movies, which...are these even a thing anymore, Gen Z?! Enjoy this blast from the past. We talk about basically every classical piece of literature being re-imagined as a "modern teen classic," the birth of the "mockumentary," and all the hella problematic stuff we were subjected to regularly (hi there, American Pie franchise and Never Been Kissed...) Enjoy!

Sara + Sarah start the process of diving into the music of the early 2000's. Let's be real. This will be the first of many.

Sara + Sarah dive into the truly horrendous fashion of the early 2000's. If you have a photo the fashion crimes committed in the early 2000's or if you would like to share an early 2000's fashion icon or worst dressed celebrity, share the image to your Instagram stories and tag @shopthe8thhouse and @hexactivist. We wanna see those early 2000's eyebrows (or lack thereof)!