Writer and editor Greta Rainbow joins host Dani Loftus for a tour through the icks that shape her taste: from airplane armrest invasions to cagey creatives, hidden gluten, weak PDA, celebrity beverage empires, and a deeply cursed Homeland Security tweet.

They dig into gossip as community protection, transparency in the creative economy, why the literary world runs on shame, and how momentum truly works (“like a 15-year-old boy”). Plus: dating icks, tech icks, virtue icks, environmental icks, and Greta’s Ick of the Week.

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00:00 — Welcome to Creative Complaint

00:55 — “Sir, Turn Off Your Phone”

04:50 — Complaining as High Art

05:30 — The Gospel of Gossip as Public Service

10:00 — Lack of $$$ Transparency

11:30 — Shame, Sales, and the Literary Hunger Games

12:40 — Momentum Is a 15-Year-Old Boy

15:00 — Earnest America vs. Irony-Pilled New York

16:00 — Best Friends After Two Hangs? Immediate Red Flag

17:00 — The Affection Olympics

18:45 — Bad vs. Good PDA

19:15 — Hidden Gluten, Hidden Rage

20:20 — New Yorkers, Please Learn to Recycle

21:50 — Emma Chamberlain Should Start a Publishing House, Actually

24:15 — Rejection as a Luxury Commodity

27:20 — Fascism: Final Boss Ick

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Our music, Stamford Brook Style, is by Adrian Michna.