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Megan's giving you updates on her outlook on life, love, and pop-culture in the midst of societal collapse  

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❤️ emotional intelligence as sung by Dua Lipa

⏳ tinfoil hat theories about time

🪧 Fuck ICE - notes on the revolution 

🥩 Ashley Tisdale & Hilary Duff - synthetic beef?

🙄 A new perspective on Dax Shepard

🇬🇧 Unpacking the Beckham Drama (ft. LANY lyrics) 

🍿 Movie Reviews: The Housemaid, People We Meet on Vacation

Mentioned Media: 

• Cool Shiny Culture
• Ashley Tisdale the Cut 
• Armchair Expert podcast (Cher)
• Glambot Drama Explainer

Movies:

• The Housemaid
• People We Meet on Vacation 
• Send Help 
• Wuthering Heights
• No Other Choice

Music: 

• Dua Lipa - Training Season
• Kacey Musgraves - Butterflies
• LANY - Thru These Tears 
• LANY - Malibu Nights 
• LANY - Congrats 
• LANY - I Don't Wanna Love You Anymore 

recorded January 26  

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Megan's back for her first episode of the year: 26 Trends for 2026 & Beyond

Mentioned Media:

• Taylor Swift & The Death of White Innocence by Nikki Payne 
• "Pisces Blue" = Pantone Blue Coral
• Filterworld Kyle Chayka 
• Megan Advocates for Friction 
• Green script example 

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this week we're confronting the ugly truths before megan puts her rose colored glasses on and heads to Coachella 

Topics covered:
💎 Bedazzling for Coachella
🍭 SkinnyTok is f*%&ng me up
🦛 Bullying works* (re: The Male Loneliness Epidemic)
🕵🏼‍♀️ Hailey Bieber invented watching out for Selener
🥊 Benny Blanco is punching
🎪 Chappell Roan struck a nerve with mom's
🫦 Cheating logic (re: Sydney Sweeney & Glen Powell)
🚩 The explosion of amateur cultural analysis    

Mentioned Media:

• Skinnytok's HBIC: Mina
• Celebrity Memoir Book Club Patreon
• Hailey Bieber's Dangerous Decade-Long Obsession

Originally recorded April 2

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This week on the podcast Megan shares the tip that's changed her life: stop giving out unsolicited advice and start taking your own. #groundbreaking

Topics covered:
🐃 Buffalo vs. Cow discourse
🤤 Pavloving yourself with music
✨ Manifesting carefully
🤖 The Turing test men vs. women
⛈️ Role Model & classic weather lyrics
🥱 Love is Blind is boring (but we can't look away)
📧 how to unsubscribe from a narrative
🦾 Companion review 

Mentioned Media:

• Megan's Monday Playlist 
• I'm Not A Robot
• The Imitation Game
• Playlist: Boyfriend Privileges Denied 
• Seven Days in June 
• Convenience Store Woman 
• Companion 

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Megan shares her reluctant girlbossing, bad attachment style, and tendency to be "your friend who's too woke"

Topics covered:
🏆 The Academy Awards 
🤍 Michelle Trachtenberg
🏀 Running Point 
👀 Alex Cooper v. Alix Earle
🎬 Worthy rewatches: Spanglish, The Lego Movie 
🐦‍⬛ Kismet Crows vs. Ravens 

Mentioned media: 

• hypatianinsights.com
• Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande Defy Gravity at the 97th Academy Awards
• Mikey Madison & Pamela Anderson | Actors on Actors
• Alix Earle’s ‘Hot Mess’ Podcast Dropped by Alex Cooper’s Unwell Network (EXCLUSIVE)
• Kismet by Amina Akhtar 
• Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin
• Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe about Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free by Wednesday Martin

originally recorded March 4, 2025

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This week on the podcast Megan is begrudgingly covering the NFL's "big game" and doing her part to spread unsubstantiated rumors about both Travis Kelce & men's robot complex 

Topics covered:
💌 Galentines Day
🧎 Simp Supremacy
🏈 Super Bowl LIX
🎤 Reactions to Kendricks halftime performance 
✊🏿 Ohio 
🥤 Poppi vending machine "controversy"
🤑 Chappell Roan spite-donates $25k
🌋 Kevin Kwan's Lies & Weddings
🤡 Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn

Mentioned Media:
Simp Preference TikTok
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Kendrick Lamar's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show
Chappell Roan challenges executive who bashed Grammy speech to match $25,000 donation

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Megan is avoiding the evil eye by moving in silence... about most things but oversharing about a select few things on this here podcast episode. 

Topics covered:
💞 modern dating trends & trials  
💽 recapping The Grammys
📜 renegotiating the social contract 
🌸 the It Ends With Us drama proves endless 
💋 Paige DeSorbo triggers the pick mes 
⏰ surviving the TikTok ban (at what cost)
🦾 subservience: a tale of a man ruining his life lusting after AI
🎨 avoiding The Artists' Way 

Mentioned Media: 

• Take the Diet Coke Survey 
• Starry Configurations Tarot 
• Subservience
• Honey by Isabel Banta 
• The Artists Way 

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Megan's talking us through January online ( always a strange time) & some of the most interesting discourses dominating social media feeds

Topics covered:
🎨 creating more, consuming less 
💭 vision boarding
🫠 the process is the point
😤 the modern hero fantasy
🍳 cooking with Kya
👀 It Ends With Us drama update
🕵🏻 Black Doves (Netflix) review
🥛 Quick thoughts on Babygirl
📚 Reading goals (2024 & 2025) 

Mentioned Media:

• Substack: Cool Shiny Culture 
• Netflix: Carry-On trailer 
• The Amateur trailer 
• Cooking with Kya
• Filterworld by Kyle Chayka 
• No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
• Babygirl trailer

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A quick catch-up about:
🌕 the magic of the holiday szn
👽 the aliens
⚖️ Luigi (our Katniss)
🔮 Predicting the return of sarcasm
😈 Matilda Djerf is a meanie
🧹 Wicked
🏳️‍🌈 Am I Okay?
🥧 Waitress The Musical
🛹 Didi

Mentioned Media:

• #WomenInMaleFields TikTok Trend 
• Matilda Djerf Documentary 
• Wicked (Trailer)
• Am I Okay (Trailer)
• Waitress The Musical 
• Cool Shiny Culture 
• Didi (Trailer) 

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Megan's catching you up on her lifestyle activities & content viewing heading into fall (aka SAD SZN) 

topics covered:
☁️ "winter arc" & seasonal affective disorder
🙅🏽‍♀️ a moratorium on astrology takes from men 
🎟️ my old ass (film)
🌊 the perfect couple (TV)
💘 nobody wants this (Netflix) 
🔱 doctor odyssey
🦅 american politics are in the skibidi toilet
🤖 the algorithm is bad for culture
 
mentioned media:

• Trevor Noah & Adam Grant 
• My Old Ass
• The Perfect Couple 
• Nobody Wants This 
• Hasan Piker on Offline
• Filterworld by Kyle Chaka 
• Baby Hippo Moo Deng on Fame - SNL

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