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Megan is giving a very long review of Sabrina Carpenter's "Short N' Sweet," reminiscing on her 20s, and not much else.

Topics covered:
💖 womens fiction vs. romance
💋 ranking the songs on Sabrina's new album
🫠 grieving men's potential
🧜🏻‍♀️ Sophia La Corte proves cancellation is a state of mind
🌈 'which could mean nothing'
🍁 "big fall" conspiracy
🩰  peak balletcore 

Mentioned Media:

• The Not Sorry Art Podcast 
• Get The Picture by Bianca Bosker
• Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan 
• Short n' Sweet 
• Taste by Sabrina Carpenter (video ft. Jenna Ortega) 
• Tell the Bees on "which could mean nothing"
• Las Culturistas: An Attack in Leos 

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This week Megan is defining what it means to be 🦋 outsidesy 🦋 and contemplating culture's hottest topics.

Topics covered:
✨ Gorgeous Gorgeous and the rise of the vibe curator
🎤 childhood as marketed to millennial parents
👀 final thoughts on Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni
🍿 film review: 9 to 5 (1980)
🎀 Jools Lebron of demure mindful fame
🥤 Diet Pepsi by Addison Rae
💔 European influencer drama

Mentioned Media: 

• Pop Pantheon by DJ Louis (I like the Kacey episode with Bobby Finger of Who? Weekly) 
• ‘It Ends With Us’ Star Brandon Sklenar Defends Blake Lively, Colleen Hoover: They ‘Stand for Hope, Perseverance’ (Rolling Stone) 
• 9 to 5 (1980)
• Jooles Lebron
• Aspyn's TikTok confirming her divorce 
• Diet Pepsi (video) 
• Chiara correspondent: @eva_calvani

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Megan's going through changes & catching you up on all of it. Plus her two cents on the latest discourses plaguing your algorithms 

Topics covered:
🦋 Raising monarch butterflies
🍿 It Ends With Us drama 
🙋🏼‍♀️ Pick me's getting cyber-bullied
🐔 Ballerina Farm & choice feminism
🏈 Reviewing America's Sweethearts
🎤 Hawktuah girl
🍆 the "zynternet"
🇺🇸 Kamala's competency & loving Tim Walz
🙄 The future is lowkey super predictable 

Mentioned media:
It Ends With Us (2024)
"It Ends With Us" by Colleen Hoover
TMZ on Blake & Justin
UK Times: Meet the queen of the 'trad wives' (and her eight children)
America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
Slate: Zynternet, explained.

Books:
Not Sorry Art Podcast Summer Book Club Series: Status & Culture, Your Brain on Art
The Heart Principal by Helen Hoang
Troubling Loves by Elena Ferrante
Marry The Ketchups by Jennifer Close
Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings
Love Your Life by Sophie Kinsella 

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This week on the podcast Megan went to France, saw her first Zendaya movie, and is critiquing her problematic fav

Topics covered:
🎡 Coachella (FOMO)
🇫🇷 Parisian culture shock 
🎨 Painting retreats
💘 Getting into romance novels 
📺 Missing procedural television 
🎾 Reviewing Challengers (2024) 
👀 Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department & its Olivia Rodrigo parallels 
🐻 Man vs. Bear has the men in their feelings 
🍉 Student protests for Palestine 

Mentioned Media:

• The Kiss Quotient Helen Hoang 
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty Akwaeke Emezi 
• Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• White Collar 
• The Tortured Poets Department

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Dispatches from early April on the internet

Topics covered:
🎧 Should audiobooks "count" as reading?
💚 Romancing Mr. Bridgerton
🤠 The art of going viral with bad Beyonce take
🚇 the Candid Girlfriend discourse 
👀 The Cut's Age gap propaganda  

Media Mentioned:

• Romancing Mr. Bridgerton (YouTube) 
• Cowboy Carter 
• Candid Girlfriend 
• The Case for Marrying an Older Man A woman’s life is all work and little rest. An age gap relationship can help. (The Cut) 

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Megan's back & yapping about:
🤓 Ugly Betty (for the last time)
 💘 watching romcoms (Irish Wish & Upgraded)
🚫 the TikTok "ban"
🗽 the NYC puncher
🚢 the Baltimore Bridge collapse
🤫 Quiet on Set
♌ JLo's "This Is Me Now" 
💰 Shera Seven & the "Sprinkle Sprinkle" movement 

Mentioned Media: 
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
The Sweetest Remedy  by Jane Igharo
TikTok Ban (Slate)
What to know about the cargo ship Dali, a mid-sized ocean monster that took down a Baltimore bridge (AP)

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Megan's confronting the fact that when it comes to women's media of yesterday, today, & tomorrow people don't actually get it. 

Topics covered:
🧡 Ugly Betty & wholesome girl Molly’s fridging
💎 Chasing Harry Winston (2008 novel) & comp-het
🙈 reading the Love Is Blind S6 contestants
🥣 Emily Mariko, Nara Smith: non-white trad wives
🕸️ Madam Web, a loveable so-bad-its good flop?
🙄 Studies show men are haters
📺 TikTokers on TV
🤖 AI is dumb

Mentioned Media:
Ugly Betty
Chasing Harry Winston
The Town (podcast)
Men Feel Worse About Themselves When Female Partners Succeed, Says New Research

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Megan spent some time on her Valentine's Day recording for you, such is her devotion. This week, she's recapping the Super Bowl & reflecting on the state of (hetero) relationships

Topics covered:
👨‍🍼 peak baby daddy era
🧠 the importance of cultural context
🙃 America is the manosphere
🎰 Emergent convo alert: the destigmatization of gambling?
❤️ loving love despite it all, the Travis & Taylor effect
🫠 aspiring to "cool girl" despite knowing better
🤠 Beyonce didn't break the internet but she might break country music
🤦🏾‍♀️ Cetaphil stole a creator's content for their Super Bowl ad 

Mentioned media:
Ugly Betty (2006)
The State of Dating Apps, ICYMI (Podcast)
Texas Hold 'Em by Beyonce
16 Carriages by Beyonce
Luke Combs Fast Car (Tracy Chapman Cover)
Sharon Mbabazi @sharavinaaa
Cetaphil turns stolen Super Bowl ad claims into partnership with creator who accused company

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Megan is experiencing rain-induced ennui but otherwise can't complain

topics covered:
🐝 Beekeeper (2024)
🤓 Ugly Betty (2006)
💼 Corporate Natalie & the plight of the millennial middle manager 
❤️‍🔥 Megan Thee Stallion vs. Nicki Minaj 💔
😒 The Discourse vs. tortured poet Taylor Swift
🌻 Tall poppy syndrome 
🥪 The Sandwich Family series by Caroline Easom satirizes family vlogs

Mentioned Media:

• @CorporateNatalie (TikTok)
• Pop Culture Happy Hour 2024 Grammys recap (Podcast) 
• Shameless (Podcast)
• Caroline Easom's "The Sandwich Family" TikTok series 
• @Mom.Uncharted (TikTok)

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Megan's embracing failure, being outside-sy, and surviving in corporate America. 

Topics covered:
♒ Pluto in Aquarius 
🎡 Coachella 2024 
🖤 #MobWife and the cycle of minting aesthetics 
🤨 skepticism about the "recap industrial complex" 
🪦 Herstory will remember Elon killed traditional journalism for good 
🎤 Hannah Berner's forthcoming Netflix special 
💣 The Academy Awards fall increasingly out of touch 

Mentioned Media:

• Pluto is back in Aquarius after 226 years. What does this mean for your zodiac sign? 
• 2024 Coachella Lineup
• MrBeast’s Video Experiment Made Him Over $250,000 on X. But He Says There’s a Catch

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Intro Music is Another Day by Ahoami

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