December 16, 2025

That hot Heated Rivalry, more Olivia Nuzzi??, and Mormon Wives' Dark Turn

52 minutes

Chelsea and producer Kristina Lopez catch up on the hottest pop culture tidbits, including new Olivia Nuzzi updates, the latest Taylor Swift discourse, the unexpected success of Heated Rivalry, Lily Allen’s special “Madeline” performance on “SNL,” Rosalía’s stunning album “Lux,” Cynthia Erivo’s recent book snafu, and why “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” has taken a noticeably darker turn.

A content warning: This episode contains discussions of sensitive topics, including references to sexual assault. Take care while listening and find helpful resources here.

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Show Notes:

Olivia Nuzzi’s “Jailbait” song

Olivia Nuzzi Memoir Episode Part 1

Olivia Nuzzi Memoir Episode Part 2

Cheryl Hines Memoir Episode

Why Doesn't America Read Anymore? (NPR)

White Paper: Purpose and Audience (Purude University’s Online Writing Lab)

Taylor Swift’s Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack (Rolling Stone)

Taylor Swift - ANATOMY OF A NARRATIVE How Online Narratives Spread, Escalate, & Reshape Cultural Perception (GUDEA Report)

Twitter Hate Accounts Targeting Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex (White Paper by Bot Sentinel)

Targeted Trolling and Trend Manipulation: How Organized Attacks on Amber Heard and Other Women Thrive on Twitter (White Paper on anti-Amber Heard campaigns on Twitter from Bot Sentinel)

Are you in TikTok’s cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal. (Washington Post)

America Last: How Fuentes’s Coordinated Raids and Foreign Fake-Speech Networks Inflate His Influence (Network Contagion Research Institute & Rutgers University Social Perception Lab)

Who Trolled Amber? - Episode 3 “Into the dark”

Jordan Firstman Still Wants Gay People to Like Him (Vulture)

‘Heated Rivalry’ Stars Respond to Jordan Firstman’s Critique of Show’s Sex Scenes: ‘Is There Only One Way to Have Authentic Gay Sex on TV?’ (Variety)

Lily Allen “Madeline” (SNL Performance with Dakota Johnson)

Rosalía - Lux (Spotify) (Apple)

Rosalía & the evolving definition of Latinidad

Why does Rosalía cause so much controversy?

Sean Combs: The Reckoning (Netflix Documentary)

A ‘Wicked’ superfan uncovered a problem in Cynthia Erivo’s memoir (Washington Post)

Wicked Costume Designer Defends Elphaba’s ‘Sex Cardigan’ from Intimate Scene with Fiyero

Uma Thurman: The Texas abortion law is a human rights crisis for American women (Washington Post)

This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry (The New York Times)

Where to find our guest Kristina Lopez:

Instagram

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