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FAQs about The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen:How many episodes does The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen have?The podcast currently has 200 episodes available.
September 15, 2025Problematic Fave: BOB DYLAN (with very special guests Elizabeth Nelson and Jeff Jackson)Bob Dylan is many things. A basic bitch isn’t one of them. We welcome brilliant lifelong Dylan-ologists Elizabeth Nelson and Jeff Jackson to pull apart what Dylan means, why music biopics suck, and everything James Mangold missed in the most recent filmic attempt to contain Dylan’s legacy, the nostalgia-fest A Complete Unknown....more1h 13minPlay
September 02, 2025The Biggest LoserRebecca and Maya watched Fit For TV, the recent streaming Netflix docu-series on The Biggest Loser, and talk fat-shaming, abuse as motivation, fake therapeutic breakthroughs after which nothing changes, and why it takes a decade and a documentary for us to publicly acknowledge that the thing that seemed so fucked up back then was, indeed, fucked up....more1h 5minPlay
August 25, 2025The Epstein Files!Will the Epstein Files put the final dagger into the rise of fascism? Rebecca and Maya are here to ruin any hopes you have. We’ve known for DECADES that Donald Trump was a creepy-buddy with mysterious financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Is this going to trigger a MAGA-Trump breakup? Might the administration be hoist on its own conspiracy theory petard? Or will this all turn out to be the Mueller Report Redux?...more36minPlay
June 25, 2025SeveranceMaya and Rebecca ride the down elevator into Apple TV’s hit Severance. Identity. Work-life balance. Bullshit jobs. Setting good boundaries. The toxic rot and unremitting evil at the very heart of Capitalism. Is this show hitting the BIG GESTALT BUTTON of THIS MOMENT?...more1h 11minPlay
June 16, 2025Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!)As Trump deploys National Guard and Marines to LA in the face of widespread civilian protests against ICE raids, we talk Martial Law and autocratic use of force (and drink!) with Dr. Carrie Lee, an expert in civil-military relations who concisely breaks down the specifics of what we should be looking for in this Administrations’s language and actions: why to worry, why to be hopeful, and what to do next....more50minPlay
May 01, 2025RIP Free SpeechFor years, right wingers have loudly decried supposed attacks on free speech. Yet now those free speech warriors are strangely silent as Trump punishes universities and ICE arrests students for expressing dissent. Maya and Rebecca explain how this turnabout is not simple hypocrisy, uncovering how right wing discourse about free speech paved the way for the totalitarian suppression which was their goal all along....more1h 10minPlay
February 25, 2025Dems in DisarrayWith Trump and Musk trampling American democracy, why aren’t elected Democrats doing more to stop the carnage? Maya and Rebecca piece together why the opposition party can’t seem to get its shit together and draw unexpected insight from the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud to figure out what Democrats should be doing differently,...more1h 8minPlay
February 13, 2025Ruining Huck Finn, with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame AndersonLet’s ruin the Great American Novel. Maya and Rebecca are joined by Artist (and longtime Sauce listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big Jim and the White Boy, an audacious (and inspired) retelling of Huck Finn. Listeners may remember Marcus and David from the last time we spoke about their Eisner Award-winning The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History. In this episode, we dig into the question of what gets revealed when difficult histories get told by different main characters....more1h 16minPlay
February 06, 2025Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du SoleilHow are we going to survive the fascist takeover of our government? Through a delicate balance of activism and avoidance. Maya and Rebecca introduce a new ongoing feature, BREAD AND CIRCUSES with Cirque du Soleil’s insane Michael Jackson show, and unpack what it teaches us about how to make a spectacle out of a very bad man. Wait, I thought we were trying to do denial?...more1h 20minPlay
December 17, 2024TRANS PANIC! (Election 2024 Edition) with Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace FreudAfter a nice long stretch of denial, Maya and Rebecca dip our toes back into political waters with Very Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace Freud, who bring queer and trans perspectives to the transphobic messaging the Trump campaign relied on so heavily this past election season. Why was it so effective? How did it connect to anti-immigration messaging? Is there any good way to respond to these right wing demonologies?...more56minPlay
FAQs about The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen:How many episodes does The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen have?The podcast currently has 200 episodes available.