Every so often, I do a Culture Study (newsletter) interview that inspires a LOT of follow-up questions — and the podcast is the perfect forum to address them, particularly when the interviewee is as smart and hilarious and curious as Heather Radke. For today’s episode, Heather and I tackle all your BUTTS questions, like: Why are butts so funny? Isn’t it weird the fossil record can’t tell us how big butts were? Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone told you about hemorrhoids in a very matter-of-fact way at, like, age 16?

• Find Heather’s incredible, hilarious, and deeply informative book, Butts: A Backstory, here

• So much more about Sarah Baartman and a bunch of the specific references re: historical butts in my interview with Heather on Culture Study

• My piece on getting a colonscopy (and why you should talk to people about yours!) (If you have any sort of family history — get one now! And if you don’t, the new guidance is still to get one starting at age 45.)

• NOT ME ON THE PREPARATION H INSTAGRAM PAGE!!!!

• WHAT CELEBRITY IMAGE SHOULD WE UNPACK NEXT?

• Online shopping culture, including but not limited to people’s reliance on reviews and/or compulsion to leave reviews

• Student loans— how we talk about them, think about them, take this wherever you want

• The romance novel boom

• Anything you need advice on!

• You can submit them (and ideas for future eps) here (and here’s the subscriber-only priority form)