Hot Garbage (adj) – A guy, an unqualified college student, and a marketing professional talking about trash. Looking at mass media from unique perspectives. Specializing in pop culture, reality tv, and social dynamics. Hot Garbage is the only trash talk that matters.
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Mercury retrograde has once again reared it's ugly head and chaos ensued as we recorded. Don't worry though, you only get to hear the best parts of it, including Laura's dog (check the YouTube video to see how cute she is) and some blooper content at the end of the episode! Laura makes a discovery involving Maddie Pruitt that lead her down a rabbit…
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We promise you, we're not becoming a bi-weekly podcast. We've just had a string of very bad luck recently that's kept us from recording. But we are back again and ready to talk shows! Laura starts share time off with a story about Target she's been holding onto for a while and takes advice from a friend about not avoiding politics as much on the sh…
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Sorry for taking another week off, but people weren't feeling good and frankly, nothing really happened on The Bachelorette and Big Brother last week, but we still touched on a few things just to give y'all the important info. But as always, we start with Share Time! Laura talks about a couple of movies she's watched, one good and one not good. Tyl…
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Laura's Parents Watch The Bachelorette
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It's week two of Jenn's season of The Bachelorette and this week we have the added commentary of Laura's parents because she watched it at their house! Laura starts Share Time by talking about watching all of the Saw movies and her thoughts on them, Tyler makes an unfortunate discovery about aging, and we guide Stephanie into making up something to…
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I know we said last week that we're going to be uploading on Tuesdays now, but we're also recording on Tuesdays and the entire state of Texas lost internet all day on Tuesday, so we had to reschedule. But here we are! And so are several men that we don't like that our lovely Bachelorette, Jenn, has the misfortune of picking from! But first; Share T…
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QUICK NOTE: Episodes will now be released on Tuesdays. We explain why in the episode. To be honest, we forgot to plan something for this episode. So this one is ALLLLLL Share Time! I can't even really map out what we talked about because it mostly just tangent after tangent with a very loose structure of who's turn it is guide the conversation. Jus…
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It's time for another movie we love that Tyler hasn't seen! This week we watched Saved! For Share Time, Laura talks about her family letting her dog terrorize/play tag with a squirrel and also shows some adorable pictures of her dog (check out the YouTube video for some adorableness), Stephanie tells about a restaurant she went to called Darkside P…
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A Little Ditty 'Bout Jack and Diane
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We're back! We missed a week because our original plan for the episode didn't feel like it would go well, so we regrouped and went a different route and decided to make Tyler watch movies he hasn't seen until our shows come back. This week, it's Sugar And Spice! But first! It's Share Time! Laura finally breaks down and gives The Handmaid's Tale a c…
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BACHELORETTE MEN REVEAL: The Gang's All Here
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The world decided to surprise us with the men Jenn will be dating on this season of The Bachelorette AND it happened on a day we're recording! So we threw Vanderpump Rules and The Valley out the window and decided to focus on something MUCH more interesting. But first, Share Time! Laura discusses her newest binge watch; Seventh Heaven and how it do…
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Laura and Tyler are back again because everybody's taking turns getting sick apparently and we can't have our usual three person podcast anymore. But this time we're sober and we don't ramble on for three hours! We DO however ramble a little bit during Laura's share time which starts with her talking about watching Scream Queens, but its not the on…
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Laura wasn't feeling well, so it's a Stephanie and Tyler episode this week! And it's surprisingly tangent free, so it made for a pretty short episode, especially compared to last week's. Share time starts with Stephanie talking about her new Housewives binge and this time it's The Real Housewives of Miami and it's WAY better than Salt Lake City! Th…
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Laura and Tyler decided to keep Laura's birthday/graduation party going into this episode and had a drunkcast this week! Stephanie took the week off because she was definitely in need of a break, so we kept the party going! Share Time starts with Laura talking about how her friends and family threw her a surprise birthday/graduation party after alm…
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Sorry for the late episode! Tyler forgot he didn't finish editing, but at least you're getting an episode just the same. For Share Time, Laura tells us an epic tale about how drinking Vanilla Coke went horribly wrong for her. Stephanie watched The Idea of You and that leads us down a road of both One Direction, fan-fiction, and nepotism in Hollywoo…
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Last week was too hectic for us to get a chance to record, but we're back this week! And the vibes are better than they were last time. And there's a little bit of cleverness to the title this weeks because we're in better moods and that made this episode shorter, but we also talk about how the fatigue of these 90 minute episodes is finally hitting…
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After a nice string of well organized, decently timed episodes, we're back with another lengthy one because the vibes are weird and Laura's got a lot to say. Starting off with her share time which is how she is currently obsessed with Lord of the Rings. Stephanie talks about how Gerry and Theresa are already divorcing a mere months after their marr…
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Man, something had all of us in weird moods this week; eclipses and retrogrades and all that. Nevertheless, we're here to talk about some reality TV yet again! First is a super short share time. Laura's stressed AF and brings up Buffy for the first time in WEEKS and we just now realized it, Stephanie was NOT a fan of Charity and Dotun's April Fools…
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This predictably boring season of The Bachelor is finally over, but of course it had to piss us off on it's way out. Laura decided to randomly pick the order we went in share time because it's her birthday, so Stephanie starts us off with some more Summer House updates, Tyler talks about how he's a professional procrastinator and perfectly timed wa…
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In a rare turn of events, we managed to squeeze FIVE shows into an hour and a half episode! Look at us, getting better at this stuff. In a short and sweet share time, Tyler has nothing because he's on vacation, Laura discovered Dance Moms and that's been her latest obsession, and Stephanie catches us up on the drama with Lindsey and Carl on Summer …
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Check out the YouTube (@hotgarbagepod) for the blooper at the end! The vibes were weird today, but somehow we manged to wrangle in Share Time so its not a majority of the episode! we change things up and Tyler starts it off being thankful about not having to manually change clocks in Daylight Savings Time. Then Laura and Stephanie split time by tal…
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We have another lengthy sharetime this week, which is great because we also added another show to talk about too! Stephanie catches us up on Summer House, The Traitors, and Love Is Blind. Laura tells us a story about how someone found a random baby picture of hers in the street, and Tyler talks about yet another sign that his Boston Red Sox are not…
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Quick update: Laura's professor emailed her back immediately after this episode was edited, so you can just ignore everything we said there, please and thank you. We're covering two weeks of shows this week because some of us weren't feeling good and honestly just needed a break, but we're back! Laura starts us off with a share time rant about her …
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(This episode was supposed to be out January 22, 2024. I'm also sorry for the weird audio glitches. I'm not sure why there were so many.) It's the last week before Bachelor returns! But for now, we cover another two seasons of Girls! Laura discusses the struggles of trying to find a new show to watch while she does homework, Stephanie catches us up…
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BONUS BACHELOR WOMEN REVEAL: I Won't Watch The Football
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OUR FIRST VIDEO EPISODE GOING UP ON YOUTUBE! We read along with the biographies and fun facts of the women Joey will be dating on this season of the bachelor. Who do we like? Who do we think is going home in the first couple weeks? Listen for our honest first impressions on all thirty two women coming into this season! Join us for the only trash ta…
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(This episode was supposed to come out January 15th. Sorry y'all) We're back with seasons 2 and 3 of Girls! Nobody really has sharetime topics because we recorded this one a couple days after the last episode, but it still somehow takes like 30 minutes, so go figure. Then we continue where we left Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, Shoshanna and the rest after…
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There are currently no reality shows going on right now! So we're FINALLY talking about Girls! But first, its muthafucking share time! Stephanie talks about how she doesn't like New York City, sitting next to Max from Catfish, Back To The Future The Musical, sibling rivalry, and catching up on Housewives shows, Tyler talks about the sad death of th…
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DISCLAIMER: This episode was supposed to go out on 12/25/2023, but you know, life and all that. It's a Hot Garbage Christmas! We start off share time with Stephanie talks about Such Brave Girls on Hulu, Tyler gives a PSA on behalf of all retail workers during the holidays, and Laura recounts an epic three day bender from her younger days. Then talk…
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Oh, look! This one's actually getting uploaded on Monday! Share Time this week includes Laura recounting math stories with a little bit about the Barbie movie at the end, Stephanie gets MAD at a reviewer and talks about Leave The World Behind, and Tyler starts up a conversation about a Vanderpump spin-off that Lisa Vanderpump teased on Instagram. T…
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DISCLAIMER: This episode was supposed to come out November 27th, but life's been crazy and now it's super late. I'm sorry. We only had Survivor and The Amazing Race on this week because of Thanksgiving, so like the title says, this episode is almost all discussions stemming from share time. Laura talks about all the news going on with people gettin…
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This One’s Late Because Tyler Got Sick
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Sorry for this one getting published almost a week late! But Tyler got really sick to the point where he didn't have the energy to do anything for several days, but we couldn't let this one not see the light of day because we didn't sit through 100 damn days of Big Brother to let the finale discussion go to waste. We give our thoughts on the final …
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We're all burnt out, Laura's sick, but we're still here! And we still have things to talk about! None of really had share time, so Laura ranks the Scream movies, Stephanie talks about the spooky movies she watched over Halloween weekend, and Tyler tries to talk about Australian baseball which became more of Savannah Bananas and MLB off season discu…
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The group is back together again! Laura and Stephanie tell us about where they were last week and Tyler once again talks about The Fall of the House of Usher, as well as a small summary of his rewatch of Hereditary. Then we go into the usual shows: Big Brother has probably been on for too long at this point, Survivor and The Amazing Race are gettin…
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Laura and Stephanie both left town and left Tyler alone to figure out what to do this week, so he decided to enlist the help of Robyn, the very awesome and badass friend of his and Laura's, and they watched Bachelor In Paradise, drank, and ate pizza together before getting her thoughts on the newest episode as someone who has never watched anything…
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The eclipse, the state of the world, something in the air; whatever it was, the vibes were off this week. Laura hates everybody on Love Is Blind, Stephanie catches us up on what she's been watching and is in fact still out on The Kardashians, then Tyler talks about how he tried to escape current events of the world only to be sucked right back into…
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Hope y'all are ready for an doozy of a share time this week. Laura basically gets two of them, starting with weird occurrences from her and Tyler's trip to Prague that Tyler doesn't remember, so we drag in their totally awesome and badass friend Robyn as backup. That somehow leads into a very serious, but inspirational story from Laura. Then the us…
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Tyler had to be a "responsible adult" and "go to work", so it's another Laura and Stephanie episode! This is the first week we have SEVERAL shows that we're talking about. Topics include Big Brother, Survivor, The Amazing Race, The Golden Bachelor, and Bachelor In Paradise. Join us every Monday for the only trash talk that matters! Follow us on Tik…
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The whole group is back! For share time, Tyler recaps his vacation, Stephanie leads us down a nostalgic path of the good old days of TGIF programming, and Laura talks about how she's terrified of the movie The Descent. Then we talk about the craziness going on in Bachelor Nation, we all get angry at the fact that re-runs of Yellowstone are being sh…
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This week we explore how badly we fall apart when Tyler is not here. Stephanie and Laura rebranded this week into a true crime podcast. They spent most of the episode, in share time, talking about the podcast Lost in Panama, and sprinkle in Big Brother at the end. Join us every Monday for the only trash talk that matters. Follow us on TikTok, Insta…
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It's another vibes episode! It was another boring, predictable week on Big Brother, but we still recap what happened and what we saw on social media just before recording. Then we go through the list of the women on The Golden Bachelor and the very generic bios and fun facts that ABC decided to list for them on their website. We will also be moving…
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Geez, what a mess recording this episode was. Fucking Share Time is great, followed by a little bit of how boring this weeks Big Brother episodes were considering we all knew what was going to happen. Then we had some CRAZY technical difficulties that led all of us to grab some drinks to regain some composure before we break down the Bachelor In Pa…
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That's a warp on The Bachelorette and we couldn't be happier with the ending! This week, none of us really had an idea for Share Time, but somehow still managed to spend 30 minutes talking about it. Then we briefly talk about Rachel Leviss only digging herself a deeper grave on Bethenny Frankel's podcast. Then we recap the drama of the last week's …
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What the hell is going on that our title is the Teletubbies' names, but with one of them is VERY wrong? This week, Laura tells a riveting boat story, Stephanie and Tyler talk about what they're watching and how much one of those shows sucks. Then, after some technical difficulties, we get into the first full week of Big Brother and how quickly we t…
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We talk about multiple shows this week! We start off with Stephanie mixing up the new girl's name with Charity from The Bachelorette, Laura talks about General Hop Hop for a long time (but you don't have to hear that part), and also some good baseball and boat fights! Then we talk about what happened on the Big Brother live move-in, some theories o…
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It's certainly been a week for us, so we're living up to the Hot Garbage name big time this week. We start off with a quick Big Brother cast intro, talk some Kardashians, a little baseball talk out of nowhere. Then we rush through three of this week's Bachelorette hometown visits so we can talk about the main character of the show. I wonder who tha…
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It's a bonus episode! Laura teaches Stephanie and Tyler the history of and the proper way to watch Big Brother and gets us hyped to watch this season. The bonus episode vibes are fun, so hopefully y'all are ready for the weirdness. You can also follow along with Laura's powerpoint on our YouTube page, if you'd like. Join us every Thursday for the o…
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An Anything But The Bachelorette Podcast
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For the first time this season, we were all EXTREMELY bored watching The Bachelorette. So instead we talk about almost anything else we can around some discussion of the episode. Things like past and future seasons of The Bachelor/Bachelorette, this coming season of Big Brother, and some predictions about what Charity is going to do on the (hopeful…
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Another rose ceremony, another week of us denying that we're a Bachelor podcast! This week we talk about some Big Brother news, even more talk about how much Brayden sucks (much like every other week so far), we say goodbye to a very dear friend, and then we take a deep dive into figuring out just how many episodes of The Bachelorette are left and …
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Your favorite non-Bachelor/Bachelorette podcast is back to talk about week 3 of The Bachelorette! We all still hate Brayden, we're fueled by Barbie themed group dates, Laura and Stephanie are surprised that Caleb B is still here, and we talk all about how awkward that one-on-one date with Warwick was. Join us every Thursday for the only trash talk …
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This isn't a Bachelor/Bachelorette podcast, we just are right now because of Charity. We discuss week two of The Bachelorette and how good this season already is. We were right about some of the guys, wrong about others, and we even cleared some of possible crimes. Join us every Thursday for the only trash talk that matters. Follow us on TikTok, In…
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This week we talk about the premiere of The Bachelorette. Find out what we think about Charity's first impression rose, who has a shrine of her hidden in his basement, and who is a Luke P. situation. Join us every Thursday for the only trash talk that matters. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook @hotgarbagepod…
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The title has nothing to do with what we are talking about this week, but Laura tells a story that you will enjoy. We then dive into the Amazon Prime docuseries, Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets. We want to say there is a trigger warning in the beginning of the episode. Join us every Thursday for the only trash talk that matters.…
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