The podcast run by kids
…
continue reading
…
continue reading
…
continue reading
Comic Sound is a podcasting production that does all kinds of entertaining multimedia podcasts on any main topic (especially comedy / show business or anything promotional). We love discussing Movies, Film-Making, Music, Business, Comedy / Humor / Satire and current events. Our noble goal is to interview interesting / unusual / funny people so we can laugh and rant about different things that make life comically adventurous.
…
continue reading
A Gen X-themed show with podcast veterans Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh and Karen Tongson (Pop Rocket). W2X revisits the pop culture & social issues that defined Generation X from a (queer) woman-of-color perspective in a way that sheds new light on the pop culture from both then, and now.
…
continue reading
I've been dreaming of this very journey for a few years. I turned 40 during COVID and was hit with speed bump after speed bump. Situations I have never anticipated experiencing and in some cases it will be my first time sharing it with you. Once you've lived through a pandemic as I have, you see things differently, your appreciation for life hits d…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ep. 114: Second Acts: The Waiting to X-Hale Finale
1:11:37
1:11:37
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:11:37
It’s the final episode, and there are tears shed, and personal revelations made as Karen and Wynter contemplate their favorite “second acts” in popular culture. Amidst it all, Wynter also discusses her new project dropping in January, and Karen shares a couple of lines from her new book Normporn. Plus, a glimpse at Apple TV+’s The Supermodel, and T…
…
continue reading
In our penultimate episode, Wynter and Karen prepare for the end by reflecting on their favorite series finales including Mad Men, Six Feet Under, The Good Place and The Americans among others. Before they do, Karen insists on one more discussion about a pop culture controversy: Julianna Marguilles’ condescending comments told from her perspective …
…
continue reading
This week we present our second "best of" episode featuring a collection of the lovely guests we've had over the years. You'll hear Guy Branham & Margaret Wappler make their first appearance since the end of Pop Rocket (3:28), Kathy Valentine talk about the L.A. punk scene and feminism (15:27), Kevin Smith talk about working with his daughter (24:3…
…
continue reading
We present our first "best of" episode featuring clips or topics that were ahead of the curve. From the prediction of the Cocaine Bear movie, the ahead of her time Queen Latifah and Wynter's discovery of TUBI to darker predictions of COVID conspiracy theories and political unrest, we look back on what we got right. Episodes featured: Ep. 6: What th…
…
continue reading
Wynter flies solo again as she discusses her favorite natural disaster movies as Hurricane Hilary is set to bring the rain to SoCal. She shares her thoughts on guilty pleasures she’s indulging like Baywatch Nights and getting rid of cable. and what she thinks is the unlikely song of the summer which is a throwback to the eurodance era of the 90s. T…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ep. 109: Gen X Grief & the Loss of Sinead O’Connor and Paul “Pee-Wee Herman “ Reubens
53:20
53:20
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
53:20
Wynter flies solo as she discusses Gen X grief in the wake of Sinead O’Connor and Paul “Pee Wee Herman” Reuben's deaths. She shares her thoughts Greta Gerwig’s Barbie success, the Lizzo controversy, and recommends a British show that depicts Hollywood post-#MeToo. Plus her dedication to a popular Seattle radio station that’s been turning out her fa…
…
continue reading
It’s the hottest summer on record, so Karen and Wynter take it upon themselves to discuss the pop culture that’s bringing all the heat, from Barbenheimer opening weekend, to Mission Impossible and the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Before all that, Wynter rants about the erosion of travel etiquette, while Karen prepares for he…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ep. 107: Threads, Bear, And Just Like That…
1:01:33
1:01:33
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:01:33
Wynter and KT have so much to chew on this week, including the scramble for social media life-rafts after Twitter. Wynter tells us all about the new Meta platform, Threads, while KT documents her various false starts and efforts at making a go of it on Bluesky. The two dish deep on the 2nd season of Hulu’s The Bear, and ask the question, “Fishes” o…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ep. 106: Wynter is Back! Black Mirror and Other Current Dystopias
1:03:47
1:03:47
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:03:47
Wynter is back and we have an episode filled with SPOILER ALERTS for both the season finale of Dave and all of Black Mirror, season 6. Which of Streamberry’s eps do we love, or…not so much? KT has an action alert for the LGBTQ+ community, as the GenX 1990s activist organization Queer Nation revs back up in Los Angeles to fight the ‘phobes. Plus, Ja…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Pride Bonus Episode on Ultimatum: Queer Love
1:02:25
1:02:25
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:02:25
Karen assembles an expert panel of queers to dish about this summer's reality phenom, Ultimatum: Queer Love (Netflix). Authors, curators, and queers about town, Greta La Fleur (@GretaLaFleur), Juana María Rodriguez (@RadioRodriguez), Poulomi Saha (@poulomiqsaha) and Jeanne Vaccaro (@whateverjeanne on instagram only) join KT with a rundown of all th…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ep. 105: GenX Coffee Klatsch + 1984 w/ Scott Poulson-Bryant & Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
1:27:00
1:27:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:27:00
Karen is joined this week by Scott Poulson-Bryant (a co-founding editor of Vibe magazine, author and professor at the University of Michigan), and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, the author of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games. Ebony is a Detroit native who is also a professor at the University of Michigan. …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ep. 104: Met Gala and More w/ A.E. Stevenson
1:10:47
1:10:47
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:10:47
Fashion connoisseur and media scholar A.E. Stevenson joins KT this week to get into all things Met Gala, from the controversies around the Lagerfeld theme, to the tiniest details about some of the looks that ATE. Before all that, the two express their support for the WGA strike and explain some of the stakes for the uninitiated. Plus, songs by Kele…
…
continue reading