Ep 403 - Only in Dreams

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Amy Schumer & Brianne Howey on the Importance of Female Friendships, Navigating Hollywood's Double Standards, Sharing Their Birth Stories, and MORE 50:05

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This week, in what might be the funniest episode yet, Molly and Emese are joined by co-stars Amy Schumer and Brianne Howey. They get candid about motherhood, career evolution, and their new film, Kinda Pregnant —which unexpectedly led to Amy’s latest health discovery. Amy opens up about how public criticism led her to uncover her Cushing syndrome diagnosis, what it’s like to navigate comedy and Hollywood as a mom, and the importance of sharing birth stories without shame. Brianne shares how becoming a mother has shifted her perspective on work, how Ginny & Georgia ’s Georgia Miller compares to real-life parenting, and the power of female friendships in the industry. We also go behind the scenes of their new Netflix film, Kinda Pregnant —how Molly first got the script, why Amy and Brianne were drawn to the project, and what it means for women today. Plus, they reflect on their early career struggles, the moment they knew they “made it,” and how motherhood has reshaped their ambitions. From career highs to personal challenges, this episode is raw, funny, and packed with insights. Mentioned in the Episode: Kinda Pregnant Ginny & Georgia Meerkat 30 Rock Last Comic Standing Charlie Sheen Roast Inside Amy Schumer Amy Schumer on the Howard Stern Show Trainwreck Life & Beth Expecting Amy 45RPM Clothing Brand A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us at @sonypodcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Some reading recs I mention in the episode:

Greil Marcus, The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice

David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch Keeps His Head”

Laura Dern, “You Wove L.A. Into Our Dreams”

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Nostalgia Trap

Ep 403 - Only in Dreams

Nostalgia Trap

published vor 23 Tagen

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Some reading recs I mention in the episode:

Greil Marcus, The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice

David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch Keeps His Head”

Laura Dern, “You Wove L.A. Into Our Dreams”

Subscribe to our Patreon page for bonus content, including full episodes, videos, and our News Trap updates: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap

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News Trap 2.19.25 - Into the Thresher 34:22

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There are currently too many news stories to fit into the "ominous portents of a dark future" file, so I've chosen a few of the most flagrant examples of Trump/Musk savagery to share, along with some reflections on how to fight for our minds and for each other as the world heads down the toilet. Check out our Patreon for more: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap…

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Ep 406 - Work or Die, Part One (PREVIEW) 6:07

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I got my first job when I was 15 years old, working at a Pumpkin Patch on a local farm, and it’s been all downhill from there. I’m partly joking, but the working world has never been a place of maximum success and happiness for me, and in this episode I try to come to terms with my own job history as a way of exploring the pressures that consume many of us: bosses, bills, weird co-workers, and the dark feeling that American life is often a big depressing rip-off. I’ve got stories to tell from a lifetime of shitty jobs, from manning the bakery case at Marie Callender’s as a teenager to dealing with obnoxious D-list celebrities as a production assistant in Hollywood. As a wise man once said , “work sucks, I know.” Here’s a few slices of how I found that out. Subscribe to hear the whole episode and access our whole library of bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/posts/122293336?pr=true&forSale=true…

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Ep 405 - All I Can Say w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper 1:14:03

vor 12 Tagen1:14:03

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The haunting documentary All I Can Say , which chronicles a few vibrant years in the life of Shannon Hoon, the lead singer of 90s grunge rock band Blind Melon, is a slice of deep 90s nostalgia shot on camcorder by Hoon himself before he died of a drug overdose in October 1995. In this conversation, Justin Rogers-Cooper joins me to reflect on Hoon’s complicated legacy, the strange power of his intimate pre-Internet video diary, and the larger galaxy of 90s grunge martyrs. Check out Justin’s chapter all about Blind Melon “Shannon Forever: Blind Melon’s Bee Girl and Countercultural Afterlives” And enjoy the entire series of essays here: Happy Nostalgia: Making Connections with the Music of the ‘90s Our episode on 90s music with Happy Nostalgia series editor David Humphries: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-401-love-means-research-w-david-humphries/id862194930?i=1000682583975 Our episode on Elvis with Justin, a personal favorite: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-349-i-w-78198738?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Please support the show! Subscribe to our Patreon for access to all Nostalgia Trap bonus content: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap…

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Ep 404 - Adventures in Adjuncting (PREVIEW) 6:04

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I started teaching college history courses in 2005 when I was a graduate student at the City University of New York. Looking back at those early years, I can hardly believe how little I knew about how to teach college courses. As I mark my 20th year of teaching, I thought I would reflect on everything I’ve learned from two decades of serving as an adjunct professor at a wide range of institutions, from working class community colleges to elite private schools and everything in between. I’ve changed a lot in these years, and so has the wider political economy and culture of American higher education. In this episode you’ll hear my takes on the rise of tech in education, dealing with woke culture (the good and the bad), the slow humiliation of professorial hierarchies, belligerently anti-communist business students, and lots more. I also share some stories of true communion with students and colleagues, moments that make the whole journey, despite its many challenges, incredibly rewarding. To hear the whole episode and access our whole library of bonus content, subscribe to Nostalgia Trap here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-404-in-121213711…

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Ep 403 - Only in Dreams 1:15:09

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David Lynch died earlier this month, and like many others I’ve been reflecting on his legacy, not only in the wider culture but in my own personal trajectory and identity. In this episode, I focus on the latter. Rather than trying to analyze the larger meaning of Lynch’s filmography, I wanted to sort out how his work intervened on my life, in particular considering how ideas of dark magic, synchronicity, and dreams in his films connect with my own weird experience of American reality. So I share some strange stories here, along with stray thoughts on how David Lynch, more than any other artist, somehow captured the uncanny feeling that some dark undercurrent pulsed beneath the surface of American life. Some reading recs I mention in the episode: Greil Marcus, The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch Keeps His Head” Laura Dern, “You Wove L.A. Into Our Dreams” Subscribe to our Patreon page for bonus content, including full episodes, videos, and our News Trap updates: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap…

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News Trap 1.24.25 Broligarchy's Endgame w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper 3:09

vor 28 Tagen3:09

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The politics of rebuilding Los Angeles after the fires, tech maneuvering for Trump juice, social media outrage missing the mark, Elon's Nazi salute masking something darker, a new Gilded Age comes into view, what's at risk with global capital behaving like a caged animal. This is a short clip from a full episode, which you can hear by subscribing to our Patreon. Subscibers get access to all of our bonus content, including full episodes, videos, book recs, and News Trap updates: https://www.patreon.com/posts/120711896?pr=true&forSale=true…

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News Trap 1.22.25 - What's Next? w/ Ross Barkan 1:03:05

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Ross Barkan is a political writer and novelist whose Substack is one of our favorite places for thoughtful takes on the current political and cultural landscape. He joins me this week to survey the landscape with Trump taking office again, as we consider the tech world’s shifting allegiances and cultural power, the exhaustion with #resistance outrage and performative politics, the online popularity of Luigi Mangione, the Elon Musk “Nazi” salute, and much more. Ross also tells us about his latest novel, Glass Century , and reflects on why he thinks novel-writing (and reading) are such an integral part of being human. Subscribe to our Patreon and get access to all our bonus episodes and News Trap updates: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap…

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Ep 402 - The Bookshop w/ Evan Friss 1:06:59

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This week I’m joined by Evan Friss, author of the current New York Times bestseller The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore , which traces the development of bookshops as integral, often paradoxical, spaces within the landscape of American consumer culture. What is a bookshop? And what makes it different from literally any other place you can visit? In this conversation, Evan shares some highlights from the book, as we discuss places like New York City’s The Strand, the pioneering gay rights bookshop Oscar Wilde, the proliferation of sidewalk booksellers (and the moral outrage they provoked), the unlikely redemption of Barnes & Noble as the hero of independent bookshops, and of course the rise of the villainous Amazon. As Evan explains, the bookshop isn’t dead, and its evolving fate in the 21st century provides a dynamic glimpse at how literacy and political economy intersect in the past, present, and future. Subscribe to our Patreon to support our show and access our whole library of bonus episodes: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap…

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News Trap 1.10.25 - Let 'Em Burn w Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW) 7:32

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Fires in Los Angeles unleash a wave of online hate from the left and right. What chance do we have to mitigate the coming climate change disasters if the population's reactions are driven by algorithms that massage and indulge our worst impulses? This is a short clip from a full-length episode for Nostalgia Trap subscribers, sign up for a FREE 7-day trial to listen to the whole thing, plus gain access to our library of bonus episodes, videos, and more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/119735891?pr=true&forSale=true…

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Ep 401 - Love Means Research w/ David Humphries 1:29:04

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This week I talk with David Humphries, a professor of English at Queensborough Community College in New York City, about his excellent project Happy Nostalgia: Making Connections with the Music of the ‘90s , which collects essays from CUNY scholars on the last “analog” moment of music fandom, the beautiful and tragic 1990s. We get a chance to trade nostalgic stories about our own music obsessions of the ‘90s, and try to frame how things changed for us (and everyone else) when streaming music blasted a whole lifestyle into oblivion. What died, and what remains alive? And are we just being cranky old men about Spotify’s algorithmic nightmare? This is an intense and fun conversation about the meaning of nostalgia and how music gives us a constant pulse through the decades of technological and cultural evolution. Subscribe to Nostalgia Trap to hear all our bonus episodes and News Trap updates: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap…

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Ep 400 - The Disney Revolt w/ Jake S. Friedman 1:04:21

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A critical but often overlooked chapter in American labor history, the animator’s strike that shook the Walt Disney Corporation in 1941 was part of a wave of labor struggle in World War II era Hollywood. Jake S. Friedman’s book The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age chronicles the strike in colorful detail, and includes plenty of eye-popping images of the strike’s particularly cartoonish aesthetic. Friedman joins me for a conversation about his book, the strike, and the wider history of the Disney project, which shifted dramatically in the wake of the rebellion by its key artists. From communist infiltrators to mafia-connected union leaders, this is a fascinating picture of the intersection of art, industrial capitalism, and pop culture. For more on the book, including lots of great images from the strike: https://www.thedisneyrevolt.com/ Our previous episode on World War II era Disney history: https://www.patreon.com/posts/trap-tv-brick-to-75566223 Subscribe to Nostalgia Trap for bonus episodes, News Trap updates, and much more: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap…

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Ep 399 - Severance/Doppelganger w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW) 7:00

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This week we watched the excellent Apple TV series Severance and put it in conversation with Naomi Klein’s latest book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World . Both texts explore how the concept of “doubles” plays out in capitalist culture, and we have fun talking about the ways they did (and didn’t) blow our minds. From Klein’s refreshing take on the left’s severe mistakes of the COVID era (and how Steve Bannon greedily lapped up the detritus) to Severance’s terrifying vision of a corporation that aims to replace your entire identity, we take the opportunity to look into the mirror at the selves we make, and that are made for us. SUBSCRIBE to hear the whole episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/117926165?pr=true&forSale=true…

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News Trap 12.6.24 Survival of the Fittest w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW) 6:07

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A United Healthcare CEO is assassinated and the world laughs, fitness and nutrition culture goes fascist, Europe in collapse while China salivates, Trump's tariffs portend new global shockwaves. To hear the whole episode, subscribe for a FREE 7 day trial: https://www.patreon.com/posts/117457956?pr=true&forSale=true…

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News Trap 11.29.24 - The Internet Eats America w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW) 7:29

vor 12 weeks7:29

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It's Black Friday, so between insane binges of online shopping, Justin and I sat down to record a conversation about the Netflix documentary The Antisocial Network: From Memes to Mayhem , as we consider the path from Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders to 1/6 and Donald Trump's triumph in the 2024 election. What role has internet culture played in shaping our current reality, and what can we expect in the future? This is only a short bit from a much longer episode, so subsribe to enjoy the whole thing --- lots of juicy ideas here. Subscribe for a FREE 7-day trial to hear the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116970931?pr=true&forSale=true…

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News Trap 11.25.24 - Tending the Light 28:24

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Musk's endgame on environmental regulations, universities bracing for a war on DEI and critical race theory, Houthi pirates drawn to their deaths in Ukraine, national economies bracing for world war. Happy Thanksgiving! Subscribe to access our entire library of bonus content, including weekly News Trap updates: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap…

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