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Ep. 87: The Music of 1992 and 2002
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04/11/22 • 57 min
Wynter and Karen reflect back on the music of 1992 and 2002, from Pitchfork favorites to the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to selecting their MVP songs and albums from each year, they each get into what they were wearing and gift an NFT idea to Ja Rule in the process.
Wynter continues delving into the saga of millennial overreachers by entering the world of WeCrashed, while Karen sobs to the epic, multigenerational saga that is Apple TV+’s Pachinko, while revisiting the thrills and jiggles of the Lakers’ showtime era of the 80s reimagined in Adam McKay’s Winning Time.
Plus, nuo-lingo and songs of the week from 1992 and 2012 (in an extension of our episode’s timeline).
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10/28/22 • 2 min
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Ep. 30: Nochella: Music for the Cruelest Month
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04/10/20 • 63 min
It’s their third week of quarantine, so Karen is talking to Steak-umm on Twitter, and Wynter thinks Ellen sux. In lieu of music festival season launching this April, the two offer their own virtual W2X music festival for you this week. Sure there’s no Coachella and Stagecoach, but what really strikes at Karen’s heart is the postponement of PopCon 2020, the annual gathering of musicians, music writers, scholars, and fans at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, which she’d been organizing for the better part of a year. Nevertheless, she brings us a little taste of scheduled PopCon presenter Glenn McDonald of Spotify’s very international “In the Time of the Virus” playlist, with over 1700 new songs written since the start of the pandemic from all part of the globe. Meanwhile, Wynter lets us in on some of the themed playlists she’s been crafting for our sisters and fairy podmothers at the Jane Club, fit for everything from dining-in, to being “extremely chill.” Listen along with us, and turn the music up!
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Links to just about everything mentioned:
- The Sound of the Virus Playlist
- Extremely Chill Playlist
- Drone Shot Of My Yacht - John Mayer
- Ariel de Cuba “Quedate in Casa”
- Vice Ganda (Filipino queer artist/TV personality): “Corona Ba-Bye Na”
- Rhoma Irama (Indonesian artist): “Virus Corona”
- Dip Doundou Guiss (Senegalese rapper from Dakar): “and xeex coronavirus”
- Dixie Chicks “Gaslighter”
- Rilo Kiley “Does He Love You”
- Yves Montand “Rue St. Vincent”
- Giorgio Moroder “Together in Electric Dreams”
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Ep. 38: Just Can’t [The] Help It
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06/12/20 • 86 min
Wynter returns this week, as we welcome special guests Renee Bever (artist, co-host of Attack of the Queerwolf), and Tavia Nyong’o (author, Professor of American Studies at Yale). The panel catches up about how they’ve been participating in the national uprisings, while reflecting on some of the media moments, both head-scratching, and inspiring over the last week, from the Dems draped in kente cloth, to “You About to Lose This Job,” the unofficial anthem of the movement. Wynter also digs deep into the “Bon Appetit Revolt,” a developing story at the time we recorded. The panel devotes some deep conversation to “good civil rights movies” vs. really shitty ones, as well as films about race relations that are frozen in their historical moment. Nuo-lingo goes meta to explore when certain slang terms are appropriate or appropriation, and there are several songs of the week to get you to the next protest.
Instead of another plea to contribute to us this week, we ask that you contribute to the social justice organizations of your choice, especially those promoting peace, and racial, gender and sexual equality. We, and our guests this week recommend the following:
11/15/19 • 61 min
W2X goes back to school w/ Professor Tongson’s class on U.S. Pop Culture LIVE at USC! Wynter is off on assignment, so Tre’vell Anderson from OUT magazine and Sarah Kessler, the TV editor for Public Books (and Karen’s better half) join her for a backwards glance at the early 2000s and the “postfeminism” of Sex & The City vs. The L-Word. Tre’vell gives us the dish about Robyn Crawford’s new memoir and offers us a preview of the L-Word sequel, Generation Q, while Sarah tells us about her bodice-ripping amusements when Karen is out of town. Nuo-Lingo gets into “cool wine aunts,” and the students become the masters as they discuss the meme “Ladies, imagine this.” Plus, SOTW’s from the aughts!
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Links to just about everything mentioned:
Ep. 12: Ryan Murphy’s Nostalgia Game - AHS vs. ACS
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10/04/19 • 61 min
With the recent debut of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: 1984, Wynter and Karen take the occasion to explore his deeply nostalgic oeuvre to consider whether or not his dominion is 80s camp or 90s magic realism, i.e. horror stories or true crime stories? The two talk about where they were when Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Nightstalker and resurrected in AHS 1984, was wreaking havoc IRL. Wynter goes Inside Out with Demi Moore’s new autobiography, Karen GAGS over the recently announced thirtysomething reboot, while both take a detour into The Affair’s wild psychosexual turns as it wraps up its series run. Nuo-lingo tells you why this year’s “GAG” is not 1984’s, and we give you a song of the week that Ryan Murphy has yet to harvest from 1984’s Hot 100 for his over-the-top slasher series.
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Links to just about everything mentioned:
American Horror Story: 1984 Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wcEiFIM3mM
Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker) Biography
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/richard-ramirez
Inside Out by Demi Moore
https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062049537/inside-out/
Thirtysomething Was One of the Most Iconic Shows of the 1980s. Now It’s Coming Back for the 2020s.
https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/thirtysomething-the-tv-show-is-being-rebooted.html
The Affair foolishly bases an entire episode on a character we don’t know very well
https://tv.avclub.com/the-affair-foolishly-bases-an-entire-episode-on-a-chara-1838595421
How Ryan Murphy Became King of the Streaming Boom
https://time.com/5667752/ryan-murphy-netflix/
The Politician Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-kdBlzCG7w
Hall & Oates - Method of Modern Love
Ep 4: YouTubin' with Generation X: Mentos vs. Diet Pepsi
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08/02/19 • 53 min
Pop open a Bartles & Jaymes, and pull your rocking chair up to your laptop, Wynter and Karen get into how Generation X uses YouTube, from nostalgic forays into old commercials and landmark pop culture moments, to how-to videos and instructional content. But they don't stop there: Wynter also scours YouTube for fresh content to break us all out of our slacker rut. Speaking of slackers, Karen revisits Always Be My Maybe through the lens of the Asian slacker, while also anticipating crying a lot to Awkwafina's dramatic turn in The Farewell. Meanwhile, Wynter prepares to celebrate her first wedding anniversary like an enlightened Don Draper at Esalen, and has high praise for CNN's docuseries, The Movies. The two stage an ad war between Mentos vs. Diet Pepsi, and ask you to sus out some "nuo lingo." As always, we close things out with a SOTW.
Join our Patreon for bonus content and SWAG
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Links to just about everything mentioned:
Bartles & Jaymes Ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYdWHK6AA6E
Michael J Fox DIET PEPSI (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqNXNE-P4uc&app=desktop
MENTOS: The Freshmaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfp2Bg6iUdY
YouTube Is a Temple of Nostalgia for 1990s TV Commercials
https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/youtube-is-a-temple-of-nostalgia-for-1990s-tv-commercials.html
Bon Appetit - Gourmet Makes With Claire Saffitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeM8OReKzfQ&list=PLKtIunYVkv_RezN3GB12YA8orYOScQUdA&index=11
Seth Rogen Breaks Down His Most Iconic Movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Db_8Oyy09w
Surgical Resident Breaks Down 36 More Medical Scenes From Film & TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2MUNDiXazM
Former CIA Chief of Disguise Breaks Down 30 Spy Scenes From Film & TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqeBMP8nEg
Close Up - The Hollywood Reporter - W/ Tiffany Haddish, Phoebe Waller Bridge, Natasha Lyonne, Jane Fonda, Maya Rudolph, Alex Borenstein, Regina Hall
Ep. 105: GenX Coffee Klatsch + 1984 w/ Scott Poulson-Bryant & Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
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06/03/23 • 87 min
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. The trio get together for some wide-ranging cawffee tawk about pop culture habits across the spectrum of GenX (Scott was born in ‘66, KT in ‘73, and Ebony in ‘77). We start with love for the dearly departed Tina Turner, and focus on the year 1984, with detours into the 1970s, as well as our opinions on who wins the zaddystakes between Pacino and DeNiro. Plus, we get into our childhood love of libraries long before the internet, and fantasy realms like The Neverending Story and Dark Crystal. Karen forces everyone to talk about The Ultimatum: Queer Love, while revealing more about her internet induction into gaylorism. Songs of the week range from Tina, to pianos in the dark, to reimaginings of Alicia Keys through the lens of Bridgerton.
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Pride Bonus Episode on Ultimatum: Queer Love
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06/07/23 • 62 min
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 the things they find delightful and cringey about TV's latest bid for sapphic representation. Who ends up on top in our cast-member power rankings? Who are the most "therapized" and most chaotic of the Queer Love crew? Do we think Xander and Yoly will end up together? And what about the racial and sexual politics that surface in these couplings? Plus, a spirited (and honest) round of "Marry, F*ck, Kill" in this bonus ep--W2X's pride gift to you!
Karen interviews Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls
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07/17/20 • 59 min
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How many episodes does Waiting to X-hale have?
Waiting to X-hale currently has 123 episodes available.
What topics does Waiting to X-hale cover?
The podcast is about 90S, Popculture, Comedy, Podcasts and Tv & Film.
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The episode title 'Ep. 39: Together Again to Talk Gen Z with Guy Branum & Margaret Wappler' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Waiting to X-hale is 65 minutes.
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The first episode of Waiting to X-hale was released on Jul 10, 2019.
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