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In this fun and revealing video podcast, host Maria Garcia takes us on a journey of culture, meaning and nostalgia. Every week, she chooses a piece of nostalgic or contemporary culture—an event, an album, a movie, a moment—and unpacks its impact with humor and enlightening cultural analysis.
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It’s 2005 and Kate Moss is at a high point of her modeling career. Then the Daily Mirror publishes photos of her doing coke. Labels started canceling their contracts with the top model that had become the face of the “heroin chic” era. People say this may be the end of Kate’s career… Who were they kidding? Kate Moss’ career was built on the party girl persona. Maria looks at how Kate Moss embodies a specific era that was obsessed with thinness, drugs and partying. And what her story reveals about who’s afforded the space to be a little messy in life and who’s not. Watch this episode on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A new “Sense and Sensibility” movie just came out. Netflix is about to premiere yet another adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice”... 200 years later, why are we still so thirsty for 19th Century England? In this episode, Maria and senior producer Marta Martinez talk about the Goddess Jane Austen, who made 19th Century England the perfect landscape for our romantic fantasies, they argue about what the best adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” is and how Bridgerton took fantasies to whole other level of horniness. Watch this episode on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There’s one thing Mexicans are famous for: their politeness. For some, it might even be too much and seen as a legacy of colonization — like their use of the word “¿Mande?” (order me). In this episode, Maria reveals how there’s so much more to Mexican politeness than just cultural norms or etiquette. From being generous and hospitable, to using tender words and lots, lots, lots of diminutives, politeness runs deep in the Mexican ethos. Watch this episode on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It’s 2007 and icon Britney Spears is supposed to make her comeback after trying to be out of the spotlight for a while. She’s going to perform the single from her new album — an album that will change music forever. When Britney emerges from the stage, a stunner in a sequined bikini top and micro shorts, Maria sees an artist trying to find her footing again, performing a song that was very unique-sounding for the time. But the media saw something different. Today, Maria is going to call some people out for their lack of vision, for their cruelty, for messing with our girl Britney Jean Spears. Watch this episode on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For centuries, c*nt has been widely seen as the most degrading, the most vile, the most uncouth word of the English language. But in recent years, that has changed. On TV shows, movies and all over the internet, people are proudly serving c*nt. How did that happen? Maria tells you the very enlightening history of the word c*nt. We travel back to pre-historic times, to the Middle Ages, to the 1960s and ‘70s ‘80s. All in search for the origins of c*nt and the people who defended it —most notably Black trans women and dolls at balls. Watch this episode on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The release of an adaptation of Beyoncé’s song “Irreplaceable” in Spanish, “Irreemplazable,” sampling Selena Quintanilla’s hit “Como la flor” recently sparked an uproar. In this episode, Maria digs deeper, by exploring how Selena’s musical and aesthetic style was heavily informed by Black artists and how Beyoncé has shown her love for Latine music for more than 20 years. Watch this episode on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Why is Meryl Streep called the greatest living actor? Today, Maria walks us through Meryl’s wide range of career phases. From her accent phase, to her controversial rom-com phase and her “mean-mommy” era. Because before becoming a “BILF” (Boss I’d Like to Fuck) in “The Devil Wears Prada,” Meryl had to endure Hollywood’s sexism and ageism. In this episode, Maria reveals how Meryl’s success wasn’t guided mostly by strategy, but by something quieter, something deeper — an instinctual compass. Watch this episode on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
More than 25 years after its release, “Love & Basketball” (2000) still redefines what a love story can be. It’s not just a movie about basketball. It’s about a girl and her dreams, and what it means to believe in yourself against the odds. Today, producer and WNBA superfan Brittany Cronin joins Maria to talk all things “Love & Basketball” – behind-the-scenes romance, girls in sports, the lesbian lore surrounding the film and professional women’s basketball, and why this movie is straight-up film canon. Watch this episode on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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