Feminist Frequency Radio is coming for your media. Each week, Kat Spada invites you to listen in on entertaining and stimulating conversations about films, games, and TV... from the latest blockbusters to classic hidden gems, and more. With special guests bringing their distinctly different feminist perspectives to the mix as they celebrate and critique it all—including media critics, entertainers, academics, and everyone in between—Feminist Frequency Radio is there to help you dig deeper into the things you love. Warning: Feminist Frequency Radio may significantly enhance your media experience. Created by Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency ran as an organization from 2009–2023, providing video commentaries exploring gender representations, myths, and messages in popular culture media. Now, host Kat Spada continues Feminist Frequency Radio's legacy as an independent podcast, with fun new conversations about entertainment that asks you to be critical of the media you love.
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episode 23: 23 Live at Kickstarter with Special Guest Jay Smooth
In this week’s episode, Anita and Ebony are at Kickstarter HQ in Brooklyn recording the podcast in front of a live studio audience! Best of all, they’re joined by special guest, cultural commentator and hip hop DJ Jay Smooth. Ebony leads the trio through a wide-ranging assortment of questions that find them discussing Breaking Bad, Bradley Cooper, pro wrestling, the music of Rush, and the end of the world, among other things. So settle in for this lively, stimulating discussion and learn which condiment brings about the apocalypse!
Be sure to check out Crash Course’s current series on media literacy, hosted by Jay Smooth: https://youtu.be/AD7N-1Mj-DU
Segment Timestamps
Caro’s Intro :00
2:00 Hello!
3:15 Ebony’s Tribeca Story
6:20 Ebony Has a Bunch of Questions
7:05 What’s another career you would love to have?
12:05 What brings about the apocalypse?
16:10 Kanye and the Dilbert guy
18:40 What is a work/creator that’s way overrated?
20:10 Anita’s late night bar/party question
22:10 Breaking Bad, Sherlock, and Awful Protagonists
27:55 Bradley Cooper’s Watch Commercial
31:30 What is something people don’t know about you but they should?
40:55 What celebrity do you think would be charmed by you if you met?
45:50 What’s Your FREQ-Out?
Ebony on NYC
Jay on Squibbons’ Twitch stream
Anita on Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U”
52:40 wrap-up
Relevant Links:
Matt Miller on “Nothing Compares 2 U”: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a19863265/prince-nothing-compares-2-u-original-listen/
The Twitch channel of speedrunner Squibbons: twitch.tv/squibbons
The music of Margo Price: http://margoprice.net/