High Brow

This is an extended version of the aesthetics episode that came out on Monday. Mina addresses your babygirlification concerns, shares audience experiences navigating online aesthetics, and includes insightful commentary from Evan Collins, co-founder of CARI (the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute).

Take a look at the CARI website when you have the time!
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Join Mina as she shares audience getting-off-social-media tactics and rambles on about Cillian Murphy, being a girl's girl, Paris Hilton's hyperbaric oxygen chamber, Samba fatigue, and where to shop for vintage clothes online...

Mina discusses the SAG strike and how that's impacting Hollywood, but also my content, Find My Friends addiction, dealing with the TikTok age filter, and how the tourism industry is making American tourists more annoying than need be...

Mina talks about her first time solo traveling in Italy a few weeks ago, making and losing new friends on vacation, unfollowing politics in the Instagram age, tangents on Sarah Jessica Parker and 60s high society, and the so-called democratization of "it girls" and the internet's shift towards hyper-individualism.....

This is an extended version of Mina's the "perfect" wedding dress is a myth video, including digressions in royal weddings and bridezilla discourse, as well as some crazy wedding stories from the listeners!

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Written by Mina Le, Ella Gray, and Sophie Carter
Edited by Sophie Carter
Music by Olivia Martinez
Cover by Lindsay Mintz...

Mina interviews writer, podcaster, and activist Aubrey Gordon!

Find Aubrey's books (and other relevant info) here and columns she's written here.
Listen to her podcast with Michael Hobbes, Maintenance Phase.

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Edited by Sophie Carter
Music by Olivia Martinez
Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

Director's cut version of Mina's The Cult of Celebrity Relationships video, featuring discussions on age gap relationships, Machine Gun Kelly + Megan Fox, and an interview with Dr. Kate Kurtin on what we're all misunderstanding about parasocial relationships...

Join Mina as she talks about private parties, Marvel fatigue, and Netflix's broken streaming model!

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Her reading list:
How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party
How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Swallowed Hollywood
The Binge Purge

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This is the director's cut episode for Mina's how do rich people actually dress? video, with explorations on hypergamy, cosplaying as poor, and a special interview with Amanda Mull on the mythology of quiet luxury!

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SOURCES
Changing patterns of conspicuous consumption: Media representations of luxury in second homes by Trudie Walters  
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Mina and guest of the pod Avery Trufelman discuss all things rich people fashion, American Ivy, Ralph Lauren mania, and trend predictions for the future.

Check out Avery's podcast Articles of Interest and her accompanying Substack.

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Edited by Mina Le
Music by Olivia Martinez
Cover by Lindsay Mintz