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You know about last year’s smash movie, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, based on August Wilson’s classic play. But what about the real Ma Rainey, the actual mother of the Blues, of whom there are only 7 remaining photos? For this Very Special Episode,
PLAGUE! We get drunk and talk about The Plague Archives, Maya’s quarantine project on the history of epidemics and outbreaks. We break down what it can help us understand about about the cultural and political performances of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump is gone, so everything is better now, right?! Our favorite star political commentator Kaitlin Byrd (@gothamgirlblue) returns to review Biden’s first 100 days, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Is Biden really “boring but radical”, per Ted Cruz?
What links My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, QAnon, and the January 6 Insurrection? Rebecca and Maya will connect the dots, but we’ll all need a drink first.
Artist (and longtime Sauce listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker join us to discuss their gorgeous new book The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History, and get into ways we imagine Blackness, activism, community care,
Rebecca and Maya try to make sense of the fabulously bizarre Netflix smash show Cobra Kai. Is it a middle aged nostalgia fest? A dreamy teen soap opera? Ironic? Sincere? Melodrama? We descend into the Miyagi-verse and our childhood memories to figure i...
The release of Allen v Farrow made us realize–somehow we’ve never ruined Woody Allen! Two drunk Jewish girls weren’t enough for this one, so we invited legendary comedy writer Allison Silverman (The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Portlandia,
After decades of mainlining cigars, cheeseburgers, hillbilly heroin and uncut evil, Rush Limbaugh finally died. Rebecca and Maya, your favorite unrepentant feminazis, toast his passing and break down how his 40 year career impacted our culture,
How does Emerald Fennell’s brutal new film Promising Young Woman fulfill–and disrupt–our expectations of a rape revenge story? What itches get scratched by that genre anyway? Are those stories even the right way to understand why this movie is getting ...
WW84. Was it a terrible movie? Yes. But was it totally worthless? And why do people think the first one was so great anyway? Is it even possible to get the Wonder Woman movie we deserve? Rebecca and Maya are here to get trashed and parse the Talmudic i...