Culture Study Podcast
1) Let's Collectively Fantasize About a Family-Friendly Society
"Family-friendly society" sounds SO BORING but listen: it's what we all want. It's what singles and elders want, it's what parents and partnered people without kids want, it's what KIDS WANT. A societ...Show More
2) How Did Dating Get THIS Difficult?
This episode is the result of years of listener requests: how did dating get SO bad, and how can we possibly make it better? Melody and I have been out of the dating game for a hot minute, but we knew...Show More
3) What's So Great About a Freaking Hobby?
Is there something in your life that you do — with some sort of regularity, and without direct compensation — that you find tremendously satisfying? Something you do just because you like it? CONGRATS...Show More
4) Bonus Episode: AHP + Melody's Super Weird Best of 2026 [PREVIEW]
It's BONUS EPISODE TIME! While everyone else is listing their favorite movies and albums and television shows in their end-of-year wrap-ups, Melody and I opted to make up random (but wonderful) catego...Show More
5) What's With All This Eldest Daughter Discourse?
I don't remember when I first noticed Eldest Daughter content popping up in my various social media feeds, but like so many millennials, I loved a meme that seemed to REALLY SEE ME. Why yes, I am a co...Show More
6) What's Behind All The BIG KOREAN POP CULTURE ENERGY
Sometimes I wish I could just have the intro paragraph to an episode be GAAHHHHHHH THIS ONE WAS SO FUN! So this is my version of that: telling you that I wish it could be that, and then also telling y...Show More
7) How to Fall in Love with Birding
Do you need an episode that's the equivalent of a big, deep, inhale and exhale? GREAT NEWS, TEAM, WE HAVE THE EPISODE FOR YOU. Journalist and urban birder Ryan Goldberg joins me talk about the recent ...Show More
8) What It's Actually Like to Run a Small (Creative) Business
When I went freelance full-time to write Culture Study, I had no idea what I was doing. NONE. It took me several years — and encouragement from my accountant and other writers — to begin thinking of w...Show More
9) Tracing Cultural Panics with Sarah Marshall (!!!)
What is it about a particular cultural object — or trend, or perceived trend — that makes people FREAK THE F OUT? Anyone who's looked at historical freakouts knows: it's never really about the thing i...Show More
10) A Very Smart Conversation About Fantasy (and Romance) with Leigh Bardugo
If you're a paid subscriber and haven't yet set up your subscriber RSS feed in your podcast player, here's the EXTREMELY easy how-to .And if you're having any other issues with your Patreon subscripti...Show More