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Nathan Pearson (Secure The Gag) joins the classroom to discuss TikTok! Lauren confesses her confusing love for Jason Ritter, Caitlin oddly thinks TikTok is a return to a childlike creativity and Nathan plays "FoMo or Whoa No." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Morgan Miller (Dirty Laundry) joins the classroom to discuss the celebrity women who we love to watch love and leave each other. Caitlin’s obsession with Rosie O’Donnell’s personal life is explored, Lauren is still traumatized by Willow and Tara’s break-up and Morgan reveals maybe the best pop culture credit ever revealed on this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caitlin and Lauren hit the live stage at The Squirrel in New York City. Jonathan Fernandez (Gossip Girl) joins the live classroom to give us advice from a dad on TV, we play Beanie Baby Divorce Court, Caitlin admits she’s been trying to get attention Shahs of Sunsets’ Reza and Lauren wants to join James Van Der Beek’s cult. Next Live show is Monday August 16 at 10pm! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean Persaud and Sinead Persaud (Shipwrecked Comedy) join the classroom to discuss period pieces, growing up in Salem, MA and their dream adaptation. Caitlin goes on an unhinged rant about Downton Abbey, Lauren pitches a wild update of Jane Eyre and we play “Boston or Austen,” possibly the stupidest game ever on this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ann Marie Yoo (Alma Baya) joins the classroom to discuss figure skating in media! Caitlin thinks the IOC got exactly one thing right in 1986 and it changed the skating movie industry, Lauren laments the lack of skating on TV and Ann Marie pitches a Nathan Chen TV show (google him!). Toe pick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Barlow & Steve Jeanty (Chuckleheads Podcast) join the classroom to discuss buddy comedies! Lauren tricks our friends into confirming they’re allies, Caitlin screams about Bette Midler (and plays a wild clip from Oprah) and Andrew and Steve pitch their own buddy comedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IRL rock star Matt Rubano (Angels & Airwaves) too time out of rehearsing for Lollapalooza to join the classroom to discuss movies that rock including Caitlin’s defense of Patrick Swayze’s choice to sing on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, Lauren’s wild theory that Jackson Maine, the character, should be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and we play “Queen or No, Queen!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rodney Brazil joins the classroom to discuss people named Patty, Patti and even Patricia. Caitlin thinks Patti LuPone needs to get over not getting Norma Desmond on Broadway, Lauren stans Peppermint Patty, Rodney tells us about drag personality Debbi Patti and they all agree Patti LaBelle is the one they’d save Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pat Regan (Seek Treatment, Hacks), Maritza Montañez (The Squirrel) and Christina Chen (A Fine Line) join the classroom for our first ever Grey’s Wellness Check where we allow devoted Grey’s fans to air their grievances, share their emotional journeys and try to figure out what’s the deal with season 17’s beach scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rasheda Crockett (Bigger) joins the classroom to discuss audulting, a central theme on her show Bigger! Lauren says Ally McBeal made audulting look fun, Caitlin thanks Hillary Banks for everything and Rasheda reveals why she can’t with RHONY! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zach Raffio (Broadway Beat) joins the classroom to talk rock musicals. We play “Name That Rock Flop,” Caitlin thinks we process trauma through rock musicals, Lauren stans the Linda Lindas and should there be a Jack Antonoff rock musical? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Kelton (Beyond, Logo) joins the classroom to to discuss Psychic son TV and proves through game #1 that he himself is psychic (listen, it’s weird.) Caitlin believes psychics are the best Real Housewives producers and Lauren thinks Medium never go its due. Mike brings his trademark good eng to the ep. We dedicate this ep to the memory of Grandma Rose, Kim Zolciak’s psychic who passed away a day after we recorded! We love ya, Grandma Rose! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Canty-Samuel (Sesame Street) joins the classroom to emotionally wreck us talking about Emotional Wreck Films. Viola Davis to Mandy Moore to Alfre Woodard to vague memories of movies on cable in the 90s, we hit every tearjerker known to humankind. Do they cry in this episode? Listen and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren Adams (Kimmy Schmidt, Special), Brett White (Decider) and Chris Lewis (fan of the podcast + Meryl Streep/Mariah Carey/Beyonce enthusiast) join the classroom to discuss Friends and their excitement over the upcoming HBOMax reunion. We challenge our guests’ knowledge of classic lines, who was almost cast as the Friends, who is the best Green sister and ask if Brad Pitt can really act in a sitcom. Grey’s Anatomy is inevitably referenced. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caitlin and Lauren go on a rare guest-less journey down memory lane through the songs of the summer from Pharrell to NKTOB to -- record scratch -- Vanessa Carlton. Caitlin and Lauren challenge each other to the games they usually make their guests endure and turns out? They’re really hard! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emma Ramos (New Amsterdam, Marisol) joins the classroom to talk about the evolving nature of home: is it a house? A city? Where the heart is? Caitlin terrorizes the group with the clips from the 1980s musical sitcom Rags To Riches and Lauren believes home is defined as “Diane Lane” and Emma pitches a show based on the TikTok teen who found she lived in a retirement community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda Hunt (Growing Out The Pod) joins the classroom to discuss hair in pop culture from Real Housewives All-Stars makeovers, the emergence of the celebrity Long Hair Son, pitching the next big reality hair show and processing the trauma of the media’s reaction to the big Felicity haircut! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grant O’Brien (College Humor) joins the classroom to discuss the movies of John Hughes. Lauren really earns her professor title this week as she uncovers Hughes’ pen name, we revive his lost scripts, Caitlin has never seen one of the most iconic teen movies of all time and Grant references Weird Science more than you would imagine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jarrett Hill and Tre’vell Anderson (FANTI) join classroom to discuss Dionne Warwick and just be delights! They talk the undying influence of the movie My Best Friend's Wedding, debate whether there should be a Broadway musical of Dionne’s life, and we play the Kennedy Center Honors game in which Jarrett and Tre’vell cast an astonishing group to sing “That’s What Our Friends Are For.” You’ll be shook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Claspell (You, Brooklyn 99) joins the classroom to discuss our mutual obsession with Instragram Influencers including Sarah and Caitlin’s mutual addiction to Turtle Creek Lane, Lauren addresses Sarah Michelle Gellar need for HELP (#SMDHSMG) and nuances of the Kardashian, Jame Van Der Beek and Britney Spears’ IGs. Also, what are more cast member of RENT on Insta? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Achilles Stamatelaky (Broad City, Hit Job) joins the classroom to discuss criminals we root for from our IRL neighbors to Lauren’s formative crushes on kidnappers from 1997. We play our most confusing game yet: Sopranos or SopraNOs and we wonder if the only good thing about the Trump years was female crime movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Phung (Kim’s Convenience) joins the classroom to give us his first interview after the announcement of his new CBC show Run The Burbs. We nerd out on improv, Caitlin thinks In Living Color changed the world even if it came to Canada too late and Lauren thinks there’s not enough sketch on TV, but Andrew rightly points out that she’s maybe just binged all of television in pandemic. Oh, and Caitlin’s dad sends in a question about Toronto Raptor OG Anunoby. From “stan of the week” to guest: manifestation works, stan stans! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren Adams (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) joins the classroom to discuss the wonderful world of dating on reality shows. We demand #RayaGiveLaurenABowl because she met her husband on the legendary dating app, Caitlin brings Next clips out of the vault, we reboot The Bachelor and Brickman asks the important question: should she go on Married At First Sight? Also, we discuss the epidemic of reality TV stars thinking they can play guitar. #StopTheStrumming Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk self-care with Iranian actress and trans activist Pooya Mohseni who join the classroom to discuss how to take care of ourselves. We play “Oprah or Op-NAH,” Lauren talks about Schitt’s Creek being an ode to self-care, and Caitlin dissects the role of the beauty shop in the music videos of Reba Mcentire, Destiny’s Child and Lizzo! And, as always, remember Les Monves is an enemy of this show and the world! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Poole (The Tonight Show) joins the classroom to talk all things parties in pop culture from Eurotrip to Ma, which Mike tragically did not see in theaters. Caitlin thinks there needs to be a FyreFest film, Lauren asks if we can reboot Can’t Hardly Wait and Mike explains his dream of a chaotic talk show with co-host Lil Jon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Casey Jost (Impractical Jokers) and Lisa Kleinman (Comedy Central) join the classroom to discuss what it means to be cool (watching 90210 with your spouse!). Lauren and Lisa are Marvel-phobic WandaVision fans, Caitlin stans Jamie Lee Curtis, and we make Casey and Lisa decide who is the ultimate couple goals (Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles ascendent!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friends of the show and RHOSLC scholars Jordan Myrick (Talk Chef), Lida Darmian (Kids These Days Comedy) and Matthew Pezzulich (Adelphi University) join the classroom to discuss Heather Gay’s ascendency to the Bravo throne, Mary Cosby’s absolute audiacity, and Brooks Marks’ sweatsuits. Who should get the boot (Lisa), who should get laid (Heather), and what’s the deal with Jen Shah (unclear)? Caitlin brings up Sister Wives, unbelievably. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christina Grace (Unfriendly Black Hotties) joins the classroom to discuss the women of Hollywood who keep getting better with age. Lauren thinks Leslie Jones should star in a rom-com, Caitlin talks Gillian Anderson’s Oscar quest and her Gates McFadden bookmark, Christina shows us her Celine Dion-Viola Davis water cup, and as always we ponder the J. Lo of it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Chamberlain (The Tonight Show) and Casey McCormick (Pop Sugar) join the classroom to spread love and talk about the celeb exes who we wish would get back together. Caitlin wants Drew Barrymore and Tom Green to reunite, Lauren asks us who we want to see Britney Spears (#FreeBritney) finally end up with, we try to remember the guy’s name from Olivia Rodrigo’s Drivers License, we wonder how does Madison LeCroy end up the third in all these triangles? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neil D’Astolfo (Tooning Out The News, High Fidelity) joins the classroom to discuss drinking alcohol on TV, which he’s qualified to do as someone who served Zoe Kravitz frose on TV. Lauren is thirsty for bartenders (shocker), Caitlin goes in TOO DEEP on Real Housewives drink orders and Neil shares how Kyle from Real World influenced his first bar order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The one and only Pat Regan (Seek Treatment, Search Party) joins the classroom to discuss The Challenge, Real World and why he’d marry Ryan from Teen Mom. Pat guides us through from Veronica and Trishelle IG drama. Caitlin thinks Coral is the #1 MTV tough girl, Lauren wants to bring back Fanatic to save celebrities, especially Sarah Michelle Gellar, and we make Pat put Grey’s Anatomy Characters on MTV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monique Moses (Astronomy Club) joins the classroom to discuss dance and choreography, a topic they all love and everyone but Caitlin is good at. Lauren gives us the top dance movies of all time, Caitlin wonders why dancer-first singers last longest (Mo has an amazing answer!) and they try to make sense of their love of TikTok. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leila Cohan (Bridgerton) joins the classroom to discuss women’s bodies on television and also tries to figure out the name of a phone game from 2013. Caitlin thinks Friends was more sex-positive than we give it credit for, Lauren demands more fat people on TV, Leila casts the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in historical fiction and we play a game called Period Drama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Song-Xia and Patrick Keene (The Squirrel NYC) stop by the classroom to discuss our resolutions for celebrities in 2021! Sara Ramirez should tweet at Alex more, the guy from Scream needs to make Patrick a Cameo, Lauren would like to move in with Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith, and Caitlin’s crusade to get Snooki on #RHONJ is never-ending. Plus they discuss suggestions for other celebs by listeners like YOU! Happy New Year, Stan Stans! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lifetime pulled out all the stop this holiday season, producing a branded made-for-TV movie for Kentucky Fried Chicken starring the hunk of a generation Mario Lopez. Caitlin and Lauren invite you to watch-a-long with them on MyLifteime.com and experience this cinematic experience together for our last ep of the year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We Stan The Holidays and we couldn’t choose just one guest for our first ever Christmas Variety Show Extravaganza! So we’re bringing you a very merry #contentmas with Alex Brightman & Jenny Ravitz, Brady O’Callahan, Jack Frederick & Melissa Aquiles, Mariah Smith, Kathy Tao, Ali Ghandour, Jay Malsky and Timothy Dunn! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rachel Chapman (You’re Got Hanks) joins the classroom to discuss Christmas TV episodes! Caitlin tries to trace It’s A Wonderful Life eps, but discovers they might not be Christmas-y, Lauren argues Christmas isn’t a season, it’s a genre, Rachel designs some Holiday attractions at Disney World and somehow ALF is shoe-horned into all this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren and Caitlin just can’t seem to wrap their heads around Pop Icon Madonna so they brought in a panel of opinionated expert,s LaGina Hill (Characters Welcome), Shane O’Neill (The Shawl), and Heather Turman (Helen’s Famous Pasta Salad) who are each in a different phase of their Madonna stan-dom. Lauren and Caitlin learn a lot, especially remembering how good Bedtime Stories is! We learn, we scream, we stan. Cher comes up, of course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s academic symposium is dedicated to the wild and wacky wonderland of Daytime Talk shows! This week visiting pop culture professor, Eric Cunningham (The Drew Barrymore Show) stops by to dig in deep about fast casual dining in Jersey City, Lauren’s thesis that you gotta have gimmick to get ahead, and Caitlin counts down the top duos of all time in Daytime talk! So, pour yourself a cuppa Java and let’s get into daytime talk shows! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Lauren & Caitlin are totally obsessed with The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, having big feels over the premiere of Grey’s Anatomy Season 17, and are joined by… 11 different comedians and performers who are sharing totally original fanfiction in our first ever FanFicFest! From Gossip Girl to Xfiles to Angelina Jolie and beyond - this very special episode has a little bit of something for everyone! Pour yourself a holiday bev of choice and join Lauren, Caitlin, Nikki Palumbo, Rodney Brazil, Erin Fenton, Angel Yau, Timothy Dunn, Victoria Edel, Ariel Gitlin, Sarah Beling, Benjamin Farha, Leah Jareb, and Rachel Chapman as we celebrate what it truly means to be a STAN. Be sure to follow us @WeStanSocial to tell us what you think! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tai Leclaire (Rutherford Falls) joins the classroom to discuss the city of lights, Paris. Caitlin encourages women to avoid being an LC and go to Paris, Lauren hates “Emily in Paris” and we discover Tai’s Teen Vogue past! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caitlin and Lauren go guestless this week as they take a break from real life and just watch the musical ep of Grey’s Anatomy, in anticipation of the premiere of season 17! Cue up your Netflix to Grey’s season 7 episode 18 “Song Beneath the Song” (we’ll tell you when to push play!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hannah Solow, Alise Morales, and Lauren Clark argue why Hermione, the Sanderson Sisters or Mama Odie deserve to the first witch inducted into the We Stan Cauldron Canon, everyone agrees Anne Hathaway in the new Witches is weird, best friends use magic to help each other rap, and we ponder life’s most important question: is Mary Poppins a witch? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Rogers (Haute Dog, Las Culturistas) joins the classroom to emancipate our knowledge of Mariah Carey. Caitlin compares Mariah to Dolly, we torture Matt’s knowledge of Mariah’s Japanese B-Sides, Matt casts Mariah’s Kennedy Center Honors performances, Lauren is convinced that Mariah will win an Oscar and Matt pitches Mariah as Mama Rose in a Gypsy set in the modern music industry! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thnk 1994 (Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen) stop by the classroom to tell us about heir new digital art exhibit about Britney Spears’ instagram, we interrogate the nature of “Good For Her,” Lauren bans herself from starting a restaurant and Caitlin thinks The View Halloween episode are high art. Also, we pitch five new Mary-Kate and Ashley movies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Hines (Brooklyn 99, Search Party) joins the class room to discuss small towns on TV and movies. Will knows more about WB shows than you’d think, Caitlin mourns the loss of smart family shows of the 90s, Lauren surprisingly hates Mystic Pizza and Caitlin might start a patreon to hear goss about her town? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recording artist Bartees Strange stops by the classroom this week to talk musicians that defy genres. Lauren confesses she learned how to straighten her hair for a photo shoot for a band that wrote one song, Caitlin dives deep into her thoughts on “Going Country”, and we give Bartees a ticket to Hollywood to become the next great reality singing competition judge. Be sure to check out Bartees’ new album, Live Forever, dropping on Bandcamp and Spotify October 2nd! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rekha Shankar (College Humor, Between Two Ferns) join the classroom to talking the sweet and savory chefs of reality TV. Rekha has seen every episode of Top Chef five times, Caitlin gets a reality show heartbreak off her chest, Lauren proselytizes “Crazy Delicious” and they all miss 00s tacky Manhattan restaurant Vynl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Braylock (Astronomy Club, Black Men Can’t Jump in Hollywood) and Tessa Claire Hersh (Younger) join the classroom to discuss the most important films of 1999: you know, Red Violin, Drive Me Crazy and Wild, Wild West. They guess each other’s 99 crushes and Braylock takes the ultimate test on his wife’s icon Julia Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Victoria Edel (Watch This Space) and Ariel Gitlin (The Foundation) join the classroom to turn the tables on the pop culture professors. This week, they school Lauren and Caitlin in their standom, One Direction! Ariel claims they should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Victoria thinks 1D is the best cover band of all time and Caitlin thinks maybe one of their names is Liev? Will Caitlin and Laurem be directioners by the end of this episode?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices