We Stan Together

James III (Astronomy Club, Black Men Can’t Jump In Hollywood) joins the classroom to discuss his passion for dinosaurs. Caitlin blames Barney for ending the legacy of friendly dinosaurs, Lauren’s mom helps us understand her daughter’s fear of Jurassic Park, and we all examine the legacy of dinosaur songs in film and, of course, discuss which dinos are hot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

J.W. Crump (PodLedum) joins the classroom to discuss his Tyra Banks expertise. Caitlin proposes replacing middle school with The Tyra Banks Show clips, Lauren thinks Top Model cost Tyra a glorious acting career, we investigate the interesting overlap between Tyra and Shakespeare and we play Tyra Fail or Tyra Shall (it doesn’t rhyme). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rachel Smith (Smith Sister Live) joins the classroom for the stan-iest ep ever in which the three wannabe-Brits discuss several, different iconic British musical reality shows, Caitlin tries to prove World Idol existed and Lauren makes everyone convert to Superstar superfans! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marcy Jarreau (Brooklyn 99, A Funny Feeling) joins the classroom to school us on ghosts and we discuss ways in which ghost sex is the safest sex, Lauren believes Beetlejuice 2 is a prank on her specifically and we find out which celebs believe they’re haunted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angel Yau (Asian AF, AzN PoP!) is totally *NSYNC with Lauren & Caitlin as they do a survey course on Boybands! This week Caitlin tries to reconcile with a song that’s been confusing her for 11years, Lauren is once again thirsty, and Angel reads excerpts from a youth spent in love with Nick Carter! Quit playing games with our hearts & listen now! Be sure to follow @WeStanSocial on IG & Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Fallon (The Daily Beast) joins the classroom to discuss the hottest dads from TVs and movies. Lauren demands a special DILF Emmy for Riverdale, Caitlin thinks bad dads are the biggest DILFs and we discover Kevin’s ultimate DILF (the answer might surprise you -- and him!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week best bud Johnathan Fernandez (Lethal Weapon, Gossip Girl) joins the classroom to school the pop culture professors on all things fashion from making GQ’s 10 Worst Dressed to an early obsession with Wendy Mallick from Just Shoot Me. Caitlin revisits the sartorial wonder of Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitters Dead and Lauren begs for fashion help, despite already having a Girl Scout badge for a mother-daughter fashion show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedians Raquel & Howard Powell put their sibling status to the test in our virtual classroom this week as we unpack REAL LIFE celebrity brothers & sisters! Caitlin gives thanks to a very dramatic pair of siblings from the Real Housewives of New Jersey, Lauren reminds everyone that Warren Beatty & Shirley McLaine are related, and Lauren & Caitlin both surprise one another with some very special cameos! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren Lapkus (The Wrong Missy, Good Girls) joins the classroom to discuss cartoons! The talented voice artist pitches us her own animated series “Hanging Out With Older People,” and Lauren Brickman tests Lauren Lapkus’s knowledge of fellow Laurens. Caitlin is inspired by only cartoons from the year 2000 and Lauren argues passionately that cartoons are hot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Susie Meister (The Brain Candy Podcast, The Challenge) who is a REAL PhD joins the classroom to discuss religion on TV. Caitlin praises Janelle from Sister Wives as TV’s #1 pious woman and Lauren goes hard for religious diversity on TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this dual episode of We Stan Together and The Bop Pod, hosts Caitlin, Lauren and Ilana Michelle, interview each other about their quarantine playlists, fangirl out about Elton John and Ariana Grande and reveal a Sweating To The Oldies origin story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mariah Smith (Outmatched, Keeping Up With The Kontinuity Errors) joins the classroom to discuss Continuity Errors on TV! Mariah helps us solve continuity mysteries like whatever happened to Judy Winslow, Lauren rebrands Pretty Little Liars “Pretty Big Errors” and Caitlin proclaims that Saved By The Bell helped Millennials deal with the continuity errors in their own mental health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We Stan Together is not releasing a traditional episode this week. Caitlin and Laure reiterate their support for Black Lives Matter and offer to be a resource for anyone with questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Hartney (School of Rock, Throwing Shade) joins the classroom to lead us through a cram session on his standom -- Superman! We pontificate what a Real Housewives of Metropolis would look like, pitch J.Lo a Superman movie and ponder a world in which Superman is bigger than Jesus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeena Bloom (Shweet! A Ladies Guide To Bro Culture) drops by the classroom to pontificate backdoor pilots and their many incarnations, mostly on The Facts of Life. From a racist would-be Brady Bunch spin-off to the 80s LA version of Gossip Girl we so richly deserved, these historical pop culture oddities are given they academic study they honestly don’t deserve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zeke Smither (Survivor) joins Caitlin and Lauren safely from his shelter-in-place in California to discuss graduations in pop culture. Zeke schools us on military academies, and dispenses cherished advice to 2020 grads. Lauren has the hots for Kim’s Convenience and Caitlin hasn’t stopped talking about A Different World for 30 straight years. Also, no one knows Lindsay Lohan’s level of education. Follow us on social @WeStanSocial and Zeke @zekerchief! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brady O’Callahan (A Show Sometime) virtually join Caitlin and Lauren for the first episode recorded in shelter-in-place to discuss the women of country music. We talk Dolly Parton concerts, country clapbacks, avenge Nashville (the show), ponder why Gwen Stefani should never become a country diva, and discover why Oklahomans are such good singers. Follow us on all social @WeStanSocial and Brady @BradyOCallahan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Duke, a visiting professor from her own podcast “Melodramatic Teen Universe” joins the classroom to discuss one of the most foundational topics in pop culture literacy: teen dramas. From the ones that should have lasted longer than one season to the top platonic OTPs to the fake universities our fave characters attended, not one inch of teen dramas goes uncovered! Follow Emily Duke @emilydukehaha! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Grey and Kristy Lopez-Bernal join the classroom to discuss the most important topic: teenage crushes. We trace the rise and fall of Justin Timberlake, solidify Joshua Jackson’s GOAT status, and confront the unbridled sexuality of Steve Guttenberg. Follow Laura (@LauraGreyMatter) and Kristy (@klopezbernal). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caitlin returns to the classroom to do her makeup assignment on Mariah Carey’s many different feuds. Lauren and sub host Caitlyn cross-examine. See if she passes the test! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick annoucement about exciting news!! We Stan will be contributing to Podapalooza! Podapalooza is a virtual podcast festival to raise money for COVID relief. Check out our episode out April 25th and find some new favorite podcasts in this incredible lineup. Donate and get your pass here: www.podapalooza.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old school TV scholar Timothy Dunn pops by the classroom to discuss crossover episodes. We interrogate why there was never a “Golden Girls”/”227” crossover and did NBC even understand the concept? Richard Belzer is king and Timothy tells us how “Supermarket Sweep” and “Sabrina” could finally be united. Follow Timothy on Twitter (@timothydunn) and IG (@timothydunnhimfun) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The reality landscape has as many one hit wonders as megahits: do the words “Boy Meets Boy” or “Stewarts & Hamiltons” mean anything to you? Whether they do or not, this is the episode for you. Reality stan/pop culture icon Ziwe joins us in the classroom. Find her on Twitter (@ziwe) and on IG (@ziwef) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You love our theme song and you’ll love the band that made it: Lady Lightning joins the classroom to discuss one of their big influences: the ladies of 80s music. Paula Abdul’s “Opposites Attract” may have caused a generation of bad relationships. Tracey Ullman is an underrated pop star. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken McGraw and Doug Widick (Toxic Masculinity: The Musical) are in detention in this week’s class about Toxic Masculinity. Lauren asks the experts if her crushed are problematic and Caitlin tries to explain that even if Eminem’s songs are troubling, at least he loves his family. The most toxic men of Disney are exposed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let us all be your star, er, professor on an academic study one of the most important text in the Western canon: NBC’s medium hit show Smash. Guest lecturers Ben Farha and Michael DiFrancisco join us to answer these pressing questions: Who should have been Marilyn? Is Smash ultimately a PSA about peanut allergies? Follow Mikey who does out wonderful art @thecompassrosestore and @mike.difransisco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The wonderful Sara Chase joins the classroom this week as that discuss Singers Who TRY To Act, a category full of surprising successes. Adam Levine’s hotness is debated and the movie Crossroads gets the academic inquiry it so richly deserves. Could Sara have been Kelly Clarkson? Listen and stan out. Follow Sara on IG @sarachase_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anna Roisman has made a name for herself by turning unemployment into FUNemployment by hosting a Facebook live talk show turned live show turned podcast! This week we test her knowledge of unemployment in pop culture & talk about our own brushes with unemployment. You can STAN our fabulous guest by following her on social media @AnnaRoisman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we take a deep dive into the world of Netflix original movies. We also talk about how hot Brian Austin Green & Randall Park are as well as the fact Lauren never knows how to pronounce last names. Test your Netflix knowledge alongside Chris as we put him through a rigorous academic review! You can stan Chris Burns by following him on instagram @FatCarrieBradshaw for all his latest antics and hot takes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This year we’re sending a big ‘ol Valentine to American Sweetheart Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party of Five, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Ghost Whisperer). That’s right, just in time for Hallmark’s second favorite holiday we’re doing a deep dive into a career that can only be described as ICONIC with an icon in her own right, Caitlin Brodnick (Dangerous Boobies). To send us Valentines follow us @WeStanSocial oninstagram, twitter, and TikTok! If you can’t hardly wait for more of Caitlin Brodnick you can listen to HER podcast ScamWow also on the More Banana Network & follow her @CaityBrodnick on Instagram! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was December of 2019 & we couldn’t know then what was about to rock the Royal Family of England… but that didn’t stop us from being Royally Obsessed with Corin Wells (Upright Citizens Brigade). We talk all things Royal in this episode from the hottest single Princes on the market today to fictional Royal families who didn’t get enough love. If you ever owned, or wanted to own, a Princess Diana Beanie Baby this episode is for you. If you aren’t sure what that is - you need this episode, too! Clapback or show us some love through social media by following @WeStanSocial on instagram, twitter, and TikTok! If you become royally obsessed with Corin you can follow her @charity_corin on Instagram & Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Hiller (Broadway’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) joins Caitlin and Lauren to discuss BROADWAY. We get into the art of Stage Dooring, Test Jeff’s showtune knowledge, and unpack both The Cher Show & American Psycho. Oh, and if you think we don’t manage to mention the Real Housewives of Atlanta, then you don’t know us yet. Connect with us through social media by following @WeStanSocial on instagram, twitter, and TikTok! For all your Jeff Hiller super STAN needs, follow him @boomboomhiller on instagram! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren Ashley Smith (A Black Lady Sketch Show) joins Caitlin and Lauren to discuss the old school 'ships that formed their ongoing romantic neuroses including Boy Meets World, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vernica Mars and Gillian Anderson IRL. Follow We Stan @westansocial! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 1 is out January 21st 2020! What do you stan? Hosted by real Pop-Culture Professors, Caitlin Bitzegaio and Lauren Brickman, We Stan Together podcast is smart people about dumb topics. The history of pop culture is a rich, wild, and ever expanding playground. Not to mention, a full time job. Who has time to read every Insta post, think piece, and Twitter thread? Don’t worry, we did, so you don’t have to. We’ll be your CliffsNotes to pop culture. Listen in each week and you’ll be a hit at whatever happy hour, office function, or bridal shower you are forced to attend. Caitlin has written for The Rundown with Robin Thede, Impractical Jokers and Project Runway. Lauren has written for The Cherry Picks, Glamour Magazine and performed with Lisa Lampanelli’s Losin’ It. She is a Company Member of the Story Pirates. They're both UCB performers & directors! Together, they are the Pop Culture Professors, because yes, they both have advanced degrees and have taught college. Weirdly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices