The social gathering’s about to start out. Are you on the visitor record?
Just kidding, everybody’s invited! This is Engagement Party, a brand-new e-newsletter companion to the pop culture podcast of the similar title hosted by Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro. We’re right here to make you the best-read visitor at the gathering, if by “read” you imply “caught up on ‘The Odyssey’ discourse and what the ominous return of fro-yo means,” after all. (It’s type of a sneaky recession indicator, proper?) Silly, good and spicy are the essential elements right here.
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You imply you don’t already watch and/or listen to the podcast?! Please rectify this directly. On Engagement Party the present, longtime BFFs Audie and Ari make sense of what’s occurring on-line, “re-knitting” collectively our tattered timelines and disparate algorithms, and clarify why it issues to you.
Engagement Party the e-newsletter is an extension and growth of their conversations, with new takes about how web absurdity shapes our offline lives. If that sounds critical, please know that any anthropological assessments of our collective psyche that come out of those conversations are purely incidental.
She is me, Scottie Andrew, a lifelong pop culture obsessive and NCS author of seven years who’s lined all the pieces from pickle-palooza to the innocent joy of “6-7” to the clownish art of looksmaxxing (no offense to clowns). I scroll and stew for a dwelling!
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I’ll provide you with a style: Last week, Audie and Ari acquired into the made-up controversy surrounding “The Odyssey” and good friend debt on Venmo. Engagement Party’s print version might declare that Christopher Nolan is overrated and the excellent adaptation of “The Odyssey” already exists (it’s a musical)! And as somebody who has lived by means of each side of the good friend debt downside, I’ve acquired anecdotal recommendation on how you can keep away from good friend breakups and chapter. I’ll speak about new stuff, too, that Audie and Ari can’t get to every week, as a result of they’ve 1,000,000 different jobs.
Most importantly, we’re gonna have FUN collectively. But culture displays the instances, so EP gained’t completely ignore the unhealthy information. We’ll simply squeeze as a lot which means and humor out of it as we are able to.
Engagement Party: Where the sizzling takes are the good takes
And pay attention: the EP workforce is aware of there are plenty of cultural evaluation merchandise competing in your consideration. But think about that ours is hosted by finest mates who’ve sharply honed their reporting abilities over the previous twenty years, so that they’re well-versed in weightier present occasions, however who are additionally voracious shoppers of the similar media you’re speaking about with your mates. You can belief them after they say that it is best to actually be being attentive to Kylie Jenner’s accessories proper now (surveillance stylish!). I promise to maintain issues bizarre and irreverent however informative nonetheless on my finish.
Oh, and Engagement Party just isn’t a one-sided dialog. We want your POV, too! Is there a development you simply don’t get, or a take that should be heard to be believed? Send a selfie video, 30 seconds to a minute, to [email protected], and it’s possible you’ll end up in a future episode. Audie and Ari assured me there are no silly questions. “We may shame each other … ,” Audie mentioned, earlier than Ari completed her sentence, as soul mates do: “… But we won’t shame you.”
Well, subscribe to the newsletter and podcast, after all. New episodes are launched each Friday, and the e-newsletter is delivered to your inbox on Saturday mornings. My intention is to ultimately unleash a pop culture opinion so weird and surprising that you simply spit out your morning espresso in shock. Let’s get there collectively!