Podcast
The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen
Hosted by Maya Gurantz & Rebecca Cohen · EN
A culture & politics podcast where we drink cocktails and ruin the stuff you love.
17episodes
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Heated Rivalry (with Very Special Guest Guy Branum)
Jan 1601:13:06Tap to summarizeHow did gay hockey player smut become the most galvanizing pop culture artifact of our fascist times? Very Special Guest Guy Branum joins us to figure out why HBO’s HEATED RIVALRY is making so many people freak out, and to talk cottaging, cock-sucking, house porn, and what happens when straight romance novel tropes meet the erotics of the closet.
Transcribe →Sauce Classics Trump’s Dementia
Oct 2800:48:36Tap to summarizeHuh, people are talking about Trump and dementia? Funny, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A YEAR AGO! Rebecca and Maya revisit our episode where we investigate Trump’s lapses in memory, behavior and language and ask how well they match up with the medically defined symptoms of frontotemporal dementia.
Transcribe →VetBros and Pete Hegseth (with Guest John Armenta!)
Oct 2201:25:16Tap to summarizeWho is Pete Hegseth, how in hell did he end up Secretary of Defense, why is he renaming it the Department of War, and what were he and Trump doing calling 600 top generals into a room for a Big Boy Pep Talk? Very Special Guest John Armenta–an army vet and communications professor who studies masculinity and patriotism in VetBro culture, explains it all to us.
Transcribe →Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, and Free Speech Part A Million
Oct 1001:11:00Tap to summarizeWhy were flags at half mast for a grifting podcaster? In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Rebecca and Maya break down his life and the aftermath of his death–along the way noting flagrant political opportunism, right wing abuses of “free speech”, and key differences between various terminally online young male subcultures.
Transcribe →Problematic Fave: BOB DYLAN (with very special guests Elizabeth Nelson and Jeff Jackson)
Sep 1501:12:31Tap to summarizeBob Dylan is many things. A basic bitch isn’t one of them. We welcome brilliant lifelong Dylan-ologists Elizabeth Nelson and Jeff Jackson to pull apart what Dylan means, why music biopics suck, and everything James Mangold missed in the most recent filmic attempt to contain Dylan’s legacy, the nostalgia-fest A Complete Unknown.
Transcribe →The Biggest Loser
Sep 201:04:05Tap to summarizeRebecca and Maya watched Fit For TV, the recent streaming Netflix docu-series on The Biggest Loser, and talk fat-shaming, abuse as motivation, fake therapeutic breakthroughs after which nothing changes, and why it takes a decade and a documentary for us to publicly acknowledge that the thing that seemed so fucked up back then was, indeed, fucked up.
Transcribe →The Epstein Files!
Aug 25Tap to summarizeWill the Epstein Files put the final dagger into the rise of fascism? Rebecca and Maya are here to ruin any hopes you have. We’ve known for DECADES that Donald Trump was a creepy-buddy with mysterious financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Is this going to trigger a MAGA-Trump breakup? Might the administration be hoist on its own conspiracy theory petard? Or will this all turn out to be the Mueller Report Redux?
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