Cass Elliot didn’t die eating a ham sandwich. But the lasting power of that urban legend speaks to a far darker story. Elliot possessed one of the most influential voices of the 1960s. However, while her big break with The Mamas and The Papas and meteoric career changed the LA music scene forever, it also entrapped Elliot in a cycle of fat-shaming, sending h ... Show More
Mar 2020
158: The Hemingway Curse? Mariel and Margaux (Make Me Over, Episode 7)
A close look at the parallel lives of Margaux and Mariel Hemingway, sisters born with a world-famous last name that stood for both genius and self-destruction. Both rose to fame in the 1970s, Margaux as a supermodel and Mariel as an actress, and then both struggled with various d ... Show More
48m 47s
Mar 2020
159: Vanessa Williams, Whitney Houston and Hollywood’s Misogynoir Problem (Make Me Over, Episode 8)
In 1983, Vanessa Williams became the first black woman to win Miss America. In 1984, a few weeks from the end of her reign, she was forced to step down when she found out Penthouse was going to publish unauthorized nude images of her in their magazine. Williams went on to have a ... Show More
41m 35s
May 2020
Season Trailer: Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman
Polly Platt -- producer, writer and Oscar-nominated production designer -- lived an epic Hollywood life. And yet, if you know Platt’s name today, it’s probably because in 1970 her husband and creative collaborator Peter Bogdanovich had an affair with Cybill Shepherd while shootin ... Show More
2m 33s
Nov 2021
Aimee Mann on Sad Songs, Mental Health, and Queens of The Summer Hotel
Aimee Mann catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about Queens of The Summer Hotel, an album that was written as the musical accompaniment for a planned stage adaptation of the book Girl, Interrupted. The singer-songwriter discusses the heavy subject matter, her own experiences wi ... Show More
1h 12m
Aug 2019
"Chapter 27" Season 3 Episode 8 'Legion' Review
Christian Bladt, Alana Jordan, Alexa Cappiello and Jeff Williams break down the Legion series finale, discussing what it all meant, and if it lived up to expectations, and how it impacted the way they feel about the series as a whole ABOUT LEGION: David Haller is a troubled young ... Show More
58m 41s
May 2025
Gigi Perez & The Met Gala
<p>Gigi Perez’s path to her current status of beloved, confessional alt-pop songwriter on the up-and-up has been anything but straightforward: full of twists and turns, and marked by unfathomable loss, grief, and self-made success.</p><p><br></p><p>Joining us in the studio for th ... Show More
1h 30m
Apr 2022
Alt-J on The Dream, Chauvinistic Classic Rock, and Writing Songs About Death
Alt-J’s Gus Unger-Hamilton catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about The Dream, the band’s fourth album. The English artist discusses how using more voices in their songs adds deeper dimensions, and why the tracks' characters seem to thrive on dramatic monologues. Unger-Hamilto ... Show More
30m 42s
Apr 2025
d4vd Talks New Album 'Withered,' "Feel It," and the success of "Romantic Homicide"
<p>Unless you’ve been living without an internet connection, you know d4vd — the Texas-teen-turned-newly-20 whose 2022 track ‘Romantic Homicide’ now has 1.5 billion streams and counting. It’s a song that he made on his phone, in his sister’s closet, in just 30 minutes and it chan ... Show More
1h 27m
Jul 2022
Episode 38: Diary of a Preacher's Daughter
Miss Belle discovers more about her mamaw Sheila in the pages of her diary. CW: depiction/discussion of religious fundamentalism, gore, reference to death by monster, frank discussion of historical sex work, bodily injury and disability, emotional trauma, endangerment of a child, ... Show More
28m 20s