The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen Maya Gurantz & Rebecca Cohen
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Feminist know-it-alls Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen get sauced and deconstruct culture, politics and anything else they can drunkenly over-analyze.
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Grab Bag! Beyonce, Tradwives, OJ Simpson
There is too damn much to talk about so we try to talk about it ALL! In this episode, Beyonce Goes Country, Tradwifes Go Viral, OJ Simpson Goes Dead, and Rebecca and Maya just try to keep up. We break down Cowboy Carter, the weird fantasy of white housewife cosplay, and the legacy of a famous wife-killer.
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Trump, Fucked (?)
After taking a much-needed break from TFG, Maya and Rebecca catch up on Trump’s troubles: legal, financial, political, and psychophysical. How f****d is he? How worried should we be? What’s the most productive way to direct our anxiety between now and November?
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Poor Things
Depending on whom you ask, Academy award winner Poor Things is either a feminist masterpiece about an empowered woman, or a male fantasy about a baby-minded f**k toy. Maya and Rebecca attempt to bridge the gap, asking the really important questions: Why is Yorgos Lanthimos so obsessed with old-timey whorehouses? Is this quirky visual style more or less irritating when Wes Anderson does it? And is a critique of men the same thing as a feminist movie?
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Right Wing Attacks on Higher Ed (with Nadia E. Brown!)
College presidents forced to resign. Faculties gutted. Anti-DEI legislations cropping up nationwide. There’s no doubt about it–Right Wing activists are attacking Higher Ed, trying to “capture, restructure, and reform” centers of learning. Georgetown political scientist and Women’s Studies professor Nadia E. Brown joins us to help us understand this moment, what makes it different than usual institutional racism and sexism, and how to fight it.
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Problematic Faves: Liberal Arts Education (with Meredith Yayanos!)
Intellectual expansion! Youthful passion! Exploited innocence! Genius writer, musician, and professional flame-throwing shit-starter Meredith Yayanos, comes on to talk about their problematic fave: Liberal Arts Education. What does college MEAN in the social imaginary? What did it mean to us? Cronyism, elitism, pranks, nubility, narcissistic faculty, racism, classism, date rape, Jeffrey Epstein, the hangover of 60s counterculture, DEI, panicked articles in The NY Times about what the kids are doing, Real Genius, Rules of Attraction, Good Will Hunting Animal House, A Different World, Revenge of the Nerds, and Genny Cream Ale.
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Swifties Strike Back
Were we wrong about Taylor Swift? Actual, real live Swiftie Jenna Parrot responds to Maya and Rebecca’s takes about her favorite pop megastar. Can she help us understand Swift’s musical appeal, not to mention her cultural and political impact?
Customer Reviews
Love it!
Listening to King Richard episode and thinking that a lot of questions could be resolved through the lens of their being Jehovah’s Witnesses. He is the patriarch and you don’t question the patriarch.
These are the whitest women in the world.
I listened for Yellowjackets but was immediately deterred by the nonchalant reference to drinking $1500 tequila in Mexico. Newsflash, the “Judith Krantz” generation applied to about 17 of the richest whitest women in America and E.Jean Carroll is not required to perform her trauma for anyone. Also, I think the hosts need to revisit the definition of the word “ruin.”
100% binging episodes rn
So glad I began listening to the Sauce and happy to be binging to catch up. Hearing these insightful women dismantle current culture and news of the day with critical and historical knowledge, good drinks and humor has been cleansing. Get your double feminism over ice with a dash of f*cks and plenty of warmth. The rapport between these women is super smooth and moves you through the issues so well.