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Pop Chaos was birthed by NBN’s own Trent Brown and Bailey Richards in an attempt to be less disruptive during newsroom. We moved our already pop culture-heavy conversation from a productive environment to this podcast, where we will recap and give our two cents on whatever’s trending.

01/19/2022

Pop Chaos: Ep 1

Episode Notes [“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Encanto] Trent: Hello everyone, and welcome to Episode One of Pop Chaos, your one-stop shop for pop culture. If you did your homework, you just listened to episode zero. We’re not introducing ourselves again. But I’m Trent. Bailey: I’m Bailey and you just said we’re not going to introduce ourselves, yet here we are. Trent: This week we’re talking about Spider-Man, right? No Way Home. Bailey: We are going to talk about a lot of things. Spider-Man… Trent: Encanto. Bailey: Encanto for sure. Trent: What was the other thing? Bailey: There were some other things we were going to talk about. Trent (overlapping): Such as? Bailey: For one, Elmo, I wanted to bring up. Trent: Oh yeah, you need to explain to me what is going on with Elmo. Bailey: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then maybe just like some, some other shows that are big and coming up right now. I was thinking about mentioning, you know, Succession. Euphoria season two is coming out. Trent: Oh yeah, have not seen Succession. Bailey: Well, I don’t know. The big two we’re gonna talk about are Encanto and Spider-Man-slash-Andrew Garfield. The resurgence. He’s big right now. Very big. Trent: That’s true. Should we – we should just get right into Spider-Man. He is huge, actually, on Twitter and like TikTok. There – I saw a tweet that was like, “The K-Pop-ification of Andrew Garfield.” I think people were like, “Stream The Amazing Spider-Man,” to get him that recognition. Bailey: Well, so I’m curious. I just want to double-check real quick how old he is. Trent (overlapping): We’ll embed that. Bailey: I want to check how old he is. Trent (overlapping): He’s like in his late 30s, I want to say. Bailey: Ooh! So I looked him up on Google. Trent (in the background): 45. Bailey: And unfortunately, he’s shorter than both of us. That's … yeah… Trent (gasping): With his hair, it’s fine. Bailey: He’s 5’10”. That's true. His hair like defies gravity, so. Trent: Wait, no but how old is he? Bailey: He is 38 years old. Trent: What’d I tell you? Late 30s. Bailey: Yeah, he looks great for his age. Did you watch – sorry, we were gonna talk about Spider-Man. But did you watch tick, tick… BOOM!, because it’s on topic? Trent: No, so I saw like the trailer. Bailey (in the background): Okay. Trent: I did not – okay. Not to bring up Andrew Garfield’s hair again. I cannot get past his hair in the trailer. It looks, I think personally – Bailey: It looks like Jonathan Larson’s hair though, who he’s portraying. Trent (overlapping): I know. But that doesn’t mean I like it. Bailey: Okay. So you’re just not gonna watch the entire movie because of his hair? It was too bouncy? Trent: Correct. Bailey: It did … it did look… Trent: It looks like he’s like a mad scientist and it blew up. Bailey: Yeah, it looks like he touched one of those little balls that makes you – WOOOOO! Trent: Those electric balls – Bailey (joking): But like not in a gay way. Yeah, and it also – Trent (laughing): …Bailey… Bailey: I dunno, it also looks like … I don’t know, I think it looked kind of bouncy, kind of good, like kind of shampoo commercial sort of… Yeah. Trent (overlapping): Anyway, Spider-Man: No Way Home. Bailey (in the background): Yeah, enough about Andrew Garfield’s hair. Trent: Andrew Garfield’s done. What did you think of No Way Home? Bailey (overlapping): Well okay, first off, spoiler alert. Like if you have not seen it. Trent: Oh, yeah, obviously. If you haven’t seen Spider-Man or Encanto, we’re talking about both of those. Bailey: Yeah, let me not shame you though because if you don’t want to go to the movie theater right now, that is a-okay. But also, what are you doing? You got to see this g-dang movie. I don’t know. I… I did like, I binge-watched all the other Spider-Man movies. Trent (overlapping): Like all – like, all seven of them? Bailey: Yeah, pretty much. For the most – yeah, I think I missed a couple the first time around. But then after the movie, I watched – I’ve seen all of them. Mostly, my goal was to re-watch the Tobey [McGuire] ones because I was never a huge fan of those. So I had to re-watch them. Trent (overlapping): Not that. Bailey: I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. Trent: It’s okay. So I’m actually on the – well, I know I’ve definitely seen the Tobey ones. I actually don’t know if I’ve seen Andrew Garfield. Sorry. Bailey (overlapping): Are you f-ing serious? Trent: And I know for a fact that I have not seen Spider-Man: Homecoming or Spider-Man: Far From Home. I did not see those. Bailey (overlapping): How are we friends? And you went to go see No Way Home? Trent: Yeah, cuz my friends were going and I was like, “Lemme…” Bailey: You… so if your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? Is that what I’m hearing? Trent: I would. Listen, why are they jumping off the bridge, you know? Bailey: Trent. Trent: No Way Home, because he’s jumping off a literal bridge, yeah. Trent (in the background): Let’s investigate. Investigative journalism. I would. But I liked it. Bailey: No, I'm sorry. Okay. On Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man. I like them. I like them. I appreciate them, the nostalgia. The first one I think is really great. Mary Jane slayed. Her hair … I love her. This is literally the most irrelevant thing to the actual movies, but I love her hair in the first movie like the dark like orange. I love it. The third movie, I … it’s painful to watch. It’s really, really hard to watch. Trent: It’s been a while but I looked at the Rotten Tomatoes scores like a while ago and it’s like the lowest by far. I’m like, what happened to that movie? Bailey: Yeah, well, I don’t, I don’t dictate my life and what I watch by Rotten Tomatoes scores. Trent: Oh no, I don’t either. Bailey: Because I think that they – no yeah – I think they totally lie all the time – Trent (in the background): For the reporting. For the reporting. Bailey: And I’m a huge fan of a good bad movie. You literally can look behind me here. Trent (in the background): Oh, for sure. Bailey: There’s a Ma poster on the wall. It’s one of the best good-bad movies ever made. But the third Spider-Man movie is genuinely just too hard to watch. Like I had to look away like when he’s like doing the whole walk down the street. He’s got like the “Where are you?” emo hair. I can’t, he looks so greasy! Trent (in the background): That is so funny! His weird emo hair? It’s so bad. Bailey: Yeah, so I don’t know. Trent: Okay, my question – who is your Spider-Man? Like out of the three, who is your Spider-Man? Bailey: I think you know the answer to that. Trent: Well then why don’t you say it? Bailey: It’s Andrew Garfield. Trent: Of course. Mine is Tobey. Bailey: Because I grew up, I – Okay, I loved the Andrew Garfield Spider-Mans and I always had to defend them and I’m so glad that people are finally recognizing that he is amazing. Like I’m sorry, the second one was a hot mess, there was just too much going on. That’s not his fault though. Acting-wise, he ate. He ate and the thing for me is, for Andrew Garfield Spider-Man … especially like … the characters have so much chemistry. They do, specifically Gw– you have to, like you have to watch them. The Andrew Garfield – Trent: Wait, I actually think I saw the first one cuz I remember the scene where like he’s at Gwen’s house for dinner. That’s all I remember though. Bailey: Yeah, eating the branzino. The fish. Yeah, so the first like for example, the first Spider-Man, when I'm watching like Toby like I watched all three of those movies … I did fall asleep a little bit during the second one … I’m so sorry. Trent (overlapping): Of course. You missed the lore, you missed the most important part, missed Doc Ock’s background. Bailey: I’m so sorry! I did like the second one, though. But, it didn’t make me feel that much. It really didn’t, and I love Willem Dafoe too, like he's one of my favorite actors. I love him in like some of my favorite video games like Beyond Two Souls. He’s amazing. He’s such a good actor. He slayed in No Way Home. He was so good. But the gag is is that – Trent: What’s the gag? Bailey: The gag is that the Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man makes me feel so much, like I cried twice. I cried when Uncle Ben dies. It makes you feel so much, like they build up so much with the characters. When like Uncle Ben died in Tobey’s movies, I did not cry, I didn’t feel anything. Trent (sarcastic): Uncle Ben died? gasp Bailey: gasp Guys, I’m so sorry! So sorry! Trent: Iconic Spider-Man moment, oops! Bailey: Oh my God, Spider-Man wears red and blue? Oh my God! Trent: Wait, he’s a spider? And a man? Bailey: Wait, a spider bit him? Oh, god… No, but literally like it makes me feel so much. And Gwen, like Emma – Emma Stone is incredible. Trent: That’s true, she’s great as Gwen. Bailey: I just rewatched Easy A because I’ve been seeing so many Gwen Stacy edits and I was like, “I love this woman and I need to rewatch.” Because she just, she ate. She’s so good, and she and Andrew, obviously they dated. All the Spider-Mans, they’ve all like dated their Mary Janes or whatever. Trent (overlapping): They did? I didn’t know that. Oh, I guess that makes sense. Bailey: Yeah, they all have. Really? Yeah, MJ and Tobey – like Tobey and Kirsten Dunst dated, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone dated, and now Tom Holland and Zendaya, yeah. Trent: Wait, iconic. Bailey: Yeah, so. But I don’t know. I just think that Gwen and Andrew had the best chemistry, and they were so, so good. And I love those movies so much. Trent: That’s fair, that’s fair. I would say mine is Tobey, just because that’s the one I remember seeing, that's what I grew up on. And I have not, I don’t know. Andrew Garfield, when I watched it a
01/19/2022

Pop Chaos: Episode 0

Episode Notes [“Look What You Made Me Do,” by Taylor Swift] Trent: Hello everyone and welcome to Pop Chaos, the pop culture podcast. This is our very brief introduction episode, Episode Zero. I am one of your hosts, I am Trent, I am the editor-in-chief of NBN. But I’m not a regular editor-in-chief, I’m a cool editor-in-chief. So this is my – don’t laugh at me. So this is my, yeah, this is where I’m gonna let myself go loose a little bit. Bailey: I am your other host. I’m Bailey, and I also obviously am on staff here at NBN. I’m a managing editor, but I’ve been here for a really long time. I was entertainment editor for a very long time because I love all things entertainment. Thus, this podcast. And I will also be managing our Twitter this quarter, so look forward to that as well. Trent: Bailey and I are very, we’re very goofy and silly. We’re in a very goofy and silly mood constantly when we’re together. So, this is just – we’re just going to talk about whatever pop culture because that is all we talk about. Whatever is trending on Twitter, basically, is what we’re going to talk about. Because when we’re together, like in our NBN newsroom, and we need to actually get stuff done, anyone who's on managing NBN staff will tell you we are like the least productive people because we just laugh at each other. It’s bad, it’s not good, so we’re going to let all that energy out here. Bailey: Honestly, this is just us talking into the void. This is more for us than it is for you or anybody else. Trent: Finally, to sort of get to know us a little bit better, we decided we’re going to share – what is it, our Spotify Wrapped? Our top artists I think from 2021? Yeah, so Bailey, who is your top artist? Bailey: My top artist for 2021, and actually for all time – she’s always in my top artists, even when I like exclusively listened to rap music in high school, she was still there. She was still there, every year … is Taylor Swift. It is. Trent: Really? Bailey: It is. Trent: I thought you were gonna say, like, Phoebe Bridgers. Bailey: I’m an undercover Swiftie. Trent: My number one is Charli XCX. I like that beep-bop, pots-and-pans, explode-my-eardrums kind of music. My number two is actually Taylor, so maybe I’m also an undercover Swiftie. Bailey: Yeah, I was gonna say like, when this first came out, I was very confused. I was like, “How – number one? What are you doing here?” But then I realized it’s because frickin’ Fearless (Taylor’s Version) came out and I actually wrote a story for NBN about it. And I talked about how much Fearless means to me. And it came out on my birthday! And I was like, “How did she end up on there?” Like, because I had Red (Taylor’s Version) on my mind because that’s what came out right before this. But no, it was Fearless, and it just like escaped me somehow that I had like been streaming that for like a month straight. So that’s how she got up there. Trent: No, I definitely saw you like in my Spotify, like in the sidebar, like listening to that. I was like, “I listened to that album once.” Bailey: I’m very much a Fearless, Speak Now Swiftie, so. Trent: Do you want to run through your other four real quick? Bailey: Yeah, yep, yep yep yep. So my other four, um, Phoebe Bridgers, so you were almost right. We’re actually in my room right now, and if you look behind me, there’s a nude poster of her on my wall. So I think that speaks for itself. Trent: There is. Bailey: I love her and three of her songs are also my top songs for the year. And then number three is One Direction. We’re not surprised. Number four is … [clears her throat] Bo Burnham. We’re just gonna move past that real quickly. We’re gonna move past that. I had an Inside phase and I’m not gonna apologize for it. I’m not gonna apologize for it. I’m gonna cry about it a little bit, but I’m not gonna apologize for it. And then for number five, we have Hozier ‘cuz I had a huge Hozier phase in the spring. Trent: I’ll take you to church. No. Bailey: Yeah, please do. Actually, please don’t. [laughs] Trent (overlapping): We should go. We should go to Alice Millar Chapel. Bailey: Please don’t. There’s so many churches in Evanston, it’s absurd. Trent: Okay, so Charli XCX is my number one, Taylor Swift is my number two. But number three is Halsey [laughs]. Bailey (laughing): Let’s move past that, yeah. Trent: Number four is the “Friday” girl, Rebecca Black but she makes actual music now. I’m seeing her in two weeks, maybe a week. Bailey: She’s always made – don’t, don’t discredit her like that. She’s always made real music. Queen. Trent: No, you’re right. Rebecca, if you're listening, I love you. And my number five is Lady Gaga. Speaks for itself. Bailey: Those are our top artists. Give you a little bit of background on us, who we listen to. Trent: Yeah, so that is us. That is the podcast. Welcome. I hope you keep listening. And stay tuned for Episode One, which should be up – you should be able to listen to it right now, actually. Bailey: That, and also, we won’t only be talking about music. We just wanted to start off with that. Yeah. There’ll be plenty of other topics. Trent: Okay, cue the outro music! [“Look What You Made Me Do” by Taylor Swift] Find out more at https://solved-by-science.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
11/19/2019

Solved by Science #5: Why don’t microwave meals fill you up?

Episode Notes Sophia and David talk about microwave meals, intermittent fasting and the best stir fry order at Plex East. Content warning: mentions of calorie counting. We recommend talking with a doctor before making any major changes to your diet. Sophia: Hello, hello, and welcome to Solved by Science, the show where we answer all the questions that keep you up at night. I'm your host, Sophia, and today I have my friend David with me. David: Hi, I'm David. I am a sophomore studying journalism at Northwestern. I'm an assistant managing editor for North by Northwestern with Sophia, and I'm very excited to have some questions answered. We also co-host another podcast together. It's called Second GenerAsian. It's really cool. You should check it out. Sophia: It's really great. Listen to us, and also our friend HJY. Anyway, so I'm here to answer one of David's questions. David: Freshman year, I would eat a lot of microwave meals because you know, I was lazy. I didn't really want to leave the dorm. One thing I noticed is microwave meals and other very cheap food items never really filled me up. I would eat a lot, and it would just feel like my stomach was still empty. I don't know much about how food or science or anything works, but to me, it's like if I'm eating calories, shouldn’t I have the same amount of energy from those calories? I mean, obviously, like you're not getting nutrients, which I might have just answered my own question there. But yeah, I was wondering why don't microwave meals fill me up? Sophia: Well, we can talk about that more. You did touch a little bit on it. So we can talk about some empty calories and sugars versus complex carbs, that kind of thing. But first, I'm going to talk a little bit about hunger. So, when you feel hungry, that's usually when your blood sugar and insulin levels are dropping. And then that releases ghrelin, which signals hunger. You feel full when you eat, and then your fat cells release leptin to let your body know that you're feeling full. And a lot of this communication happens with the hypothalamus, which is a structure in your brain, and it plays a big role in releasing hormones. Back to your question, why don't microwave meals – or ramen, I guess – fill you up? I'm more of a ramen fan than the microwave meal. David: Yeah, I mean, they're all in the same wider category to me. Sophia: They're all the same college student is too lazy David: Yeah, exactly. Sophia: Only has a microwave in their sad CRC dorm room. David: Right. Sophia: Let's start by talking about empty calories. You mentioned that you weren't getting any nutrients. So a lot of these foods, like microwave meals, don't have too much nutritional value, at least the ones I'm eating. I was eating a lot of ramen and mac and cheese last year. What were you eating? David: Literally the same thing. Sophia: Yeah, some things like, I don't know, Trader Joe’s, might have a little bit more. David: Doubtful, honestly. Sophia: But Kraft Mac and Cheese, not it. So these don't have any nutritional value or vitamins, and they're usually full of fat and sugar. So none of that is really great for you. And there's also a difference between sugar and simple carbs versus complex carbs. So simple sugars don't take a lot of time to digest. So things like ramen, mac and cheese. I know you were eating other microwave meals from H Mart. David: Yeah, I would eat a lot of the Korean like porridge type meals like congee. It was all very similar to me, like in terms of how I would feel afterwards. It's just like not great. Sophia: So they don't take a ton of time to digest. So what happens is your glucose levels rise super fast, and then when you crash, it makes you feel irritable. So you should eat other things that keep you full for longer because it slows down the absorption of glucose into your bloodstream. So things that keep you full longer: fiber, I'm sure you've heard that before. David: Yes. Sophia: And then things like ramen or mac and cheese have a ton of sodium in them. And your body retains more water when you're eating a lot of salty things, and you feel bloated. So that might also be part of why you feel really gross afterwards. David: Right. Yeah, I mean, after I would eat like a microwave meal, or you know, some kind of cheap, quick meal that I don't have to leave the dorm for, I felt so bad that it's like I might as well have just left the dorm and gone to a dining hall and gotten real food. Sophia: See when I eat microwave meals or ramen, what I usually do is like if I do it for dinner, I'll bring back veggies from the salad bar, so I feel less bad about it. David: Yeah, to me, that defeats the purpose. You know, it's if I'm already there. If I'm going to bring home like veggies, or ingredients to supplement a microwave meal, I might as well just bring home leftover food and eat that. Sophia: That's true, but sometimes you just want some ramen. David: It's like a snack to me. It's not like food food. Sophia: Anyway, something else I'm interested in with you and food is intermittent fasting. David: So over the summer, I started intermittent fasting because I was on a pretty busy schedule, and I didn't have time to eat breakfast. And so basically, I would not eat before noon. And so once I got back from a study abroad program, I still kept it up because I found myself not getting hungry before 12 as long as I kept up the fast. If I kept it up for a couple of weeks, eventually I’d get to a point where I literally just don't get hungry at a certain point. I only eat between 12 and 8pm. The only time I find myself getting getting hungry is if I like break the fast or I kind of have a cheat day, then I'll get more hungry the next day. My logic behind it is that if I'm not hungry, or like my body doesn't tell me that I need food, what's the point of eating? Sophia: Are you doing it to like lose weight or be healthier or... David: Yeah Sophia: Was it just a you realized you didn't get hungry type of thing? David: A lot of it was weight loss. I've just heard it's good for you. I'm eating like plenty of food. It's not like I'm starving myself. I haven't gotten out of shape, really, at least not the way that I did last year, freshman year when I would just gorge myself all the time. I'm being a lot more reasonable about the food that I eat. Because I think intermittent fasting and only eating two meals a day kind of gives me a lot more flexibility within those meals. I can eat whatever I want. Sophia: So I know at the beginning of the year, you were also calorie counting a little bit. Did you notice that you were eating less calories because you're eating two meals or are you eating more during those meals? David: I think it's just like it's easier for me to hit my target, which I mean, I still kind of do, I just I'm not as diligent about tracking it. I found that the meals that I would be eating anyway are just the right size to get me to my calorie target. If I eat them twice a day, obviously like the thing that I've been eating a lot of lately is Plex East stir fry, which is about 900 calories and if my targets 1800 calories that I just need that twice a day and I'm right on target. That's very convenient portion size wise. Sophia: Do you usually go to Plex twice a day? Because I’m always at Allison. I do want to get stir fry sometime. David: You should. Sophia: So let's do that. David: I got literally get Plex stir fry twice a day. Sophia: What's your recommendation for Plex stir fry? David: They just added sweet chili sauce, and it slaps. It's so good. My go-to at the start of the quarter was chicken and brown rice. Lately, I've been getting like pork and noodles. You gotta like be a bit creative with the sauces, because they have the sweet chili sauce. But if you had a little bit of the soy sauce or like the Szechuan sauce, it's pretty good. You can have some versatility. You know, I put a lot of scallions, a lot of onions, a little bit of bell peppers. Gotta heap the garlic on because I'm Filipino. We love garlic. With that, it's just because it's pre-portioned, I don't get out of control with getting too much food because I feel like I have bad impulse control. Sophia: I should probably start doing that because I also have bad impulse control. So you said that part of the reason you were intermittent fasting was to lose weight. So that's a big reason why people do that. And the reason why I asked about your calorie counting is that one thing that it does is that just because you're restricting your eating hours, you are cutting calories by eating less of the time. Or at least some people do that. Some people might just end up eating the same amount in a smaller period of time. What you're doing is called a restricted eating window. This is where you have a limited time where you can eat, you might eat just one meal a day or two or three times. You're doing eight hours. I think that's pretty common for intermittent fasting. David: It’s a pretty standard starting point. Sometimes I won't eat exactly at 12, like I’ll eat at one or two, and I won't eat at 8, I'll eat at 6 or 7. So it sometimes does get restricted tighter than that. Sophia: And the other type of intermittent fasting is called alternate day fasting. So some days you would eat more and some days you would eat less. So this is also called calorie cycling. And you can fast every other day, two days a week, stuff like that. Kind of whatever works for you. I feel like intermittent fasting is pretty flexible and depends on the person. So another reason why this might promote weight loss is because it reduces your insulin levels and your fat cells are also burning more, and I think that's also the premise of the keto diet, but I don't really know much about the keto diet. David: Keto is just like very high fat, very, very low carb, medium protein. It's good in theory, it's just I couldn't
10/18/2019

Solved by Science Ep #4: Why do we twitch when we fall asleep?

Episode Notes Sophia and Gabby talk about twitching in their sleep, a nightmare featuring someone who looks like Joe Biden and the best way to take a nap. Find out more at https://solved-by-science.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
05/31/2019

Solved by Science #3: Why does Harrison have five wisdom teeth?

Episode Notes Wisdom teeth! Everyone's got them, and some people apparently have an extra. Special guest Harrison (he's got five teeth) joins Sophia Lo for an investigation in this episode of Solved by Science. Find out more at https://solved-by-science.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
05/10/2019

Solved by Science Episode 2: N Bee N

Episode Notes Buzz, buzz... Sophia Lo and Ryan Wagner answer all the things you've ever wondered about bees – our honey making, animated film starring friends. Find out more at https://solved-by-science.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
04/22/2019

Solved by Science Episode 1: Why do hickeys change color?

Episode Notes Sophia hosts politics section editor Kalen Luciano to answer his question – why do hickeys change colors? Find out more at https://solved-by-science.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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Pop Chaos was birthed by NBN’s own Trent Brown and Bailey Richards in an attempt to be less disruptive during newsroom. We moved our already pop culture-heavy conversation from a productive environment to this podcast, where we will recap and give our two cents on whatever’s trending.

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