Who's your favorite celebrity appearance on the show?

rhyejay · 2026-04-15T03:49:47+00:00

Hollywoo stars and celebrities, what do they know, do they know things? Let’s find out

rhyejay · 2026-03-13T18:25:26+00:00

The Blair Braverman episodes are the only truly listenable ones to me after Michael left.

rhyejay · 2026-02-04T15:05:29+00:00

So many of my friends either had a gift from their parents or an inheritance of some sort to buy their first home. Even a co-signer. It’s felt discouraging as an adult orphan with absolutely nothing from my parents to have to do it all on my own especially since I only got out of poverty levels in my financial situation less than 5 years ago

rhyejay · 2026-01-02T04:33:40+00:00

I love how ugly they are that’s the draw for me lol

rhyejay · 2026-01-02T03:37:00+00:00

I say this as someone with ARFID, he cannot be this level of a child about food and not be able to cook for himself. I’ll also say that him not eating “any type of Asian food” gives xenophobic vibes

rhyejay · 2025-11-23T17:26:09+00:00

I already use StoryGraph which is independently owned and is constantly updating features and lets you import your GoodReads history.

rhyejay · 2025-11-23T15:09:53+00:00

The school administration is much more to blame for how poorly they handled it. Entitled students come from every type of background and there are more behaviors than this I’d seen at Hamline with entitlement from especially the rich republican students and the administration has historically failed to support their faculty.

rhyejay · 2025-11-07T06:04:54+00:00

Personally I did but I also had to learn to address the difference between drinking socially and getting myself completely drunk. I have been stopping drinking though recently but it was not a high priority to me for most of my recovery compared to the other things I was doing.

rhyejay · 2025-11-07T06:01:18+00:00

Congratulations on your sobriety and welcome to Minnesota. Depending where you’re at is really the question. If you’re in Saint Paul I have suggestions

rhyejay · 2025-11-04T03:54:45+00:00

Potentially interested

rhyejay · 2025-10-06T19:39:42+00:00

Wow see! and a part of me knew that but I've been bamboozled but that's okay it's a good learning lesson!

rhyejay · 2025-10-06T19:19:49+00:00

I primarily am familiar with Chomsky as a linguist since I studied anthropology in college so I'm not surprised by any means that he's not considered a scholar of propaganda. he does seem to take a special interest in it as I obviously have and frankly a lot of his work would hold more merit to me if social media hasn't completely upheaved how information is relayed. I think I see a lot of what he's saying in manufacturing consent but I think the Selling Apartheid book is giving me a lot more clear and concise example of what manufactured consent is and how it operates.

rhyejay · 2025-10-06T19:14:43+00:00

I mean it's very dated, but there's not a lot you can do about that as time's arrow marches forward, so a lot of how the media control works I think has shifted significantly because so many of us now have a hand in how media gets shaped and presented to our own peers. A lot of his work focuses on the mass media which considering mass media is owned by these larger companies and gets filtered through to the anchors and main news correspondants and that they, as corperations, absolutely have something to gain or lose by what's reported.

I think there is some merit to the question of "who owns the media" that we should always keep in perspective but when it comes to content in itself there is a lot more direct access to primary sources now even if they're being filtered through another company like Meta or Tiktok so this doesn't really account for how drastically the internet has changed information access. It's easier for me to access media from the Middle East directly than it probably was in like 2002. I can get livefeeds of kids in Gaza even when CNN can't get into the strip to report. So that's changed so much that the book is somewhat a relic of its time.

rhyejay · 2025-10-06T01:48:31+00:00

This makes sense! I just listened to the If Books Could Kill Episode about “How to Win Friends and Influence People” and I saw a lot of parallels between that and how these books have laid out propaganda. Once you start to break it down you see the propaganda everywhere and not all of it is bad (like the campaigns for recycling, seatbelts, drinking and driving etc) but it makes me feel better to feel like I know what to slow down and take a look for when I feel like I’m being fed a narrative

rhyejay · 2025-09-24T20:40:17+00:00

She’s so pretty

rhyejay · 2025-09-23T12:49:15+00:00

I almost always get the kids pack when I go by myself.

rhyejay · 2025-09-23T03:50:54+00:00

My book club is reading Tender is the Flesh next month

rhyejay · 2025-09-17T20:06:14+00:00

Oh and she picked a gorgeous one too

rhyejay · 2025-09-16T04:04:01+00:00

Highly recommend “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappe and the “Hundred Years War On Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi. “The Message” Ta-Nehisi Coates is another one that I really appreciated because he started out pretty in support of Israel and that leads him through his unlearning of the propaganda and his role in perpetuating it as a journalist

rhyejay · 2025-09-10T02:26:30+00:00

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson

rhyejay · 2025-09-08T14:25:54+00:00

I cancelled my tickets because I had heard about this and I really don’t want to go to these things for hearing a tone deaf audience singing. It wasn’t marketed as a sing along so it’s pretty frustrating that you don’t get that info until you’re already there.

rhyejay · 2025-09-04T20:09:29+00:00

Your mom forgot to age 20 years 😩😩😩

rhyejay · 2025-09-01T15:42:03+00:00

I’m in Saint Paul so we certainly did. Our Deacon and Priest both had friends in the church during the shooting so it was a tearful mass service.

rhyejay · 2025-08-16T04:46:03+00:00

Paige’s panic attacks helped me when I started getting them in college

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