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WE ARE SO BACK!!

Welcome to Season 2! We're starting this new season/new year on the pod with some bonus episodes where I talk about my hyperfixations of the moment.

In today's episode, I'm digging deep into the "2016 nostalgia" trend that is taking over my social media feeds at the moment...mostly because I don't understand why we would want to go back to THAT year in particular...

The media mentioned in today's episode (+ more):

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• In pictures: the tumultuous year that was 2016, Alex Gray for the World Economic Forum
• Terror, Brexit and U.S. Election Have Made 2016 the Year of Yeats, Ed Ballard for the Wall Street Journal
• The Word of the Year for 2016 Isn’t a Word. It’s a Number, John Kelly for Slate
• Why 2016 Is Only the Most Recent Worst Year Ever, Lorraine Boissoneault for Smithsonian Magazine
• Should We All Just Stop Calling 2016 'The Worst'? Sam Sanders for NPR
• Why people in 2026 are hung up on 2016, Scottie Andrew for CNN
• Rose-tinted filter: Why 2016 is taking over social media in 2026, Naomi de Souza for BBC
• Was 2016 the last good year? Chance Townsend for Mashable
• I Think You’re All Remembering A Different 2016 Than I Am, Hunter Harris for Hung Up (her Substack publication)
• Fuck 2016, John Oliver

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