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Money Can't Buy You ClassTHE KARDASHIANS ARE OVER W/ EMILY SEGALGemma and Phoebe are joined by author, editor, trend forecaster, and all-around mastermind Emily Segal to discuss the unholy self sacrifice of celebrity, why The Kardashians is less successful than its predecessor, the secret lives of the Kardashian sisters, ANXIETY, which sister Phoebe wants to sleep with most, and Bethenny Frankel’s brilliantly addicting TikTok.
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Read "Attention, Reality, and Sincerity" by @CNoumena —> https://cutenoumena.substack.com/p/attention-reality-and-sincerity
Listen to Decode —> patreon.com/Decodecast
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-09-091h 19Money Can't Buy You ClassMOLLYWORLD W/ MOLLY LAMBERTGemma and Phoebe are joined by Molly Lambert (creator of Heidiworld: The Heidi Fleiss Story, streaming everywhere you find your podcasts) to discuss everything from the “violence of desire” to what to do with racism on TV, Charlie “Chaz” Sheen, the narrative identity of the LAPD, and Cardi B.
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-08-121h 10Money Can't Buy You ClassALL THINGS CONSIDERED W/ NAOMI FRYGemma and Phoebe are joined by New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry to discuss motherhood, Judaism, Kyle Richards, what it means to be an outsider, feeling comforted by recognition, the pleasure of reality television crossovers, and false feminism.
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-07-291h 35Money Can't Buy You ClassULTIMATE GHOULS TRIPGemma and Phoebe dissect the second season of Peacock’s Ultimate Girls Trip, focussing on the various elements of haunting (at Bluestone Manor and beyond), how the Housewives franchise could perhaps be characterized as a man, the exacting-yet-subtle humor which makes a perfect housewife, and touch upon how Kim’s SKIMS has moved beyond skin.
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Money Can't Buy You ClassCACIO E PEPEGemma and Phoebe return to talk about why recapping is the most boring version of discussing reality television, the drama of misspeaking on the current season of Beverly Hills, and the focus on professionalization and sisterly differentiation on season one of The Kardashians.
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-06-251h 14Money Can't Buy You ClassCYCLES OF INDIVIDUALITYGemma and Phoebe discuss the first five episodes of Hulu’s The Kardashians and the first episode of Season 12 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, touching on performed suffering, the creation of the individual, and how doubles are cringe.
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-05-2056 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassCATCHING UPGemma and Phoebe discuss NeNe Leakes suing Bravo, the dreaded-yet-dreamy Selling Sunset Reunion, the anti-future of Vanderpump Rules, and, of course, G-Flip.
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-05-1354 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassREALITY SQUARED W/ TOM SYVERSONGemma and Phoebe are joined by Tom Syverson, author of Reality Squared (Zer0 Books, 2021) to defend reality television. They discuss the gendered divide of who watches and why, the nuances of the real, and why postmodernism is the most popular lens through which to understand the medium.
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-04-221h 04Money Can't Buy You ClassPODDING SUNSETGemma and Phoebe discuss the intertwinement of fantasy and reality on the hit Netflix reality show, Selling Sunset.
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-04-081h 01Money Can't Buy You ClassTHE BACHELOR IS BLIND W/ MIA ANTEZZOGemma and Phoebe are joined by friend of the pod Mia Antezzo to discuss the nationalist tactics of love, the relationship between imagination and disappointment, and approximations of reality on ABC’s The Bachelor and Netflix’s Love is Blind.
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-03-251h 11Money Can't Buy You ClassCOP WITHOUT A BADGE W/ EMMA BURKEGemma and Phoebe are joined by @iamageniuspod host Emma Burke to discuss seasons 1-4 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey through the lens of Charles Kipps' Cop Without a Badge, the revelatory biography of Danielle Staub's ex-fiance, Kevin Maher. They touch on: the internal logic of the Family, paranoid delusion, and how to pronounce the word "ingredientses."
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-03-121h 08Money Can't Buy You ClassPOD OF HILTONGemma and Phoebe discuss Jerry Oppenheimer’s unauthorized Hilton family biography, House of Hilton, and its relationship to Paris Hilton’s vibe shift.
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-02-2554 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassKEEPING UP WITH KIERKEGAARD W/ DANIEL NEOFETOUGemma and Phoebe are joined by writer and scholar Daniel Neofetou to discuss interiority and the relationship between objecthood and objectification in Keeping up with the Kardashians.
Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War by Daniel Neofetou
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moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site2022-02-111h 03Money Can't Buy You ClassWATCH WHAT HAPPENED LIVEGemma and Phoebe discuss the Vanderpump Rules Season 9 Reunion, the end of James and Raquel and the possible end of Vanderpump Rules, what “high school” means on reality television, and the firing of Jennie Nguyen. Also Gemma saw Kim Kardashian in the flesh at an art opening.
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(don't forget to like, comment & subscribe xoxo)2022-02-041h 04Money Can't Buy You ClassSLCONSPIRACY W/ RY DUNNGemma and Phoebe are joined by poet Ry Dunn to take a deep dive into The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City through the lens of conspiracy: Did Jen really do it? Is Meredith’s business a CIA front? Why does Whitney know so much about money laundering? How might the conspiratorial ethos of QAnon be refracted into SLC’s Season 2 plot line and production?
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2022-01-2445 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassFOXY LADY W/ JASMINE JOHNSONGemma and Phoebe are joined by Jasmine Johnson (@jasmine.johnson) to discuss why everyone is discussing Julia Fox.
What we read:
“Break the Internet: Pete Davidson,” Tommy Dorfman (Paper Mag)
“Break the Internet: Kim Kardashian,” Amanda Fortini (Paper Mag)
“Date Night,” Julia Fox (Interview Mag)
“A Retired Dominatrix Goes to Church,” Naomi Fry (The New Yorker)
“Kim and Kanye and Pete and Julia,” Naomi Fry (The New Yorker)
“When Instagram Killed the Tabloid Star,” Amanda Hess (NYT)
“My Dinner with Kanye,” Natasha Stagg (Substack)
“Ye’s True Love is Hiding in Plain Sight,” Rachel Tashjian (GQ)
“Coolest Person in the Room: Julia Fo...2022-01-1756 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassNOT ALL DIAMONDS AND KIMMY KGemma and Phoebe convene for the first time in 2022 to talk about Dave Quinn’s “Not All Diamonds and Rose,” the first “The Kardashians” teaser, what Time means in the ever-expanding universe of reality television, interior design vs. the inner lives of rich women, and the inception of the Housewives.2022-01-0956 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassMONEY CAN'T BUY YOU CHRISTMASGemma and Phoebe continue their conversation about the reality television cinematic universe by pivoting to Kyle Richards’ Christmas debut, “The Housewives of the North Pole,” along with other Christmas classics: “Love Actually” and “The Holiday.” Are holiday rom-coms part of a larger conversation about the intertwinement of reality and fantasy? Where does the Real enter into the form of redundancy?2021-12-2558 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassCINEMATIC REVOLVING DOORGemma and Phoebe return to discuss: the meta verse, cyborg-kardashians, b-footage and apple screensavers, greek tragedy, jesus slandering, the relationship between faith and reality, cults, types of housewive criminals, the scripted and reality cinematic universe, and HBO vs. Bravo.2021-12-2056 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassPARCE QUE JE SUIS SEXYGemma and Phoebe discuss the intellectualization of reality television, the spiritual significance of NBC’s Peacock’s peacock, and the end-as-rebirth of the Real Housewives franchise.2021-12-021h 00Money Can't Buy You ClassTRUE CRIME-WIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY W/ CASON HALLGemma and Phoebe are joined by friend of the pod and fellow Real Housewives Scholar Cason Hall (@vacation_cason) to discuss RHOSLC’s explosive road trip to Vail and the infamous arrest of Jen Shah. What is true crime? Who are you in the apocalypse? What road trip snacks would you bring? What products would you promote?
Follow us on instagram @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod in instagram & @sad_porous_grad on twitter 2021-11-181h 26Money Can't Buy You ClassTHE BEGINNING OF THE END, RHOBH REUNION PT 4 RECAPGemma and Phoebe express their reunion fatigue as they discuss face expressions as plot, social crime vs. legal crime, and the dark surrealism of watching reality shows week-by-week.2021-11-1259 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassBURIED ALIVE W/ GRACIE HADLANDGemma and Phoebe are joined by writer and LA socialite Gracie Hadland to discuss celebrity closet-tombs, vagina tunnels, and the notion of empty desire in Architectural Digest’s Open Door series.
READINGS:
Inside Hilary Duff's Family Home With A Chicken Coop | Open Door | Architectural Digest
Inside Adam Levine & Behati Prinsloo's Serene L.A. Home | Open Door | Architectural Digest
Inside Cara Delevingne's Fantastical L.A. Home | Open Door | Architectural Digest
Inside Dakota Johnson's Serene Hollywood Home | Open Door | Architectural Digest
Inside Vanessa Hudgens's Enchanting L.A. Home | Open Do...2021-11-071h 11Money Can't Buy You ClassOUROBOROS OF CONTENT, RHOBH REUNION PT 2 & 3 RECAPGemma and Phoebe talk about parts two and three of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Reunion: What happens when we view a talk show host through a parasitical lens? How does wealth further stratify notions of the woman? Is the weekly structure of the Real Housewives franchise an antiquated concept?2021-11-0147 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassDELUDED & ALLEGED, RHOBH REUNION PT 1 RECAPGemma and Phoebe dive into the first of the four-part Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion to discuss Erika Jayne’s cinematic strategies, wealth as an indication of delusion, and LA Confidential2021-10-1653 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassENTER THE VOIDGemma and Phoebe discuss the social mechanics of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, contemplate the end of Vanderpump Rules, and lament that there is nothing left to binge watch.2021-10-0855 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassTHE D'AMELIO PODGemma and Phoebe talk about Hulu’s The D’Amelio Show, if they are precursors to or successors of the Kardashians, and their situation as Gen Z arbiters of Boomer teenage tropes.
Readings:
Naomi Fry, According to “The D’Amelio Show,” Being Famous on TikTok Sucks
2021-09-2855 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassVANDERPUMP RUBINS w/ Becca TeichBecca Teich (@w0rmwrm) returns to the pod to join Gemma and Phoebe as they deep dive into queer theorist Gayle Rubin’s opus to think though sex work, kink, and heterosexuality as a cultural normalizing device in Vanderpump Rules.
Bonus Feature: A brief conversation about Camille Donatacci’s Playboy’s Playmates Exposed photoshoot feat. a Miata.
Readings:
Gayle Rubin, Deviations: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1560/DeviationsA-Gayle-Rubin-Reader
"Contagion, Brenda Iijima Interviews Rebecca Teich"
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Readings:
Come to Life, Kanye West - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SsrVGHJvaA2021-09-081h 00Money Can't Buy You ClassThe Future of the End w/ Natasha StaggGemma and Phoebe are joined by cultural critic and novelist Natasha Stagg to discuss the various social and technological implications of final season of Keeping up with the Kardashians, the desire for revelation, and cinematically-disguised tackiness.
2021-08-221h 08Money Can't Buy You ClassRUTHLESS & UNAFRAIDGemma & Phoebe recap the penultimate episode of The Bachelorette, discussing Milton’s Paradise Lost, the purgatorial affect of middles, and the choice of the camera over true love.
Read/Watch:
"Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit..." John Milton, Paradise Lost
The Bachelorette: Season 17, Episodes 8 & 9
Return of the Real, by Phoebe Kaufman in Forever Magazine
https://forevermag.net/Phoebe-Kaufman-Return-of-the-Real
Kimposium! The Sequel - September 14-16, 2021
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Institutes/Institute-of-Communities-and-Society/Kimposium2021-08-1054 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassRECAP: NYC, BH, & The Pressure of Being SeenGemma & Phoebe discuss the current seasons of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills & Real Housewives of New York City, with a focus on class allegiance, the racialization of emotionality, & the feminine politics of aging.2021-07-2657 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassBACHELOR NATION W/ ELOISE & TOBIAS HESSGemma & Phoebe are joined by Eloise Hess & our first Gen Z-er, Tobias Hess, to discuss the fragile & confounding world of The Bachelorette. We focus on the Season 17, Episode 3 trauma episode, the compulsion to share stories, and the enforcement of intimacy.
Song of the week:
Greatest Lover - Katie Thurston by Connor B. From Nashville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE8rn306F-Q
Readings:
The Cult of Storytelling, Tobias Hess
https://genzero.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-storytelling
The Moral Precarity of Telling our Stories, Tobias Hess2021-07-191h 23Money Can't Buy You ClassWE WENT TO SURGemma & Phoebe struggle to convey the emotional minutia & toll of their night out at Lisa Vanderpump’s supposedly acclaimed West Hollywood restaurants, Sur & Pump. Gemma tries the Goat Cheese Balls, Phoebe reviews the bathrooms, and both revel in the vulnerability of fandom.
Bravo Song of the Week:
Raise your glass - Memoir featuring Dena Deadly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQyLehzSpIE
Readings:
SUR Menu
https://surrestaurant.com/dinner-menu
2021-07-011h 09Money Can't Buy You ClassBIOKKWOSMIST POETICS w/ Emmett MathisonGemma and Phoebe are joined by the infinity-obsessed Emmett Mathison to discuss holograms, resurrection, and the possibility that Kim Kardashian will never die.
Housewives single of the week: “Revelation” by Gretchen Rossi (Orange County)
Episodes
Keeping up with the Kardashians, S20 EP4 + EP5
Readings
Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation: Ch. 11, Holograms
Alexander Bogdanov Essays in Tektology
Mackenzie Wark Molecular Red
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Formation of the Noosphere
Alexander Svyatogor Biocosmist Poetics
Anastasia Gacheva Art as the Overcoming of Deat...2021-06-141h 11Money Can't Buy You ClassTHE FUTURE OF REALITY (TELEVISION) PT. 1Gemma and Phoebe get lost in the inarticulate void of the future of reality television.
https://danielpinchbeck.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-art
https://www.vulture.com/article/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-divorce.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Absinthe2021-05-2647 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassTHE GAYEST SHOW ON EARTH W/ BECCA TEICHGemma & Phoebe are joined by our favorite Adorno scholar Becca Teich to discuss Vanderpump Rules’ stakes in the culture industry and fascist propaganda.
Buy Becca’s Caffeine Chronicles from Portable Press here:
https://yoyolabs.com/teich.html2021-05-071h 27Money Can't Buy You ClassALIEN VS. BUNKER W/ CHRISPhoebe and Gemma are joined by Chris (@YAgambem) to take a deep dive into the Kardashian obsession with apocalypse and RHOBH’s Erika Jayne’s legal… situation.2021-04-241h 01Money Can't Buy You ClassSCARY ISLAND W/ ALEX WEINSTOCKGemma & Phoebe are joined by Housewives fan Alex Weinstock to discuss Kelly Bensimon, psychosis, Manet’s Olympia, and Al Sharpton2021-04-151h 15Money Can't Buy You ClassKovid Kris(is) Pt. 2Gemma & Phoebe talk about dolphins, grief and aging, and RHONY’s exhausting 12th season. Yikes.2021-04-091h 00Money Can't Buy You ClassKovid Kris(is) Pt. 1Gemma & Phoebe discuss the first episode of the final season of Keeping up with the Kardashians.2021-04-0832 minMoney Can't Buy You ClassLive LifeGemma & Phoebe talk about Doreen St. Felix’s read of SLC as “culturally sensitive trash,” the Violence of Brooks Marks, Juergen Teller, and the celebrity obsession with Living Life2021-04-071h 13Money Can't Buy You ClassSatan's CircleGemma & Phoebe talk about RHONY’s obsession with the Devil, Anton Szandor LaVey, & female prophets.2021-04-071h 16Money Can't Buy You ClassOwn It!!!Gemma & Phoebe talk about trauma, accountability, & icon Aviva Drescher.2021-03-301h 08Money Can't Buy You ClassMask On/Mask OffGemma & Phoebe discuss Meredith Marks’ bejeweled mask, fascist architecture, & incest.2021-03-3057 min