So Quinta Brunson was just on Jimmy Kimmel, and she said some really lovely things about you.

That's actually incorrect. It's pretty contentious, and we're not on speaking terms currently.

She knows she needs me, and so we're working through it.

I feel like the show really moves at the speed of fun when it's all seven of us and we kind of ping pong off

of each other and see how far we can take a joke. My favorite is when Gregory comes into the

teacher's lounge with a new hat and people just absolutely rip him to shreds. Would you say

it's unmissable, Kevin? I would say definitively in this very first episode, the unmissable thing of the week is...

Hello! I'm Kevin Fallon, and this is the first episode of Obsess the Podcast.

Yay! You can't see this, but there's a standing ovation. People are crying.

It's a whole thing. We're very excited. Like I said, I'm Kevin. I'm editor at large at the Daily Beast Obsessed.

I am, as people in marketing have enthusiastically told me, the Beast's Couch Potato in Chief.

Basically, I spend a lot of time watching and writing about TV, movies, and the celebrities that make them.

And now, finally, I get to talk about them with you.

So, what is the obsessed podcast?

Well, we looked at the media landscape and thought, you know what is really missing?

A podcast where a gay man talks about pop culture.

I'm kidding, obviously, but on this podcast, me, my brilliant colleague, obsessed editorial director, Matt Wollstein,

and a host of fabulous beast critics will tell you the unmmissible TV show or movie that you need to see.

Like this week's pick, Marty Supreme. So stay tuned for our thoughts on that. We're also going to be

interviewing the celebrities from all of the shows and movies you love. Get ready to hear my really

fun talk with the stealth MVP of Abbott Elementary, Chris Perfetti, who plays the

hilarious teacher, Jacob Hill. He's a character behind all of my favorite memes from that show,

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