What is up with the Billboard Hot 100?

Like, was this really the number one song in the country at one point?

There's always this fundamental tension of,

is this music popular with everybody because it's happening in the background?

Or is there a really die hard group whose engagement is boosting the chart position of that artist's song?

How to game the Hot 100?

This week on Into It, Vultures Pop Culture Podcast.

Welcome to In Her Shoes. I'm Lindsay Peoples, Editor in Chief of the Cut.

On this show, I get to talk to people that we love, admire, or just find interesting.

We'll explore how they found their path, we got in their way, and how they think about bringing others along now that they've arrived.

Christian Meisner and Jelanta Greenberg are really good at testing things out.

They're kind of like the try guys, but the self-help version.

On their podcast, by the book, they apply advice given from different self-help books in their own lives to see what's actually helpful.

From their discoveries, they went on to write how to be fine, what we learned from living by the rules of 50 self-help books.

Now, on their latest podcast, Romance Row Test, they've extended the experimenting to their partners.

Their new show tests out relationship hacks on their marriage, which you can listen to all the episodes of Romance Row Test on Audible.

Thank you again for both doing this, I really appreciate it.

Really fun, I'm like, gosh, thank you so much for having us.

So, I have to start every show by asking my guess what kinds of shoes they have on, because the show is called In Her Shoes, and I like to be nosy.

So, what kind of shoes you have on, or what are your favorite pair of shoes right now?

Well, we don't wear shoes in my house right now, or ever.

We're very strict about the no shoes in the house, because Brooklyn is a beautiful but very filthy place, so I am barefoot at this moment.

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