Is Pop Culture in a Recession? Hot Takes Round 2
The Sam Sanders Show
KCRW & Sam Sanders
4.9 • 711 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The ice bucket challenge is back, Lady Gaga’s making dance-pop again, and everyone’s hoarding tinned fish. Could it all mean… a recession?
Comedians Zach Zimmerman and Eliot Glazer join us to unpack the internet’s funniest (and eeriest) recession indicator memes — from “recession blonde” to layaway coachella tickets to the return of vampire movies.
Then, the hot takes fly: Zach argues that daytime TV needs to be mean again (bring back the mess!), while Eliot questions the cult of Kylie Minogue and calls for Joy Behar to take over The View.
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| 0:20.7 | Hey, y'all, it's the Sam Sanders show from KCRW, your weekly guide to entertainment and pop culture. |
| 0:27.3 | Thank you so much for checking out my show. |
| 0:32.0 | This week, we got some pop culture hot topics to get through, like how pop culture might be reacting to all these fears of a pending recession. |
| 0:42.4 | And to answer that question, I am joined by two very funny comedians. |
| 0:46.9 | First, Elliot Glazer. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm Elliot Glazer. |
| 0:50.4 | Person, professional. |
| 0:52.4 | Comedian, writer. |
| 0:53.9 | Comedian, writer, musician, pod podcaster all of it all the things all |
| 0:58.0 | the things you may know elliot from his work on new girl i carly and broad city also joining us is |
| 1:04.9 | comedian zach Zimmerman i'm zach Zimmerman person yes comedian author actor let's do it't know. What have you been in? If someone else can play the role better, they should have it. But I'll take something. Zach just released his first stand-up special. It's called Surprise Me. I watched it. I liked it. You can check it out too on YouTube. All right, we had so much fun together this episode. |
| 1:28.3 | I cannot wait for you to hear it. |
| 1:30.0 | Let's go. |
| 1:33.4 | We've been talking about y'all's pop culture hot takes. |
| 1:37.1 | Y'all have some, right? |
| 1:38.2 | Don't give them away yet. |
| 1:39.6 | I was born with controversial stances. |
| 1:43.4 | Good. |
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