You're listening to Pretty Much Pop, a culture podcast, where we all wear identical jumpsuits

speaking to the same microphone and taste approximately the same.

Our guest today is comedian and now psychology PhD Dr. Yakuosh Shmyrnav, and we're going

to be talking about the ways in which, in the degree to which pop culture products drive

us to be all the same.

This is Philosophy, Enthusiasm, and musician Mark Linton-Meyer and I am the same.

I'm Erika Spires in New York City, actor and musician, and I am the same.

And this is Brian Hurt, and in my effort to be different, I am of course the same.

Welcome.

Hello, samis in the audience.

Thank you for being the same with us.

Our guest Yakuov is the one who injected today's question into our cerebral cortices, and

he has his own idea of what sameness means and why society is maybe making us all the

same.

We're going to be bringing him on here a little bit to explain that, but first I thought

it would be fun for us to review and riff on the various meanings that that could have.

Well, I think because we're going to be in such agreement on this podcast, it's going

to be a really short one.

This is going to be the sound of us nodding to each other, saying, mm-hmm, wise, trenchant,

good comment.

So who is that first good comment?

So my first thought was cultural homogenization.

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