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High Brow

Ryan Gosling as "Ken," Therapyspeak, and Flavored WaterTok

High Brow

High Brow

Society & Culture

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Mina explores some of the discussions that came up in April: the Barbie trailer, terrible lighting in modern movies/tv shows, sharing pet custody, Instagram divorce announcements, how therapyspeak is harming relationships, flavored watertok, and the luxury water market (have you heard of iceberg water (yes, water from an iceberg) and did you know it costs $300 a bottle?).

Here was her reading list:
Ryan Gosling Reveals Why He Agreed To Play Ken In ‘Barbie’ Movie: “His Story Must Be Told”
Why are movies so dark these days? A filmmaker walks us through the reasons behind the ‘dark cinematography’ that’s causing so many complaints 
Don’t Adjust the Brightness: Here’s Why TV and Movies Are So Dark Now
All My Divorced Friends Are Sharing Custody of Their Pets
Everyone Announces Their Divorce Like a Celebrity Now 
Why do people overshare on social media?
For Love or Money
Is Therapy-Speak Making Us Selfish?
The Danger Of Instagram Therapists (& What Real Therapists Think Of Them) 
The Problem With Letting Therapy-Speak Invade Everything
TikTok's Latest Obsession With Flavored Water Is Basically Just Juice
What is WaterTok? Why flavored water is blowing up on TikTok
This TikTok-Famous Stanley Tumbler Always Sells Out, but You Can Grab It on Amazon Right Now
Here's How Everyone On Instagram Became Obsessed With A Previously Obscure Cup
Inside the Very Real (and Very Complicated) World of Luxury Water Collectors 
Meet the Hydro-Haters: The People Who Refuse to Drink Water, No Matter What
Americans' main complaint about water is that it tastes too much like water

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Edited by Sophie Carter
Music by Olivia Martinez
Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, welcome to high brow. I'm your host, Mina Lay. And today we're going to be doing another chatty little

0:22.1

episode about things happening in the culture. So first I feel like we have to address the,

0:30.6

I was going to say the elephant and I was trying to think of something cheeky to replace the

0:34.9

word elephant with, but I can't think of anything. So let's just get into it.

0:38.5

I want to talk about Barbie. So recently, the second teaser trailer for Barbie dropped,

0:45.4

along with a bunch of cheeky promotional posters. So of course, naturally, the internet

0:51.2

completely broke down because of it.

0:55.5

I was seeing Barbie everywhere.

0:57.3

I was seeing fan theories.

0:59.7

I was seeing premeditated criticisms.

1:02.0

I was seeing the whole shebang.

1:03.3

And I was living for it.

1:05.9

Like, I am really stoked for this Barbie movie.

1:10.4

I didn't actually go too far deep into the conspiracy theory hole because, I don't know,

1:11.7

I like to be surprised when I watch a movie I actually do not like watching movie trailers usually I only watch this

1:19.3

movie trailer because everyone was talking about it but the reason I don't like to watch movie trailers

1:23.0

is because I think if I go into a movie having no expectations of what it's going to be like,

1:28.3

there's a higher possibility that I will just enjoy it more.

1:32.6

Like all the best movies I've seen, I did not know what they were going to be about at all.

1:36.4

Like everything, every world at once.

1:38.5

Parasite.

1:39.9

Midsummer, The Lighthouse.

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