Strong Opinions About Trivial Sh*t

Culture Study Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

You know that feeling when you and a friend get weird and detailed and hilarious about something you deeply (and maybe irrationally) hate, or find ridiculous, or can’t stomach in your vicinity? It’s one of my favorite versions of friendship intimacy — talking shit about something you shouldn’t dislike nearly as much as you do, because that thing is relatively trivial, but that doesn’t mean that the thing itself doesn’t make you want to bang your head against the wall.And that’s what this week’s episode is: talking about all of your strong opinions about trivial shit. Our co-host, Krista Burton, came up with the idea — because it’s a regular feature of her excellent and always entertaining newsletter (O Caftan My Caftan!). So join us as we talk about your strong opinions about gnomes, “journey” and “season,” boarding planes, late-in-life-lesbian-Tok, calling your romantic person “partner,” mullets, and a very juicy/useful AAA section about almond boomers. I can’t wait to talk even MORE about all of your strong opinions about trivial shit in the comments.Show Notes:Subscribe to O Caftan My Caftan!!!!!My interview with Krista about her AMAZING book Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in AmericaBUY MOBY DYKE !!!The thread where Melody said she wasn’t going to buy the porch geese costumesIf you didn’t get the gnome situation like me here’s what we’re talking aboutThe British GQ article I reference re: the feelings about the mulletHow the “green bubble” for Android users has been part of the case against Apple re: “anti-competitive behavior”One of those infinitely annoying articles about how there are better ways to board a planeJust a hot lesbian chopping wood on TiktokFrom the AAA: one of my favorite Virginia Sole-Smith pieces about “the grandparents are not okay” re: boomers and diet cultureWe’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:The Present and Past of NICOLE KIDMAN (with Sam Sanders!)Midwest [Dad] Masculinity / Tim Walz MemedomWhat Happened to the Summer Blockbuster?The new Gladiator + Paul Mescal JUST GENERALLYExplaining trends on BookTokWhy does it feel like thrifting sucks nowAnything you need advice or want musings on for the AAA segmentYou can submit them (and ideas for future eps) here (this is the subscriber-only form!)For today’s discussion: Add your own strong opinions about all the trivial shit we covered!

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Anne. We've got a few recordings coming up, so I wanted to let you know what they are so that you can submit your questions. We need more. We're working on an episode with Hannah McGregor about what happened to the kind of blockbuster movie that brings everyone together, like summer blockbuster, Thanksgiving blockbuster. And for context, Hannah just released a book about Jurassic Park. We're also working on
0:22.4	an episode about trends happening on book talk. So if you see something while you're scrolling
0:26.7	that you want an explainer on, or if you just want to know more about book talk, let us know.
0:32.0	And we're also doing some star image analysis on Nicole Kidman, who I love. So definitely need your questions and reactions
0:38.6	on her career. Sam Sanders is going to join us for that one. And then we're continuing our series
0:43.4	on romance novels with an episode on all things queer romance. And as always, if none of those
0:49.7	topics sound like a good time to you, let us know what would sound like a good time. We're planning
0:54.6	our future episodes now. So you can always submit your show and guest ideas at tiny URL.com
1:01.0	slash culture study pod. We literally cannot make this show without you, so thanks at advance for
1:06.4	chiming in. Okay, on with the show.
1:17.4	This is the Culture Study podcast, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson.
1:24.2	And I'm Krista Burton. I wrote a book called Moby Dyke, an obsessive quest to track down the last lesbian bars in America. And I also write a newsletter called Ocafton Mycafton, where I go off about very
1:32.0	minuscule things in daily life.
1:35.4	Okay, so this is a great setup for the idea for this episode, which is strong opinions
1:40.5	about trivial shit.
1:42.3	Where did that come from?
1:46.0	Why did you want to talk about strong opinions about trivial shit. Where did that come from? Why did you want to talk about strong opinions about trivial shit? There's a couple reasons. Number one, we all have to deal with
1:52.9	big stuff all the time. We're surrounded by big stuff, but what we're living in is tiny stuff.
1:59.9	And our day-to-day lives don't get a lot of attention.
2:04.2	And I like to discuss the minutia of the day-to-day.
2:08.9	And I also think that that's where the most fun conversational, like, stuff with your friends
2:15.3	comes from is like, you will not believe what happened to me today.
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