I just think pop culture is this great magnifying lens through which you can view actual culture.

And I feel like that's a big part of my job is taking that lens and telling you why these things matter.

Even the most frivolous seeming things can have kind of a wider importance and ripple through the rest of culture in really intriguing ways.

Let me let it out. Hi, welcome back. You're listening to Let It Out. I'm Katie. Thank you so much for being here.

As always, it means so much to me that you found your way here and that you're listening.

But it keeps meeting more to me lately. The longer I've been doing this, the more options for content there are out there.

And I'm really excited about this week's episode about today's guest.

This week I'm talking to New York Times journalist Kyle Buchanan.

He's also the author of the new book, Blood, Sweat, and Chrome, which we talk about in the episode.

He is a pop culture reporter and he serves as the projectionist, the award season columnist

for The New York Times. Prior to joining the Times in 2018, he was a senior editor at Bulcher,

New York Magazine's entertainment website where he covered the movie industry. He took over the

late great journalist David Carr's New York Times

column that was called the Carpetbagger. It's now called the projectionist. We talk a little

bit about that here. Kyle is a native of Southern California and he lives in L.A. now, but we

recorded this over Zoom since he was in the midst of a day of press,

back-to-back interviews, promoting his book. So you'll notice that this is a little shorter than usual.

I'm learning that I'm not great at brevity, which will shock no one. It's a skill to do an interview in a certain amount of time.

When I have unlimited time with someone, I can kind of let it build and I can not worry that I

won't have time to cover everything I want to cover with them so I can go in a different

direction if I want to and I can go somewhere that's not going to go anywhere and know that

I can cut that out with this.

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