Why This, Why Now?

Real Talk, Whole Life

Cloud10

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What happens when your best friend of 22 years is a feminist pop culture critic who left social media—and you decide to give her a microphone? Pure magic. In this episode, Stacy sits down with her longtime bestie Daynah Burnett to get real about everything from TikTok slang confusion and “Love is Blind” hot takes to why reality TV might be secretly good for your emotional intelligence. They unpack the state of media, generational drama (yes, your mom did mess up your bangs and your boundaries), emotional intelligence on screen, and why Pedro Pascal is everyone’s daddy. It’s sharp, hilarious, occasionally spicy, and exactly the kind of late-night-deep-dive-energy your group text wishes it had. Spoiler alert: there are actual spoilers. For “The Last of Us,” “Hacks,” “Love on the Spectrum,” and probably whatever you’re watching next. 00:00 | Introducing Daynah + Friendship Origins 02:00 | English Majors, Feminism, and Cultural Criticism 06:00 | Career in Tech, Leaving Social Media, and Ethical Work 11:00 | Social Media, Teen Slang, and Digital Overload 16:00 | Pop Culture Consumption Without Social Media 21:00 | The Last of Us, Grief, and Emotional Intelligence in TV 27:00 | Generational Trauma in Media: Hacks + Representation 32:00 | Reality TV as Emotional Modeling: Love on the Spectrum 38:00 | Neurodivergent Representation + Viewer Bias Awareness 44:00 | Recommendations: The Rehearsal, Sirens, The Goat, Studio 50:00 | Book Recs, Celebrity Bios, and Pandemic Storytelling 55:00 | Celebrity Encounters + Shared Memories 58:00 | Closing Thoughts + Listener Invitation Find Stacy: ⁠realeverything.com⁠ ⁠instagram.com/realstacytoth⁠ ⁠missionmakersart.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Friends, I am so excited to introduce you to one of my very oldest and best friends.
0:18.5	And I want to give a little bit of an upfront introduction because I've been feeling like
0:24.9	what I can contribute to our community in a positive way right now is the introduction of the
0:31.3	arts that are a part of my life and marry them with the logic and the science and all of the things that I love.
0:39.4	I live a full spectrum life, and I think we all aim to do that.
0:44.7	And one of the things that I have felt missing, and you've probably seen it come up in
0:51.3	the podcast over the last couple of years, is this infusion of art. And for me,
0:57.4	one of the ways that I appreciate art is through television and movies. And I know that that's
1:04.6	not for everybody, but it truly is art. It truly does have an impact on my well-being, on my life. It helps open my mind. It helps me
1:15.9	become a better version of myself. And I think that that's a conversation worth having
1:22.7	because of all the negativity that we often hear surrounding it. So I'm going to dive in with someone who is, I could not think of a better expert on this.
1:33.3	Although you haven't heard of her before and she's not on social, there's a reason for that.
1:37.3	You're going to learn it. You're going to love her.
1:40.3	Please give warm welcome to the monthly spot that you are going to be enjoying, hearing about cultural criticism of entertainment with my bestie, Dana Burnett.
1:56.9	Hello.
1:58.2	Hi.
1:59.8	Hello, listeners. Hello, Dana. I am super excited to introduce my friends to my friend. So, Dana Burnett, I did the math before I called you a couple of days ago. And we have been friends for 20 years. We met in college.
2:18.8	And also kudos shout out to our moms.
2:23.1	Yours isn't around and mine doesn't talk to me.
2:25.8	But we're using our degrees, which no one thought we would use with this podcast.
2:31.4	So it's it's very true.
2:33.0	It's very true.
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