Indecent with Kiki Andersen
Comedian Kiki Andersen finds the funny in the most uncomfortable corners of our culture. Sex. Politics. Religion. But in the digital age, what can and can’t be talked about at the dinner table has changed dramatically. Indecent is a podcast all about what’s off-limits and who sets the boundaries for today’s taboos. Through conversations with comedians, psychologists, journalists, theologians and scientists, Kiki peels at the wallpaper of polite society on Indecent, where NSFW meets LMAO.
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Introducing...The Pornhub Empire: Understood
Okay, okay okay. We know it's been a few weeks now since Indecent with your old pal Kiki Andersen, has had a new episode. But you know what they say: Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? So while we get ready to come back swinging next week, how about we share something from someone else we love and respect: tech journalist Samantha Cole (who appeared in out first season!
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Introducing...BEEF with Bridget Todd
Waaaiiit a minute, what the heck? There's no new episode of Indecent with Kiki Andersen this week? We're not lazy, we're just crazy busy! So while we take another week to get our shit together, we thought you should have a little something to tide you over. And as it happens, our sister pod "Beef with Bridget Todd" just launched its second season and it is a banger.
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So Extra: Forever Alone with Dan Savage
If love is a battlefield, how about we call in some reinforcements? Advice columnist Dan Savage is back for one more tour of active duty to help you arm yourself for the fight, before another year passes and you find yourself ducking for cover once again in the face of the greeting card industry's annual onslaught
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Episode 3 - "There Be Dick Monsters Here" with ...
Lonely, horny, angry, desperate, jaded and hopelessly romantic. If you haven't felt one you've probably felt them all, and it turns out you're not alone. So to figure out why you're stuck having to get yourself off this Valentine's Day, why not listen to an expert like advice column icon Dan Savage?
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So Extra: Re-upping with Dominic Milton Trott
Y'all may think you know how to get turnt. But you're probably not "travel across the globe to end up puking your guts out after taking some research chemical you've only read about on weird internet forums" levels of party monsters. That's exclusively the vibe of dudes like seasoned psychonaut Dominic Milton Trott, who has so many stories of being ripped to the tits we just had to share more.
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Episode 2 - "Catastrophic Nutmeg Overdose" with...
It might have been a gravity bong made from Gatorade bottle or a line of a neighbor's crushed up ADD meds. But anyone who's tried drugs and alcohol has experienced that frightening but exhilarating ritual of their first time getting faded. Author Dominic Milton Trott has made it his life's mission to make sure everybody from nervous newbies to seasoned psychonauts know what they're getting into, one substance at a time.
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So Extra: Relapsing with More from Benjamin Y. ...
Everyone can tell you're high and you're in big, big trouble, mister... Just kidding! But before your hands start shaking and the comedown has you jonesing for more, here's another hit of wisdom from drug policy researcher Benjamin Y. Fong.
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Episode 1 - "Dream Blunt Rotation" with Benjami...
If we haven't made it clear yet, Indecent's main guiding principle is pretty simple: no narcs allowed. Especially when we invite academic and author Benjamin Y. Fong over to hang out in our parents' basement to talk drugs, drug policy, and drug culture, and how Americans especially love to get smashed.
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Episode 14 - "Deconstructed DNA for Dinner" wit...
No matter how you slice it, taste is subjective. Afterall, some of you probably argue that kombucha doesn't have the same flavor profile as horse piss. But one undeniable truth that food anthropologist Dr. Lauren Crossland-Marr genereously serves up is that there some pretty wild things going on with what we eat.
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So Extra: Keep On Scrolling with Natalie Beach
The truth can be tricky. Especially with things like photoshop and deep fakes casting doubt on everything from geopolitical conflicts to whether or not your favorite Insta model had buccal fat removal. Most of us probably have a healthy skepticism of everything we scroll past. But writer Natalie Beach knows from her friendship with influencer/OG scam queen Caroline Calloway that the journey through the little rectangular looking glasses in our hands goes way deeper than we think...
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Episode 13 - "Under the Influencers" with Natal...
You've probably seen them before, either online or IRL. It's the dead-eyed weirdos filming TikTok dances while blocking traffic or pranking innocent fast food employees that we all seemingly love to hate. And writer Natalie Beach draws on her personal experience to come to terms with the fact that they're not going anywhere.
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So Extra: More to Be Afraid of from J.W. Ocker
Spooky Season may only come once a year. But you can always keep a special place in your heart for the spirit of clawed, drooling monstrosities that want to tear off your flesh or plant their eggs in your brain, year round. That's why we gave folklore historian J.W. Ocker even more space to unleash these nightmares on you, the unsuspecting listeners...
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Episode 12 - "Going Ghost, Ghoul & Goblin Mode"...
They lurk in your unlit basement or under your kid's bed, in crumbling old houses and the bushes outside cheerleader's slumber parties. Come to think of it, some creatures of the night aren't just physically dangerous. They kinda have a creepy, Cosby-like, "cop a feel while you're sleeping" type vibe. So we asked horror writer J.W. Ocker to help find the source of our fascination with these frightening figures.
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So Extra: A Hell of A Lot More with Chelsey Web...
It's always "Hail Satan," and never "How is Satan?" Seriously, he must be really burnt out from being the source of all of everyone's problems for thousands of years. American Hysteria host Chelsey Weber-Smith continues to point out that he's the OG scapegoat. But he's far from the only boogeyman we blame when things in our world go badly.
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Episode 11 - "Do You Have a Moment to Talk abou...
If you found out all of your neighbors, co-workers and vague acquaintances were cannibalistic, demon-worshipping child molesters, would that make you feel better or worse about the nature of reality, overall? American Hysteria's host Chelsey Weber-Smith calls out the Devil as a convenient scapegoat for people who want to oversimplify the problems facing our world.
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So Extra: All the Rest from Katie Martell
In February it's Black Power fists. In June it's rainbow flags. Corporations are so quick to co-opt any cultural symbol they can, it's hard to believe there are any that won't end up stenciled onto the side of a Starbucks cup as soon as it's seasonally appropriate. But marketing maven Katie Martell knows so much more about how to cut through their bullsh*t and expose just how "woke" these companies really are.
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Episode 10 - "Cringe 4 Sale" with Katie Martell...
Ever wonder why an international burger chain feels the need to weigh in on whether or not you're banging people of a different gender every June? Well, let marketing consultant Katie Martell, author of "Woke-Washed," break down why so many corporations try to cash in on the "minority of the month," and so often end up with their foot in their mouth.
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So Extra: Upping the Body Count with Dr. Amanda...
We have nothing to fear but our romantic partners, business associates, neighbors and random lunatics, all of whom seem to be capable of knifing us in the back at a moment's notice, apparently. At least that's what psychologist Dr. Amanda Vicary says our true crime obsession is training us to believe, and she has more to say on what that means for our society.
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Episode 9 - "Blood, Sweat & Fears" with Dr. Ama...
There are a thousand ways to die out there. But the public doesn't pay much attention to the way most of us meet our end unless it gets turned into a Netflix docuseries. So we asked true crime expert Dr. Amanda Vicary to explain our obsession with stabbings and strangulation.
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So Extra: Keepin' the Hate Flowing with Jesse D...
You've probably heard of adrenaline junkies. But what about anger addicts? Well as the hosts of the I Doubt It podcast Jesse Dollemore and Brittany Page point out, tons of people in this country are hooked on hating people that don't believe in straight white Jesus.
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Episode 8 - "Right-Wing Brain Rot" with Jesse D...
When the going gets tough (and also crazy, Christian extremist) it's always a good idea to call on someone who's escaped the world of gun-toting, climate-denying death cultists to try to figure what planet these people think they're living on. So we tapped political commenters Jesse Dollemore and Brittany Page.
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So Extra: Doing the Most with Bridget Todd
We wouldn't dare leave you there doom-scrolling all week while you wait for another episode, especially when disinformation expert Bridget Todd has boundless wisdom to share on how to navigate the murky waters of the interweb. So strap-in for a little more advice on how to fight for a newsfeed that doesn't drive you insane.
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Episode 7 - "Freaks in the Tweets" with Bridget...
With Twitter crumbling into an edge lord's wet dream, Facebook fading into obscurity as basically an old folks home, and Instagram just existing as it always has, where is the discourse really supposed to happen? Digital activist Bridget Todd says wherever it ends up, it has to be a place where everything from thirst traps to terror attack updates can coexist, and marginalized voices can be heard.
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So Extra: The Search for Conservative "Comedy" ...
We spent countless hours scouring the internet for whatever constitutes conservative comedy last week. And we couldn't let all that irreparable brain damage we incurred in the process be in vain! So for your listening pleasure, enjoy the rest of the best of the worst the right has to offer!
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Episode 6 - "Parodying the Apocalypse" with Nat...
Whether it's during your morning commute or just while you're sitting on the crapper, you've probably come across fifty of the most horrifying news stories imaginable in the first part of your day alone. All thanks to whatever little device you're listening to this show on! So we asked comedian Natalie McGill and Bill Conway, co-founder of The Hard Times, how to stay sane... and maybe even crack a smile?
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