Money Can't Buy You Class

Gemma and Phoebe talk about European vacations, what gives in friendship, why this season of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is NOT boring, Kathy’s tequila, Kim's SKKY, the trope of the “make up,” the world of the public image, and touch on the confusing finale of The Bachelorette. Follow @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod on Instagram and @sad_porous_grad on Twitter. And plzzz like comment subscribe lol 

Gemma and Phoebe are joined by @YAgamben and @CNoumena of DECODE podcast (@Decode_cast) to discuss post-post-modernism, sincerity, Plato's ethics, used cOndoms, and the camera-as-character in Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal, a television show about actors. Read "Attention, Reality, and Sincerity" by @CNoumena  —> https://cutenoumena.substack.com/p/attention-reality-and-sincerity Listen to Decode —> patreon.com/Decodecast Follow @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod on instagram & @sad_porous_grad on twitter (don't forget to like, comment & subscribe xoxo) moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site

Gemma and Phoebe are joined by Molly Lambert (creator of Heidiworld: The Heidi Fleiss Story, streaming everywhere you find your podcasts) to discuss everything from the “violence of desire” to what to do with racism on TV, Charlie “Chaz” Sheen, the narrative identity of the LAPD, and Cardi B. Follow @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod on instagram & @sad_porous_grad on twitter (don't forget to like, comment & subscribe xoxo) moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site

Gemma and Phoebe are joined by New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry to discuss motherhood, Judaism, Kyle Richards, what it means to be an outsider, feeling comforted by recognition, the pleasure of reality television crossovers, and false feminism. Follow @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod on instagram & @sad_porous_grad on twitter (don't forget to like, comment & subscribe xoxo) moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site

Gemma and Phoebe dissect the second season of Peacock’s Ultimate Girls Trip, focussing on the various elements of haunting (at Bluestone Manor and beyond), how the Housewives franchise could perhaps be characterized as a man, the exacting-yet-subtle humor which makes a perfect housewife, and touch upon how Kim’s SKIMS has moved beyond skin.  Follow @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod on instagram & @sad_porous_grad on twitter (don't forget to like, comment & subscribe xoxo) moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site

Gemma and Phoebe return to talk about why recapping is the most boring version of discussing reality television, the drama of misspeaking on the current season of Beverly Hills, and the focus on professionalization and sisterly differentiation on season one of The Kardashians. Follow @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod on instagram & @sad_porous_grad on twitter (don't forget to like, comment & subscribe xoxo) moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site

Gemma and Phoebe are joined by friend of the pod Mia Antezzo to discuss the nationalist tactics of love, the relationship between imagination and disappointment, and approximations of reality on ABC’s The Bachelor and Netflix’s Love is Blind. Follow @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod on instagram & @sad_porous_grad on twitter (don't forget to like, comment & subscribe xoxo) moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site

Gemma and Phoebe are joined by @iamageniuspod host Emma Burke to discuss seasons 1-4 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey through the lens of Charles Kipps' Cop Without a Badge, the revelatory biography of Danielle Staub's ex-fiance, Kevin Maher. They touch on: the internal logic of the Family, paranoid delusion, and how to pronounce the word "ingredientses." Follow @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod on instagram & @sad_porous_grad on twitter (don't forget to like, comment & subscribe xoxo) moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site

Gemma and Phoebe discuss the Vanderpump Rules Season 9 Reunion, the end of James and Raquel and the possible end of Vanderpump Rules, what “high school” means on reality television, and the firing of Jennie Nguyen. Also Gemma saw Kim Kardashian in the flesh at an art opening.  visit us at moneycantbuyyouclass.cargo.site follow @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod on instagram & @sad_porous_grad on twitter (don't forget to like, comment & subscribe xoxo)

Gemma and Phoebe are joined by poet Ry Dunn to take a deep dive into The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City through the lens of conspiracy: Did Jen really do it? Is Meredith’s business a CIA front? Why does Whitney know so much about money laundering? How might the conspiratorial ethos of QAnon be refracted into SLC’s Season 2 plot line and production? follow @moneycantbuyyouclass_pod on instagram & @sad_porous_grad on twitter  (don't forget to like, comment & subscribe xoxo)